My mastery as a software engineere doesn't stop at my tools.

I look at my screen most of the time. I'm not buying cheap screens anymore. It is just not worth it.

This is a perfectly fine point of view.

I just refuse to be told that I must use a { three-monitor setup, mechanical keyboard, 4K monitor, macbook, $LATEST_FAD } or otherwise I'm using a subpar development environment.

I still remember when Full HD monitors were all the rage. Nobody considered them cheap tools back then, and somehow code got written and developers were happy. There will come a time when someone on the internet will tell you that a 4K monitor is a cheap tool and that nobody can properly code using one.

I read that because hn showed it on spot 1.

I think it was a waste of time.

I also started to think in this direction more the last few years: If we as a socity would be better of creating less but better, we would not have facebook or linkedin feets full of waste. We would have perhaps 10 hn articles per day, 10 world news, 1-2 local news and thats it.

I would have the rest of my time 'free' of the burden of trying to make sure i'm not missing something.

Every idiot thinks something created and shared is worth while while i'm often enough think 'oh now one would care for something like this' or 'a few people might wanna read it but wouldn't act on it anyway'.

I also started to comment less. It costs time, i don't have the feeling that a lot of peole read comments and honestly, i had plenty of discussions which just stoped and there was never ever any feedback (besides 'likes' like wtf.) on 'was that helpful'.

Did i add value to our society or was it purely for entertainment?

Extending this, news wouldn’t exist in its current form.

Broadcasts would be much more honest too:

“Hello everyone. There’s a pandemic sweeping the globe, which is unfortunate, but also cancer outcomes are the best they’ve ever been. Overall things are getting better.

Enjoy your weekend and we’ll be back on Monday. If something genuinely important changes. Otherwise, take a walk and maybe get some fresh air instead.

Clint Brockenheimer, Channel 1 news”

While the content itself is just another round of "I deleted X for reasons I, J, K," I certainly resonate with you mentioning commenting less.

As with the barrier to entry to any tech-oriented platform (any dev remember their first time posting on StackOverflow?), there is an underlying fear of rejection, or even worse, providing no value whatsoever. I've lurked on HN for years, but only recently have actually started engaging.

Not sure if anyone else feels those kind of emotions, but the article did mention that many people are living in fear -- regardless of the external stimuli is that causes that fear. It's not any different than engaging with communities like SO, HN, forums, etc.

Also like you, I doubt this adds any value beyond giving a couple minutes to type this response to a comment buried halfway down the discussion page on the post. It definitely entertained, and more so distracted me, for the duration of this experience.

For that, I thank you.

I'd say entertainment and it wasn't even very good at that right?

The comments are entertaining me more, but that doesn't give that article any value! :P

I'm not sure why.

My personal experience is very good and i'm looking forward to a bright future.

We are using Prisma Cloud at work. I'm always surprised to see such a half user friendly tool.

I thought, when i used that tool for the first time, that is some small company building it but nope its paloaltonetworks.

Prisma cloud Was twistlock before it was bought by Paloalto, a small 120 people company.

Actually only the Prisma Cloud Compute part is Twistlock

"The alternative to K8s isn't your personal collection of fragile shell scripts. The real alternative is not doing the whole microservices thing and just deploying a single statically linked, optimized C++ server that can serve 10k requests per second from a toaster--but we're not ready to have that discussion."

You are writing this and i thought yesterday how to extend my current home k8s setup even further.

I would even manage that little c++ tool through k8s.

K8s brings plenty of other things out of the box: - Rolling update - HA - Storage provisioning (which makes backup simpler) - Infrastructure as code (whatever your shellscript is doing)

I think that the overhead k8s requires right now, will become smaller over the years, it will be simpmler to use it, it will become more and more stable.

It is already a really simple and nice control plane.

I like to use a few docker containers with compose. But if i already use docker compose for 2 projects, why not just using k8s instead?

You can replicate k8s featureset with plenty of other architectures.

But thats not the point.

k8s is the first infrastructure control plane in existence which is widley supported and standardized.

Can you get a managed docker swarm on aws, gcp, azure, do etc.? no.

How many kubernetes offerings do you know? I know at least 6.

Revolution doesn't need to be flashy and noisy.

Why?

We have plenty of yaml 'code' which is simple and does exactly what it needs to do.

For all other usecases, there are plenty of alternatives, including libs for your preferred language.

Most people use the yaml way because its easy and does exactly what it needs to do.

Everyone else has plenty of well supported and well working alternatives.

Its typing is too weak. It’s block scoping is dangerous. References, classes and attachments are all pretty bad for reuse. Schemas are bolt on and there is no standard query language for it.

I'm logging into a server because i need to, not because its 'pleasure'.

I don't hate it but if you need to login to a server regularly because you need to do an apt upgrade, you should have enabled automatic security updates and not login every few days.

If your server runs full because of some logfiles or stuff, you should fix the underlying issue and not needing to login to a server.

You should trust your machines, independently if it is only one machine, 2, 3 or 100. You wanna be able to go on holiday and know your systems are stable, secure and doing their job.

And logging in also implies a snow flake. Doesn't matter as long as that machine runs and as long as you have not that many changes but k8s actually makes it very simple to finally have an abstraction layer for infrastructure.

Yes true, not sure what point you are trying to make.

Didn't it took ASML ages to be able to build EUV Machines?

I don't think you can just replicate something like a EUV machine from them in any way.

You probably need highly specialized workshops for tons of different components and all of those workshops have to go through the same innovation cycle.

Yes, these machines are incredibly complex. Even the laser source is a $200M machine from Cymer that implements the same principles as the nations ignition facility by lasing microscopic droplets of molten tin that are falling in a vacuum. That requires rapid closed loop tracking of the tin droplets. It’s perhaps replicable but there’s a lot of art in EUV that took 30 years to develop. It’s not a simple job to clone that.

And by the time you’ve replicated that, then state of the art will have moved significantly.

It took ASML a long time to perfect these machines, but once they nailed it I'm pretty sure it's no big deal for anyone to duplicate it if they knew how to avoid all the pitfalls.

It would save the Chinese decades if they stole ASML's secrets instead of trying to figure it out on their own. Most likely they will simply take the shortcut and then start selling the machines at half the price ASML is selling them for (as they do with almost everything).