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> we really must appreciate that Kubernetes really is the future of infrastructure
No, it isn't. It's extra complexity most don't need.
> One thing I've always wondered is who the heck is Martin Fowler and why does he have such a following?
You don't know the history of your craft; study more, look into where agile came from, the extreme programming movement, and who was involved and how refactoring became a thing. Names like Ward Cunningham, Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, Ron Jeffries, Rob Martin, and Dave Thomas should be familiar to anyone who knows their craft.
Oh I agree with you on the car, but this assumes you know enough about them to get a decent one for 3k; people go for newer used ones because it's a black box to them and they want something they "feel" is reliable and they don't feel that about older cars. They're wrong, but that's the nature of not understanding a thing. 28k is still out of the reach of most.
There's also someone buying a lottery ticket that will make them rich soon, so what? Both take a huge amount of luck and are extremely unlikely.
> The freeways around here are gridlocked with cars costing more than $28,000.
Yea, financed with debt over what is now typically 7-10 years. 28k of capital to invest is out of the reach of the majority of Americans. Please don't pretend that's a small amount of money anyone can come up with.
Fair point on the LiFePO, but none of those other things really matter as they're easily made up for by a larger bank, what matters is the cost per amp/hour and lithium isn't remotely there yet. The exact fraction varies, but lithium isn't going to touch some Costco golf cart batteries at a $100 a pop. You can buy an entire house bank for the cost of 1 lithium LiFePO battery (nearly 1k on Amazon). Unless you just like wasting money, deep-cycle lead-acid is a far better choice.
Lead-acid is still better, it's 1/10 the cost for equivalent usable amp-hours. Most boaters use deep cycle golf cart batteries, they're produced at such scale that they're cheap as hell. Lithium is a waste of money and dangerous to boot. They only make sense if you're extremely space limited, which most bigger boats aren't.
> What's the point of anonymity when trading
You don't have a right to trade anonymously; sorry, but that's called money laundering.
Law and medicine are traditionally seen as high status and may retain women longer, but certainly, suffer the same issue; women over 30 drop off dramatically in law as they leave to become parents.
According to the population who already lives there and have well-established laws and customs. Humans are tribal, diversity isn't generally desired by most.
> there's no way to go back and conduct experiments to validate hypotheses.
That's not required to do science. The notion one must be able to go back in time to prove evolution is absurd. Evolution happens, that's a fact. No system in the body, including the brain, is untouched by its processes and consequences.
> They're just people who at this time have housing insecurity
They're homeless, trying to hide that reality with a non-sense PC euphemism doesn't change that. This attitude isn't helping, it's obfuscating and bad. They're not housing insecure, short people aren't height-challenged, disabled people aren't differently-abled.
> It's really unfortunate that it's not a reliable storage medium.
That's not what it's for, you're just misusing the tool for something it isn't meant to be. It's not a database, it's a cache.
You must not live in a state where pot is legal; in such places $2 bills floating around everywhere, I use them all the time. The reason: cash businesses use them heavily to reduce the amount of physical cash they need to maintain and move around. Pot shops occupy a gray area legally and banks don't like to deal with them so they often operate old school: cash businesses.
I have a few in my wallet most of the time, like to use them for tips when I eat out.
Having to work is not slavery. Wild animals work and they're as free as free gets. Work is a necessity of survival, the necessities of life require labor to create/get and it's on you to carry your own weight, that's not slavery, that's reality.
Which is about 18% of the original investment, not 20, assuming no gains or losses.
It certainly can be, but that's not a business problem, there will always be people who failed to prepare or lacked the necessary skills to prepare for old age or people who refuse to move somewhere they can find a job. Education doesn't equal skill; jobs pay for skills, not for education; if you have skills you can find a better than minimum wage job, but you might have to move.
Those are problems for society, not for individual business owners. Those problems should be solved by taxes, not by forcing business owners to pay people more than they are worth to the business.
It's not meant to provide a living. Companies don't exist to provide jobs, jobs are a byproduct of the business, not its reason to exist. Minimum wage jobs are people with no skills who are easily replaceable, usually teenagers learning to enter the workforce.
> I am sorry for derailing, but how does that happen, did they come out like a faulty batch from a factory?
They grew up lazy in soft times. It's a never-ending cycle, parents work hard to make kids lives easier than theirs, kids don't get challenged as parents did, grow up soft and lazy and blame the world. They fail, raise kids poor, who get challenged again and grow up hard and make something of themselves, and then raise lazy kids trying to improve their kids life, repeat ad infinitum.
> Why should I take a 125% hit when I'm providing a convenience for the patient by doing all their scans on the same day?
Because what you're doing otherwise is unethical. Padding the bill by spreading out the appointments is a form of theft.
Queues eliminate bursts, bursts are not harder to process unless the response must by synchronous.
That's not why people moved from assembly to C, C is portable, assembly is CPU specific, the move to C was about abstraction to a higher level language in the name of portability to multiple processors, not about verifying program correctness.
You're assuming there'd be a winning system, that's a bad assumption, different systems would be acceptable to different sets of people. There isn't one right answer, there are many and people will gravitate to the ones they like. It's good that states can compete for citizens with each other.
> Usually within 2-3 years one has to throw away most of the code as it was written in an obscure, low adoption language, or it is just so difficult to maintain that new features can't be added.
So you've never worked in good code, that's all. Most of the world runs on software evolved over greater than 10 years. Everything you said is wrong, because you've been surfing trendy crap that businesses mostly ignore. Good architects don't use immature languages that might not be around in 10 years, they're smarter than that.
Lisp isn't a large language, it's a small language with a large library.
Crazy, HAProxy is free, will proxy and load balance anything not just HTTP, and it's absolutely trivial to configure and install; there's nothing remotely complicated about setting it up. Most importantly for trivial offloading of certificates at the edge; even if using nxinx for your app servers, you should front end it with HAProxy. nxinx just doesn't compare and isn't free. Nxinx is a web server, haproxy is a tcp/ip load balancer; they're really not comparable and are for different things.
That's wealthy, not rich. Rich people live off income, wealthy people live off net worth.