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What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes.

This article is wrong. I’ll explain why below.

First, Kubernetes really sucks. It’s just terrible, terrible technology. The networking stack is atrocious. The Kubeclowns took something that should be a routing table and an iptables rule someone could actually read and buried it under three layers of abstraction that all lie to you in different, incompatible ways. And the networking stuff in there is just so slow. Of course it is — it was created by programmers who understand networking about as well as a llama grasps astrophysics.

I could easily write a 5,000-word rant about how shitty Kubernetes is, and how poorly-designed, about how it incompetently relocates abstractions to inappropriate places that make anything 1,000 times harder to troubleshoot. YAML is also a horrid config language that is ridiculously ill-suited for this purpose.

There are so very many insane and terrible decisions in the architecture of Kubernetes. It is one of the worst technologies I’ve ever used. It’s designed by idiots and a suitable choice only for doofuses.

Back to the main theme, though. Kubernetes became stylish to use and that explains part of its adoption.

But the main reason the article is wrong and that it doesn’t understand what is happening with all the Kubernetes BS is that it ignores the power shift that occurred over the last decade or so in the IT space. The dominance shifted from sysadmin types to developers. And Kubernetes is very friendly to developers. It allows them to package and ship broken nonsense with very little real testing. Of course, devs love that because who wants to test, amirite?

Also, devs are inherently very attracted to complexity. Kubernetes is exceedingly complex so this causes them to love it. It has endless (and pointless) knobs to turn, sliders to move around, switches to clickity-clack, endless dials to twiddle and tweak. All worthless and counterproductive, but devs absolutely go gaga over crap like that.

As I said, Kubernetes won because developers are now dominant. It allowed them to ignore security, good networking practices, compliance, and push absolute garbage to production “reproducibly1.” It’s trash technology2 that achieved preeminence because it allowed devs to run amok in areas they did not understand and hated to deal with.

And yes, I use Kubernetes every day in production. Not my choice, but I am not just guessing about how much of a crapfest it is. I live it.

  1. Kubernetes configs are not nearly as reproducible as advertised.
  2. We sysadmins could do all the things Kubernetes does 20 years ago more reliably and faster with better tech. Devs just didn’t control it so didn’t like it, or even know about it.

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(2) Henry George (@intothefuture45) / X

There’s no answer from the left because they want this to happen. This is the goal, not some accident. They want white people to be harmed and killed by feral third worlders. Again, this is their preferred outcome.

And yes, it was a migrant. Of course.

Execute that one (I’ll take care of it if y’all are too squeamish) and send the rest of them back. Next, send the idiot leftists to Somalia and whatever happens to them happens.

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(1) VB Knives (@Empty_America) / X

Interesting that this seems to be true cross-country.

My high school was very rough. (So were all my schools.) There were fights every day. I was in a large percentage of them. Bullying and hazing were extremely common. I was one of the main targets, but by no means the only one.

I fairly routinely got in 2-3 fights a day. And I mean real fights where one or both of us was bleeding at the end of it. That is not normal anywhere anymore. Nor should it be.

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(1) VB Knives (@Empty_America) / X

I think there’s something to this. A large percentage of the so-called asexuals, as well as the “feminists” screeching about how attraction is evil, many of the incels, and a large percentage of the online crazies in general would have been in monasteries or nunneries in past times; they are not suitable for regular civilization but now we have nowhere to house them.

Instead, they make the rest of us miserable by spending all day posting about how very normal human impulses and emotions are malevolent and always ill-intentioned. Which is not true. It’s just that they are abnormal freaks.

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Correct. Almost no high-agency high-intelligence man wants a woman who is intellectually incapable. By most measures I am far to the right on the Bell curve in intelligence and one of my few absolute dealbreakers was that the woman I ended up with would have to be within at least one SD of mine in IQ. Otherwise, what would we talk about day to day?

Because I’ve had to do it my whole life, I know that constantly explaining everything to everyone is terrible. I wouldn’t want to be with someone that I’d have to spend all my time doing that — and if I did have to clarify something, it’d take.

What Bethel writes there is just something neurotic women tell themselves about why they weren’t able to bag that 0.01% or above dude they think they deserve. That’s it.

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I Go Where the Data Does

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(1) Alan Cole (@AlanMCole) / X

The problem with this view is that its not borne out by the data and thus is moronic. I go where the data goes. I don’t care about ideology. Not even my own.

So the actual world shows that smartphone adoption is highly correlated with increasing unhappiness. And that is across countries, which starts to point more at something causal rather than just correlational. I’m not going to do your homework for you but there is more and more clear evidence being presented all the time that smartphones are bad news for happiness.

By the way, 2011-2012 is when smartphones reached ~50% of teen users.

Here’s more. As I said, do your own research. But Alan’s anti-thesis is the antithesis of what’s actually occurring. Not every advance is progress; not every novelty is worth the cost.

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