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If the current state if the Ukraine war is success from Russian perspective how would a failure look like?

The paradox is that the Russian nuclear threat is ignored.

I assume that Russia invaded Ukraine with the intent to win the war within weeks or maybe a few months. It is a disaster for Russia. Even a full victory now would not be a outcome where one could expect that Russia would want to start direct war with NATO because they licked blood.

Does "energized" imply increased threat of attack? From the country which failed to successfully invade Ukraine ... I don't get the logic behind that thinking.

AI will not be able to eat up all chip manufacturing capabilities forever. At some point the market will be saturated and PCs will get affordable again.

I think there are active maintained modules https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/collections...

At work we use Ansible to setup Route53 records for infrastructure hosted elsewhere. Not sure if that counts as infrastructure.

Pareto distribution can be expressed in mathematical terms. So what? That does not explain why a specific distribution should follow this rule.

> I think that the Pareto Principle is technically true in a lot of fields, but I also feel our society would be a lot better off if we didn’t know about it.

I doubt that. From what I understand Vilfredo Pareto introduced it to describe the existing allocation of wealth in Italy on the brink of fascism. He claimed that the crops in his garden followed this principle. I highly doubt that that can be replicated. Ever since people refer to the Pareto principle when they observe a 80/20 distribution. Like it is some kind of natural law. But it is not. At least I have yet to see a scientific explanation why a 80/20 distribution would have any kind of special meaning. Just because some distributions are 80/20 doesn't mean there is anything special about it, a lot of distributions are not 80/20.

So I think society would be better off if people would stop acting like it is a natural law and there is nothing to change about it.

Paereto distribution is dangerous since it is applied to justify hierarchies in society. And it is just not a good justification.

Goa Gil, the DJ, musician and pioneer of the psytrance movement, has died following a battle with cancer.

In Germany at least 4 weeks depending on how long you have been with the company up to 7 months.

Slavoj Žižek [1] sees happiness as a conformist category. He argues that:

> We don't really want what we think we desire.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U88jj6PSD7w

Drone works best for me. Stuff like Phill Niblock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcdcWWcjBKg

> WikiLeaks originally used a "wiki" communal publication method, which ended by May 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#Staff,_name_and_foun...

I was provided a ascm file when purchasing a ebook at Google Play.

I was able to get a refund when it turned out that there is no offici way to convert it on a Linux system.

I own a Xiaomi Vacuum Robot and that is by default very much not local only. However there is a project [1][2] to hack some of those devices and make them local-only.

With limited functionality they work of cause without app and cloud connection.

[1]: https://dontvacuum.me/ [2]: https://valetudo.cloud/

I think stack exchange provides data dumps via archive.org

https://archive.org/download/stackexchange

> From the kernel point of view, there is a only one socket with a unique listen queue. This socket is associated to several file descriptors: one in systemd and one in the current process. The socket stays alive as long as there is at least one file descriptor. An incoming connection is put by the kernel in the listen queue and can be dequeued from any file descriptor with the accept() syscall. Therefore, this approach actually achieves zero-downtime deployment: no incoming connection is rejected. [0]

systemd can be sufficient for a zero-downtime deployment.

[0] https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2018-systemd-golang-socket...

This [0] is from Jan 2021.

[0]: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gpsd-dev/2021-01/msg00...

> To test this hypothesis, Birsan began hunting for names of private internal packages that he could find in manifest files on GitHub repositories or in CDNs of prominent companies but did not exist in a public open-source repository.

If I'm not mistaken insider knowledge wasn't necessary.

I'm not familiar enough with closed loop control theory to make a statement if the analogy is appropriate. But a quick skim is definitive not enough to get an understanding of Foucault. However these two quotes from the plato article should make a good starting point:

> The key idea of the archaeological method is that systems of thought and knowledge (epistemes or discursive formations, in Foucault’s terminology) are governed by rules, beyond those of grammar and logic, that operate beneath the consciousness of individual subjects and define a system of conceptual possibilities that determines the boundaries of thought in a given domain and period.

> On Foucault’s account, the relation of power and knowledge is far closer than in the familiar Baconian engineering model, for which “knowledge is power” means that knowledge is an instrument of power, although the two exist quite independently. Foucault’s point is rather that, at least for the study of human beings, the goals of power and the goals of knowledge cannot be separated: in knowing we control and in controlling we know.

