thock.in
I like writing software, even if I don't get to do it much anymore. Kubernetes. Star Wars nerd, Expanse fan, dad, dork.
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Hot damn, in under a minute it came to the same conclusion it took me 4 tedious hours to reach. I am a luddite.
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Hold up. This actually worked. I have wasted a whole day.
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The point for me was - you don't need pure-good and pure-bad space wizards and laser swords. People are good and evil on their own. Good and bad isn't black and white (very literally in SW) it's a swirling mess. Good people do bad things for good reasons. Bad people do good things for bad reasons.
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If there's a round two, please consider me :)
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Shoot. I had the same idea independently, but you all beat me to it. :(
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Did this happen? I want in.
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This vid didn't introduce the idea of a worldline, which can move on both axes, but only within its own future light cone.
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AIUI they are 45 by convention. They travel thru both time and space, so any other angle would be biased towards one axis or the other. Something that only travels through time, and doesn't move (relative to the origin) moves vertically, and something that moves infinitely fast moves horizontally.
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For me it's the "we will just redefine the coordinates to make a singularity disappear" part that hurts.
I think a little more introduction on things like why light-cones are 45 degrees would help. I think I got it EVENTUALLY, but I have only 50% confidence I could explain it.
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Not as compelling as Hawking's books, but still super interesting. He spends a good amount of time on Penrose diagrams, but some of it was lost on me until this video.
Some of it is still lost on me :)
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Funny, I am currently reading Brian Cox's book on this same topic, and the book is featured in this video, and in the chapter I just finished :)
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The payoff is glorious.
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I guess I am lucky that I have never had to use Outlook, ever. :)
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So... Hotmail ruined it for everyone and GMail just made it worse?
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Secrets in base64 was never about "encryption" it was about encoding arbitrary data in a transport-friendly way.
Please stop perpetuating that myth.
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This isn't Star Trek, Ciruli. No benevolent Federation is going to step in. Our world today is far more Star Wars than Star Trek, sadly.
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It's the great shame of our generation. We simply cannot agree on a single medium to communicate (or even 3-5 of them!). They all suck in mostly the same ways, and finding past-information is utterly hopeless.
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Also, I have a hard enough time finding things. Did we discuss it on slack DM or a channel or a thread? Was it a GH issue or PR? Did GH hide the msg? Or was it on bsky? Or in the hall at KubeCon? Or internal email / chat?
Every week I go hunting for some discussion I KNOW I had and fail to find it.
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I half-agree. k/k "Issues" is probably 2/3 stale, already-fixed, not reproducible, or not actionable. That said, I think ACK'ed feature requests need a place to live, and "discussions" ain't it.
Practically, it wouldn't change much for me - "Discussions" is just another source of messages to watch.
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Is it solving a real problem? Like really really? All it did for me is break things that used to work. If I wanted to use a Mac I would use a Mac. All I want is my windowshade, focus-follows-mouse, and clear borders/widgets. Almost every one of those has been ripped away by "progress".
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We have used a variety of JSON libraries over the years, but moved away from code-generating versions. Better strategy was to mitigate the role of raw JSON. I don't think we wlooked at that one, or _I_ didn't, anyway
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On Thursday Kubecon Family Fortune (not Feud!) with me and @thock.in is back! With 8 amazing members of our contributor community vying for the ultimate prize of Kubecon Family Fortune Champion (definitely worth putting on a CV) kccnceu2025.sched.com/event/1txCe/...
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I am still #8 after more than an hour. I think that poor person went home.
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Somehow reading this is exactly like having a conversation with you.
In a good way, I mean.
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I can't tell if it is good satire or real.
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www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes...
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Yeah, but it works.
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It's an ad. I wish NewStack didn't post ads disguised as articles.
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Your mission, should you choose to accept it: become elected HOA president.
We now have AMPLE proof that it's possible for the president of an organization ot dismantle said organization from the inside.
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OTOH, maybe Kubernetes will prompt cloud providers to support some form of WATCH operations, just to alleviate the load of millions of kube clusters polling?
I'm an optimist. :)
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Same in k8s with load-balancers. If you have 100 services with LBs, and someone modifies one behind the scenes, we don't know to reconcile, because (AFAICT) none of the clouds have watch APIs and they all have API quota. Polling 100 LBs every 10 seconds = 10 QPS of 99.999% do-nothing traffic.
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Family member got them young - they went from almost incomprehensible speech to perfectly normal. It turns out they were speaking what they could hear, which was massively impacted by blockage.
Good luck!
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Nice notes.
I keep coming back to api-machinery as one of the most critical (& interesting) technical SIGs. It must be possible to do efficient server-side filtering of read ops (a "where clause").
Like it or not, people treat the API as a database, and when it doesn't work that way, fireworks.
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That was one of my favorite talks to give!