Also, a price increase like this can be used to address over-subscription/under-utilization .. there will be a lot of dormant chaff blown off by this, or in other words the provisioning demand will also be adjusted by this aggressive price change, imho.
I agree with you, I also enjoy reading it, and admire the method as well as the result in this case.
FUSE is immensely useful, also. Its the front-/back- door to a lot of things. There's only a few steps left to a tiny crypto-stack, hosted on top of it ..
Indeed, the glibc test suite .. plus a suite of BPF scripts for instrumenting .. can provide a great deal of information about how things are running in a target OS .. if you give a process its own filesystem and then rig up a bpf console with some hot gnuplot, you can get some very significant details, at the i/o level, about the heuristics of an application, library, user-space module/plugin, etc...
It used to be you had to wade through massive logs though, if you don't get things quite tweaked - but in the AI/ML agent sense of things these days, just describe what you need, FUSE the right nodes, and run the bpf scripts, yo ..
Nerds were commoditized by Hollywood, who exploited the rising digital era to develop stereotypical caricatures which could be easily pigeon-holed, and thus controlled.
They were compelled to do this, because nerds ate Hollywoods' lunch.
Just look at the show, Big Bang Theory. A heinous exposition of nerd culture which derides and degrades nerd'ism and aligns it with the neo-fascist Ayn Rand'ian ideology being propagated by Hollywoods' culture class in order to promulgate division and derision.
The Wests' copycat culture, not really able to develop culture of its own, simply picked up the baton and ran with it.
Now, gullible impressionable generations assume - courtesy of incessant mass-media groupthink - that its necessary to be a misanthropic asshole if you want to sound clever.
>Stunning, and amazing to consider that these were painted by firelight/flaming torch.
I could imagine the coals, not quite so much flame any more, soft and still in the windless depths, casting a warm glow for eyes to adjust in sanctity, so that the hands could find the lines in the mind and put them out on the wall.
Just a fantastic moment in time, echoing on throughout history.
I feel the same sort of floating disconnected-ness when I am out back in the desert of Western Australia, and come across a rock shelter with paintings and obvious signs of working by human hands.
Its just such a humbling thing, to look at a piece of art that is 10's of thousands of years old, and realize that a human was once there, making it, just so that some day, a human would be there, looking at it.
What it would be to have a way to talk to these old humans and let them know just how inspiring their work turned out to be...
Would that we could have the same impact on humans a thousand years from now, ten thousand years from now. Hello, Future Human.
44,000 years of continuous human occupation. (Except for a brief period during the 20th century ..)