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by devonkim 4y ago
Systemic problems being blamed on individuals is not going to help. Of course society is a shared responsibility model essentially but it means even a highly skilled and otherwise technically competent and qualified engineer in an inadequat
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by devonkim 4y ago
People understand this usually. The problem is that when we try to put the same restrictions upon developers of all users there's going to be a lot of friction with the assumptions in design and UX that make it so great for grandma. Bi
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by devonkim 4y ago
Depending upon the nature of the artifacts that's not necessarily the worst abstraction for modeling deployments (still think that deployments are the big elephant in the room that k8s doesn't solve either when it really needs to
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by devonkim 4y ago
Kubernetes in a sense is very similar to Linux back in the 2000s - it was nascent technology in a hot market that was still absolutely evolving. The difference now is that everyone knows the battle for the next tier of the platform is where
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by devonkim 4y ago
The other part of the problem is that in a limited hiring pool your competition's labor pool overlaps quite directly with yours and now you need to have compensation packages similar to theirs potentially. I've seen companies have
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by devonkim 4y ago
The primary reasons for multiple consumers in a queue is availability and SLA reasons on a queue as well as for easier horizontal scaling. Otherwise you’ll need to have a queue scheduler type system that can signal or serve out queue locato
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by devonkim 4y ago
It’s kind of par for the entire enterprise market as a whole similar to the structural problems of b2b companies. SMBs are hard to serve effectively and the margins are slim, so you’ll see companies that are b2b move more toward SMB b2b (se
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by devonkim 4y ago
I also think it’s showing extreme naïveté when it comes to the fallacies of “myths programmers have about X” where X in this case is billing. Billing and money is hard not because of the technical aspects of moving 1s and 0s correctly but b
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by devonkim 4y ago
Any decent DevOps / SRE / cloud ops type person has been striving to build something like this for a long time and has been frustrated at the kind of experience developers get out of the investment they put into all these crazy to
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by devonkim 4y ago
Time zones based upon anthropocentric concepts like countries have issues simply due to the realities of political changes. Entire countries and civilizations can come and go. The concept of even “common era” is a convention of convenience
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by devonkim 4y ago
Our media has a huge part to play into what people do care about and given conservative people in other countries were absolutely worried about COVID and its economic impacts holistically most Western countries devolved into unproductive an
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by devonkim 4y ago
I was only “against” lockdowns more recently on the principle that the reactance to it combined with an inappropriate infrastructure and system makes it not terribly effective and would hurt the efficacy of it as a policy vs the sound, rati
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by devonkim 4y ago
If we look back on US public health policy it wasn't really a liberal democracy until maybe about 1970 given such strong government institutions that shut down dissent. It turns out that the US back to the polio vaccine forcibly vaccin
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by devonkim 5y ago
The problems are around process almost always. But I’ve also seen on occasion some sadly pragmatic reasons for very slow processes such as critical legacy software that a replacement for can’t be found even with 8+ figure checks to vendors
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by devonkim 5y ago
Had a previous prospect with a large, well known software company that paid several times more per engineer than our own and somehow in the end they thought they could build and maintain the software for less than what we were charging (we
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by devonkim 5y ago
(E) has been going on for hundreds of years in the US is the thing. The difference is that the cost of goods used to be where the primary grift was instead of on labor (T&M contracts historically). But now T&M contracts are not very
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by devonkim 5y ago
From a quick look it still leverages viper integration for 12 Factor Apps, and since most of Coral’s features are well listed and detailed I’m going to make a presumption that Coral does not support reading environment variables (yet? Seems
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by devonkim 5y ago
I’m not going to minimize the dangers of nuclear but doing good faith comparisons would mean that we should consider the full human and ecological costs of the status quo as well which is much more catastrophic than even a Chernobyl level i
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by devonkim 5y ago
Free time is one factor but other factors include declining health (people that have lived the touring lifestyle understand how harsh it can be physically) and dying. Add in children and the complications of having a 10 year old listen to C
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by devonkim 5y ago
TBF, a lot of that hasn’t really died out in niche music communities even though it might appear to be. Still widely prevalent in the metal scene at least with people moving to Reddit and Facebook as they age and stop being able to maintain
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by devonkim 5y ago
A lot of the tech community have pretty hostile attitudes in general for reasons I can only wildly conjecture, but the question I also would pose is if the distribution is all that different from the rest of the population. Look at the doct
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by devonkim 5y ago
AM4 _and_ prior. Motherboard quality has varied considerably across different manufacturers compared to Intel’s partners. One other example of recent annoyances is the launch situation with B450 and X570 and now with B550 and X570S existing
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by devonkim 5y ago
It’s a bit of a complicated matter in terms of pricing as a measure of performance / dollar because with the current Ryzen CPUs AMD increased pricing relative to the previous generation and Intel being in its current position is loweri
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by devonkim 5y ago
The Java ecosystem is culturally heavyweight and verbose with the needs of very large, bureaucratic organizations and Spring is one of the biggest examples of it (although Spring Boot has done a fair bit to modernize workflows). The struggl
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by devonkim 5y ago
Depends upon the context and subforums, I've been a fairly active member for like... 20 years now (I am cringing as I typed that out, yikes). It's not that different from Reddit in that respect but it's much more readable fo
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by devonkim 5y ago
What’s been interesting through the years on the forums that I’ve found to be strange is that as the Internet social media landscape became “free” services that have terrible, low effort, low quality content and users as a rule, SA’s model
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by devonkim 5y ago
In the much more popular hobby of cars it went away and has stayed that way in developed countries with the control infrastructure while in developing economies they still fix everything themselves. In another 20 years poor nations will sti
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by devonkim 5y ago
It’s worth considering the status quo of ICE and gasoline fueled mechanical infrastructure which certainly has plenty of casualties and human health problems all throughout the lifecycle. In fact, early on I remember reading that people use
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by devonkim 5y ago
Spoken languages are constantly evolving and mostly evolve at the keyword / reserved level and sometimes when interacting with neighboring languages through necessity you’ll get pidgins and creoles (think of them as external DSLs). But
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by devonkim 5y ago
Repeatedly building and improving is how South Korea and France have nuclear power plants that work pretty swell despite the massive political obstacles in their way. A great deal of the costs of nuclear come not from intrinsic technologica

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