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Here’s the law in full rescued from its original wiki page. “What you don’t know, you don’t know - and you can’t make it up”. This law is attributed to former Raytheon vice president Bruce Dunn. Although Bruce used it in the context of evaluation of evidence for scripture, it is highly applicable in the case of cluster failure where all that is observed is inability to communicate. Because in this case, one knows very little - except that we can’t communicate with the given node....

It was about two weeks ago when one of my coworkers asked me, if I was already replaced by AI. I was baffled. Jan.ai looks quite like me, it is friendly, it uses the waving hand emoji (👋) as a logo and it genuinely seems a great way of experimenting with a lot of different open source LLM’s. So i tried. I have used this as a soundtrack: Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself (Youtube)...

Today I watched a German reaction video revolving around several unfortunate developments in the gaming industry. Whilst a lot of absolutely valid points were made, one of them was “the server costs of twitch can’t be that relevant to their business”. Now, I’m working in cloud infrastructure and I know, that live video streaming is one of the most expensive digital services you can offer. So I did a bit of research and a few calculations....

I have just watched a video about a narcissist made by somebody exposing that person together with the person the narcissist copied and then had the audacity to hint to her followers on multiple occasions that it is the other way around. The thing I’m taking issue with is not anything the creators in the video are talking about. It’s one of those stupid duty calls moments. It is that @nerdcity at one point in that video - very likely on accident - says the word ‘imposter syndrome’ to describe the behaviour of the narcissistic person....

So, a few years ago I made a small flask-app, just to keep myself entertained. This was a few years after I did another minimal webapp in React. Since I just migrated to a new set of servers I thought, I fluff those apps a bit. Bring some color into them, upgrade to the latest versions, fix a few bugs and so on. Now I’ve got a set of interesting applications, all managed in the same flask-container, delivering some features that you might find useful....