About ansible: I really like the idea and popularity of ansible but find it so painful to use. YAML sucks, and testing is not straightforward (I use molecule in docker containers with geerlingguy’s spécial images)

What’s your workflow for writing tested playbooks?

What do you want to do in a playbook that requires it to be tested?

We keep our roles very simple and they will not do anything complicated. Ansible is for configuring a machine, that’s it.

If we need to do anything more complicated, we’ll write it in a testable program (usually in Go).

wait until you have to use puppet :D

> his notional net worth increases (AMZN has never paid a dividend).

But that’s exactly the loophole: you can borrow for very cheap against this notional equity without incurring a cent in taxes (since divodends are never paid out)

You can also get preorder items, it adds to the total. Your actual items hips right away but the preorder doesn’t. Once you get your item, cancel the preorder and you’re done.

This is something I'd not thought of before ... diabolically efficient!

Amazon gets a commission on the sale and doesn’t bear the cost of the returns. What’s not to like/where is the problem/everybody wins/nothing to see here

> Instead of a 2000 USD proprietary touchscreen that will be obsolete in 3 years, the dashboard could be just a double DIN slot and a heavy-duty, universal tablet mount with a 100W USB-C PD port. The car provides the power and the speakers and my phone provides the maps and music. When the tech improves, you upgrade your phone, not your dashboard.

Dacia does that. The base sandero comes with speakers and Bluetooth. The rest is up to you, there is no screen no radio.

I am happy with Car Play as a decent middle ground. It’s nice to have a large screen, and everything is still done on the phone and not on a shite computer whose components were cost-cut to an inch of their lives.

Very clean design, congrats!

I’d love to see a section describing the glyph’s usage (I usual have to check Wikipedia for that) and which compose key sequence to use to type it. For instance on Linux (maybe other OSes too?) you can type <compose key> + e + = and get the euro sign.

IMO programming on windows is just asking for punishment. Unless it’s a Microsoft language, you’re so much better off on Linux or macOS.

That’s cool if you can, but the majority of business desktops/laptops runs Windows. Hard to gain enterprise traction when it’s hard to run tools on your local machine

Just use WSL2 and Docker Desktop. VS Code has DevContainer support so you can standardize on a Docker image for your project.

To be fair, vscode and .net core on linux is pretty much like having windows and visual studio at this point.

Without the debugger, unfortunately. You still need VS or Rider for that.

The debugger works fine on Linux?

The only thing missing are some profiling tools.

If you really need those you're better off with Rider which is integrated with DotTrace.

What problem have you had with the debugger?

Or wsl2

Versioning sucks (the references are mutable), debugging sucks, you cant run them locally.

> You can run all your CI locally

if you can, you don't need CI. we can't (too slow, needs an audit trail)

I think the idea is GitHub actions calls "build.sh", or "deploy.sh" etc. Those scripts contain all of the logic necessary to build or deploy or whatever. You can run those scripts locally for testing / development, or from CI for prod / auditing.

oh that makes sense. I thought the OP was suggesting running CI locally instead of a workflow on remote runners

