- Drew DeVault - SourceHut network outage post-mortem
- working on my “who-am-I” site (aka personal brand) - https://delyan.org/ - wanted to expand on what exactly inspires me about Mozart, Dijkstra, and Knuth.
- the Interview w/ Edgar Dijkstra here is phenomenal and highly recommended
- a transcript & summary provided by Klaas van Schelven
There are very different programming styles. I tend to see them as Mozart versus Beethoven. When Mozart started to write, the composition was finished. He wrote the manuscript in one go. In beautiful handwriting too. Beethoven was a doubter and a struggler who started writing before he finished the composition. And then glued corrections onto the page. In one place he did this nine times. When they peeled them, the last version proved identical to the first one.
That iterative method of programming is somehow a very Anglo-Saxon custom. British education is pervaded by it. People learn, when they write, not to try to get it right the first time. Just write what’s on your mind and then rewrite repeatedly to get the product you want. That’s partly why word processors are marketed so aggressively and partly why they have been so successful here. While it is one of the advantages of working with pen and paper that when you start a sentence you should have it ready.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra1
- I have been thinking (and writing) about writing on paper. This is an excellent way to a) practice programming craft and b) interview folks for said craft.
- during a visit to Bell’s Books in Palo Alto, CA yesterday I picked up a thought provoking book: Degrowth
- today I noticed this on Reddit, while researching AWS Bare Metal: ✻ Smokey says: Can an infinitely-large economy fit into a finitely-sized Earth? Hint: no [see more tips]
- turns out AWS bare metal is a pseudo-bare metal - these run on a lightweight Nitro hypervisor, which manages memory and CPU allocation.
- Google Bard was very generous to give me a list of Bare Metal providers, prices, and configuration available:
| Provider | Location | Cheapest Configuration (CPU/RAM/Storage) | Price per Month | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vultr | Global (16 locations) | 1 CPU / 512 GB RAM / 1 TB NVMe | $35 | https://www.vultr.com/ |
| OVHcloud | Europe (14 locations) | 1 CPU / 2 GB RAM / 20 GB SSD | €19.99 | Bare Metal as a Service in Public Cloud | OVHcloud Labs |
| Scaleway | Europe (3 locations) | 1 CPU / 8 GB RAM / 240 GB SSD | €20 | Elastic Metal - bare metal servers in the cloud | Scaleway |
| Zenlayer | Global (40+ locations) | 1 CPU / 8 GB RAM / 240 GB SSD | $49 | https://www.zenlayer.com/products/bare-metal-cloud/ |
| Equinix Metal | Global (32 locations) | 1 CPU / 4 GB RAM / 240 GB SSD | $39 | https://deploy.equinix.com/ |
| DigitalOcean | Global (12 locations) | 1 CPU / 4 GB RAM / 256 GB NVMe | $45 | Bare Metal :: DigitalOcean Documentation |
| UpCloud | Europe (4 locations) | 1 CPU / 4 GB RAM / 240 GB SSD | €25 | Private Cloud - UpCloud |
| OVHcloud Bare Metal Cloud | Canada (2 locations) | 1 CPU / 4 GB RAM / 20 GB SSD | $53 | Dedicated Server | Bare Metal servers | OVHcloud |
| RackNerd | USA (8 locations) | 1 CPU / 8 GB RAM / 240 GB SSD | $34.99 | https://www.racknerd.com/ |
| iWeb Technologies | India (2 locations) | 1 CPU / 4 GB RAM / 240 GB SSD | ₹3,499 | INDUSTRIES – IWEB |
| UColo | USA (3 locations) | 1 CPU / 4 GB RAM / 240 GB SSD | $39 | Benefits of Turning to Colocated Bare-Metal Servers | Data Center Knowledge | News and analysis for the data center industry |
| Paperspace | USA (8 locations) | 1 CPU / 4 GB RAM / 240 GB SSD | $39 | https://www.paperspace.com/ |