Alt account of @Badabinski

Just a sweaty nerd interested in software, home automation, emotional issues, and polite discourse about all of the above.

  • 0 Posts
  • 331 Comments
Joined 8 months ago
cake
Cake day: June 9th, 2024

help-circle


  • I spend all day at work exploring the inside of the k8s sausage factory so I’m inured to the horrors and can fix basically anything that breaks. The way k8s handles ingress and service discovery makes it absolutely worth it to me. The fact that I can create an HTTPProxy and have external-dns automagically expose it via DNS is really nice. I never have to worry about port conflicts, and I can upgrade my shit whenever with no (or minimal) downtime, which is nice for smart home stuff. Most of what I run tends to be singleton statefulsets or single-leader deployments managed with leases, and I only do horizontal for minimal HA, not at all for perf. If something gives me more trouble running in HA than it does in singleton mode then it’s being run as a singleton.

    k8s is a complex system with priorities that diverge from what is ideal for usage at home, but it can be really nice. There are certain things that just get their own VM (Home Assistant is a big one) because they don’t containerize/k8serize well though.




  • Badabinski@kbin.earthtocats@lemmy.worldCat
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    17
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 days ago

    There’s something really weird with this photo and I can’t tell what it is. Like, the little piece of dirt in the middle left, the distortion in the corners, and the general weirdness of the rendering makes me think “someone adapted some weird old lens to a modern camera.” The slightly fucked up transition from cat to background bokeh either supports that, or the bokeh is computational and this is some fucking cursed piece of digital manipulation. EDIT: or, I suppose it could be from the eldritch dreams of some image model, but I didn’t think about that when I first saw the picture.

    Either way, I love this photo even if I’ve spent way too long trying to figure out what even the fuck.


  • Yeah, if strong emotions were such a liability then we probably wouldn’t have them anymore. Emotions aren’t vestigial or useless or contrary to rational discourse, they’re an integral part of what it means to be sentient and sapient, and they can be incredibly useful when doing things that are decidedly “rational.” I can tell that some code I wrote is shit because it “feels wrong” a hell of a lot faster than I can by logically reasoning it out.

    I’m hoping that quote is simply lacking context. The alternative is that the people behind the quote are just fucking insufferable.



  • I bring up the mouse wiggling thing all the time when I’m sharing my screen at work. I get impatient with computers very easily, so I start wiggling and jiggling and doing figure 8s with my mouse cursor and say that “it makes the computer go faster.” Then I get to be distracted by telling someone how that used to be kiiinda true back in the good ol’ days of PS2 and single threaded cooperatively-multitasked operating systems (the fact that PS2 sends hardware interrupts still blows my mind a bit).

    Funnily enough, I learned about it from a greybeard who did a stint at Novell. He’d constantly jiggle his mouse around while waiting for shit and I bet he was just waiting for me to ask him why he thought it made the computer “faster.”





  • I know someone with an issue kinda like this. Some childhood trauma and neglect lead to her forming limerant relationships and made it difficult for her to be platonically friendly with men that she viewed as eligible. Her fix was doing evidence-based therapies like EMDR and healing her fear of being alone/unsupported/unloved. It took her a while, but she’s much better at having platonic friendships with men now.







  • AFAIK, the number of protons and neutrons is the same, but the overall mass is reduced because the binding energy holding the nucleus together counts towards the mass. I do not understand why the binding energy acts as mass (I dropped out of physics after moving past classical mechanics), but that’s what’s I’ve heard over the years.

    So basically, you have it right, and my explanation is overly simplified because I am not very competent and forgot how this shit worked lol. I remembered that the overall mass of the waste is lower than what was put in, but I fucked up when explaining why that happens. Breeder reactors can’t do much with the fission products themselves, but the worst part of nuclear waste from a long-term storage perspective is the transuranics that get created inside of a reactor. FBRs make a lot of neutrons that can transmute those transuranics into fissile materials and then burn them up, extracting the binding energy from them and reducing the overall mass. Eventually you’re just left with fission products which are generally very short lived.

    EDIT: I accidentally hit post way too soon, so I wrote most of this as an edit. Apologies for that.