The hacks paid off though. The cheapness made the Spectrum ubiquitous across whole swaths of europe. Not only was it the first computer of an entire generation, it was the first generation where many people had a computer.
I'm not sure why they state "although the AWS Load Balancer Controller is a fantastic piece of software, it is surprisingly tricky to roll out releases without downtime."
The AWS Load Balancer Controller uses readiness gates by default, exactly as described in the article. Am I missing something?
Edit: Ah, it's not by default, it requires a label in the namespace. I'd forgotten about this. To be fair though, the AWS docs tell you to add this label.
I think the "label (edit: annotation) based configuration" has got to be my least favorite thing about the k8s ecosystem. They're super magic, completely undiscoverable outside the documentation, not typed, not validated (for mutually exclusive options), and rely on introspecting the cluster and so aren't part of the k8s solver.
AWS uses them for all of their integrations and they're never not annoying.
I think you mean annotations. Labels and annotations are different things. And btw. Annotations can be validated and can be typed. With validation webhooks.
Yes, that is what we thought as well, but it turns out that the there is still a delay between the load balancer controller registering a target as offline and the pod actually being already terminated. We did some benchmarks to highlight that gap.
And yet the quality of that channel is absolutely excellent, and the polar opposite of what the thumbnail clickbait suggests. I'd say it's on the same level of the Admiral Cloudberg blog actually.
And to be clear I completely agree with your reaction to the clickbait. If I didn't already know the channel I would probably avoid the videos too. And I've seen this happen with other channels. It seems to be an unfortunate effect of the current youtube "meta".
Yep. Watched a few videos, was overall impressed. Subscribed. A week later blocked the channel because the value of the videos was less than the annoyance of seeing the thumbnails and titles in my feed. No great loss.
Hm ok, I've never seen it. It has appeared for me before but the clickbaity titles and images put me off. Perhaps it works to game the youtube system but it certainly doesn't to get my interest.
But I don't have much patience for videos anyway. I prefer long reads.
Agree. Over-balancing everything in single player games sucks out the fun.
"Single-player" here is key - minutely perfect balancing is often a necessity in multiplayer games, and I suspect sometimes that mentality is carried over to single-player experiences without stopping to question it.
The trouble with the internet is that it's hard to stop competitive mentality leaking in; the game may be single player, but there are lots of people playing it, and they can watch each other and show off.
(this basically killed puzzle / mystery box games, which survive only in a weird corner for not-very-online people playing on mobile)
What a terrible article. When you have a section titled "The Problem With Hardcoded Filters", it's entire contents should be about how the only way they have to prevent their bot from emitting outrageously libelous claims about people is to shut it down completely. So the other 8 billion people on earth who are not in that 6 name blacklist will continue to be defamed without consequence.
They once reported on some science result and for the life of me I could not figure out who actually published the result and had to search for the original paper. I emailed the AT author and asked why this was omitted from their article and they responded with something like "I went to that same university, so I felt like it would be biased if I mentioned it".
From the arguments I've read against this, I think not enough emphasis is being placed on the strongest one:
In the modern world online access is as necessary as water, power and phone service. No one would suggest forcing the power company to cut service to a customer over trivial civil law matters (which is what copyright is) that are completely unrelated to the company or the service it provides. No one should suggest cutting internet access either.
I guess ISPs in the US don't want to use that argument due to the regulatory implications (the common carrier classification thing)? But someone should be making that argument to the court.
The strongest argument comes from Viacom v Youtube. If Viacom itself is unable to identify which videos are infringement or not how is a Youtube supposed to be able to?
Or to put into different terms. If a copyright holder historically has asked an ISP (Google eventually become one) to un-takedown content as it wasn't actually infringing; why should the ISP be liable for not-proven-in-court activity by customers?
Yep, internet is a utility, like a toll road (most highways in many countries).
If you shoplift, should you lose your highway sticker?
Somehow the intrnet is this 'magical place' where real world analogies don't work for many people,... surveillance related stuff being the worst offender.
Of course public transportation in some parts of the US is so bad a car is almost necessary, despite being a privilege. I’m not saying it shouldn’t remain a privilege, but for many losing their license or not having a functional vehicle would mean almost certain financial ruin.
Not driving licence, the toll-road sticker. Vignette in many countries. It's usually tied to the vehicle, and it indicates that the yearly highway toll has been paid, and you're allowed to use the paid-highways.
If you personally did something, then you personally are responsible for that something that you did. Not your families car.
The only thing similar I’ve heard of in the US is vehicle registration fees and stickers (that usually go on the license plate), but these vary state by state and are not tied to any toll road or the like.
Every toll road I’ve ever been on in the US you have to pay each time you use it. These days most states use the same transponder system where your vehicle is detected by that device when you enter the toll road or by license plate readers.
I’ve never heard of a general “yearly highway toll” anywhere in the US.
Over here (central europe), many countries have yearly (monthly, weekly) tolls. You used to get a sticker to put on the windshield (now it's mostly digital, tied to the licence plate), and you can drive on any highway within the country for a week/month/year. No slowing down or stopping to pay, on the other hand, you either have to buy it in advance or stop at the border or the first gas station in the country and buy it there.
We had a huge reducation in traffic deaths due to that (because people use the highway more than before, even for just "one exit", since you don't have to stop and wait in line to pay anymore).
Keep in mind that you can still drive with a revoked license.
Trivially, there's the you can just do it illegally. But also pretty much every state allows you to get a "Hardship" license [1] which basically means you're not responsible enough to drive but also you can't live without driving so we're letting you drive to work/store.
In your specific context, the following doesn't directly apply, but the statement that driving is a privilege is frequently made here, often as a whole truth and not merely legal truism. It is a prevarication at best, to argue this beyond a purely legal premise, however.
To think that the entire nation would immediately collapse irreparably if this trivial "privilege" were removed, kinda suggests a problem with this factoid as a general view.
I am aware that for some individuals driving is entirely unnecessary. Some individuals don't have homes. I hope that for however anti-automobile one might rightfully be, the reality of this is still clear.
There might be a First Amendment argument for internet access. Congress shouldn’t have the power to force or coerce an ISP to disconnect someone from the internet. (Doesn’t take too much imagination to come up with a partisan copyright troll.)
Yeah, was thinking that. Do we cut off power to a home if it’s repeatedly used for growing weed? If no, then we definitely shouldn’t cut off internet over something even more trivial.
It's becoming less and less possible to live without every year. More and more government services over here can only be accessed online. And the private industry has been happily gutting offline or in-person services for a long time. If you still want access to everything, you better be ready to pay huge premiums just to be able to do things the old-fashioned way of having humans perform tasks for you. So if you're poor, you basically have no choice but to be online.
I got stuck in the spiral slide on the same level. I got the impression framerate glitches are affecting the collision detection (common physics implementation pitfall). I could be wrong though.
Still, very cool. Too cool to waste on marketing in fact :)
Only the OP would know for sure, but it might be the case that this never would've come into existence were it not for the project to land the messages about the company.
Yeah, sometimes the ball does some crazy things due to the way collision detection works. We tried to optimize and avoid most of the issues but it can happen.
Cookie header parsing is a shitshow. The "standards" don't represent what actually exists in the wild, each back-end server and/or library and/or framework accepts something different, and browsers do something else yet.
If you are in complete control of front-end and back-end it's not a big problem, but as soon as you have to get different stuff to interoperate it gets very stupid very fast.
