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by shaqbert 9mo ago
True, but a rounding error compared to the HashiCorp bill...
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by shaqbert 9mo ago
A good alternative is to just run your Terraform yourself in Github Actions or Gitlab CD, and host your state in S3. We are using open-source Terramate to orchestrate Terraform, and it makes the transition and operations super easy.
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by shaqbert 1y ago
5s for Docker containers vs 20ms now ... holy moly, this is fast
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by shaqbert 2y ago
Otel is indeed quite complex. And the docs are not meant for quick wins... Otelbin [0] has helped me quite a bit in configuring and making sense of it, and getting stuff done. [0]: https://www.otelbin.io/
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by shaqbert 2y ago
The lessons from Ukraine war: - "zerg" cheap mass produced unit approach is superior to "protoss" expensive but few units - if you have expensive kit, better hide it in a drone/mid range rocket proof shelter - pilot
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by shaqbert 2y ago
This is related to an earlier post [0] and shows the underlying open-source repo. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39902949
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by shaqbert 2y ago
This looks amazing. 1- Is there an option to run your own "kraftcloud" in your own cloud account? 2- How does this compare to companies leveraging eBPF to squeeze more performance from the Kernel?
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by shaqbert 2y ago
This is surprisingly elegant and simple... whish I had found Mirascope like three month earlier. On the repo roadmap section I am seeing RAG support coming up, this would be extra nice for my use case. Any ETA?
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by shaqbert 3y ago
Hi William, super nice tech. Alas, I am suffering from lack of imagination, can you give some example use cases where this tech would really shine?
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Wendelstein 7-X spin-off to go after commercial stellarator fusion power(ipp.mpg.de)
3 points by shaqbert 3y ago|1 comments
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by shaqbert 3y ago
- team are scientists from the Wendelsten 7-X stellarator plasma physics experiement - want to innovate on the two most impactful learnings from the experiment towards commercial fusion power, namely - using high temperatur superco
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by shaqbert 3y ago
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) have found a way to significantly reduce the distance between plasma and divertor by modelling the X-point radiator.
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New discovery points the way to more compact fusion power plants(ipp.mpg.de)
2 points by shaqbert 3y ago|1 comments
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by shaqbert 4y ago
This was a plasma physics experiment to prove continous operation. Apparently going from 8 min to much larger timespans is less of a leap now. Next stop in research: divertor design. Right now the divertor is still a challenge, as it heats
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by shaqbert 4y ago
> It's just a "weapon" by the EU to attack any company they want. I'm pretty much sure if I made a hello world program in C, they'd find a clever way of fining me. Not so. Your hello world in C be just fine. Only
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by shaqbert 4y ago
I see collaboration software primarily in the context of work in a company. Self hosting OS is something I rarely see, as focus on your own product renders such endeavours a distraction. You substitute money for speed. I like it when there
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by shaqbert 4y ago
The main impediment to companies adopting entity resolution tech is the incentive structure. Companies want to show growing user numbers, transactions, leads, order, etc. Alas if you look closely and sift out the dupes/frauds, your gr
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by shaqbert 6y ago
The bigger question is why it has come to that, that door #1 is such a joke. Is competition not supposed to drive down the bargaining power of the investment banks in terms of fees and IPO discount? Apparently not. Are institutional investo
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by shaqbert 7y ago
Aah, the quip on the road network typeface... some highlights > The narrower a typeface gets, the less legible it becomes. We do also know that we have long words in Austria, like “Gumpersdorfer Straße” in Vienna – so now they only use t
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by shaqbert 7y ago
Why of course they do this. This is meant to boost market share and scare the tech-illiterate into using Chrome. And it works. Unsupported browser is a bit of a joke anyways in times of modern web standards...
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by shaqbert 8y ago
First they came for the developer ecosystem, but I did not speak up, as I was just a publisher. Then... Wanna be in control of "your" blog? Run your own software on your own server. Ghost, Gatsby, etc. to the rescue.
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by shaqbert 8y ago
The International Astronomical Union defined a planet [0] as an object that: (a) orbits the sun, (b) has sufficient mass to be round, or nearly round, (c) is not a satellite (moon) of another object, and (d) has removed debris and small obj
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by shaqbert 8y ago
Mox fuel based nuclear reactors never really took off. Thus producing mox fuel by reprocessing used nuclear fuel rods never turned out to address a big market. Cleaning this up is probably a similar challenge compared the Hanford plutonium
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by shaqbert 8y ago
Unfortunately overly simplistic. The challenge with higher plasma temperatures is that the internal shielding needs to be better than the current graphite tiles. They will upgrade those next and go with more complicated water cooled carbon
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by shaqbert 8y ago
They use sequencing tech from Complete Genomics[0]. Which in turn is owned by China based BGI. The tech is the brainchild of Dr Drmanac[1]. Note that the $200 price tag is for one of those Whole Genome Sequencing with lots (i.e. 1 error per
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by shaqbert 8y ago
Gist of articles: Private equity returns are more explained by overall bull market that individual talent. My 2 cents: Private equity is a key winner of the ever increased "cost" of going public. Enron, Worldcom and other scandals
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by shaqbert 8y ago
Working well in the sense of "the amount of unwitting users switching is > the backlash and heat from being an dark pattern villain and turning some witting users off". Aka "helps browser marketshare".
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by shaqbert 8y ago
The battle for control of the user. The pressure to create/preserve market share seems to be rising. When e.g. you look how aggressively Google is trying to switch me to Chrome from my Firefox on all of their properties, a new low was
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by shaqbert 8y ago
The punishment is not for pursuing an open source distribution model, but by applying undue power in taking back control of the open distribution model.
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by shaqbert 8y ago
We are using a GatsbyJS powered static site that triggers a build via Netlify whenever an editor is hitting publish in their Contentful. Best developer experience for a modern website in ages.

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