What looks particularly funny that it's OpenFaaS examples, such as in this post: figlet service. Several years ago it was simple binary, which you could invoke in console to produce fancy-stylized string. Now, same functionality require running figlet function-as-a-service inside Docker container inside Kubernetes cluster. I understand, that's merely an example, but nevertheless.
Kubernetes is optional - Docker Swarm (which some people prefer for its simplicity is also available) - basically yes binaries get wrapped in containers now for build/ship/run.
You're right though it is just an example - one of many in the function store. OpenFaaS can run any binary as a function - that means that we can strip back all the complexity needed to utilise ImageMagick for instance as a function by making it a function that works over stdin/stdout. Normally that would have involved a Node.js runtime and native compilation packages.
Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems that you're took phrase out of context and didn't get whole point.
I think good programmers are good because they have good problem solving capabilities, and that's what can be applied to any area.
So, some programmers with good problem solving capabilities just genuinely want to help and fix some problems they see outside of their direct area of responsibility — the code. And when managers are not listening to them, basically thinking 'why you ask questions, you should code', it's quickly becomes obvious that the only way to win is not to play.
This pictures reminds me about what one's can see under psychedelics. All sensory input basically begins to break down to that kind of patterns, and thus reality dissolves into nothing. This is equally terrifying and liberating depends on look. The terrifying thought is that there's no-one behind this eyes and ears. The liberating thought is that if there's no-one there, then there's no-one to die.
I believe for anybody who has ever tried psychedelics seeing these was a watershed moment. It seems almost impossible that an algorithm could so faithfully reproduce the experience without somehow having recreated some fundamental structure of the human brain. That is compounded by the fact that this wasn't the result of actually trying to do so, but of an open-ended experiment of creating feedback loops in NN layers.
The best explanation I ever heard for psychadelics was that they turn up the gain, the attenuation..on both thoughts and senses. So you get weird stuff which would normally be supressed.
I've been thinking on that topic for about a year now to justify my own behavior and actions.
Free will implies, that there should be genuine "actor", that's behind all one's choices and actions. If you will try to dig down and find your own actor, you soon will discover, that all choices produced by that actor are actually based on your previous experience, so all actions are actually predefined by your own experience.
The presence of genuine actor essentially leads to question "who is behind actor's actions?", which inevitably leads to infinite regress that can't be resolved.
I like to see how modern science there comes close to various teachings like Buddhism, moving from external world (non-self) to internal (self).
> [A]ll actions are actually predefined by your own experience.
Your past actions and deterministic plumbings of material body constrain the future possibilities but they do not remove the possibility of further choice, in the general case.
Rumi's father -- both father and son were Muslim mystics -- tells an amusing tale of how the question of predeterminism and free-will was settled in their day in his spiritual diary:
In Khwarazm the great majority [are] Mu'tazilis. No one there ever
claims to have had a 'vision of God'. The people think of themselves
as freely acting makers of their own lives. If they meet up with
Jabriya, one who believes everything is predestined, they cuff him
about the head and say "It's God's plan that I do this."
Khwarazm is tough on the predestined people. Their houses are plundered
and as they walk about in poverty they are clubbed and beaten. Mu'tazilis,
on the other hand, enjoy the wealth they seize from the Jabriyas, these
lazy ones who never initiate anything. "That is God's business" they say.
Theirs, evidently, is to suffer in both worlds.
As for the faculty of 'Choice' in the Human being, he wrote:
"By the One who sets the Earth with rivers pouring through in mist
below mountains, and two oceans with a strip of land in between" (27.61),
we move the elements into various shapes without their consent, but
Human beings, unlike water and trees, have a choice. They are given dignity,
discernment, and the evolutionary wisdom that can move from death to new
life, again to die and be restored on another level of Existence.
You have many choices about the ways you live and work and change and survive.
Say you fall into an ocean. You may give up and sink, or you may try to
swim to the shore.
Salvation is your decision.
He directly addressed the perplexity (and expected life quality) of those who claim access to the "inner self" -- 'vision of God' -- and further elucidates that the successful -- "salvation" -- progressive process of 'reincarnation' is dependent on the "evolutionary wisdom" that is gained by making choices.
> nonsense
It is perfectly reasonable that one would hold such a view. We the present are co-local in time and space but not necessarily in attainment.
Most important point there is that law forces VPN providers to inspect client traffic and forbid access to blacklisted sites. I doubt that any of VPN providers will follow that path, so in turn access to them will be blocked by ISP (which is forced by another law).
That's how you can censorship everything you dislike.
