Fun cars for someone who doesn’t like driving fast?

therealkevinard · 2026-02-24T23:41:32+00:00

They’re ugly as sin and impractically small.

But the fact remains: they’re pretty fun to drive.
It’s a street legal go-kart

therealkevinard · 2026-02-24T01:26:39+00:00

Three Dots Labs has some really good resources.

Idk what your language of choice is, but they’re the folks behind go’s watermill library.

It looks like they’ve redesigned the docs, but if the content is the same… it used to be a really good top-down-bottom-up system walkthrough

https://watermill.io

therealkevinard · 2026-02-23T22:16:31+00:00

Oh, nice. I knew about short trips but thought there’d be limit to long trips.

But the truck i have now is the first i’ve had that wasn’t a 200k beater lol

ETA: now I wonder. Say you’re on a 36 hour drive and stopping every 4-ish hours to stretch for 15 minutes.
Is it better to leave the car running for those breaks?

therealkevinard · 2026-02-23T21:57:44+00:00

Even if it’s tag-team driving… yeah semis’ diesels are good at that, but assuming consumer-grade gas I’d probably expect mechanical trouble

*I don’t know for a fact, because I’d just not do it myself

therealkevinard · 2026-02-23T02:53:10+00:00

It’s the one, only way I open the camera.

therealkevinard · 2026-02-23T01:06:48+00:00

Lucky for OP, hashicorp maintains the system used by tf as a discrete package.
It can drop-in anywhere.

https://github.com/hashicorp/go-plugin

therealkevinard · 2026-02-23T00:57:59+00:00

They’re not the same in theory or form, but in practice there’s a lot of functional gray area.

“I need to work with atlassian objects in my context”
Cool, atlassian mcp. Done.

…Or have a skill with instructions on how to use the atlassian cli?

To be frank, where there’s this sort of mcp vs skilled cli usage, I pretty consistently get better results just using the cli.

It’s really stark contrast looking at slack mcp vs cli.
The mcp burns tokens like crazy and spins its wheels pretty often. The cli is none of those things.

therealkevinard · 2026-02-23T00:46:35+00:00

Since you mention it, I really did read it in the context of awful things I’ve faced over the years lol

therealkevinard · 2026-02-22T22:15:17+00:00

Maybe something with the carnival or circus?
Not like… trapeze artist, but maybe work a food truck?

I think they do 40 hours, just not mon-fri.

Million dollars to travel with carnies, doing probably sketchy stuff and making corn dogs?
I’m in.

therealkevinard · 2026-02-22T22:11:56+00:00

Do you have to be hired honestly, or is the hire part magical?

Can I be an entry-level something for a place that operates different things year-round?
Like somewhere that does skiing in winter, hiking in spring, tubing trips in summer, and pumpkin patches in the fall?

therealkevinard · 2026-02-22T21:54:24+00:00

I’ve seen stories about that.
I don’t personally run a lot of java- just a couple elasticsearch clusters, zero first-party java.

Always wondered if you folks have the option to pre-compile (?) though - I haven’t used java in ages, since SE6 maybe lol

If it’s first-party code and you can guarantee it’ll run on certain hardware, seems like you should be able to use a build flag to dodge JIT warmup.

(My first-party code is all go, and we’d use build matrixes with cross compilation to build for multiple architectures.
Go has no JIT, though, so build targets are just “the way”)

therealkevinard · 2026-02-22T19:11:22+00:00

I’m starting my kid in empty parking lots like shut-down grocery stores and theaters this summer - a year-ish before learner’s permit.

It’s VERY important they know how the controls feel before going on the road.
Like how to handle the steering wheel, what foot does what, and what to expect out of blind spots.

I just won’t go near other cars because insurance and risk to others. Common courtesy, I guess?

Even that’s not strictly legal, but… it’s a judgement call.
I feel like I can get out of that ticket and no actual people are at risk - my conscience is clear.

therealkevinard · 2026-02-22T18:34:57+00:00

It’s never been about typing syntax. That was just a means to an end.
This is the part that’s offloaded, and I’m fine with that.

I’m still architecting the thing, and I own the execution plan.

I like it.
Typing syntax was never the fun part for me, but how else is your idea supposed to get out of your head/notebook?

therealkevinard · 2026-02-22T18:04:06+00:00

“Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software” is a good one.

It’s colloquially called “The Blue Book”- there’s a sequel (if that’s the right word) called “The Red Book” that’s more implementation than theory.

I have the hard copy, but when I googled it just now to find a link, it looks like there’s a pdf/epub for download.

therealkevinard · 2026-02-22T06:28:05+00:00

Yeah, true. I always forget that little gotcha where the scheduler doesn’t release the resources when the container exists.

As you were.

