It seems to me that there's not a big difference in nr of files. You can have a single template in CF or Terraform files and similarly you can split your CDK code in many files, or not.
(For bigger stuff apparently CF has some limits relating to resoures per single stack)
My DO K8S cluster ist bugging me every couple of months to do an upgrade. I am always scared to just run it but moving shit over to a new cluster instead is so much work that I simply gamble on it. AWS ECS is worth over penny
DO's K8S is more equivalent to AWS's EKS offering, so of course ECS which abstracts away pretty much all of the other parts of K8s is going to require less maintenance. It's sort of a false equivalence to say ECS == that solution.
On EKS, you need to do the same version updates with the same amount of terror.
You do pay the extra for the further management to just run containers somewhere!
(you might want to say "every" instead of over, "is" instead of "ist")
I definitely want to say is instead of ist but it is bugging me every couple of months. You do the upgrade and 6 months later it needs another one. No LTS in sight
As a foreigner it seems like the electoral college is obviously stupid. No matter who wins why. It is pure conservatism to keep it like doing something because the Bible says so. Given that it mostly helps one party it will never be changed but it cannot be argued from first principles in the 21st century.
It can totally be argued from first principles. If you acknowledge that USA is a union and not a single state then it makes sense that the votes do not necessarily reflect the population distribution and there is some form of rebalancing. Then its a wuestion how much and whether the current balance is the right one.
The US is a federal system. It serves the interests of the states, not the People.
The electoral college - and the Senate - were intended to explicitly put power in the hands of the states, as equals, without regard for population. The House of Representatives was intended to be the counterbalancing voice of the People.
I can totally understand disagreeing with the concept, but to say it's stupid tells me you likely don't understand its purpose and how it fits into the overall system.
This is circular reasoning -- "the system is the way it is because that's how it was set up".
US States are not meaningful cultural units -- people in Philadelphia are much more like people in NYC than either are like those of the rural hinterlands of their respective states.
> The US is a federal system. It serves the interests of the states, not the People.
Indeed, and that's a bad system that makes no sense in 2024. Disliking it doesn't mean one doesn't understand how it came to be this way.
(Tangentially related aside: plenty of federal systems have much fairer systems for election to federal office than the US does. For example Germany.)
> This is circular reasoning -- "the system is the way it is because that's how it was set up".
Maybe it's my lack of sleep from staying until until 7am watching election news, but I honestly can't see how this is applicable. My comment was explicit about why the system was set up that way.
> US States are not meaningful cultural units
I very strongly disagree.
The next time you meet a Texan, ask them if they think they are "meaningfully" culturally distinct from Californians.
> The next time you meet a Texan, ask them if they think they are "meaningfully" culturally distinct from Californians.
Having lived in both places I can confidently say "not as much as either party would like to think". There are far, far, far more similarities than differences, especially because the population of either place doesn't tend to interact with their natural environment. Both simply have strong sense of nationalistic pride (however dumb this is).
The same could be said for Germany and Austria. States - as in "nations", not necessarily US states - can have shared culture and history.
Texas is the one that comes to mind as the strongest, but it's far from unique in that regard. Louisiana pops to mind next. Other examples of states with very strong cultural identities off the top of my head: Oregon, Utah, Tennessee, Florida, West Virginia, Michigan, Maine, Vermont, New York, Illinois... you get the idea.
I'd say about the half the states have a strong, unique identity. The remainder are similar to their neighbors but the farther you travel the more apparent the differences.
Well, yes. The differentiation is both dumb and well-reasoned, depending on your ethics.
However at least germany and austria have meaningfully distinct languages or dialects and many centuries more to marinade in their differences. Texan and californian aren't distinct enough to produce nationalities that are clearly distinct (aside from arbitrary pride!) and they regularly swap populations sufficient enough to provide cultural osmosis that keeps the two cultures tied together.
Honest question, Is it not somewhat similar in effect to a parliamentary system? My understanding, is generally a parliament is divided into districts, then after parliament is elected, the government is formed and the prime minister is selected by a majority of the members of parliament?
