Posts by tracker1 86 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Mar 2017
VMWare does fleet management a bit better than HyperV does at mid to large scale. Including things like moving active VMs between hosts, and other advanced features and network virtualization and management.
For my own use, ProxMox is plenty... And even then, the open and closed alternatives are getting better and most probably don't need VMware, it's just entrenched.
> At least with VMware you know what your costs will be over 3 to 5 years.... Cannot say that with hyperscalers.
That statement is just stupid or just willfully ignorant on its face... The whole point is you don't know. Broadcom has been breaking support licenses and raising costs for ongoing support through the roof. You absolutely don't know what the costs will be for the next 3-5 years. That's the whole reason why companies are looking at alternatives.
Even first class cloud hosts are now significantly better priced than VMware and you don't have the capital expense of hardware outlay,...
If you can get by with HPE, ProxMox or straight up K8s, you should definitely be jumping ship.
I'm a Gen-er and largely with you. I've always hated the complexity in default AWS and haven't liked the party Azure has followed much better.
As an actual fan of JS/TS, I've fought against undue complexity for over half my career. I've seen both spaghetti monoliths and microsecond jungles.
I've been a fan of what Vercel, Deno, Cloudflare and others are trying to do. I've deployed with dokiu and usually just use Caddy to proxy b docket-compose apps for personal efforts.
It's a total mixed bag. Ok the flip side, people are using AI to create apps they don't understand... I can only imagine the scale of security beaches this will create...
My biggest issue with pointing out Google as a positive is they're likely to just kill the product and workflow you've built on with the next update. I don't trust them. And good luck finding a real person when they disconnect your account from logging in.
Most of that comes from the software and hardware having been started and manufactured in the US in the beginning. Much like the English alphabet list several characters and had speeding changes rooted via German type setters for early printing presses.
Similar for many programming languages and syntax itself.
It's a weird carry over from the English standard of June 8, 1958 format. Where the order is the same and makes a little more sense read aloud. For a digital representation yyyy-mm-dd makes the most sense, just most people aren't used to it as a convention. It should be now popularized though.
It irks me it isn't a windows localization option out of the box. Or Mac or Linux/gnome for that matter.
I've disliked US date formats as long as I've been into computers (several decades) mostly in that dated doc makes don't sort....
I really prefer iso-8601 store date(time) or: yyyy-mm-dd where there is no confusion.
Or at least shouldn't be. Worked on one project where an early dev used yyyy-dd-mm for some weird reason and got stuck with it. Which isn't a standard of any kind anywhere.
I was using insiders releases of Windows for years... It was when they started testing web search results and ads in the start menu search that I switched to Linux. When they started talking about taking screenshots of desktop activity every two seconds that my wife switched.
It comes down to Microsoft adding functionality that has no place in an operating system. They'll continue to lose more and other options will continue to improve. Most people not playing games with invasive anti cheat or locked into Adobe products are fine on Linux.
I'd counter in that most software is written in a higher level language and much more easy to port to another OS.
The biggest gotchas I've experienced uplifting software are inconsistent paths on a case sensitive file system. And properly serializing dates and times with an offset to gmt/it.
I think getting out of MS SQL is much harder for more software than getting out of Windows. But there are Linux versions of that.
It's really not that hard to port MS apps for Linux. Most .Net apps can be updated to the latest .Net without too much issue. At least web apps.
SQL server can range from easy to nearly impossible though. Depends on how it's used.
I've spent about half my time in the past decade shifting C# apps to Linux and containerization. It's not so bad.
This was my suggestion for at least a decade to monitize support for Mozilla. But they left Thunderbird to rot in the vine. Chasing every other trendy strategy along the way.
I didn't have any faith in Mozilla leadership at this point. They aren't a technology org anymore... They're more of a PR company for a charity than even a non profit company. Their management has long since burned their goodwill away.
I think Google has standard in terms of mail and office services and software. So there's still room for a not Microsoft competitor in the space. Just hope they don't screw it up.
