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I can just imagine me chatting with devops people: - Hi Jeff, I know you have a todo queue from here till the next century, but please add one more item, havin
by smsm42 6y ago
I can just imagine me chatting with devops people:
- Hi Jeff, I know you have a todo queue from here till the next century, but please add one more item, having all our VMs, however they built, to include this set of files. I need it ASAP since without it if I log in to a server, I can't use backspace.
- What? Why? This looks like lots of work to modify each one of our 10000 deployments. It also may create some bugs and using non-standard deployment packages is time-consuming. What's wrong with plain old ssh, it works everywhere? What's wrong with your backspace, maybe I should order you a new keyboard?
- Well, ssh is fine but you see, I've got this new OpenGL super-fancy terminal emulator, and if I use it to ssh into a random server my backspace doesn't work. So if you changed every deployment we have to support it, that would be great, mmmkay? Oh and longer term I also need you to maintain a custom package for every linux distribution we might use that fixes this issue.
- Are you high? Did you check you temperature lately - maybe you have a high fever and your mental capacities are compromised?
- Hold on, Jeff, don't you think me using a fancy terminal program than can scroll 35% faster worth the effort? And it's also written in Rust! You could use it too, it's really awesome unless you need the backspace key for some weird reason.
- clickety click I've disabled all your shell access to all our servers until your mental health improves, and asked HR to issue you a week of sick days. Please get well soon.