KuberNOTes

Chill Annoying, Tech

Kubernetes is such absolute shit to work with. It’s one of the worst tech products I’ve ever used. It perpetually feels alpha-level. Partially that’s because it’s based on the priorities and “needs” of developers, so it favors extreme complexity over everything else — with security, networking and performance as a very late afterthought. Infrastructure people wouldn’t overlook those items. But the reality is, most devs don’t care about them and don’t understand them. (Many devs think a millisecond is “not much different” than a microsecond, for instance.)

It’s also an example of “new, cool, so must be good.” Tech is much the same as the fashion world. Surprisingly similar, in many ways. Various flashy products emerge, most of which don’t perform in any way as well as the old versions, but offer some cachet, some sense of being “in style” and are adopted by people shilling things or too clueless to actually understand anything other than the latest headlines.

And then MBAs and poor tech leaders pick up on this and force others to adopt that tech, even when it is completely inappropriate to the use case. Kubernetes experienced significant growth and usage from that.

Kubernetes is needed by maybe 0.01% of companies. Everywhere else, it’s an absolute waste and pointless.

Tears of Tiers

Chill Politics

(1) Max (@minordissent) / X

I think this is largely correct. As for me, I am on the side of whoever does not condone rape gangs, does not support burqas, does not believe people like Iryna Zarutska being murdered is an example of social justice, and who would not join Hamas if given the chance1.

I’m willing to fight beside people who support progress, who are not degrowthers, and who believe we should be out in space doing cool space stuff. If that is fight is political or me with a big-ass sniper rifle, I can roll both ways.

That’s what side I’m on. I don’t care about labels. I care about the work and protecting civilization.

  1. Where they’d quickly be murdered, of course

Soc Wel

Chill Annoying, Clowns

This is not correct. Of all social welfare (including Social Security and Medicare), native-born US citizens receive ~90% of that money. In fact, 60-70% goes to old people in the form of Social Security and Medicare.

Look, I’m against unrestricted immigration too. But it’s best to be accurate about what’s really happening. Fighting clowns with truth is much better long term than pummeling them with lies. Then you too become a clown (see the “Israel did a genocide in Gaza” doofs for examples).

Moon Mushies

Chill Amusing, Annoying, Clowns

(1) Natasha Chart 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@heterodoxan) / X

Pro tip: There is no nature on the Moon. If anything, we should put some nature there.

Here is who has the authority to extract resources from the Moon: whoever fucking can. The rules you think are rules are only excuses for the weak and the worthless. You deserve what you can make, take, bake, or fake.

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