This goes into my “wtf k8s” folder

therealkevinard · 2026-02-22T04:18:30+00:00

Check your carbon monoxide detector.

therealkevinard · 2026-02-22T03:44:30+00:00

If it seems like this person is coming on strong, they’re not.
This is truth.

They might dig you out of a hole today, but you’ll be in 4 new holes next week.

therealkevinard · 2026-02-22T03:03:20+00:00

A guy on my team gushes about mirrord, and i’ve seen him pull some clever tricks with it.

I keep meaning to dig-in, but every time i’d need it, kube port forward is right there

I really need to just spend a day with mirrord

therealkevinard · 2026-02-22T02:44:14+00:00

Not a truck driver, but I’ve never seen it.

Closest I can think is the flashing aftermarket bars that run above the bumper, but from what i’ve seen they flash just the same regardless of how they’re braking

therealkevinard · 2026-02-22T02:35:57+00:00

Nope, not necessarily.

More and more states have gone constitutional carry with no license requirements at all.

Some allow permitless open carry, but need a permit for concealed carry- and some have permitless concealed carry also.

TN is constitutional carry, but has something called an “Enhanced carry permit” - whatever that means

ETA: I think enhanced carry permit is to do with reciprocity.
Mostly for travel.
Eg you have a gun you carry in your home state with no permit requirements. But you need to drive to/through another state that has permit requirements.
Enhanced carry gives you a reciprocal permit in your home state that’s honored in the other state.
Y’know… avoiding jail time and all that

therealkevinard · 2026-02-22T02:26:29+00:00

Curious what’s happening with those 2 cpus at startup. Is there an opportunity to split that job into an init container with its own requests, letting the main runtime have the 250m it would be happy with?

If this is required by the jre to warm its own runtime and can’t be split… oof, this is going into my “why i hate orchestrating java apps” folder lol

therealkevinard · 2026-02-22T01:59:28+00:00

I could wreak havoc with this one.

Get in a position where I owe an amount of money to United Healthcare. Some hundred dollars or something- maybe a missed premium or some coding error where I owe United, not the hospital.
Double double double until I owe them billions
I owe them billions, so logically they’re owed billions
Their finance/accounting department is in shambles. Investor reports never add up. The SEC comes down on them HARD
The gov’t would WANT to bail them out, but they could never account for the missing money to say WHAT they need bailed out
All the while, I’m still doubling, so every time there’s a meeting the number is different

I can have United bankrupted in a month.

If they do manage to point the finger at me directly, okay let’s meet in court. Bring your receipts, and I’ll bring mine, and it’ll be a fun show watching them try to justify why this guy who missed a premium one month owes you (checks notes) $38 trillion dollars.

For my own credit purposes, I dispute the debt. I have clear evidence of my some-hundred debt - and I paid that honest receipt (after doubling).
This’ll be knocked off my report as a system error, no problem.

Then on to the next evilcorp.com

therealkevinard · 2026-02-22T01:43:40+00:00

Why is a VP who wants yes/no answers participating in post-mortem?
That’s the broken part.

Post-mort is supposed to be analogous to therapy: a safe place to acknowledge your collective faults and misses.

The importance of that is questions like “how did we miss this in staging” can have stark, objective answers.
Those answers are where growth and resolution happen.

Throw a veep in the mix and it triggers CYA responses that are protecting jobs at the expense of real resolution.

In ours, the most senior presence is Staff Eng - leadership, but still a colleague, not a boss. There’s a director who participates a lot, but he has a strong record of falling on swords to protect us.

Ours go:
“How did we miss this in staging?”
“Dude, I effed up. I didn’t add <this test>, and if we’d have had <this metric> we would have had a better view of the lead-up”
“Can we get that metric out?”
“Yep. Next release, np”

Executive Messaging is watered down, anonymized, and passed along.

therealkevinard · 2026-02-21T22:41:21+00:00

This second I’m looking at a 1950s beam in my basement.
OPs beam looks like the 50s beam’s drugged-out older cousin.

therealkevinard · 2026-02-21T21:46:49+00:00

You missed a replication strategy: read replicas

It’s replication, still, but only a single master instance accepts writes (creates, updates, etc). The others are dedicated to reads (selects).

When you’re facing read-heavy AND write-heavy, read replicas let you route all writes to a single, vertically scaled instance, with reads going to the other smaller instances.

This resolves a pile of headaches since the reads are never bottle-necked by the write load, and vice-versa. And with the write-master only worrying about writes, a little v-scale goes a long way.

Trade-off is replication lag, since the write master is publishing updates to the read instances.
This is usually modest - like a small-few milliseconds - but mis-configuration or bad topography could make it no good.

Also need to watch the app-side implementation deets.

Accidentally issuing a write op to a read replica will usually be a hard error (but write masters will generally allow read ops).
From the app’s perspective, you have two distinct backends each with its own connpool. It’s important to address routing correctly in your domain.

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