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Goat Ops
- geoah 6y ago> There's no goat plugin for Splunk; and if you tried to ...plug in..., the goat would probably kick your ass anyway. > You don't need any special utilities to delete a goat that is not empty. xD
- ithkuil 6y ago> You will never spend 4 hours upgrading a goat over the wire. But you may have to spend more than 4 hours upgrading your wires because of a goat. (I speak from personal experience with electric fences)
- pjscott 6y agoOn the one hand, I completely believe this; goats are beings spawned from the deepest pits of hell and thence sent to our world to chew on inappropriate objects. On the other hand, WTF: did they actually manage to chew through an electric fence? Seriously??
- ithkuil 6y agoNot chew; jump over and/or just sneak throigh. The upgrade consisted of putting more, thicker wires.
- faeyanpiraat 6y agoSpicy wire
- ithkuil 6y agoHot wire indeed!
- esperent 6y agoOh hell yes. A goat could escape from Alcatraz faster than any human could.
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- xupybd 6y agoOnly if you killed it. If it drops dead probably best not to eat it
- hashkb 6y agoMoving to the country comes with quite a few surprises. Houseops, goatops, landops, townops, snowops, etc... there's always lots of ops.
- frob 6y agoSnowops for sure! I calculated a few weekends back that I had moved over 150 tons of snow in the previous 24 hours. Also threw 4 or 5 sheer pins and ate a hidden Amazon package with a snowblower, but that's part of the territory.
- hashkb 6y agoI'm headed out to plow right now. Probably will have to again in the morning.
- antender 6y agoCan a goat in the swarm catch a random virus from the Web? What's your policy on replacing dead instances and replication?
- labster 6y agoRemember, goats are cattle, not pets.
- boring_twenties 6y agoI'd be really curious to hear from someone who actually quit programming to raise goats, and whether or not they'd ever consider going back.
- frob 6y agoI did and I did. I still raise goats and run a business selling soap made from their milk, but I also work remotely as a SWE. We never wanted to do it full time, but I did get to take a bit over a year off before going back. I have absolutely loved the change. I spend my day alternating between coding and farm tasks. It's a great balance to my day.
- boring_twenties 6y agoAre you able to keep up with them while working a full 40-ish hour week, or is the SWE gig more of a part time thing?
- frob 6y agoIt's full time. Fortunately, it's very flexible, so if I need to go do some chores for an hour in the middle of the day, I can make it up later. Goat pics also help with team bonding.
- aaron695 6y agoI can't answer that question, but doing both (ie a 'hobby' farm), it's nice to be able to just afford a vet. We went from 2 miniature dairy goats on our 400 square meters urban home, to rural after they had kids. It'd be very hard to more than 2 adult goats on a city block, noise issues. I think the droughts and fencing and killing would be an impressive thing to do as a farmer, but not for me. I do see a market around Airbnb, I know a few hobby farmers who get far more from their Airbnb. Also WeWork would be interesting to test.
- GlenTheMachine 6y agoI have not quit programming but I do run a meat sheep operation with my wife. It's almost profitable. There is a steep learning curve. It's a lot of hard work. The pay is not great. You have to be the right kind of person, and it helps to already have capital so you don't start out in debt. In my case, my wife is a large animal vet so our vet bills are minimal. I strongly dissuade anyone considering this change from just quitting their day job, buying some land, and starting from boot. Go work on someone else's farm first, or start as a side gig. Figure out what you are doing and where your market is. You can go bankrupt very easily and surprisingly quickly — one disease gets into your herd because you didn't take the right bio safety precautions, or your feed gets contaminated and you have an abortion storm, and you're out almost all of your capital, and the characteristic time period for making more income is - of course - a year.
- smoldesu 6y agoThis is cool, but how would I manage multiple 'goat' instances? Seems like things would get out of hand very quickly.
- Infernal 6y agoYou just have to treat them more like cattle and less like pets.
- gerad 6y agoAre they pets or cattle?
- cmeacham98 6y agoUnderrated comment
- frob 6y agoI refer to mine as petstock.
- jbluepolarbear 6y agoI haven’t had goats (really want some) but with chickens we would keep em until they stopped laying eggs and then we’d eat them. Some chickens that were more pet like would survive into old age, but most chickens are stupid and not really pets.
- bdsa 6y agoI really like the pets vs cattle analogy (or did when it was a newer thing and people needed convincing not to handcraft servers, that seems mostly in the past now for me, fortunately) but it's amusing just how inaccurate it is if you think about it. I'm pretty sure dairy farmers don't shoot cows in the head if they get sick, with the same carefree shrug I do when I terminate Kubernetes pods and nodes, but maybe they do?
