Jason Polites

I'm not on Twitter anymore. You can find me on BlueSky @jplts.me

[Jason Polites @jplts]

I was never really very active on Twitter, but I find I'm even less active now (for some strange reason 🤷‍♂️). I will likely keep the account, but I likely won't be here much. Need to go find a prehistoric elephant server I guess... 👋🐘

[Jason Polites @jplts]

@PGE4Me FYI: The "Share feedback" button on your Outage Map (that, ironically, asks to help improve the page), fails with a javascript error when its clicked:

[Steren @steren]

⏲️ Tasks of a Cloud Run job can now run for up to 24h.
https://t.co/JHqNr4thSP

[Pulumi @PulumiCorp]

🏃‍♀️Get your apps to the finish line faster with a boost from Pulumi AI and @googlecloud Run

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https://t.co/ODVG0ivV13

[Jason Polites @jplts]

@steren Interesting. I drive my car infrequently, ~20K kms in 4 years. Based on this data, I'd need to keep it for another 4 years before the EV would start winning. Lots of other reasons why EVs (will) make sense of course, but payoff period for low usage was surprising

[Jason Polites @jplts]

@paulbiggar @sorenhansendk @steren 👍 we'll take a look

[Jason Polites @jplts]

@paulbiggar @sorenhansendk @steren Bare bones compute perf will likely be faster on VM-based solutions in the near term, but we're working on improvements. I/O (network) perf is also an active area of work, but we'd need to know more about your specific setup. DM me or @steren and we can dig in (after new year 😉)

[Jason Polites @jplts]

@paulbiggar @sorenhansendk also depending on your language (I'm looking at you NodeJS), multiple vCPU cores likely won't help as not all runtimes will use them)

[Jason Polites @jplts]

I hardly see any of those laser eyes avatars anymore. Felt like they were everywhere for a while there.

Weird.

[Jason Polites @jplts]

@mbleigh Are there systems that humans have created that can't (or aren't) understood by a single human? Correctness is a challenge for sure, but we don't know anything is correct actually. We only know if it works to solve a given problem where we have a desired outcome.

[Jason Polites @jplts]

@mbleigh How many people understand quantum theory? Not many. What about 1,000 years from now? At some point we just can't learn everything that's needed to have a novel idea

[Jason Polites @jplts]

@mbleigh The network effect is pretty lossy and error prone itself. Consider the standard model for particle physics. We've been working on that thing for about a century. Still can't figure out what gravity is. I'm not sure crowd sourcing helps.

[Jason Polites @jplts]

Yo @signalapp, when I order a Penguin, I want a penguin.. not a weird puffin with a monkey's ear

[Jason Polites @jplts]

@mbleigh Yeah ok.. I looked at that but the references to a "cast device" (as distinct from a cast receiver) led me to think you needed a device capable of receiving the data stream. There's a sample app for a Web Receiver.. maybe it's 30 mins work to run it on localhost?

[Jason Polites @jplts]

@mbleigh Yeah.. well I want a pony but it's not a radio receiver.. Maybe there are monitors with receivers built in? Docs on what's needed for a receiver device are sparse. Are you assuming it's just using WiFi & TCP? I don't know much about it, but I thought it was its own protocol

[Jason Polites @jplts]

I legitimately thought this was a picture of fried chicken made to look like dogs.

[Jason Polites @jplts]

@steren The day you need one may not be joy, but it WILL be