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by chousuke 5y ago
fancy UIs usually don't even attempt to solve the primary problem that IaC does, which is change management . Systems where changes (rather than operations) are made through interactive UIs are a horror to manage; it works for extrem
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by chousuke 5y ago
Have you ever considered that to an autistic person, a neurotypicsl person might be the impolite one? People who are actually antisocial will be impolite on purpose , and it's usually pretty obvious. Meanwhile, actually autistic peopl
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by chousuke 5y ago
In my case, that comparison doesn't really make sense. Whatever "image" I have in my head has no resolution, detail, or colour; it's just a feeling, and not at all like seeing . I literally can't imagine what it&#x
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by chousuke 5y ago
I think of things in terms of abstractions and models. Abstractions generalize commonalities into a vocabulary that can be used on any entity that is covered by the abstraction. A sequence is an abstraction, but data structures themselves
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by chousuke 5y ago
I wish we could just get rid of that particular form of "courtesy". I can't help but be annoyed or distracted by naked hellos, regardless of the intent behind them, so to me, they are rude. I understand that they might be s
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by chousuke 5y ago
How do you stop caring? I would give nearly anything for this superpower. Even obviously completely insignificant moments that matter to no-one can stick with me for days, and some stay with me for years , bubbling up and causing anxiety o
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by chousuke 5y ago
Everything I can get my brain interested in is a solo activity. I feel like whenever I try to even think about doing something that requires me to initiate contact with people, some unconscious part of me "resets" my thoughts and
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by chousuke 5y ago
That "and" of the "Just go out and meet people" is the part that my brain struggles with. I can walk out of the door just fine, but my brain stops functioning when I try to think of things to do from there. I can likewis
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by chousuke 5y ago
Gnome is the default and there's a KDE "spin", but I use Sway myself so I can't really comment on how well KDE works.
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by chousuke 5y ago
I recommend Fedora to everyone wanting a desktop alternative to Ubuntu. It's a well-balanced distribution that is opinionated enough to work fine as-is but doesn't try to force things on you the way Ubuntu does with snaps.
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by chousuke 5y ago
What's the point of pm2? Every time I've seen it it's just been part of a messy misconfigured system and whatever it's actually doing could've been accomplished entirely with a tiny systemd unit running node directl
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by chousuke 5y ago
I like RHEL and derivatives more for servers myself. It's probably just preference, but I find that RHEL-like distros step on my toes less often. In particular, I don't like debconf at all, and Ubuntu pushing snaps everywhere also
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by chousuke 5y ago
> Think of a time you really wanted something I don't think I've really had any such time (or I don't remember. My memory is terrible), which is one of the things the rational part of me struggles with. I kind of just adap
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by chousuke 5y ago
One part of it is figuring out who you are and acting accordingly. However, a persistent problem I face with any approach to pursuing happiness is how to get my body to perform the things that would make me happy instead of the things som
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by chousuke 5y ago
Sounds like you might've had an unusually bad experience. Might've also been the distro; I don't like Ubuntu much myself. :P Maintaining inherited environments is also much more painful than ones you get to design from the gr
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by chousuke 5y ago
Simple solutions are also easier to refactor into more complex solutions when the complexity becomes necessary. Going the other way is much harder. In simple systems, you often have the option of simply throwing away entire components and
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by chousuke 5y ago
Depends on your setup. For a simple git server on AWS I might have it on a single-node ASG so that when something terminates the instance, the ASG notices and launches a new one. The initialization scripts would then attach and mount a pre-
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by chousuke 5y ago
Well, some thoughts in no particular order: 0. YAML everywhere. Augh. 1. Vanilla kubernetes by itself doesn't really do much; everyone basically assumes you'll use a cluster in a cloud somewhere that comes with all kinds of add-on
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by chousuke 5y ago
I think that's because "non-native" apps run inside an X server running as a Wayland client. So you're basically getting the X experience :/
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by chousuke 5y ago
Yeah, I wanted to emphasize the difference between the kubernetes resource and the actual things that the controllers create based on the existence and attributes of those resources. I suppose "materialization" is a good word for
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by chousuke 5y ago
Kubernetes, by itself, does not really know how to "do" anything, but it provides a framework for writing components that do (controllers) in response to new resources being declared (I want to say "created" but nothing
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by chousuke 5y ago
"Be yourself" is often said, but it's equally often not actionable advice on its own. Not everyone knows who or what they are, and even someone who knows is not necessarily able to be themselves without outside help. I stru
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by chousuke 5y ago
Linux has support for multipath devices, so disks disappearing and re-appearing at runtime definitely isn't a new concept. Making it work with a single disk might take some work though. If the power cycle is controlled, then the kernel
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by chousuke 5y ago
#3 is the correct option, I think, except you update the firmware but don't start using it. The OS should handle powercycling the drive at a convenient moment, at which point it'll load the new firmware. Netapp filers do this; t
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by chousuke 5y ago
What's wonderful about rust is that by making ownership explicit and enforced, it enables less experienced people to learn those concepts and confidently use new approaches to write performant software without having to shoot off their
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by chousuke 5y ago
To me conversations with substance are full of mood and feeling. I love it when I can talk about something and get actual understanding in response, or when a person talks to me and I can relate to what they're trying to express. I d
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by chousuke 5y ago
I wonder why people think it's polite, because I consider is the exact opposite of polite to distract someone with something that may not lead anywhere. It might be just my ADHD talking, but getting interrupted by a "Hi" can
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by chousuke 5y ago
Why would a neurodiverse person want a conversation devoid of mood and feeling? Maybe their feelings just work differently and you can't understand them. Polling people with non-informative questions is a good way to distract them for
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by chousuke 5y ago
no-one is a truly expert programmer 100% of the time. Types catch a lot of stupid errors that anyone can make, regardless of skill level. They also localize guarantees. If your data has a type, you don't need to understand the full p
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by chousuke 5y ago
I was actually surprised that you can query across databases in MySQL, but that makes sense once you understand that there's only one database and the "databases" are just schemas.

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