This seems like a fun project and a great way to learn Kubernetes, but if I'm dropping this much money on it, I'd like it to have some productive purpose afterwards.

I'm a full-stack web dev primarily using node/react/postgres. I've also got some projects currently hosted on a Linode instance. Ideas on fun/productive uses for this cluster after I've built it and messed around with Kubernetes?

Move the projects to your cluster and see what happens!

Consider the fact that, if you make improvements to the cluster, all of your apps will see that same lift. So if you were to set up backups on the cluster's persistent volumes and its databases, you'd get free backups for all of the projects you've moved. Same with monitoring, autoscale, and so on.

RPI's will handle Node surprisingly well, from my experience. A small cluster of them would be well suited to any number of web projects. A few years back, I played around with haproxy and a few Pi's running Node servers. You may be surprised how well they work as servers, as long as you're not expecting Xeon-level speeds.

The Kubernetes ecosystem is evolving rapidly, you might want to keep it around to play with different CNIs, CSIs, service meshes, operators for clustered software lifecycle, and more.

One I just discovered recently is ctrl+shift+v to cycle through code recently copied to the clipboard.

I had one track down the phone number for my employer, call here, and ask the secretary to speak with me while refusing to say what the reason was until he spoke with me.

I've had this happen multiple times. I find it very disrespectful to call me unsolicited at my job about another job.

Hasn't happened to me, but it's happened several times to a guy I work with. They always claim that they need help with some software issue, I guess to make it sound more plausible, though I have no idea why anyone outside the company would call us for software help.

BTDT too, and our office admin works directly for my boss. And she has Caller ID. It pisses me off to no end.

I had the same experience. Luckily for me the secretary at my work politely declined to pass on the call.

Same thing here - on top he was talking in English (I'm German) and didn't even ask if I was in a good position to talk. Talk about awkwardness to my colleagues.

At another job I worked at, our team had some of the most well-known devs in the metropolitan area, and our office line received 5-10 calls a day from recruiters asking for one of the devs. We had a team rule: you answer with "Hello" only and don't give any information to the caller until they give you their name, company, and reason for calling. It didn't stop some people from calling us daily.

Sensationalist bs. It'd take some pretty impressive programming to deal with issues like road construction, missing or faded road markings, unmarked dirt roads, and potentially outdated or incorrect maps.

I don't think we'll go straight from total human control to total automation directly. I imagine that the first versions of automated cars will require some supervision and only work in certain conditions. This will likely require some sort of system to detect the driver is paying attention, like steering wheel sensors, to prevent people from just going to sleep.

The first versions of automated cars already exist. Mercedes, BMW, and Audi have versions of their cars that maintain a safe distance from the cars in front of you. Mercedes also has a system which will automatically steer the car to keep it in a lane for you. Prius and Lexus have cars that'll automatically parallel park themselves.

I don't think those are programmed into the driving software as much as it has learned them through machine learning. Most of these systems have gone through the equivalent of millions of years of humans driving so I'd trust it over a human driver any day.

Well these systems weren't ever human, so I'm not sure a million human years would help them as much as you hope.

I don't think any of the systems really use machine learning. It's more classical stats and control theory.

Maybe the object recognition stuff uses some trained classifiers, but the higher level systems doing the driving to my knowledge do not.

They're gonna cover 98% of cases. The rest can be picked up be remote operators.

Remote operators work for flying drones, since those don't have to evade children running onto the road with sub-second reaction times.

For cars there is no way electron-based signal transmission technology can control them with an even marginally acceptable latency.

What do you mean by electron-based signal transmission technology? If you're talking remote control, those signals will be photon based. If you're talking internal control, electrons on wires move pretty fast and many cars already utilize them. Is there much latency difference between mechanically closing the throttle with your foot and signaling a servo to close the throttle? Presumably some situations can be analyzed by a processor and trigger the servo before the human controller has even been able to consciously perceive a scene.

One question:

How do you plan to remote control a moving car with photons?

Edit: Huh, ok. I didn't know radio signals are also photons. Still, the speed of light is significant with sub-second decisions. So even for photon transmission remote control of a moving car in live traffic is not feasible.

Drone pilots can have several seconds of latency. This means remote operators are useless as a backup to the machine if a split second reaction is required.

So a remote operator is going to be given command of a vehicle which has encountered an unusual situation that the automatics have bailed out of?

Ask the pilots of Air France 447 how well that works out (and they weren't even remote). Oh you can't... they're dead.

You still need an algorithm to decide when it's time to handle control to a remote driver. Who's going to handle the edge cases of that algorithm?

The extent of the technological capabilities of a device like a smartphone are far from common knowledge for the typical user. An app can allow your phone to perform the functions of a gps, why can't it allow your phone to perform the functions of a radar detector? I mean even people who know enough about their devices to know that the idea of it acting as a radar detector is unreasonable may not know what their phone IS capable of. How more technologically proficient users do you suppose are there who are completely unaware of the fact that their phone might have a barometer?

It's really worth jailbreaking it, if only for the sake of installing google play.

It also drives me crazy when they play an ad before you can watch what is effectively an ad that you chose to watch (trailers, previews, etc.)

Homophobia has not been eliminated and nearly everyone here expressing disgust has also stated that they realize their disgust is irrational.

Windows still uses the hosts file in windows 8. I did a little looking around and it looks like Windows Defender automatically removes some hosts from the file.

Thanks for looking into it. I have Windows but don't use it a whole lot.

Strictly speaking DNS is a protocol and not an API. Applications aren't required to perform name lookups by using any particular software, it's just common to use what the OS supplies.

I kind of lost interest at that point. I'm not interested in managing another subscription for this.

Edit: It looks like it includes a hosted server. That makes more sense, but I'd prefer an option without it.

It looks like it requires a special modded version of minecraft running on the server. I wonder if they have plans to release or sell the server code.

All of these third-parry mod systems require a modified version. Bukkit did, and so does CanaryMod. Right now there's no official way to do modding so I suspect that this is their issue. And not releasing it allows them to generate a little revenue. For $30 a year? Sure, why not.

I'd love to see Microsoft fix this, and create a well documented modding API.

I'd like to just see them fold in one of the existing ones myself :)

I preordered it just now - seems like a server is more in the line of paying over period rather than boxed package.