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Re:Ask HN: Buy a holiday house with a tight budget on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @02:14PM (#31991730)
I have a partially renovated little village house with a small backyard and shed about 19km from Fugueira da Foz Portugal I will sell you for the €24k I have stuck in it. The interior needs doing but the roof is new… near Montemor-o-velho…

The tax is 40€ (forty euros) a year. South facing king roof slope ideal for panels and south facing varanda over the backyard.

Also, your observations about “east” fail to account for places like Japan, South Korea, and in terms of trust, I think you find high trust in places like Singapore, but only from a certain set of empowered locals, ditto Dubai… But your intended generalism is perhaps Eastern Europe?
Well, if you are ultimately responsible for your own government and it’s mess, you realize that it’s a losing proposition to simply be cynical about your government.

Maybe it’s time to fix your government instead of acting disengaged and cynical?

In other news: people in corrupt places have low faith in their systems.

America certainly has its problems and corruption, but if you look at what are considered the least corrupt nations on earth, say Finland, you find higher trust in society and government etc.

So I’ll contend that trauma traumatizes people, aka you are stating a tautology

Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @06:36AM (#31986541)
No way!

It literally says a well regulated militia. Fact.

Spare me your creative interpretation masquerading as originalism

I think exokernels and isokernels solve many of these issues where containers are currently used, check the Ocaml community for examples.

They run on hardware.

Ultimately, there needs to be a singular scheduling system running on hardware and a singular HAL-like driver layer, and exo or iso kernels deliver just that, vs lxe containers provided by os services.

The sizes are also quite impressive.

I don’t think so. I run 2 dedicated-cpu cloud instances that will thrash any load you throw at it high availability, and I can spin up an entire 3-node production cluster in a few minutes with good old Ansible and some cloud provider module.

Kibernetes brings me overhead and wastes system resources.

I already have infrastructure as code.

Why would I want to containerize systems I already have YAML to describe?

People forget they real hardware has to run this stuff, and layers os schedulers are not helpful.

Look at the disaster of fibers threads and processes already!

How does it beat the pants off Ansible?
Merely making scriptable infrastructure doesn’t require kubernetes or containers… Ansible or it’s ilk will do just fine. Deploy cloud instances like you currently deploy containers. Save money, get better performance, have real networking.

*i have used kubernetes and understand how to use it as intended. I feel like I am missing the motivation for it’s current widespread usage in web apps

“So you want to run a bunch of stuff on one computer, why?”

In a quest to get closer to the metal, Kubernetes keeps you far away, which is the opposite of what any production service should want.

What is the purpose of adding layers when uni-kernels and eco-kernels give you better isolation and better performance?

Your cloud provider already runs your virtual machines OS on a hardware hypervisor. Then running Kubernetes on top of the OS and then a zillion containers on it is a recipe for poor performance.

What is the logic here that I am clearly missing?

Cloud providers native Kubernetes stacks don’t improve performance or pricing, compared to their cloud compute instances virtual machines and a dedicated virtual machine per would-be-container that thankfully doesn’t need to now share processing resources with others.

What gives? Why on earth would anyone run production processes in Kubernetes?

Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions on Friday July 01, 2022 @06:25AM (#31944521)
Yes, it does.
Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions on Friday July 01, 2022 @06:24AM (#31944504)
The entire second amendment here: “ A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Notice the first phrase. Absolutely nothing here says “every Joe wacko can have military grade arms in case they want to overthrow the government “

Tell me it’s originalism to interpret the words above in any way other than what it reads as: a description of state militias.

Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions on Friday July 01, 2022 @06:16AM (#31944460)
You think the minimum wage is unconstitutional?

That’s pretty extreme.

You cannot realistically expect 21st century America to agree with you.

If the constitution DID oppose a minimum wage, and it doesn’t, I would say ditch the constitution. Common sense.

Thing is, all this legalese mumbo-jumbo is a racket and a scam. The constitution is written in plain English in a rather common vernacular.

So-called “conservatives” have hijacked a silly notion of knowing the original intentions of the founding fathers and delivering an unbiased truthful channeling of that into a winning strategy. To the rest of us it’s rather obviously a scam.

Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions on Friday July 01, 2022 @06:11AM (#31944422)
Per the topic of this particular judgment, they agreed to hear a challenge to a non-law!

The Obama era Clean Power Act is not law!

This court went out of their way to steal authority thst congress specifically placed in the EPA and based their judgement of overreach on a non-law proposed bill from over a decade ago.