I got diagnosed with ADHD age 15. Methylphenidate gave me these zombie like spacing out symptoms. I later switched to Amphetamine and didn't feel the negative side effects of Methylphenidate.

Methylphenidate is the only authorized substance for ADHD treatment here in Germany. I had to pay for my Amphetamine treatment by myself. I had the impression that the pharmaceutical industry doesn't have an interest in getting an authorization for amphetamines as that substance can be produced by a local pharmacy on site. Even thou I can confirm that the side effects are much less with amphetamines.

Now age 35 I haven't taken any medications for ADHD for 8 or 9 years. It was good to help me with school and university but now I don't need to put myself into a position where medication could be helpful. Still wouldn't want to work in an open floor plan office. Not sure if that is an medical condition.

Most of the stuff you would be doing with Ansible happens inside the Dockerfiles. So comparing lines of code of your Ansible codebase with just the docker-compose file is not fair towards Ansible.

The polarization between the company and power users/moderators and the scandal probably killed SO.

The number of answered questions is now almost as low as it was in late 2011 [0]. I don't know how to plot the quality of questions and answers but I can confirm the observation of a general decline in quality.

The problem with reward based sites is that people (or at least I am) are less stimulated to put in effort into a sinking ship.

0: https://data.stackexchange.com/serverfault/query/303570/answ...

> Valetudo is the roman name for the greek goddess Hygieia which is the goddess of health, cleanliness and hygiene. Also I’m bad at naming things.

https://valetudo.cloud/pages/faq.html

Can Google be held legally accountable for this behavior? Seems like they are hurting businesses by spreading false information. With their market power there need to be some incentive for them to react quicker and with human oversight.

Here is my non complete list:

- Who’s at the Helm? [0] - Microservices, hard as 1, 2, 3 - You can move it but complexity is still here [1] - Microservices — architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes [2] - Do I Really Need Kubernetes? [3] - Your team might not need Kubernetes [4]

I doubt that any of those articles could convince higher management. I don't know what a "respected source" actually means. I general I believe that advice from consulting agency and cloud providers should be taken with a grain of salt.

If you drew the same conclusion from the "Who’s at the Helm?" article than I, there is only one way out which is a curated container catalog. VMware's Tanzu Application Catalog [5] is the only product in that space I'm aware of. I have quoted the price tag on HN, I think it was removed since that, so I won't repeat it here again. In any way it was magnitudes higher than the EKS base price which already seen as a showstopper by many small shops. Bottom line is: it is really hard and really expensive to operate containers in a secure manner. Probably too hard and too expensive that it would be a good idea to start with it before you actually need it.

0: https://dlorenc.medium.com/whos-at-the-helm-1101c37bf0f1 1: https://medium.com/@danielpetisme/microservices-hard-as-1-2-... 2: https://vlfig.me/posts/microservices 3: https://thenewstack.io/do-i-really-need-kubernetes/ 4: https://medium.com/faun/your-team-might-not-need-kubernetes-... 5: https://tanzu.vmware.com/application-catalog

AFAIK it is basic and a common way to install packages in k8s. Usually the developers of a project with k8s focus like Prometheus provide a helm chart for easy installation. However it is a package manager and easy confused with a distribution. I recommend to read "Who's at the helm?" [0] discussed a few days ago here [1].

0: https://dlorenc.medium.com/whos-at-the-helm-1101c37bf0f1 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25647753

I don't see the benefit either. I believe Netflix made this idea popular with sidecar containers as a way to add

> “non-intrusive platform capabilities” [0]

to container stacks.

I understand that the idea might be popular among developers as it is easier to just add a database container to your stack rather than dealing with the db admin. I don't know if Netflix ever recommended databases as sidecar containers. But I have seen it in the wild where dev followed the Netflix model. I sometimes hear people arguing that they have to manage containers anyway so it would be less overhead to manage the db as a container as well.

0: https://netflixtechblog.com/prana-a-sidecar-for-your-netflix...

According to Wikipedia [0] that should not affect Europe.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ni%C3%B1a#/media/File:La_Ni...