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by all_usernames 10y ago
I find this essay pretty confusing. It seems to contradict itself at some basic level. "Maybe the smartness and the craziness were not as separate as we think." This seems kind of obvious to me. Yes, creative and driven people are
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by all_usernames 10y ago
Religious faith from certain perspectives is something like: choosing to believe despite being unable to comprehend with your rational mind. That's the basic core of the inquiry, you start from there and see what happens.
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by all_usernames 10y ago
You've stumbled upon one of the most profound spiritual questions there is.
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by all_usernames 10y ago
Leaving aside alchemy, (which one can assume most people are fairly uninformed about), the whole notion that theology ought to be considered a waste of time in modern day belies a pretty surprising degree of ignorance. The study of God and
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by all_usernames 10y ago
When the EPA fines a company (e.g., $4.3Bn for VW), where exactly does that money go?
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by all_usernames 10y ago
She made over $200M in salary over four years. Her risk was zero. I can see no analog here for anything a normal human being would recognize as a challenge despite tough odds.
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by all_usernames 10y ago
> I had gotten a ticket for obstructing the intersection > I was fighting it I hope you lost.
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by all_usernames 10y ago
"I still get pissed off if people remember [it] as the event that "did not happen"" Welcome to the life of any operations engineer, my friend. If we're doing our job right, no one notices that the insanely complex a
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by all_usernames 10y ago
For installations of a few hundred instances or more, some of the SaaS offerings cost more than the engineering salaries it would take to maintain the OSS tools.
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by all_usernames 10y ago
Tax cuts for all means reducing government resources, which means increasing the power of huge corporations. This is a hostile takeover of the American government.
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by all_usernames 10y ago
"In my world, developers barely understand the programming language or framework they're using and are more interested in using buzzword foo rather than solving the problem at hand or dealing with actually running the systems that
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by all_usernames 10y ago
A warning: do NOT do what one engineers I used to work with did, and upload his "dot files" onto GitHub for portability. A lot of secrets can be stored in a few months' worth of bash history.
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by all_usernames 10y ago
Wait... binaries inside a ~homedir/.dotfile/? Why on earth?
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Questioning the PKI chain of trust(bluebox.com)
1 points by all_usernames 11y ago|0 comments
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by all_usernames 11y ago
San Francisco, CA ONSITE | GoPro | DevOps Infrastructure Engineer We are seeking experienced DevOps engineers to join us in San Francisco. We are using open source tools like Ansible and Docker to build distributed cloud (AWS) environments
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by all_usernames 12y ago
ansible main -a "sudo apt-get update; apt-get install --upgrade-only bash"
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by all_usernames 12y ago
Each Availability Zone is being rebooted on a different day. Best practices dictate HA clusters with >=1 instance in each AZ. So, in theory well-designed EC2 systems can withstand this without interruption. But yeah, this still sucks.