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by dsr_ 7y ago
Sure. None of the things you mentioned are DevOps. DevOps is two things: 1. Applying the methods of modern software development (version control, automation, DSLs...) to operations (provisioning, config, deployment, monitoring, backups...).
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Sound decision making requires reasonable metrics. To quote the lead dev of popcon when someone said that they couldn't recommend it due to specific concerns: "If you deal with people with strict security/privacy requirement,
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Debian's popcon is really irritating because Debian actually uses it as a source of evidence... systematically eliminating those of us who keep it off for privacy/security reasons.
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by dsr_ 7y ago
If you were buying datacenter space instead of cloud resources, you would expect each datacenter to report to you quarterly that they had run their backup generator tests and fixed any problems that occurred. You would also expect to be tol
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by dsr_ 7y ago
In tiny deployments, use a cheap dumb gigabit switch to connect up all the BMCs to your firewall. Give them a separate DHCP assigned subnet and allow access to it only from your management machine. In larger deployments, you should have sep
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Sgr A* is thought to be 4+ million solar masses. GCIRS 13E, 3 ly away from Sag A*, is thought to be 1300 solar masses.
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Heck, I only read your blog through RSS. Presumably at some point in the past I saw it, thought it was nifty, and added the feed. Haven't visited since.
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by dsr_ 7y ago
They're in the middle of that process. https://www.beefmagazine.com/cow-calf/relationship-between-c... "The amount of beef produced per cow has seen an 18% improvement over the past 20 years. The average cow
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They Might Be Giants and Jeff Lawson of Twilio(mailchi.mp)
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Boston here: yup, 90% RH at 80F is awful. 40% RH at 80F is merely warm, and a fan works well to alleviate that.
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by dsr_ 7y ago
In the US, a marmalade is a preserve that specifically includes the shredded peel of the fruit, almost always a citrus fruit. [Sweet] orange is most popular, but lemon, lime, grapefruit and mixes are usually available -- and also imported S
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by dsr_ 7y ago
I used qmail for about ten years. It was remarkably good from a sysadmin's perspective: - the config system mostly used the name of a directory where lots of software would use a filename (qmail.ini => /var/qmail/conf
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by dsr_ 7y ago
In the USA most companies and corporations are effectively feudal. This is a meeting of dukes and earls attempting to avoid a socialist revolution through coordinated PR, which has been quite effective for the last 75 years or so. Note that
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by dsr_ 7y ago
2 hours later, there are at least three people on HN who don't agree, but aren't brave enough to make a comment so we can see who they are.
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by dsr_ 7y ago
But surely you agree that as soon as anyone realized that slavery is wrong, their duty is to shut it down immediately? Capitalism did not do that.
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by dsr_ 7y ago
I'm pretty sure that Tesla offered unlimited free use of their Supercharger network to some of their early buyers. The natural limit on an ISP is the speed of your connection times 24 7 usage. The unnatural but obvious second limit is
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by dsr_ 7y ago
I wonder if the F/R graph has been pre-corrected against human perception? It looks really flat -- and you'd ordinarily think that was good, but it turns out that humans don't have equally sensitive hearing at all frequencies
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by dsr_ 7y ago
It's always struck me as weird that they aren't producing hybrids in the vehicles that can most benefit from them: vans, pickups, trucks and tractors. All of these are vehicles with a focus on power and range that would benefit fr
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Contains the most profound written wisdom: A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing what he reads.
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“Confidential”(twitter.com)
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by dsr_ 7y ago
In California, Penal Code 647(j): (1) A person who looks through a hole or opening, into, or otherwise views, by means of any instrumentality, including, but not limited to, a periscope, telescope, binoculars, camera, motion picture camera,
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by dsr_ 7y ago
In the USA, laws against looking in someone's house on purpose are called "peeping Tom" laws. Generally they specify that it's not a problem if you do not intend to violate anyone's privacy and don't take any s
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by dsr_ 7y ago
The warrant revealed that a BBC contractor had used an "optical detector" to reveal the possible presence of a TV.[10] The warrant stated that: "the optical detector in the detector van uses a large lens to collect that light
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Yes, much of the article is explaining why this is reasonable for a group of 2-5 and terrible for a group of 10,000, and ways to make this more manageable in non-obvious ways.
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Rule of thumb: a healthy company should still be profitable after losing their largest customer. If it isn't, then the customer has way too much leverage.
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Because FedEx knows that Amazon is planning on being a competitor to them. Amazon Delivery (or some name similar to that) will eventually handle warehousing, fulfillment, transshipment, drop shipping, and last-mile delivery. Delivery is suc
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Yet, in the same way that a spreadsheet is not a database, is not a data-acquisition tool, is not an application programming language: people have used email for all these purposes and not been completely unsuccessful. That's why gener
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by dsr_ 7y ago
https://ballotpedia.org/Transgender_bathroom_access_laws_in_... QED.
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Quick reminder for people who have forgotten: alpha particles are Helium nuclei. They are big, slow, and are easily absorbed by a couple of centimeters of air. beta particles are high speed electrons (or positrons). They can be stopped by a
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by dsr_ 7y ago
Right. Feathers and bones don't digest well.

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