Not saying it's great, but maybe it's not too dissimilar from some other systems?
That’s how, for example, the British system works (but even it has some features that make it quite different in practice from the American one, for example the head of government needing to maintain the confidence of parliament).
It’s not how most of the actually well-run parliamentary systems work, because those have elements of proportional representation.
I mean, I'll take a stab at it... the electoral college can be argued from first principles if you consider that the U.S. was supposed to be a federal union of sovereign states. There are certainly reasonable arguments for federalism and devolution of power.
The U.N. doesn't directly elect the general secretary.
Is that an argument against the electoral college, or an argument for re-devolution of power? Because the latter is probably easier to do than getting rid of the electoral college, given the requirements to pass a constitutional amendment.
Absolutely should not exist. California’s Central Valley cattle farms are notorious for giving people a glimpse of how inhumane factory farming is. You drive down I-5 and the smell of these places is overpowering for miles. You can’t ignore them and when you see them you know that no creature should be forced to live like that. I’ve heard from several friends that those farms contributed to their decision to stop eating animal products.
These farms are inhumane for the animals, and they exist as a fragile ecosystem at risk of bacterial or viral outbreaks. In nature, plants and animals coexist with insects and microorganisms in ways which are more robust to catastrophic collapse. But these cattle farms are like agricultural monocrops - dead dirt and one kind of creature, fed by machines and vulnerable to the rapid spread of disease and sickness. It’s bad for the animals and it’s bad for us.
So you’re absolutely right, this should not exist!
I second this. I'm not a full vegetarian or especially an advocate, but I decided 8 years ago to stop eating red meat and my health has worked out just fine. It's very possible to live a full life without consuming beef and pork, and while it's harder to cut chicken out, I personally believe cows perceive their situations more clearly than chickens. Additional benefit: this automatically removes most processed meats from your diet.
Cattle meat is by far one of the most energy dense sources of nutrition, and if done right societally, one of the most efficient too. The issue is that the US (and most of the developing world) does it wrong by adopting factory farming to mass produce meat and destroy ecosystems within a few decades.
If you're eating cattle/red meat, do it right - buy fresh, don't touch frozen and always go for grassfed. That itself makes it much safer than eating chicken (which is more likely to be factory-farmed) or eating fish (which is more prone to chemical contamination these days).
I didn't quite understand your statement. I was referring to store-bought frozen meat, as they're usually teeming with nitrates, benzoates and other chemical preservatives.
> The diseased carcasses are brought to Baker’s rendering site in the Fresno County town of Kerman, where the bodies are “recycled” and turned into “high protein” animal feed and fertilizer...... ”
Ahh USA, where the standards for the meat industry are obnoxiously low.
To expand on this, DB administrators tend to be a conservative bunch. To some extend you can make a slow DB fast by spending big on hardware. No amount of money however will make an unsound DB reliable.
I think it is obvious that no one will want to put their valuable data in an 'unsound' DB.
To restate my original question: If you had two database systems that were equally reliable, but of course had different strengths and weaknesses, would the ability to update large tables without significantly impacting general query speeds, be a major factor in deciding between the two?
In Austria you can eg end your Apartment lease via a specific court form that removes all ambiguity to wether they have received this in time or whatever. It cannot be refused since it is not filed with the landlord directly but served to him by court. Since Austria requires you to specify a known address to the government it is basically your problem then if you are not present. It is mostly used if your rental agreement contains language in conflict with the law about when you can end the lease. It basically reverses the roles since they cannot refuse the cancellation only appeal it and companies will obviously not do that based on leases that contradict law. You pay 100 EUR so you don’t have to communicate any more about it with the landlord which can be quite the good deal
That is exactly what I am charging if some client wants me to do some crap on their website that takes me 2 hours. And my only overhead is needing to invoice them and switching from another project. Because I rather make progress on some project that actually pays my bills long term
