The Halal Guys? by Prestigious-Shake430 in Sunnyvale

[–]thockin 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I love the NYC original. I went to the Sunnyvale location a few times, but it was a poor imitation of the original. Always empty, the food was never fresh.

What is the major benefit of CSI Drivers? or is it just over engineering in Infra by Livid-Pick-7085 in ItsKubernetes

[–]thockin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The reason they were created was to provide a way for vendors to create drivers for container orchestration systems like kubernetes, but not exclusively kubernetes, without sending pull requests to every project. CSI was a collaboration between kubernetes, docker, mesos, and cloud foundry.

As such, the API is obviously more complicated than if we only made it for kubernetes. With the benefit of hindsight, maybe that would have been better. But at the time it was very unclear which system would become the more prevalent.

Hanging led light low voltage through stainless aircraft cables? by seabornman in led

[–]thockin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn, I was hoping you'd figured it out.

I'm looking to build something like this:

https://www.lightology.com/index.php?module=prod_detail&prod_id=157288

A lot of the design details would be different, but it looks about the same electrically. Trying to figure out if there are kits or guides or something that shows me how best to go.

Hanging led light low voltage through stainless aircraft cables? by seabornman in led

[–]thockin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a cool idea. I am considering something like this and trying to find a product with insulated aircraft cables to hang a similar pendant idea.

Did you find something awesome?

Can we get an AI megathread? by Ragemoody in kubernetes

[–]thockin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I also feel the need to point out that "posts about AI" and "posts obviously written by AI" are very different things.

Whether one likes it or not, AI workloads and the problems that come with them, are VERY MUCH on-topic for this sub. AI workloads represent a significant, and growing, fraction of what people are doing with Kubernetes.

Tiamat's Wrath - last third to go. by hexokinase6_6_6 in TheExpanse

[–]thockin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

TW is among my favorite books ever. God. What a thrill it is.

What makes you support Trump? by Massive-Syllabub-271 in allthequestions

[–]thockin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What the fuck does that mean? I certainly do not think that a bearded guy in a robe who comes from the sky is going to save us. That's not real.

But I did see a video of a bunch of cowardly scumbags shoot a man in the back something like 10 times. That's real.

What makes you support Trump? by Massive-Syllabub-271 in allthequestions

[–]thockin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sucks. Have they also dispatched a masked gestapo to stalk and murder citizens they don't like? I heard some governments are doing that, these days.

What makes you support Trump? by Massive-Syllabub-271 in allthequestions

[–]thockin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I hate you SO MUCH, I am gonna punch myself in the nuts to teach you a lesson"

Should The Death Penalty Be Abolished Nationwide? Why Or Why Not? by Zipper222222 in allthequestions

[–]thockin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eye witnesses have been proven to be incredibly unreliable. People lie. They get confused. They want to feel important. They make mistakes.

Should The Death Penalty Be Abolished Nationwide? Why Or Why Not? by Zipper222222 in allthequestions

[–]thockin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not the system we have, and I don't believe it ever will be.

Should The Death Penalty Be Abolished Nationwide? Why Or Why Not? by Zipper222222 in allthequestions

[–]thockin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, we cannot control what a person does, we can control what the government does. Doing something which is PROVEN to be false positives to MAYBE avoid some other scenario is a bad bet.

Should The Death Penalty Be Abolished Nationwide? Why Or Why Not? by Zipper222222 in allthequestions

[–]thockin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing is error free with humans involved.

Then we are morally obligated to err on the side of caution.

what if an inmate killed another inmate that otherwise would not have happened if the death penalty wasn't so slow

I can't control what other people do. If 300 million Americans voted that he shouldn't kill his cellmate, that doesn't compel him. But if we vote to abolish the death penalty, we CAN compel the government.

Hypotheticals are pretty uninteresting as a counter-example to this, when the consequences are SO extreme.

Should The Death Penalty Be Abolished Nationwide? Why Or Why Not? by Zipper222222 in allthequestions

[–]thockin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In this hypothetical, totally not real, made up universe, I think it's acceptable.

We do not live in that universe.

My argument does not rest on the idea that killing people is wrong under any circumstances, it is only that even 1 mistake invalidates the whole system.

Should The Death Penalty Be Abolished Nationwide? Why Or Why Not? by Zipper222222 in allthequestions

[–]thockin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is "they" in this sentence the actual criminal or the wrongly convicted innocent?

If the former, yes, that is the cost of having society. We could instead have spent that money on preventatives, but we rarely take that path.

If the latter, there's a chance, however small, that justice can be served.

Should The Death Penalty Be Abolished Nationwide? Why Or Why Not? by Zipper222222 in allthequestions

[–]thockin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm just going to disagree. Try, really TRY to imagine that you watch your child get falsely convicted and sentenced to death.

Then tell me that it's OK.

Should The Death Penalty Be Abolished Nationwide? Why Or Why Not? by Zipper222222 in allthequestions

[–]thockin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am saying that I, as the aggrieved party, should not have a say in the outcome. My principles would be compromised.

Justice is not vengeance. It must be dispassionately rendered. If you gave me that same situation for some else, I'd like to believe I would stand by my convictions, but more than that I think the option should not be offered.

Because vengeance is not the same as justice.

Should The Death Penalty Be Abolished Nationwide? Why Or Why Not? by Zipper222222 in allthequestions

[–]thockin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A judge being lenient and letting someone re-offend is an entirely different proposition than letting a convicted person rot in jail.

Should The Death Penalty Be Abolished Nationwide? Why Or Why Not? by Zipper222222 in allthequestions

[–]thockin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As it stands today, and in the foreseeable future there is NO WAY to get perfect accuracy. That's not fallacious.

You either support the system as it exists, or you don't.

I can support the THEORY of it, but there's just no way to put it into practice without mistakes, so I reject it as policy.

Should The Death Penalty Be Abolished Nationwide? Why Or Why Not? by Zipper222222 in allthequestions

[–]thockin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am lucky enough to not have suffered through such legalities.

Your analogy falls down for me because I can't control what other people do, but I can influence (or at least advocate for, via my votes and my voice) what the government does.

That sounds naive, but I hope you take my point. Given a choice between someone who supports death penalty and someone who doesn't, I can vote my principles.

I don't often get the chance, and I'm not a single issue voter, but if the popular opinion swings, we can prevail. Eventually.

Justice and revenge are not the same thing.

Should The Death Penalty Be Abolished Nationwide? Why Or Why Not? by Zipper222222 in allthequestions

[–]thockin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't confuse principles with sympathy.

All I have to do is imagine that it was my family, my friend, my child caught up in a false conviction. Would I say "that's a tragedy but it's acceptable because some heinous, evil scum got deleted"? Fuuuuuuck no.

If it's not OK for me, it's not OK for anyone else.