The reader I used to get the page count from, is set up to use the same font, font size, and margins for all ebooks. So the page count should be comparable between the two books.

But since you mentioned word count…

• My edition of The Hobbit has 96,923 words.
• My edition of The Fellowship of the Ring has 192,625 words.

So by word count, The Fellowship of the Ring is almost twice as long as The Hobbit.

Adding in the other books of the Lord of the Rings:

• The Two Towers: 157,065 words.
• The Return of the King: 210,618 words.

That brings the whole Lord of the Rings Trilogy to a total of 560,308 words. Meaning that the Lord of the Rings trilogy is 5.8 times longer than The Hobbit…

Looking at the extended edition run times of the movies, The Lord of the Rings trilogy runs for 10 hours and 26 minutes. The Hobbit trilogy runs for 7 hours and 52 minutes. So in movie form The Lord of the Rings in only 32% longer than The Hobbit.

So there’s 67 milliseconds of Lord of the Rings movie, per word from the books, where as there’s 292 milliseconds of The Hobbit movie, per word from the book. That’s 4.4 times as much movie runtime per word in The Hobbit, than in the Lord of the Rings… Which is quite thinly stretched…

My ebook of The Hobbit is 217 pages. My ebook of The Fellowship of the Ring is 377 pages.

So the first book of the LOTR trilogy is 73% longer than the whole Hobbit book.

According to the whois data, the site is registered to someone in Reykjavik, Iceland… Not that that necessarily is correct.

You could argue that if the US population had elected a Nazi, they would have good reason to cut ties, as you could argue that the country wants nazism.

In this case the US population didn’t directly elect the Nazi, and therefore you could argue that it isn’t directly the country that wants nazism, so there’s hope for the next election cycle and maybe even before then. So it might make sense to keep some ties for when things might improve again.

Day to day it doesn’t at all matter whether the Nazi was elected or not, as long as the Nazi is allowed to wreck the country.

The Sieg Heil guy wasn’t elected…

You are correct. And yes that is kinda the whole point of the distilled models.

32b is still distilled. The full one is 671b.

In relation to Western devs, I think this is essentially just that it’s easy to just pile in more assets, but it can be tricky slimming down again, because you need to be certain that something really isn’t used before removing it. So many games never get around to the slimming down part, also because it isn’t really directly profitable to them…

I will highlight 1 case though. Hitman 2 was 149 gig, and included the levels for Hitman 1 and 2. But Hitman 3 was slimmed down to 60 gigs while including all of the content from Hitman 1, 2, and 3.

Factorio with Space Age is 4 GB

Agreed, Talos or k3s are great for home clusters

This would imply that you have at least two machines. In that case they could just install Linux in the other machine to try it out.

Foa people dabbling in Linux for the first time, with the anxiety of losing their data, it certainly sound like they don’t have 2 machines to run syncthing. Otherwise, why wouldn’t they just copy all their important data to the other machine to avoid the data loss risk?

And sure if that is the case Syncthing is a good solution, but it doesn’t sound applicable in this situation.

A LOT of toothpaste…

Yeah, it demotivated me too with the limited lives… If you still want Duolingo, I can mention that it has regional pricing, so you only need a VPN server in India to get it much much cheaper.

But it’s understandable if you don’t want to support those kinds of business practices in any way.

You are aware that there were an almost global trend in 2024 of dying your hair grey, even for young women, right?

I have never experienced that my dishwasher didn’t fully remove all the traces of coffee… No matter whether it’s black coffee, with milk, espresso, café latte, with or without sugar/syrup…

Agnosticism and gnosticism are actually not so much about doubt, but whether it is possible to know.

An Agnostic says it’s not possible to know whether there is a god or not.

A Gnostic says it’s possible to know whether there is a god or not

An Atheist says they don’t believe a god exists

A Theist says they believe a god exists.

You can be an Agnostic Atheist. “I don’t believe in god, but I don’t think it can be proven god doesn’t exist.”

Or a Gnostic Atheist. “I don’t believe in a god, and I think we can prove God doesn’t exist.”

Or an Agnostic Theist. “I think God exists, but I don’t think we can prove it. You just have to believe”

Or a Gnostic Theist. “I think God exists, and I think we can find proof.”

Systemd?

My team is constantly looking for new technologies to make sure we’re not turning ourselves into dinosaurs. We all know that Kubernetes won’t last forever, something better will come along some day.

That being said I don’t really see the full value of Triton or Xen with unikernels… They might have a bit less performance overhead if used correctly, but then again Kubernetes on bare metal also has very little overhead.

Kubernetes is certainly comes with a learning curve, and you need to know how to manage it, but once you have Kubernetes there’s a ton of nifty benefits that appear due to the thriving community.

Need to autoscale based on some kind of queue? Just install the Keda helm chart

Running in the cloud and want the cluster to autoscale the nodes? Just install cluster-autoscaler helm chart

Want to pick up all of your logs and ship them somewhere? Just install the promtail helm chart

Need a deployment tool? Just install the ArgoCD helm chart

Need your secrets injected from some secret management solution? Just install the external-secrets helm chart

Need to vulnerability scan all the images you are using in your cluster? Just install the trivy-operator helm chart

Need a full monitoring stack? Just install the kube-prometheus-stack helm chart

Need a logging solution? Just install the loki helm chart

Need certificates? Just install the cert-manager helm chart

The true benefit of Kubernetes isn’t Kubernetes itself, but all the it’s and pieces the community has made to add value to Kubernetes.

Apology accepted, and thank you for not name calling.

And yeah, if you can save the ops team salaries by picking Heroku, then it certainly might offset the costs.

When you talk about Triton, do you mean this? Because funnily enough one of their bigger features seems to be that you can run Kubernetes on top of it. It looks pretty cool though, but I must say it was quite hard to find proper info on it.

Triton also seem to push for containerization quite heavily, and especially Docker… So when you talk about Triton are you suggesting to use the Infrastructure Containers or Virtual Machines instead?

I’m not quite sure what you are getting at… Are you implying that I’m autistic because I only have 10 pods in a Kubernetes cluster?

Presently our clusters run roughly 1400 pods, and at this scale there certainly are benefits to using something like Kubernetes.

If your project is small enough to make sense on Heroku, then that’s awesome, but at some point Heroku stops making sense… both for managing at scale, and costs. Heroku already seems to be 2-4x as expensive as AWS on-demand. Presently we’re investigating moving out of AWS and into a datacenter, as it seems that we can reduce our costs by at least an order of magnitude.