You know your workout was successful when you have trouble lifting your arms afterward. I hope that changes by tomorrow because there’s things I need to do with those arms then. It’d be easier with detachable arms, but I guess given that I would not have to work out at all.
Day: October 8, 2018, 11:21 PM
It’s Contained
Now we have containers, which is a way for relative newbies in the computing industry to poorly compensate for 40 years of other bad computing decisions, fecklessly repeating the same mistakes of their elders — except on a container atop a virtual machine atop some “cloud” service atop a rickety server infiltrated by China whose security and performance you have absolutely no control over.
Improvement?
Adaptation and Utility
Consciousness is too expensive not to serve some adaptive purpose. It is probably not some epiphenomenal accident. However, that consciousness serves some purpose does not mean it is utilitarian in the sense that most people would mean. The peacock’s tale is a response to something evolutionarily (it is an example of Fisherian runaway), but it is not useful — in fact, it hampers the bird. Many times, I wonder if consciousness itself is not somewhere on this spectrum.
DA ∞
Facebook Launches a Camera for Your Home—What Could Possibly Go Wrong.
Anyone who installs a Facebook camera in their home is a level of dumbass that is beyond all comprehension, that exceeds previous dumbass parameters and is in some black hole of dumbassery so boundless and vast that it’ll take a new Einstein to comprehend.
Paydata
How much is your data worth? So much that Google just paid Apple $9 billion to be the default search engine in the iPhone.
$9 billion, to get people to use a ’FREE’ search.
— Mikko Hypponen (@mikko) September 29, 2018
I don’t know what areas this deal covers, but that’s about $105 for each of the 86 million US iPhone users. Apple claims around 700 million iPhones are in use around the world. If that is the case and the deal covers the entire world, Google paid about $13 per iPhone user.
Distrib
About 95% of those building distributed systems don’t need distributed systems. They just need — at most — a cluster. I’m all for doing things new-school when it makes sense. Most of the time, it doesn’t.
But if you want to make your app or infrastructure vastly more complex and slower, sure, Docker away. Get your Kubernetes on. And I won’t do that, and will have a better user experience and less downtime as I avoid all that complexity.