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crb

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About crb

aka Craig Box. You can e-mail firstname . lastname @ gmail.com to contact me.

Unless otherwise stated, posts do not represent my employer or any other organisation I am affiliated with.

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    Comment #44297120

    They haven't considered that, because until this week they didn't need to. Some Linux Foundation projects use Zulip, and the team behind the project seem willing to host for free.

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    Comment #43841489

    (1985) Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30895210 If you're interested in the history of Commodore, I thoroughly recommend the Commodore International Histo…

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    Comment #43178063

    From the FAQ: > If some eligible files were found, the amount of disk space that can be reclaimed is shown next to the “Potential Savings” label. To proceed any further, you will h…

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    Comment #42105704

    Is it just me, or is the font in the title bar/menus, off?

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    Comment #41853978

    Tetrate and Bloomberg want to contribute their code to Envoy to create "Envoy AI Gateway", similarly to how there is an "Envoy Gateway" spec. Do you see this as being complementary…

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    Comment #41843616

    > There was another BBS based off WWIV in Pascal, but I don't remember the name. You're probably thinking of Renegade, which lives on at https://renegadebbs.info/

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    Comment #41785744

    Before there was WordPress, the most popular blog CMS was Moveable Type. It had a "generate static files" option. (I believe this is how Daring Fireball is still published today.) …

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    Comment #41518707

    Yes; it's referred to in Oxide's RFD about RFDs [1] https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0001 but the referenced URL is 404 unless you're an Oxide employee. [1] https://rfd.shared…

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    Comment #41166483

    It wasn't lost. The guy who sat next to Warhol as he created it, has had it for the entirety of the intervening time. (That's some "provenance".) The thing that Debbie Harry said s…

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    Comment #41085541

    As opposed to Maniac Mansion, where you could die if you drained the pool and waited too long to refill it. (Among many other ways, which you can find here: https://www.maniacmansi…

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    Comment #40910178

    The live remote camera setup seems like the bones of the only killer app idea I've ever had: a two-iPhone camera system for couples who want a stranger to take a picture of them wh…

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    Comment #40008922

    The issue isn't about explaining xz, it's about explaining Postgres. "It's a very popular piece of database software, and Andres' job is making sure that whenever people make chang…

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    Comment #39588970

    https://www.commodore.ca/commodore-history/the-crazy-story-o...

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    Comment #39462196

    The Linkerd steering committee only met three times, most recently in May 2021. [1] (Its charter [2] requires it to meet quarterly.) Three of its four members have since left the c…

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    Comment #39460528

    https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/366570820... "[The] additional work done by Buoyant developers to backport minimal changes so that they're compatible with existi…

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    Comment #36702329

    Contour is a gateway: a controller that manages Envoy proxies at the edge of a Kubernetes environment. Istio is a service mesh: a controller that manages Envoy proxies at the edge …

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    Comment #36701786

    Hi everyone, I'm the person who drove the CNCF process for Istio (and made the linked commit). I'm happy to answer any questions.

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    Comment #36701268

    I like to equate the question to "If I needed a container orchestrator, I'd probably use Nomad. What would I be missing out on with Kubernetes?" Ignore the CNCF for a second. Both …

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    Comment #32949637

    I maintain that "booting a Mac, loading Chrome, loading Google Docs, and getting ready to type", takes as long as "booting DOS, starting Windows 3.1, loading Word for Windows 2.0",…

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