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Please ask the agent to help write a workflow script (GitHub Actions yaml or makefile or similar) instead of using it as a runner - if you do that the release pipeline changes with each execution. You do not want a non deterministic release pipeline that's mostly correct. You want one that's checked in to version control and always does exactly the same thing, with all logs and artefacts recorded.

By all means use whatever AI agent you have to help set that up.


Well yes. With the possibility of high upside also comes a chance of a downside.


It depends on your perspective. If you internalize God mode, where you spin your disk world while leaving the sun in place, it's very intuitive.


This is context based dichotomy, not a person-based one.

In my personal life, I’m curiosity-oriented, so I put my blog, side projects and mom’s chocolate shop on fully self hosted VPSs.

At my job managing a team of 25 and servicing thousands of customers for millions in revenue, I’m very results-oriented. Anyone who tries to put a single line of code outside of a managed AWS service is going to be in a lot of trouble with me. In a results-oriented environment, I’m outsourcing a lot of devops work to AWS, and choosing to pay a premium because I need to use the people I hire to work on customer problems.

Trying to conflate the two orientations with mindsets / personality / experience levels is inaccurate. It’s all about context.


Old Hindu philosphies have a similar split.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%80%C5%9Brama_(stage)

0-25y grow and study

25-50y develop your household, your family, your community and gain wealth (non-extractive, provide value).

50y-75y hand over all worldly things to the next generation, advise, teach and help those around you. Focus on your spiritual enlightenment.

75y- renounce the world and disappear into the forest as a monk / hermit.


Similar to Andrew Carnegie, although I am not sure if he quite disappeared from the world:

The "Andrew Carnegie Dictum" was:

- To spend the first third of one's life getting all the education one can.

- To spend the next third making all the money one can.

- To spend the last third giving it all away for worthwhile causes.


I’ve only ever heard these sequentially so was interesting to read they need not be.

“while in the original system presented in the early Dharmasutras the Asramas were four alternative available ways of life, neither presented as sequential nor with age recommendations.”


Almost everything in Hinduism is not prescribed strictly because Hinduism is really an amalgamation of many separate beliefs systems / traditions / ritual / books, etc. which were followed by local cohorts.

That's why many books contradict each other. Some books prescribe an age and order for such steps, others don't, etc. They weren't meant to be all collected, all studied, and all chosen piecemeal by one observer. But over time it has evolved into a much different thing than when it started


I hope more people read comments like these and ask themselves: "What warrants these life suggestions? Are they justified? What would make them justified? What alternatives are there?"


Indeed, why wait till 50 to start giving back.

Edit: Not talking purely about financially giving back, but also volunteering your time.


There's an argument to holding on X money will let you make more money, therefore making your actual contributions larger / more valuable

You can more easily invest your second million than your first (Because you probably need that (Or at least a portion of that to live)

There's also no significant reason to start earlier (or later), unless you factor in dying as your stopping point, worthwhile causes aren't going anywhere


Because by then you've mostly finished spending money on raising your own children.


I turn 49 tomorrow, and my kid’s next birthday will be her 11th. I have a lot more spending on her ahead!


Can we just skip to disappearing into the forest as a monk? The rest of it seems a bit unnecessary.


Not entirely. If a load balancer is set to buffer say 4kb of data all the time, your SSE is stuck until you close the connection.

I think there is a HTTP/2 flush instruction, but no load balancer is obligated to handle it and your SSE library might not be flushing anyway.


In my case with this load balancer, I think it's just badly written. I think it is set to hold ALL data until the server ends the connection. I have tried leaving my SSE open to send over a few megabytes worth of data and the load balancer never forwarded it at all until I commanded the server to close the connection.

The dev who wrote that code probably didn't think too much about memory efficiency of proxying HTTP connections or case of streaming HTTP connections like SSE.


Nothing this does that Caddy can’t do, but Thruster is more the omakase type thing. It’s set up to automatically handle one scenario very well - a single server rails app running defaults. If you have a single server rails app running defaults, this is actually shows up automatically in the automatically generated Dockerfile.


