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Yes, it is Borg. Not k8s. Granted it is similar

The legit use case for companies like Google/Amazon etc is only to sell it to customers. None of these companies use K8s internally for real critical workloads.

It would be easy to create a script like that. You'd save quite a significant storage space, especially when you have tables with hundreds of millions of rows. The real problem tho…

space/storage optimization https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/on-rocks-and-sand/

Yes, SSH certificates are the way to go and pretty easy to set up. But what these articles fail to address is the user management aspect. For the SSH certificate to be accepted, th…

> What is astral projecting? The illusion that your mind escapes your body and/or visits other planes of existence etc. It has been replicated successfully in lab conditions many t…

Or, you know, a one $1 billion dollars donation and it's gone as well :D

> it's easy to lose a billion dollars :O

Got it, thanks.

Search for "Ben Finegold" on YouTube. He has many lectures for beginners and he's one of the funniest GMs. That makes it less boring :)

> PG doesn't have a way to tell it how to organize data on disk so there is no good way around this (CLUSTER doesn't count, it's unusable in most use cases). Aren't tablespaces ( h…

I haven't met that many bridge architects :D But do they build bridges by themselves? Are bridges built by a one man show? And they don't have rules? And how do they get anything d…

> Are you aware that those things go through a design phase with the explicit objective of giving them a personality, right? Not really. I see quite the opposite; during the design…

Because we haven't solved the main problem yet, which is to create robust software that does exactly what's supposed to do, no more no less. We have opinions, we have some indicati…

> Software is a highly personal and creative thing, it should have a personality Not it isn't and it shouldn't. The process of creating the software is; huge distinction. The produ…

I am not analyzing the realism of the physics, I'm not qualified for that. Physicists say it's realistic enough and I believe them. But realism in the science aspects of a movie sh…

This is not related at all to what happened in the movie. We're not talking about experimenting on people (thus causing accidents/deaths/etc) but about withholding new knowledge.

Doctor Hugh Mann and the whole narrative around him was one of the most cringe-worthy moments I've seen in a movie of that caliber/budget. The motives behind the characters (Anne H…

No we don't! How dare... um... ok yes we do struggle. Unless you're an ancient Greek teacher, it's very hard to make sense of it. But you can certainly pick up numerous -unchanged-…

The problem was not Fedora per se, but GNOME and especially Wayland. Wayland is slightly above vaporware and infested with bugs. Had you chosen Fedora with KDE you'd probably have …

Incidentally I can't connect to HN directly from Greece, but only if I use my VPN through New York. Probably somehow related?

Not directly comparable. You can use iptables on a EC2 instance inside a VPC. VPC is more akin to a glorified virtual switch/bridge.

As Noam Chomsky said, when asked about what he believes about people considering Sam Harris as an intellectual: "Unfortunately we get the intellectuals we deserve".