- floren 6y ago> I'm pretty sure dairy farmers don't shoot cows in the head if they get sick, with the same carefree shrug I do when I terminate Kubernetes pods and nodes, but maybe they do? Dairy farmers tend to be very practical about putting down animals that are past a certain point. If a 7 year old cow needs $N of surgery to live, but she can realistically only be expected to give another $N*0.5 worth of milk in her life, she's hamburger.
- King-Aaron 6y agoA good friend of mine breeds Angora goats for milk, and makes cheese and soap as well as showing the goats. It seems like a lot of work. And she only has a maximum of around two dozen at a time. I grew up on cattle farms and cows are much easier.
- tomcam 6y agoBut goats are endlessly hilarious
- dmix 6y agoPlenty of farms with goats and llamas to visit on weekends if you work in southern ontario. Or AirBnBs on mini-farms. Goats always stand out as the funniest animals. But their eyes endlessly creep me out. We get away from the city and do this quite often.
- tomcam 6y agoYou spend your time well. Yes their eyes are alien.
- dmix 6y agoThanks. Found an article explaining them, I've been meaning to look it up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/08/10/heres-why-goats-have-those-freaky-eyes/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2...
- artificialLimbs 6y agoOur Nubian goat takes about a half hour of walking down to the barn, feeding, and milking daily. Night time is only a brief feeding (if winter) and lock up, maybe 10 minutes. But that's 1, not 24. For just the milk, the labor is worth it for us. Farmers style goat cheese is fairly painless to make with maybe an hour or so actual handling time total for a 5 lb block. Soaping and showing seem like a labor of love.
- frob 6y agoAlmost 2 years ago, I quit my job as a SWE at a FAANG and started raising a small herd of dairy goats. We use the milk for personal consumption and to make soap to sell. They give a nice rhythm to the day: I greet them shortly after rising and lock them up as the sun sets. We have daily conversations while I milk them and we gossip about the chickens. The switch has forced me to hone my construction and machinery skills, but I still enjoy finding ways to slip tech solutions into my setup. I recently started working again in tech remotely, but I'm doing non-profit work which is in much greater alignment with my personal values. I'm a lot happier and a good part of it is due to the goats. It's not for everyone, but I've enjoyed the change in pace and outlook. And the fresh milk.
- artificialLimbs 6y agoMy wife and I have found Nubian goats, said to have the best tasting and creamiest milk of all goats in the land. We haven't had milk from every kind of goat, but this saying is possibly true. It's also easy on her lactose sensitive stomach.
- frob 6y agoWe raise Mini Nubians and I agree that their milk is wonderful!
- monstersinF 6y agoMay I visit and try the milk? Do you make cheese from it?
- sitkack 6y agoThey are also hilarious. One of the funniest animals on the planet. A day spent with a goat is well spent.
- ndespres 6y agoI'm still doing sysadmin work remotely while I slowly grow our own herd of dairy goats (12 now as of last week) for our soap business. Still a very low-tech setup but I may finally splurge on an electric milk pump this year after 5 years of hand milking.. I've had enough!
- ROARosen 6y agoI'd rather learn COBOL than BAAAAA lang
- herodoturtle 6y agoQBaaaasic for the win.
- rman666 6y agoI thought this was going to be about the Greatest Of All Times Operations! Like how to rewire a a CAT-5 connector or something like that, haha.
- Clewza313 6y ago> If it's late and you have a lot of goat-milking to do, at least you can see your kids before they have to go to bed. You can probably even make them help you milk your goats. I'm still not entirely sure which meaning of "kids" this one uses, and whether the ambiguity is intentional.
- herodoturtle 6y agoKid-milking kids. Yup I see your point.
- rdtsc 6y ago> You don't need to worry about your whole goat herd locking up if you put an ethernet goat and a token-ring goat together in the same stable They do lock up sometimes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fainting_goat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fainting_goat though they quickly reboot and are back in business.
- h2odragon 6y agoEvery "operations center" should have a goat on staff. They're great for first line customer response, provide invaluable counseling services to the other employees (goats are never confused about priorities), and even help with paperwork. Get the sales guys high enough and they might convince management to try the "new special rare imported coffee beans", even. That can backfire and you find yourself having to source more pellets, or hire more goats.
- praptak 6y agoHere's an ad that explores this concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ixckCSoN9M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ixckCSoN9M
- jbluepolarbear 6y agoAs soon as Starlink is fast enough for my needs I’d like to get a place with land and lots of goats!