Why, wasn’t The Martian an example of hard sci-fi, a story that conforms strongly to the known laws of physics? Not necessarily probability, economics or politics, but hard sci-fi is written to be plausible.


The story is enjoyable, but like most such tales is amounts to building a string of deadly obstacles for the protagonist and then giving him just enough to survive each one. (FWIW the least realistic step was the ship turning around to get him, because spaceships typically don't carry any extra fuel. But in general there were too many resources lying around for him to use, especially the unattended lift vehicle. The plutonium core and the potatoes were a nice touch, though.)


It's been a while since I've read the book / seen the movie, but I believe the ship intercepted a resupply payload launched from earth as it was performing it's slingshot.


> FWIW the least realistic step was the ship turning around to get him, because spaceships typically don't carry any extra fuel.

The turning around and returning to Mars bit may have been realistic. They would have needed fuel to get into Earth orbit. (That said, the timing to return to Mars in any sane trajectory would likely be off.) The real problem would be getting into Mars orbit at the end of the return journey.


Even hard science fiction takes liberties since it pushes the boundaries of science or engineering. It explores the plausible, rather than what has been accomplished. If it didn't do so, it would not differ all that much from regular fiction (i.e. the story may be made up, but it is anchored in everyday reality).

As for the ASCII table, I wouldn't be surprised if it is one of the most commonly reproduced data tables in print and I would be surprised if it wasn't the mostly commonly reproduced table digitally. Virtually every *ix system will have a copy of it. The documentation for most development tools will probably have it. All you need is someone technically inclined in your life, which you will almost certainly have on a mission to Mars, and you will likely have a copy of an ASCII table (whether anyone knows it is there or not).


We’re not considering the possibility that most civilizations will consider progress to be a move to a utopian state of living in harmony with nature, with buried machines. Not paving the planet and the sun with solar panels.


A lot of sci-fi already makes this premise. The bright future is not one of concrete and metal, it’s sunsets and trees and lakes tended to by invisible robots, with all the ugly machines, generators and data centres buried deep in rock.


I like the future offered by Iain Banks in the culture series.

Nature isn't 'natural'by any sense of the word. But the advanced machines all tend to show an interest in maintaining natural spaces for humans to enjoy. And the machines are part of the beauty as well!


No Mind wants to be responsible for a wholly Brutalist petting zoo.


Or, a fully biologic solution, even for a space habitat as was envisioned in John Varley's "Gaea" Trilogy: _Titan_, _Wizard_, and _Demon_.


To quibble a little Gaea is not fully biological. For instance, at one point a particle accelerator is mentioned as being in the ship's shell, and both the original (well, latest) Gaea entity and later Gaby are obviously running on some giant supercomputer somewhere. The inhabitants (crew?) are certainly biological, though.


Where does mechanism end and biology begin when the entirety of the structure was made from an "egg" which was sent off to mine a nearby moon? (possibly extending the rings still more)


nanotech? some things are very weird, for example when the physical (or are the human astronauts the same as they were on Earth? no they are not - see Gene for example) Gaby dies and is transported to the hub. what is going on there? and when she appears to Rocky? none of this is ever made clear, and I guess Shirley was making much of it as he went along, which is what novelists do.

I think you could argue that they (humans) all died when the Ringmaster was grabbed by the Gaea entity, and they are now all living in a simulation.


I don't like the simulation idea --- that's a very different story, see Vernor Vinge's novella "The Cookie Monster" or the short story "Lena":

https://qntm.org/lena

There was so much effort to do things biologically, that that needs to be an aspect of the story. Another author, more grounded who also wrote about such ideas was Hal Clement, see his short stories, "The Mechanic" and "Raindrop" (which are still relevant today).


ah well, the wonder of science fiction - not to be disparaging! and thanks for reminding me about clement.


His short story collection _Space Lash_ (originally published as _Small Changes_) was a big part of my childhood.


In Arthur C. Clarke's 3001 they have velociraptors as gardeners and babysitters. When are we getting that?


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