I allege that they are corruptly serving the Federalist Society agenda and deliberately dismantling environmental regulatory bodies for clear goals the Federalist Society maintains

Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions on Friday July 01, 2022 @06:06AM (#31944400)
… based on a proposed bill that never became law. The Supreme Court based their judgement on the Obama era Clean Power Act which never became law. That’s how out-of-their-way to cause trouble this court went.

This Supreme Court is going out of its way to be destructive and cause harm.

Re:Ask HN: Forensic analysis for 50 year-old tape? on Friday July 01, 2022 @05:57AM (#31944332)
1) be careful! The magnetic coating will flake off and you will lose the data. Research a bit: this is a solved problem. There are chemical treatments to render the oxide coating more flexible for an attempt at reading it.

2) is there a way to avoid forcing physical contact with rubber capstans as you attempt to pass it over a magnetic play head? Is there an alternative magnetic sensing technology you can use to extract the data vs a proximity based typical tape playback head?

But yes, I agree that cynical histories create less trust
I think it’s rather that, in a bicameral parliamentary representative democracy one knows that one is ultimately partially responsible for those in office, and one cannot just shrug and blame higher ups.
I think it’s rather a concern that too much bending over backwards to please Xi will jeopardize their customers trust. There is a concerted effort now afoot both in the EU and the USA to bring certain tech fabrication processes to domestic shores for various reasons. The race to the bottom of costing in pursuit of profit margins brought other issues to the forefront and once the market probed the lower end of costing possibilities consumers noticed things like scissors that bend when cutting paper, and there’s been a large backlash, arguably one of the principle fuels feeding the fires of this fake so-called-populism.

Im not so sure about China being the economic future of the world these days, despite decades hearing this and despite actual economic sizes and pollution footprints, as I’m not sure China and the US or EU markets can decouple effectively so easily. It’s a bit of a double edged sword for all concerned

This is somewhat insane. WHY is no one looking at how protocols explicitly invented to solve this problem work?

PTP precision time protocol, albeit implemented on the wrong layer to be directly useful here, solves it by timestamping frames.

I find that he precisely addresses my desires to know about seditious conspiracies to overthrow the government. It’s funny that you would find seditious conspiracies to overthrow the government to not be in the publics interest, as our government is elected by us.
Or threatening their fellow reps with gun violence
Congress gave the EPA broad powers thst the Supreme Court has now second-guessed and taken away.

Our children will remember this Supreme Court as evil incarnate

Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions on Thursday June 30, 2022 @03:26PM (#31937315)
Congress granted the EPA power to address this, that the Supreme Court has now taken away in their extremely partisan fashion.
Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions on Thursday June 30, 2022 @03:24PM (#31937291)
Congress granted the EPA power to regulate air pollution. CO2 and methane are harmful pollutants that cause a greenhouse effect, and the EPA was granted the authority to address this. Our activist extremely biased Supreme Court has several members who are part of a political advocacy operation called the federalist society and ensures that members get Supreme Court placement specifically to achieve federalist society goals. Nothing about this is secret. Nothing about this is acceptable
Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions on Thursday June 30, 2022 @03:19PM (#31937244)
Yet another reasonable comment that some shadow bully has downvoted gray.

HN is broken

Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions on Thursday June 30, 2022 @03:13PM (#31937163)
This is one of the most reasonable comments I’ve read today, and yet it’s grayed out. That’s not acceptable. HN is being taken over by bullies and I’m tired of not even have my basic comment voting rights.
Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions on Thursday June 30, 2022 @03:11PM (#31937139)
This place is more unfriendly, to be honest, as we get more knives in the back than frontal assaults, which are fairly easy to fend off or disconnect from. I can at least up and down vote comments on Reddit. Here I just get greyed out and can’t hit back
Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions on Thursday June 30, 2022 @03:09PM (#31937102)
You clearly have a political bias.
Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions on Thursday June 30, 2022 @03:08PM (#31937086)
It’s very frustrating to see how some HN readers are allowed to vote others comments up and down while the rest of us have no rights at all. It feels like when a playground bully puts their long arm on your forehead to prevent you being able to reach them, while they are free to punch you and abuse you at will. Unfair

I already heard the excuse about a probationary period but I’ve been stuck in this state for awhile now and it’s not OK

Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions on Thursday June 30, 2022 @03:01PM (#31936996)
The whole concept of a corporate fourth estate informing a populace how to vote contrary to their own interests is surely a major problem our founders weren’t considering very heavily, given the media of the time.

I can’t imagine the World War generations silently watching Tucker give aid and comfort to Putin either…

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