If you haven't had any personal experience since you were a young teenager that changed your opinion and haven't otherwise grown as a person since you were a young teenager. You are a pitiful human being
I believe in growth and rehabilitation. And I'm not an advocate for holding someone's childhood against them as an adult generally speaking.
I'm not sure I support sending a govt database over email in general. That said, what is the database? What does it contain? Was it sent through secure servers, through secure servers to a secure endpoint? The answer do matter because the security will vary.
I've heard some really bad stories in the finance space.
I'm any case there's plenty of facts of the case without digging up someone's childhood and getting overly politically biased. I truly feel sorry for Gen Z and beyond who will see no privacy in practice.
That's a funny story that the me today would find impossible to do. The me of a couple decades ago could probably have done differently.
These days, I'm such a staunch advocate for co/cd and containerization it would be incredibly unlikely. Not to mention that I now actively avoid direct access to production servers.
While articles like this the to put the focus on rust specifically. Go, C#, Java and other languages are also on the table and in broad acceptance.
I like rust a lot. I find that it's pretty good for even mundane tasks like web API development even. But it's far from the only option being considered and used.
The HTML in question isn't the issue here. The server is delivering a file for HTML, and one or more files for js, css etc that is all highly compressible text. One image is usually more payload than all the HTML, CSS and JS combined.
Malicious exploits can target the server, others can target a client. Each have differing mitigations.
Servers can operate in read-only for system mounts to reduce risk, as well as process isolation and containerization. The ladder techniques can also be used in a client browser. For Linux clients, this means appimage/flatpak/snap. Windows and Mac have different but similar approaches for browser isolation.
None of this has anything to do with the complexity of a given website.
I kind of feel that this metric of kinda meaningless especially I'm the context of AI you projects. It's like this decades equivalent to a fart app on the iPhone 15 years ago.
Everyone uses the same templates and goes through a few steps. But do they actually understand what they're doing or making anything different and productive?
In the end, I wish this had gone better. The no touch license made anything out of the gesture a non starter for pretty much anyone who could do anything with the project.
The third party source references made the personality even more murky. In the end, there's not much that can be done.
I wish there was a rough modern equivalent player that didn't suck. I didn't know that there is any such beast. It least not with anything that resemble the community and ubiquity of winamp at its peak.
For that matter, I'd like a good Linux version.
That is largely my concern as well. I tend to avoid both Oracle and IBM kind of like a plague. I simply don't trust their sales and licensing teams.
All said I am both sad and disappointed that every cloud provider is doing its own spin on arm. This pretty much keeps all workloads at the minimal common denominator.
Between this and Intel spinning off its fabrication business we live in interesting times indeed.
Too true. What cloud resources can offer for scaling often requires certain design and development approaches.
Putting an access app on a terminal server in the cloud doesn't do anyone much good at all. I've literally seen this.
Similar for many rdbms apps. You doing get magical scaling by putting it in a cloud server, but keep the queries with dozens of joins and trying to scale to thousands of users.
I think it largely comes down to AWS pricing not looking up with 4+ generations of performance and memory uplift. AWS pricing per core should have come down over time as many core processors became more common at lower process relatively speaking.
There are now 128-192 core monsters at or less than the 8-16 core options from a decade ago. Pricing in the cloud hadn't kept pace at all. Similar for memory and storage.
It's now crossed a point that the convenience of cloud isn't worth the higher margin costs to the customer. Combined with the fact that horizontal scaling is far less of a requirement than on hardware a decade or more ago.
Lastly, leveraging tools like Kubernetes is pretty much the same in prem or cloud.
That doesn't go into a lot of the not complex cloud configs either. Especially for internal apps.
It will get more interesting for SaaS providers though.
There is the flip side to trying to create a central authority for software. In that you're likely to have one that really bad solution over many lesser bad solutions. Government work in general is very litigious and trying to normalize that with software is off more difficult than expected.
