hosh

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by hosh 21d ago
If people are happy with Actions API, that sounds great. I’m not happy with the Actions API. I think Gitlab’s cicd design is much better, and I’m not fighting it all the time when I use it.
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by hosh 28d ago
Smalltalk also had extensibility for one. But it largely missed the explosion of collaboration when open source code became shareable and people can work on it together. People also shared Hypercard apps. I think it is less about client&#x2
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by hosh 1mo ago
I think as we see more AI participation in code, github stars are going to matter less.
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by hosh 1mo ago
Maybe they got sucked into the cool tech? I remember my first pass reading of Stephenson’s Snow Crash and Diamond Age, I was bedazzled by some of the tech … it was later readings that the comments like “biomass” (the recent echo in AI “meat
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by hosh 4mo ago
Not to mention language communities with constant supply chain attacks because its standard library story is poor, and everyone keeps reinventing new, often half-baked solutions? Or even that, the very same ecosystem congratulates themselve
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by hosh 4mo ago
This looks a lot less annoying than Typescript, particularly how dynamic() is a lot more useful than any() I also wonder if this works well with Ruby’s duck-typing and monkeypatching.
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by hosh 4mo ago
In my twenties, I came across an idea from one of Ken Wilbur’s books that helped settle a conundrum for me. What happens when one wants to honor all life? Are they all equal? He made a distinction between intrinsic value and extrinsic value
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by hosh 4mo ago
What people are finding now when building agenic AI orchestrators is that they are reinventing some of the ideas behind BEAM and OTP. The big one being queues (mailboxes), but also fault isolation. Async runtimes can’t really do preemptive
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by hosh 4mo ago
Is it fair to say that Mesos is more top-down while Kubernetes is more bottom-up in scheduling approach?
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by hosh 4mo ago
That is not very insightful. Your thesis started with the idea of elastic horizontal scaling. Mesos was designed from ideas with HPC and catered to that. Large hardware capex, which is not elastic. Containers did not make sense in that worl
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by hosh 4mo ago
I build production Kubernetes and cloud infra for work. When I run Kubernetes locally, it is because I am developing operators or manifests for application workloads. Kubernetes is not the “value add” for my dev workflow, it is literally wh
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by hosh 4mo ago
They could have chosen Mesos instead. Kubernetes had other characteristics that allowed it to be adopted far and wide besides the ability to scale horizontally.
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by hosh 4mo ago
How are resource management distinct from scheduling in Mesos?
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by hosh 4mo ago
I think people are putting together pi clusters for their homelab these days.
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by hosh 4mo ago
Not all clusters are elastic. Cloud infrastructure can be, but HPC setups before the cloud were not.
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by hosh 4mo ago
Scale isn’t the only reason. Sometimes you want resource isolation and self-healing, something that is useful if you want a personal swarm of AI agents.
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by hosh 4mo ago
I am not sure I understand this argument. Kubernetes typically runs on Linux. I use an Apple laptop, work mostly with headless Linux VMs and Kubernetes. What is a “poor man’s Linux”?
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by hosh 4mo ago
A local model that can do better than Siri or Alexa as a personal or home assistant is, in my eyes, very useful. Being able to run on a phone or watch or glasses translates to me, low-powered AI, and not necessarily that I want my phone, o
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by hosh 4mo ago
I don’t know at what threshold a complicated system becomes complex. For example, at a level of scale, Kubernetes start having emergent behavior. On the other hand, it doesn’t take much to produce a complex system. The Boids simulation is a
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by hosh 4mo ago
I was not trying to be exhaustive. I am sure you can come up with more characteristics.
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by hosh 4mo ago
They all influence each other to one extent or another. And, the Cynefine Framework defines “complexity” a bit differently than the intuitive way it’s often used. The simple domain is a single dimension. The complicated domain is a system
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by hosh 4mo ago
Complexity, if it can be reduced to a single measurable dimension, is only one of several factors in a solution space. There are other properties such as, maintainability, scalability, reliability, resilience, anti-fragility, extensibility,
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by hosh 5mo ago
Azure’s core hypervisor orchestrator was half-baked at launch and it has never been fixed. This long read blog series explains a lot for me — for example, why the FedRamp certification program was never able to get a straight answer from
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by hosh 5mo ago
It is not necessarily monetary or even transactional form of support. Reciprocity builds relationships. Not necessarily even code contributions. It could be professional networking. It is a bit different if the person is not a stranger.
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by hosh 5mo ago
Something I learned about being a part of an ecosystem: if you want it, you need to support it and help it stay alive. That applies to local shops as it does open source projects.
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by hosh 5mo ago
GCP encourages customers to use Class E (240.0.0.0/4) as internal IPs. That helps. What I am building won’t exhaust that, but I hear some customers are blowing through even that. PSC has a builtin NAT. That also helps stitch things tog
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by hosh 5mo ago
I am in the middle of building infrastructure in GCP. The workload is your typical stateless web + db workload. As of now, there is no way to have a 100% internal ipv6. Many of the services, including CloudSQL or the connection between exte
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by hosh 6mo ago
1. Are each of the JS processes running in its own process and mailbox? (I assume from the description is that each runtime instance is its own process) 2. can the BEAM scheduler pre-empt the JS processes? 3. How is memory garbage collected
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by hosh 6mo ago
I know there are some brilliant engineers at Microsoft. There are some incredible engineering in some components. I don’t know why Windows as a whole is such a piece of fractal shit. Maybe it is shinnegans like this: https://www.
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by hosh 6mo ago
Gathering and mapping unfamiliar systems is part of that skillset. I’m also looking at being able to think laterally, being able descend abstraction layers, and understanding architectural characteristics and constraints (Roy Fielding’s Dis

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