Even Kubernetes devotees admit it’s not secure:

I love tech that comes broken out of the box. Nothing more fun.

I have reservations about this — and the rah-rah coprorateness of it all — but the basics aren’t wrong. Being a sedentary lump of apathy on the couch, munching Cheetos day in and day out, is not in any way healthy. Obesity and sedentarism exacerbate and in many cases cause innumerable health problems.

So it boils down to the fact that we must ask is this better than nothing? And will it help anyone without harming others more? And I think the answer is yes.

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve become more tolerant of imperfection in search of something good enough for now — unless it’s a blatant scam like the ACA.

You don’t need Crossfit for getting fit, but anything — any damn thing — that gets some people off their couch and prevents them from getting diabetes or other chronic conditions is probably on balance worth it. Personally, I’d recommend a lot more weightlifting and a lot less jumping around like a crazed chicken, but anything that avoids death by couch is a win.

See this more and more — higher-end properties declining in price:

I know to people in major cities where real estate is utterly unaffordable, a $595,000 house doesn’t seem higher-end, but in Florida that’s pretty pricy. The median home sale price in Florida is $217,300 and even in one of the largest cities, Tampa, it’s only $209,800.

But good news for us — decline in the market we care about has already firmly started. (We don’t want a large house when it comes time to buy, but a home on water with a lot of land is $$$.)

Microsoft Admits Normal Windows 10 Users Are ‘Testing’ Unstable Updates.

Smartphone bullshit has infected everything. Windows 10 is a joke surveillance OS. My partner and I describe it as alpha-quality software that somehow made its way out into the world.

In the software realm, Windows 10 is what you’d show as a product demo in the early stage of development, not something that is supposed to be seriously used.

I usually don’t dig smooth R&B. However, this is just excellent.

I cannot stress this enough: if you live in the US between the Rockies and the Cascades, you need to start figuring out how you’re going to GTFO in the next decade or so. Really, truly, no hyperbole. Because the water is running out and there’s no way to replenish it.

— Josh Ellis (@jzellis) December 11, 2018

There will be something done about it, but it will be at the expense of the Great Lakes. Wait till we start piping water out en masse. Oh yeah, it’s going to happen. There is no real technical challenge here; it’s just logistics. And we’ll do it, and it’ll be bad.

How one investor’s Amazon misfire led to a 99% loss in his trading account.

That’s not a misfire; that’s just stupidity. Options are a hedge, not the main act. Picking up coins in front a steamroller is never long-term profitable. It just isn’t. This is just playing the lottery for smart people.

I know that people will see this as cruel or similar, but one of the reasons I said a hard no to getting any fatter than I already was is seeing so many obese people with overpronated feet, and knee varus and valgus. Unsurprisingly this is very bad for you — it pretty much inevitably leads to chronic pain throughout your lower body and arthritis over time.

However, what bothers me about it is how it looks. Someone with knees bent inward or outward and whose feet are the same just looks…unnatural. I truly do not know how people let things get so far gone where they are visibly destroying very obviously their legs and then just keep on eating. This hints at how very strong the hunger drive is in most people, I think.

Anyway, I don’t intend cruelty or shaming, but all I had to do to be motivated to eat less was imagining how very much I didn’t want my legs and feet to get to that state.