For me Claude Skills is just a proof that we're making RAG unnecessary difficult to use. Not tech wise, but UX wise. But if we can fix that, the need for Claude Skills will go away.
Where Claude Skills is better than MCP? It's easier to produce a Claude SKills. It's just text. Everyone can write it. But it's dependant on the environment alot. Eg: when you need to have certain tools available for it to work. How do you automate sandbox setup with that? Even that, are you sure it's the right version for it to use, etc...
There are still growing pains, but https://github.com/osbuild/bootc-image-builder exists and is likely to become exactly that in the general case (as it already is for the redhat family).
Oh those size limits are pushed plenty by AI images, no worries. I recently had a good laugh when I found a docker image that was 2 - 3 times as big as the OS partition of a lot of our smaller servers.
And our OS image build order would reuse layers better than those.
What's special about niri? Asking as a happy user of i3 for... I can't remember how long. It's one of the few pieces of software I don't have to think about, it just gets out of my way.
Actually, the only situations where I think about it is when I'm driving a mac or a win and the window management gets on my nerves, although I'm generally a pretty chill guy.
It's a scrolling window manager, so almost a completely different paradigm (that I find superior) to normal tiling WMs. Ironically the entire scrolling WM craze started with the PaperWM Gnome extension. I still use it, it's great.
i3 is really hard to move on from. Everything is the app and configuration you want since it doesn't have traditional "desktop" suite of apps, so by design it is literally built for your exact wants and needs. Same goes for fluxbox/openbox setups imo
in corp settings, you usually have a proxy registry. you can setup firewall there for this kind of things to filter out based on license, cve, release date, etc...
> Some cloud providers - like GCP and DigitalOcean - do support nested virtualization, and they work pretty well with Firecracker. Using VM migration to run stable workloads on spot instances sounds very interesting :)
not necessarily. you can build custom kernel with pvm[1] and do it on aws.
Yes I also came to know across pvm. I feel like doing it on top of aws instances can bring a really nice way of migrating from spot isntances and paying less bills.
What are your thoughts on the other hand in using criu with docker and then deploying it on aws spot instances, is it possible
> What are your thoughts on the other hand in using criu with docker and then deploying it on aws spot instances, is it possible
I don't see why not really
but the last few years, spot has been reclaimed way too often and the price discount is not as good as it used to be (era 2016-2017) so I prefer to use saving plan now. although quite a big portion of our fleet still use spot.
hm that was an interesting take, I had seen this youtube video by codedamn [1] on how spot instances are really cheap and had always wondered why people weren't using this, well now I understand that the incentives have changed. Thanks for telling me, I didn't knew it or maybe the creator of that video had created it quite recently (10 months from now isn't that much of a time unless things have changed)
Have things changed quite a lot in 10 months or was it the author maybe overhyping the usecase I suppose.
I am really wondering but is there any software stack that can work with multi cloud approach the best way. I feel like typescript is really great for such purposes for the most part, I hope that this doesn't get counted as too off topic. I am not a dev ops guy but I just like being frugal and checking different options etc. and I am just wondering what is the best "just works" cloud 2025 without being too much expensive like vercel or netlify.
Where Claude Skills is better than MCP? It's easier to produce a Claude SKills. It's just text. Everyone can write it. But it's dependant on the environment alot. Eg: when you need to have certain tools available for it to work. How do you automate sandbox setup with that? Even that, are you sure it's the right version for it to use, etc...