Yes this is what I meant! If you structure it correctly using task runners and an environment manager you can do everything locally using the same versions etc. E.g.

```yaml name: Continuous Integration (CI)

on: pull_request

permissions: contents: read

jobs: formatting: name: Formatting runs-on: ${{ matrix.architecture }} strategy: matrix: architecture: [ubuntu-24.04, ubuntu-24.04-arm] language: [rust, shell, python] steps: - name: Checkout code. uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v6.0.1 - name: Setup Nix. uses: cachix/install-nix-action@4e002c8ec80594ecd40e759629461e26c8abed15 # v31.9.0 - name: Check formatting. run: nix develop -c make check-${{ matrix.language }}-formatting

  linting:
    name: Linting
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.architecture }}
    strategy:
      matrix:
        architecture: [ubuntu-24.04, ubuntu-24.04-arm]
        language: [rust]
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code.
        uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v6.0.1
      - name: Setup Nix.
        uses: cachix/install-nix-action@4e002c8ec80594ecd40e759629461e26c8abed15 # v31.9.0
      - name: Check linting.
        run: nix develop -c make check-${{ matrix.language }}-linting

  compile:
    name: Compile
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.architecture }}
    strategy:
      matrix:
        architecture: [ubuntu-24.04, ubuntu-24.04-arm]
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code.
        uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v6.0.1
      - name: Setup Nix.
        uses: cachix/install-nix-action@4e002c8ec80594ecd40e759629461e26c8abed15 # v31.9.0
      - name: Compile.
        run: nix develop -c make compile

  unit-test:
    name: Unit Test
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.architecture }}
    strategy:
      matrix:
        architecture: [ubuntu-24.04, ubuntu-24.04-arm]
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code.
        uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v6.0.1
      - name: Setup Nix.
        uses: cachix/install-nix-action@4e002c8ec80594ecd40e759629461e26c8abed15 # v31.9.0
      - name: Unit test.
        run: nix develop -c make unit-test

... ```

Check the user manual. The default program is usually not the most energy and water efficient one but rather the mandatory one for certifying the machine.

Same thing for dishwashers, the “eco” program is often not the best especially if you have an “auto” one.

As it's the one for certifying the machine, it usually is the most energy and water efficient one. For washing machines the downside is that it takes 3 hours (or longer, if the machine was built before the EU capped it to 3h), for dishwashers the downside is that it stops being efficient once you realize that you have to run it a second time to actually get clean dishes.

For my new Bosch Benchmark dishwasher, "normal" actually uses 2.4 gallons and 1.25 kwh a load, is most efficient, and is quietest. There is no "eco" mode. "Auto" mode uses about twice the gallons no matter what's inside and slightly more kwh.

Maybe it’s a European thing. The eco program is the one mandated by law and the one they use for the energy rating.

But for machines that have a table showing power and water use, it’s never the most efficient one (in all the ones I checked). There is always a better program, it’s usually called “auto”.

Maybe it’s different in North America, idk what the rules are there.

I've heard this before (and I don't have any reason to doubt your research) but I'm struggling to figure out why it would be the case.

Regulation 1016/2010 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2010/1016/oj/eng) is the thing that establishes the various requirements for home dishwashers. It's pretty straightforward (most of the content establishing how efficiency is calculated). It basically just requires the default program to be "suitable to clean normally soiled tableware and that it is the most efficient programme in terms of its combined energy and water consumption for that type of tableware".

I could imagine some issues with how these numbers are calculated that reward "less efficient" devices or something like that, but it's pretty hard to figure out what that could be. Bit of a mystery!

Seems like the companies think we're too dumb in North America. My machines didn't come with any sort of tables. Someone else was saying their washing machine has actual temperature settings and RPM settings. None of the ones I've seen here tell us that, not even in the manual.

I try to explain this to people, but they are so convinced by the 'eco' branding/rethoric that even when you demonstrate they still disbelieve, or more acuratly do not want to believe.

Eco modes save water and generally take a little longer, albeit same temperature (ergo a little bit more energy). I am missing something?

Yes, check the power and water usage table in the manual: all the ones I’ve checked (in Europe), the eco program is not eco when compared to others (especially auto if it’s there)

Eco is just the standard program they have to ship and must use for the energy efficiency rating.

Why would they not use the most efficient one for the energy efficiency rating?

My understanding is that the standard program doesn’t allow for the optimizations that other programs do. It’s something like “must wash at 60C for 2h and perform a rinse cycle for 30 minutes” or something to that effect, so that everyone runs the same program and can compare ratings.

Whereas with other programs they can adjust the settings and times to make it wash better AND use less water/energy.

Because everyone would cheat and include a program that sprays cold water for a few seconds, using minimal energy but not actually getting your dishes clean.

I am amazed that a French supermarket selling food is advertising switching to vegetables rather than meat and milk! What a time to be alive

Well all supermarkets here sell vegatables and many of them also sell fish ... And I see nothing about stopping milk consumption in this ad ?

There are usually 10 aisles of meat/meat-related products, and 1/2 aisle of "not meat" products (exaggerated to make my point.) Meat and dairy lobbies are very strong in France, and it's obvious from ads/store aisles.

So I'm pleasantly surprised to see an ad from a French supermarket that is not trying to sell you more turkey, sausage, and beef for Christmas but rather focuses on vegetables.

What do you mean? The will be an aisle with ham, sausage etc, and a butchery. There will be one for canned food, which will include some tuna, cassoulet and raviolis.

In my SuperU meat is not overly present.

The supermarkets I use aren’t like yours then.

There is way more surface dedicated to meat and dairy than to their alternatives. Typically it’s rows of freezers and fridges for meat and dairy, and a third of an alley for alternatives.

Ah, I misunderstood your comment, sorry. I thought you were comparing meat & dairy to anything else (vegs, canned, ...).

Yes, there are not many alternatives, half an alley in my case.