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This is what I do to bootstrap my Raspberry Pi's and its great.

Loki's fine if you are very cost sensitive and are comfortable with Prometheus, but it's not really a replacement for a text-search database like Elasticsearch. It also scales abou…

Elasticsearch has built in horizontal scaling abilities, unlike Postgres/other SQL databases. It also has integrations with cloud providers for peer discovery, or can use DNS. Once…

Elasticsearch is not a pain in the ass to scale, it is one of the easiest databases to scale. Kafka is medium, since they ditched Zookeeper.

Agreed, though solar tech has gotten a lot better and cheaper in the last 20 years, so it's not completely fair to compare. Power storage is still an issue, but this is getting bet…

Exactly, everything needs to be written like friggin dramatic poetry.

> I'm a bit irate with the usual flow of discussions about WebAssembly here on HN that take this claim for granted and regurgitate it incessantly. It is still more honest to regurg…

The article doesn't give any statement from her about the use of her photos in computer science, is there another quote somewhere?

"Fortunately I accept 'interesting trades' as payment, wink wink!'

Yeah this is a turnoff for me. I get that I could compile it myself but since the authors clearly don't want that, I'd rather just put my money into tools I know will work.

Diet sodas to me taste awful, but lately I've been putting a single packet of Equal in my coffee with some vanilla and it tastes great. Lord knows I can cut out the sugar wherever …

I'm sure this took a lot of effort and more knowledge than I'll ever have. All of this effort could have gone to doing something constructive, and instead it's gone to breaking a s…

I love Rust the language, and the community is generally good, but for whatever reason modern identity politics has always been looming around its key members. Maybe just because i…

Yeah it occurred to me that I glance down to see the likes and dislikes to see how credible some of the how-to videos I watch are. A lot of them are garbage or dangerous and that's…

Restic is great, I use it to back up my Nextcloud data from my raspberry pi to two locations, a separate USB drive and a remote DigitalOcean space. Very easy to use and all encrypt…

I think they are some weird line wrapping hint characters? If I paste it into Pop OS's text editor I can only see the dashes if I shrink the editor to cause word wrapping, and it w…

The fear of looking stupid cripples me in just about everything I do. Work, both professionally and personal projects, competitive videogames, even playing piano or guitar. Maybe I…

This is awesome. I've always wanted to know how the actual layout portion works (or at least, can work in a simple way). I think these kinds of resources are really valuable and pe…

Hollywood is highly critical of the USA. Pretty much every sentiment in a post 90's war movie is "The US also did some bad stuff that we should feel ashamed about."

I have just recently done the same thing, Pop OS with Steam, on my gaming PC. It works perfectly so far and I'm so thrilled - CS Go, Planet Coaster, and most recently Gas Station S…

That's fair, I'll have to think about that.

There's a difference between an accent and pronouncing words wrong. I would expect an English speech recognition system to handle the various accents there are in the world (the US…

Wow you're right. This is conflicting as many of the words are not pronounced properly at all. Maybe it doesn't matter to the accuracy of the speech-to-text system, but it feels li…

Yeah man, I'm serious. It took 5 minutes 30 seconds on my machine to run microk8s reset. This is well within the tolerance window for something I choose to run every 2 to 6 weeks. …

I use MicroK8S for local testing of Kubernetes clusters on my laptop and it works pretty well. I like that I can just run microk8s reset to clear out the state so I can redeploy ev…