Completely unrealistic. The monolith is not retiring, it’s just getting stuffed into a docker image and saying “Hello, fellow micro services!”, while achieving a fraction of the old uptime because you’re also trying to run Oracle or MSSQL on AWS using EBS as the underlying storage, and none of those components were designed for that use case.

It’s going to be a mess regardless. The monolith is just tangled at a different layer. The only way to avoid a tangled mess is to incentivize proper engineering, and everyone is incentivizing time to market and delivery of barely working features, which are the antithesis of proper engineering.

True, but you can find a perfectly good 20 year old ICV. With an EV that old you’re going to be making bigger compromises.

Regarding privacy, I’m pretty sure Google is harvesting all of that through my phone anyway, so I consider it sunk cost.

Which is fair, because there’s a good chance we’d be back at it in three days.

Also, prices will never be the same, because the risk calculus for the Strait of Hormuz has changed forever. Insurance premiums for shipping through there will never go back down.

There’s no priority combination where sustained 60-80 hour weeks make sense.

Looking to prove yourself? You can’t sustain that long term, at least not at the same quality, so you’re just setting unrealistic expectations and setting yourself up to disappoint your boss.

Your boss told you to? If this is meant to last longer than 2 weeks, he’s setting all his subordinates up for burnout, and quality will suffer. Don’t let your boss set everyone up for failure.

Personally, I’ve found that 60-80 hour weeks is okay for a 2-week crunch. Then you need to recharge for 2 months before you can do it again. So treat crunch time like any other limited resource, and use it sparingly. Boss just wants it fast? Tough shit, it’ll be done when it’s done. Half the company is blocked until you fix this thing? Crunch time.

I can’t do Suse because I used SLES9 for work in 2005 or so, and it made me never want to see that little chameleon again.

I think that ship has sailed. Too much stuff relies on it now.

Those two things aren’t incompatible if you shield it with a massive heatsink.

Still harder than just doing it on earth, though.

I’ve used Debian since 2001 or so. I reinstall whenever I have a new computer, unless I’m decommissioning another computer at the same time.

You still have the right to vote as a US citizen living abroad. The only taxation without representation is of people living in the US on a visa or green card.

In my experience, tech companies, especially b2b, just don’t innovate. They coast on existing products, and just sometimes reactively implement things enough customers are asking for explicitly.

Are you just storing electricity from the grid when it’s cheaper, or did you do solar as well?

If you just run the command you ran initially it will print out the packages it wants to pull in. You can then cancel it and install whichever subset you choose manually.

I’m sure Norway is crying all the way to the bank. It’s hard work hauling all that oil and fertilizer money.

Funny because it’s true? If you want updates all the time, install Arch. If you want as few updates as possible, pick some LTS distro.

Altman is a well known liar. He was even fired by the board of OpenAI for lying to them previously.

That helps against sparks jumping between the balloon and the ground, but things could still get zappy between the individual components of the balloon.

No worries, that only happens if there’s a spark, like for instance some static electricity. Shouldn’t be a problem here, surely this thing won’t generate any of that.

It’s admittedly been a while since last time I saw it, but I never mentioned chess. The suggestion to play chess in the screenshot is a callback to when the computer tries to suggest playing chess instead of global thermonuclear war earlier in the movie. The computer did not apply tic tac toe learnings to chess, and I never claimed it did.