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Re:A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024) on Saturday October 17, 2026 @04:40PM (#50134937)
I definitely prefer using kustomize over helm, where the mentioned interpolation takes place.
Re:Rendezvous with Rama on Monday March 09, 2026 @06:29PM (#47316589)
While reading Pushing Ice a very common thought I had was "did Reynolds want to do a Rama sequels?"

Shroud is great, easy recommendation. Another of Tchaikovsky, Alien Clay, also great, also very alien.

Re:Rendezvous with Rama on Monday March 09, 2026 @06:26PM (#47316547)
I enjoyed the sequels but they're a completely separate story to me, and I don't think I'd read them again.

I didn't go in with the expectation that they'd be just like Rendezvous with Rama.

Nope, just used their web chat support.
Re:Ask HN: What did you read in 2025? on Friday December 26, 2025 @05:03PM (#46396803)
Lots of scifi.

Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance, and Absolution of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series. https://www.goodreads.com/series/112239-southern-reach

Reread books 1-4 of Dennis E Taylor's Bobiverse series to read #5 https://www.goodreads.com/series/192752-bobiverse

John Scalzi's Interdependency Series https://www.goodreads.com/series/202297-the-interdependency

Basically all of the Culture Series by Iain M Banks https://www.goodreads.com/series/49118-culture

Of Peter F Hamilton:

- The Salvation Sequence series https://www.goodreads.com/series/242882-salvation-sequence

- The Void Series, a sequel-trilogy to the Commonwealth Universe series https://www.goodreads.com/series/43520-void

Of Alastair Reynolds:

- Pushing Ice https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48991704-pushing-ice

- Eversion https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60097716-eversion

Of Adrian Tchaikovsky:

- Shroud https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230237860-shroud

- Elder Race https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56815367-elder-race

- Alien Clay https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199851460-alien-clay

- Going through The Final Architecture now https://www.goodreads.com/series/305076-the-final-architectu...

Also Upgrade, by Blake Crouch https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59439117-upgrade

Also First, by Randy Brown https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196399619-first

this happened to someone i was helping. we went to support. they now have an apple id.
Re:Cloudflare is down on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:31AM (#46158939)
was interesting, some of our stuff failed, but some other stuff that used cloudflare indirectly didn't.
Re:Local First Htmx on Saturday November 08, 2025 @04:01AM (#45855287)
i decided to use htmx for a frontend for myself and it was a pretty fun experience. even got tailwind involved pretty easily with my rust+maud backend.
Re:Local First Htmx on Saturday November 08, 2025 @02:55AM (#45854959)
htmx isn't local first. this blog post is about trying to make it 'local first' by introducing a service worker.
Re:Major AWS Outage Happening on Monday October 20, 2025 @04:13AM (#45641157)
Re:Managing Dotfiles with Make on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @03:32AM (#45422877)
my dotfiles follow atlassian's tutorial where they do this, but put the git dir somewhere else and alias away the git command. It has worked pretty well for me.

https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles

Re:In Search of AI Psychosis on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:10AM (#45060441)
Mind elaborating?
we throw things through yq for formatting
> To a k8s engineer, serverless means “no servers”!

I'd assume a majority of people working with k8s knows what serverless is and where Functions as a Service work more generically.

The rest of the post just seems to be full of strawman arguments.

who is this kubernetes engineer villain? It sounds like a bad coworker at a company with a toxic culture, or a serverless advocate complaining at a bar after a bad meeting.

> k8s is great for container orchestration and complex workloads, while serverless shines for event-driven, auto-scaling applications.

> But will a k8s engineer ever admit that?

Of course. I manage k8s clusters in aws with eks. We use karpenter for autoscaling. A lot of our system is argo workflows, but we've also got a dozen or so services running.

We also have some large step functions written by a team that chose use lambda because aws can handle that kind of scaling much better than we would have wanted to in k8s.

Re:Firefox tab groups are here on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @08:08PM (#43839607)
I've been liking the new vertical tabs too.
Re:Starship Flight 7 on Friday January 17, 2025 @01:03AM (#42734530)
in a way that if they kept their heading there was a higher than acceptable risk of impact and they had to divert, yes.
Re:Starship Flight 7 on Thursday January 16, 2025 @11:52PM (#42734219)
It's in front of them enough.
Re:Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer on Thursday January 09, 2025 @01:04PM (#42648218)
> Unfortunately mods are not very good quality, or too difficult to enjoy.

Most of my playtime in Factorio is with overhaul mods, there's a lot of quality content there. I'm not sure how many of them have been brought to 2.0 or even will be. I'm curious where you think quality lacks.

Space Exploration has been my favorite, but Ultracube, Krastorio2, and Nullius were all quite fun. I'll admit I haven't finished Ultracube and Nullius, but I have restarted my Ultracube run in 2.0.

> Space age is interesting because new planets are being added by fans, but I don't think they're going to be as well designed and really bring anything interesting.

Check out Maraxsis and/or Cerys, these were the kinds of planet mods I was hoping for in Space Age. Maraxsis is an ocean planet and you build underwater and in deep trenches, and the planet's building has a base 50% quality. Cerys is a moon of Fulgora that's really quite small and it's more of a puzzle than anything.

we're using the kong gateway controller on aws eks, it's pretty neat. I prefer to manage it via argocd/gitops over terraform.
That's not a good summary of this video. I wonder how much other content you've skipped because some AI told you it was something it wasn't.
Re:A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes on Thursday August 01, 2024 @07:52PM (#41134864)
Karpenter is great for managing spot fleet nodes as well. Most of our clusters run a small aws managed node group for karpenter and the rest of the nodes will be spot fleet and managed by karpenter.
Re:Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates on Saturday May 18, 2024 @09:53PM (#40403543)
That was my thought exactly, it sounded right out of a Greg Egan story.
Re:Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @01:14PM (#40288586)
This is how I manage my dotfiles, and it has worked pretty well for me.
It doesn't seem like most Nobel laureates do their work with the sole intent of winning. I think it serves more as one of the highest forms of recognition, not necessarily a place to stand on a podium.
I go to movies at an Alamo Drafthouse.

They're known for being pretty willing to kick out unruly guests, and I definitely appreciate it. I actually haven't had any issues at any of their locations in Denver, CO.

There's obvious exceptions, big fan service opening movies like Endgame were quite loud but it was a whole audience experience and it was fun, but typical movies and post-opening-weekend, most people are respectful.

This is pretty exciting honestly, I hope it works out!
Re:Original Prusa MK4 on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @04:36PM (#35363177)
It's the first point under Features.

> Free and open-source

> PrusaSlicer is based on Slic3r by Alessandro Ranellucci. Thanks to the strong community and a team of developers in Prusa Research we can continually add new features. Follow the development on our GitHub.

Re:Original Prusa MK4 on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @04:35PM (#35363153)
> I have one of the first Prusas

I've had two Prusa mk3s for a few years now and they've been excellent. No problems at all, and now Prusa is my default recommendation. I'd run batch jobs on them for days for "customers" without concern.

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