Tangential. If you're interested in the history of airlines and the intense power struggles, I highly recommend the book Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines Into Chaos by Thomas Petzinger Jr.
I daily drive a PopOS (22) on my laptop, it simplifies dealing with Nvidia drivers.
I recently upgraded to the 24.x version that runs Cosmic DE. While I loved the visuals and design, the whole OS was buggy. The GitHub issues about memory leaks I faced related to cosmic have been open for a while.
> Finnish startup Donut Lab claims it’s made a solid-state battery breakthrough. Whether you believe it or not, the technology does appear to be more than just hype.
> Did DO at least provide the DaemonSet from an official source, or was it literally "here's a random GitHub link"?
quoting verbatim from their email:
> For long-term remediation, our team has also created a DaemonSet that runs this flush command on all nodes automatically. You can find it at the link: https://github.com/okamidash/ARP-DOKS-FIX
As the sibling comment already mentioned, k8s is not much more complexity once you're past the learning curve. I used to host with ec2 + scripts earlier. K8s actually solves a lot of problems that you will have to solve yourself anyway.
We were on AWS for a while. The complexity was way higher than what our team could manage. DOKS is simpler, and this is the first major issue we've hit in many months.
I loved watching "It's quieter in the twilight", a documentary about how a dedicated team of engineers (mostly retired) are fighting to keep the Voyager mission alive.
> The screen, which has been dubbed retinal e-paper, has a resolution beyond 25,000 pixels per inch. "This breakthrough paves the way for the creation of virtual worlds that are visually indistinguishable from reality," says a Chalmers news release about the breakthrough.
The book Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken really opened my eyes about UPF. I highly recommend it. Here is a video of him delivering a lecture at the royal institution about the topic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j1oOoYnCfJs
I don't think adding kombu to dashi would count as UPF according to the book's definition.
While DuckDB is excellent, I've found the spatial extension still has some rough edges compared to more mature solutions like PostGIS.
1. The latitude/longitude ordering for points differs from PostGIS and most standard geospatial libraries, which creates friction due to muscle memory.
2. Anecdotal: spatial joins haven't matched PostGIS performance for similar operations, though this may vary by use case and data size.
3. The spatial extension has a backlog of long-standing GitHub issues.