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New comment by ranger207 in "A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024)"

ranger207 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 01:09:23 +0000

I hate seeing public Helm charts that basically expose every single setting in the underlying manifests. What am I even using templates for then?

New comment by ranger207 in "A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024)"

ranger207 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 01:07:14 +0000

Yeah I think the difference ultimately is the API surface of infra versus app software. If you're developing software, you get to contain and abstract everything into your own vision of how things should be done with types etc. But infra is managing a whole bunch of other people's software, each with their own vision of how things should be done, which means that often things just fall back to the least common denominator, plain ASCII

New comment by ranger207 in "The evolution of effective altruism"

ranger207 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 03:00:48 +0000

It's a way for the wealthy to feel like they're doing good by collecting money. They tend to twist the tenets to favor "what you're currently doing is good, actually" even if "what you're currently doing" is itself unethical, like modern adtech. The stated goals and principles of EA are one thing; the actual practice of it is another

New comment by ranger207 in "You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow"

ranger207 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:49:19 +0000

If you like JRPGs (and you say you like FFVII so that applies to you!) then you should. Personally I played it wanting to try out the genre and found it uninteresting. But hey, doesn't cost anything to try something new!

New comment by ranger207 in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

ranger207 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:06:18 +0000

IMO VTOL VR is better than DCS in VR (albeit unavoidably more arcade-y) because it's designed for VR first, while DCS's screens and labels are much more difficult to read given the limited resoultion

New comment by ranger207 in "Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024)"

ranger207 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:14:22 +0000

As others noted, Silicon Valley was formed by the MIC. But there was a period there for a while where defense contracting was uncool so no VCs funded it. Then in the wake of Trump winning in 2016 all of the politically conservative VCs (who generally hadn't been advertising their political views) got to reveal that they loved the military and funded anyone with the vaguest idea of a military-focused product. Meanwhile from the other side, US military procurement has always been obsessed with corporate America, and had long tried to court startups in vain. When finally there were startups for them to throw money at, those startups quickly became massive regardless of if their products were actually worth anything (cf Anduril)

New comment by ranger207 in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

ranger207 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:32:55 +0000

> humans couldn't.

There's allegations right now that the model essentially read the work of a human mathematician using AI to work on the problem and OpenAI is presenting his work as that of their model

New comment by ranger207 in "LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features"

ranger207 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:23:24 +0000

Yes, it needs to not be shoved everywhere and try to rewrite your workflows constantly and that would be enough

New comment by ranger207 in "Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader"

ranger207 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:38:20 +0000

Where are people getting DRM free epubs for theirs? I have a bunch that I've gotten through various Humble Bundles that I'm working through now, but I'm wondering where I should go if I want to look for something specific

New comment by ranger207 in "The many mysteries and lessons of the Bayeux tapestry"

ranger207 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:11:37 +0000

The tapestry is really neat as a piece of... propaganda, for lack of a better term. I don't mean that negatively, but just that that's the closest term that I can think of for it. I saw it in Bayeux a couple years ago and was struck by how it's written almost like a comic book so that the general public (illiterate at the time) would be able to learn this history. Like, of course, history written by the victors, the tapestry's not necessarily the truth, but just the techniques used to convey its message almost a thousand years ago were surprisingly similar

New comment by ranger207 in "Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future"

ranger207 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:58:57 +0000

I'd like to have a $3000 watch for half price too, but it turns out there's reasons I can't

New comment by ranger207 in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

ranger207 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:35:02 +0000

Yeah I'm using 5 for its technical abilities, but I much preferred 4.6's personality. 5 loved to double check everything, including the double-checks, and I have to stop it and tell it "this is irrelevant" or "this is out of scope" all the time, or sometimes I'll go leave it to do a task and come back and it's still verifying the tiniest details of its assumptions before actually doing anything

New comment by ranger207 in "When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs"

ranger207 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:28:23 +0000

The intellectual arrogance of the AI labs is just the next from of intellectual arrogance from Silicon Valley. I've seen the exact same arrogance from everything in SV for the past 15 years; it's probably been going on longer, but I wasn't in a position to notice then

New comment by ranger207 in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

ranger207 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:16:37 +0000

tracking cookies are so obviously beneficial to e-commerce that they passed an entire law to disclose them because people... liked them so much?

New comment by ranger207 in "Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open"

ranger207 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:41:42 +0000

You're not liable for using company devices to access company data, regardless of if it's insecure or not. Don't use personal devices for work

New comment by ranger207 in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

ranger207 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:07:02 +0000

yep

New comment by ranger207 in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

ranger207 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:35:12 +0000

The website for my HSA required me to set up a passkey last time I logged in. I set it up on my work laptop and my work password manager, which means I can now no longer access my account from my personal computer. This is fantastic, just what I wanted

New comment by ranger207 in "The death and rebirth of my home server"

ranger207 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:11:08 +0000

About the only thing that regularly wears out is spinning drives, and those have SMART data to give you an idea of when they'll die, but generally yif you're actually committing to high uptime you'll have redundant hardware so any one server failing doesn't take the service down, giving a bit of a grace period on hardware failures

New comment by ranger207 in "The death and rebirth of my home server"

ranger207 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:13:03 +0000

If you're using a USB adapter on a Pi 4 you can use raspi-config to enable booting from an external drive and not worry about SD cards at all

New comment by ranger207 in "Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode"

ranger207 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:44:48 +0000

Hey, I have a script for updating my background too! I'm not archiving the old images though, but I've thought about it to make some cool animations