HighPlainsDrftr

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by HighPlainsDrftr 6y ago
It depends. Many engineers will run elsewhere once they start getting paid less than they deserve, and the company is cutting paychecks for profits. The more extreme the difference, the crazier it will get.
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by HighPlainsDrftr 6y ago
This is something I've debated for quite sometime prior to the pandemic. Why do janitors, and wait staff get paid so little? Two of the most important jobs in the world are to clean things and feed people. I guess anyone can clean a t
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by HighPlainsDrftr 6y ago
Yeah, it is harder to be friends with your coworkers when you are remote. You do end up developing relationships though. My mom, for 30 years, spent so many years on the phone with other people, when they finally met up, it always ended u
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by HighPlainsDrftr 6y ago
I live in Wyoming. A few years ago, I was debating about trying to build up some decent 'tech spaces/small campuses' in some of the more remote/less populated and desirable area's. Some of my thoughts were: - Make
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by HighPlainsDrftr 6y ago
> moral of the story: 99% of people still don't understand the > nature of software. very few people--like rich hickey ? ? (clojure), or fpb (mythical man-month)--seem to get it. tech >?is mainstream and most people are missin
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by HighPlainsDrftr 6y ago
Same here. I've been at it for 25 years - I've had at least 3 major burnouts. For 24 years, I've constantly been saying, I gotta find something else that is far more constructive and rewarding. Yet...Here i am.
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by HighPlainsDrftr 6y ago
If you have an old oil field that is at end of life, couldn't you pick this stuff up at $-40.00/barrel and pump it back into the empty reservoirs? I'm sure there is regulation against it, but if it was once a production rese
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by HighPlainsDrftr 7y ago
Why haven't we started using public/private key authentication yet? Most systems have trust stores.
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by HighPlainsDrftr 7y ago
Out of curiosity, what are you using for a custom ROM?
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Wyoming Legislature considering 'private key protection' [pdf](wyoleg.gov)
3 points by HighPlainsDrftr 7y ago|0 comments
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by HighPlainsDrftr 7y ago
I use zim desktop wiki myself - with the git plugin. Cross platform. Just works. Eventually people want to clone my git repo and read the raw notes I have. It can eventually be imported into a wiki or whatever.
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by HighPlainsDrftr 7y ago
I'm sort of the opposite. Diagrams just show an abstract to me. At a high level they are great, but I always find myself trying to dust off the diagram and figure out what really is happening underneath. Its always so damn complex!
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by HighPlainsDrftr 7y ago
Around the rocky's - I've noticed that storm drain systems are always a huge piece of infrastructure. They seem to dump to the local river. Why don't the cities harvest that water and treat it instead of dumping it into the
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by HighPlainsDrftr 7y ago
I am much better at using CLI's than I am using GUI's - just for this reason. Every time I see an icon, I have to think - what is it the person is trying to tell me. Usually, words work much better for me. I know many people that
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by HighPlainsDrftr 7y ago
Correct. Most CFO's I've run into as of late would rather spend $100 on a cloud vm than deal with capex, depreciation, and management of the infrastructure. Even though doing it yourself with the right people can go alot further.
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by HighPlainsDrftr 7y ago
I've had pretty good luck with Green House Data's Colo Service and their Cloud offerings. A couple of RU's in the data center can host 1000's of VM's in multi-regions with great connectivity between them.
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by HighPlainsDrftr 7y ago
I've long thought that all highways/interstates should have paved bike path and a dirt trail away from the road itself. This would give people the option of riding horses or bikes in a much safer manner.
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by HighPlainsDrftr 8y ago
I hate to ever say this, but alcohol is actually a selfish thing to consume. If you are drinking water and I'm drinking a beer, we are having a conversation, in a way, I'm telling you your not interesting enough because I need a
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by HighPlainsDrftr 8y ago
10 years ago I quit smoking. I don't recommend doing it this way, but I started chewing tobacco. I didn't like it, didn't care for the taste, but for some reason, it let me break the mental habits of having a cigarette every
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by HighPlainsDrftr 8y ago
I hope so - I have been saying for a while, once I get to 10m, I'm going to quit working and start focusing on doing things to help other people. I figure 4% = 400k, take 200k and reinvest it, and take the other 200k and use it. Its c
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by HighPlainsDrftr 8y ago
Up until 4 years ago, I used to always allocate addresses specifically on bit boundaries. I did this mainly for one reason - aligning the bytes and trying not to waste CPU cycles. For example, in a /24 network: 0-15 - network equipment
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by HighPlainsDrftr 8y ago
I almost always put my VPN connections in this range for that reason. Nobody ever uses it. Makes it obvious when you see that address in a webserver log or a route table.
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by HighPlainsDrftr 8y ago
If you said 10/24, I'd immediately think 10.0.0.0/24. 10/8 would certainly be valid. 10.0/16 is too. I remember when CIDR came around back in the 90's. Man people were pissed off when you would call out a &#x2
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by HighPlainsDrftr 8y ago
Water is a tough analogy to use here (electricity too). Water just flows downhill, or is pumped up from a few locations and shared in the grid. You generally can't distinguish the water from its source - certain wells, rivers, lakes,
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by HighPlainsDrftr 9y ago
It is - but the company probably is trying to solve a problem of past mistakes. I can only speculate, but at one point, someone must have munged a network acl and created an outage. Now all network acl's need to be reviewed before be
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by HighPlainsDrftr 9y ago
Same here. I used to host out of my house. Now its on a server in a data center somewhere. Some of it is written in perl - which I have no problem reading (spamassassin).
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by HighPlainsDrftr 9y ago
Just my $0.02. The Netflix client/SDK was configured to contact 3 different regions. I'm guessing somehow, on the backend, it was replicating the state of your request to the other three regions. If one regions were to fail, the
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by HighPlainsDrftr 9y ago
I wonder how much this has changed recently. We have PS Vue, sling, Youtube XYZ. Could you partner with one them to provide a discount to their services? Do the same with Vonage/etc?
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by HighPlainsDrftr 9y ago
When are children immune from consequences? Any good parent will discipline or correct their child for mistakes. It is after the child leaves home and has to function on its own does it become a bigger problem.
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by HighPlainsDrftr 9y ago
I agree. You can get a permit to protest. I don't think the politicians listen anymore. They might if you are a corporation funding their campaigns. Protests appear to be losing power over time. Politicians seem to be less and less re

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