- Thetawaves 6y agoSoothes the soul. Thank you.
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- willtemperley 6y ago> There's no such thing as Goats-as-a-service. Except for the local butcher. There is now: https://www.cronkshawfoldfarm.co.uk/videocalls https://www.cronkshawfoldfarm.co.uk/videocalls
- chewxy 6y ago> there is no such thing s as Goats-as-a-service. Interesting note: I went to a farm stay last weekend. In New South Wales, blackberry thornbushes are pest plants in farms. And what the smaller farms do is they rent goats from people who do goats-as-a-service for a few days. The Gaas people will come in to a farm, install small fences around the blackberry thornbushes and set the goats to business.
- chx 6y agoHilariously then you are back to security problems. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/13/pure-chaos-as-goats-run-wild-in-san-jose-neighborhood/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/13/pure-chaos-as-goats-r...
- chewxy 6y agosmh.. these people. A basic firewall gets you places.
- 3131s 6y agohttp://gccwebsites.com/goats/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Goat-climbing-mountain-side.jpg http://gccwebsites.com/goats/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Goat...
- kubanczyk 6y agohttps://images.unsplash.com/photo-1605130175175-80ffe68fc058?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw%3D&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=634&q=80 https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1605130175175-80ffe68fc058... "Firewall" redefined.
- happy-go-lucky 6y agoAnd, on a similar note, where I live, some shepherds do sheep-as-a-service. Their sheep graze on your farm in return for their manure. They have done this since time immemorial.
- afarrell 6y agoIf someone is frustrated by doing ongoing maintenance and about having to wake up to handle problems, I have bad news for them about farming.
- mobilemidget 6y ago"Goats don't do SSL"
- mellavora 6y agoall this time and not one reference to goatse? am I on the wrong forum?
- spiralx 6y agoSlashdot is still around lol, so technically it is the wrong forum :)
- kilian 6y agoThis site is a prime example of a Mac developers using overflow: auto when they should use overflow: scroll[1]. [1] https://kilianvalkhof.com/2021/css-html/you-want-overflow-auto-not-overflow-scroll/ https://kilianvalkhof.com/2021/css-html/you-want-overflow-au...
- whatatita 6y agoYour comment suggests the inverse of the linked document. You suggest scroll, where they suggest auto.
- gorgoiler 6y agoClaims counting from zero isn’t a thing in goat farming... Hosts content on top of an image showing fence posts...
- 0xbadcafebee 6y agoObviously it's still a ton of work being a farmer. But the problems you face are never ones of incompetence by your boss's boss, you can effect change any time you want, and the work you do leads to simple, ethical, productive outcomes. If you don't mind working hard for a start-up but are always pissed at organizational incompetence, maybe farming is the answer.
- mathgladiator 6y agoI had goats while I had a job, and it was a great counter balance. That is, until they got sick. Both of our boys had calcium stones, and both had surgeries. One of them would eventually get an infection and his penis swole all the way up. It was a mess, and we had to have the vet euthanize him. I have never cried so hard in my life because he was the lovable and affectionate one. He wasn't awkward, and he'd come up and bear his head in your chest and let you hug the shit out of him. The other boy was more awkward but still lovable, and we maintained his health with on and off urine burns and a variety of issues. He would eventually succumb to arthritis. The girl was awful, and only I was able to love on her. She was super aggressive to my wife and every single female visitor. I don't know why, and I tried everything the vet had us do. I love goats very much, but I do recommend that if you go in then go all in and get a herd. Develop a strong relationship with a vet. Prepare for loss as herd animals meant for milk production may have bad genetics. Don't trust small time farmers to have good genetics, and make sure you get a vet that knows what they are doing with respect to castration as timing is crucial. My advice is go for with fiber producing goats as they may last longer, but they are most likely not as lovable since the sheering process is super traumatic.
- benbruscella 6y agoThe infection sounds like pizzle rot
- mathgladiator 6y agoIt basically was. If your urethra is blocked by a calcium stone, then bad things happen. The boys were making stones left and right, and they were not fixable via diet.
- gwbas1c 6y agoTwo days ago, a tree fell on my cousin's goat barn. This was the second time in a year.
- gremlinsinc 6y agoThis reminds me of the MongoDB is Webscale video. where the RBDMS guy is like ... that's it. I quit. I'm going to go be pig farmer ..the sweet smell of pig shit is so much better than putting up with yours. I laughed way too hard at that video...somedays though I think I'd love to have goats. Esp. baby goats they're so cute. I also love goats milk and have a dairy "issue" (I still eat it but my tummy doesn't like me after).