This isn't to say that Oracle didn't screw up. They most likely did
I can't speak to UK in particular. But governments are often very difficult to build software for. Usually weird and conflicting requirements and unknowns.
I worked on an election software and the variance in legal rules across countries and states was staggering and painful to build for. Each county or state added to twice as long as the last one to implement and doubled the test surface.
I still generally avoid IBM and Oracle though. They take cost overruns to a whole new level.
I've stuck to laser printers the past couple decades. My current and previous were HP models though not sure if/when this one dies (it's a decade old) if I'll do HP again.
The last ink printer I had was from Canon. I didn't print though and though the ink was cheap, it seemed like every time I wanted to print the head was gummed up. I was able to clean it a few times but replaced it twice in the two years I had it.
I'm the end, much happier with a color laser where the toner lasts me years. I've replaced the black and colors ready once and have another black cartridge for next year when that runs out again. I can go months without printing it do a few hundred pages every day. They're proverbial tanks.
Yeah, the printer itself costs like 6-8x as much and the toner is 2-4x an ink cartridge, but both last so much longer it isn't funny. Better still if you only need black and white.
My only regret is not getting one with a duplexer... Then I'd be much more inclined to do dual side printing. I've messed up trying to do that with odd//even printing a couple times and it isn't fun.
It really depends on what you're doing in C/C++ vs Rust. Things like linked lists and other structures are harder to do in Rust with patterns like vectors already in place to help you with less cognitive overhead.
Idiomatic Rust can be very different from C/C++. Usually when learning a language I'll rewrite something I'm more familiar with in the new language. Getting a good grasp of the language Dynamics will often have you doing certain parts very differently.
I know that Mozilla needs some form of monetisation. That said, they literally had enough to cover development funding for decades in the bank a few years ago.
Instead of focusing on privacy and technology, they spend all the money on also ran efforts and fund raiser events. Just pouring money into marketing and VPN companies. When the belt needed tightening, they fired engineering instead of middle managers and marketing staff.
I just don't have a lot of sympathy for the organization and management. They need a return to management born off engineering mindsets. Not whatever fluff they've been pushing the past decade.
For the geek in me, this is impressive. On a practical side, I'm not sure how well this will work. It feels almost worse than the Intel accelerators in terms of usability and ergonomics.
I'm not sure how one would leverage such a beast in practice. Almost anything you might do would likely leave half the capability sitting idle or be too complex to maintain on the software side.
It does in a way feel like the ultimate developer platform to be able to use these different technologies, but I don't know if it will be good in practice.
I agree.. this will find anywhere from 4-8 dev for a single year depending on location, taxes etc.
Will have to see what approach is taken, but C onterop is well defined... C++ is just, expansive to say the least. Of course this could just mean some magic that the rust compiler does,. Taking on the responsibility of also handling C++ compilation to LLVM, etc.
Either way, just guessing a few years of work on compilation followed by a couple more on LSP integration to make it more useful in practice. Lintinng integration on the C++ side will also likely be a necessity and take time.
My usage has generally been to press the start/super let in the keyboard and type the first few characters of what I'm looking to run.
Of course I also ran insiders builds for years. A couple years ago I saw an ad in the results. Since then my personal desktop has been booted on my Linux drive. I've booted into Windows twice since, once for Windows updates and then to run a firmware update for my hardware.
While but perfect, the old programs structure was better than the approaches since windows 8. I think the windows 7 start menu was probably the best they've done.
Yeah, I'm not sure about their narrative on this one. I love VS Code, and don't care for Java. I'm not sure that VS Code can go far enough to meet what IntelliJ offers... Java Dev just triggers heavily on an IDE. And frankly, I'd rather see Microsoft improve the C# experience in Code.
I think the decline in Java usage is more about Go, Rust and Python gaining ground. Not to mention C# actually being open source now.
My own use of VS Code is nearly as much time in the integrated shell, I don't use a lot of extensions all that heavily.
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