thelastknowngod @ thelastknowngod @lemm.ee

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It's good to be the king.

Soooo glad I got in at 4%.

Kerning Cultures should be on the list of everyone who likes 99PI and This American Life. It's like those two shows had a baby and it grew up in the Arab world.

I worked at CompUSA back in the day. I did the same thing for coworkers. It was breezy 5.10. Crazy yo this it's been nearly 20 years since then.

Same. Been using them for years and they've always been solid.

It's not hard to move to Japan. It's hard to move to Japan and earn a decent wage. I am in a high earning career when working for US companies. If I were to do the exact same job in Tokyo, I would earn less than half of my current base pay, no bonus or stock options. I know this because I was living there and interviewing a lot.. Finding work was not hard. Taking that kind of pay cut would be stupid.

The main jobs that the Japanese are happy to allow foreigners to have is mostly around teaching English. I dated many English teachers when I was there and the general consensus was that if you had a working face, you could teach English. Anyone who is unemployable in their home country can move to Japan to teach English. The catch is that you're going to earn $15-20k per year.

I deeply love living there and miss it daily but it's just not a good deal in the global labor market. If they made a remote worker visa though, I would be the first person in line to apply for it.

I use feedly pretty much every day. The Times for reasonable news. Bloomberg because it's the closest thing to right-wing news that isn't batshit crazy. Lots of international sources for other perspectives.. BBC, Al Jazeera, Japan Times, etc.. Then lots of tech industry news just because that's my field.

The subscriptions are going to seem high when you first look but this is the reality of the current news landscape.. If you want legitimate news it's going to cost money. If you want legitimate news that isn't completely dependent on advertising, it's going to cost more money.

From the CEO: "Our competitors won't accept these jobs. They result in too many workman's comp claims. We'll take them."

It's a gig economy company.. They are willing to take them because the workers are considered independent contractors and not employees. They offload liability onto the workers themselves.

Good lord do I wish I was recording that when it happened..

You can't manage pull requests, github actions, repo collaborators, permissions, or any number of the dozens of other things github does just from basic git commands.

That's a lot slower at scale than something like Loki.

Exactly.

Yep. And if you want to really save some cash and don't mind getting a little crazy, use an EKS node orchestrator that supports spot instances. I'm starting to do a serious dive into Harness at the moment actually.

Google recently released a white paper on cost saving in kubernetes as well.

To be fair, with a proper autoscaling scheme in place these services should scale down significantly when not in use.

That being said, a big reason for using AWS/GCP is all the additional services that are available on the platform.. If the workload being run isn't that complicated, the hyperscalers are probably overkill. Even DO or Linode would be a better option under those circumstances.

I think I really only use GUIs if I am learning something new and trying to understand the process/concepts or if I'm doing something I know is too small to automate. Generally once I understand a problem/tool at a deeper level, GUIs start to feel restrictive.

Notable exceptions are mostly focused around observability (Grafana, new relic, DataDog, etc) or just in github. I've used gh-dash before but the web ui is just more practical for day to day use.

For context, I'm in SRE. I feel like +90% of my day is spent in kubernetes, terraform, or ci/cd pipelines. My coworkers tend to use Lens but I'm almost exclusively in kubectl or the occasional k9s.

Who cares. Just use it and enjoy.

The Big Lebowski.. The dude just wanted his rug back.

Yo. ✋

Thank you for the spoiler-free title. The results table image seems like a good compromise.

I was thinking like a heart healthy, ad council type thing that was put on cereal boxes.

I think this is what I was thinking of.

The Helliconia trilogy might be worth looking into. It's pretty unique in the genre.. It's not deeply political though if that's what you're looking for. The main character is essentially the planet itself and how the global society of people living on that planet changes over centuries. The seasons on the planet last hundreds of years too so it's adds some interesting evolutionary survival ideas in there.