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by jeffrallen 2mo ago
Today I added a temporary data source to Prometheus to help me monitor a system closely during a tricky ops task. I would not have done that except that the LLM gave me a small script I could quickly check and immediately use. Without it, I
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by jeffrallen 2mo ago
Companies that use riddles get the employees they deserve.
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by jeffrallen 2mo ago
I know, and worse yet, LISTENING. Ugh. /s
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by jeffrallen 2mo ago
Feels like SF Standard gonna get a copyright strike from The Onion for this headline.
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by jeffrallen 2mo ago
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
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by jeffrallen 3mo ago
Thank you for this. Also, I'll never use it. Because a language feature that needs marketing is against readability, among those in my target audience who have not yet read the marketing. I need my shell scripts to be long enough to ex
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by jeffrallen 3mo ago
A colleague gave his first ever lightning talk about this at a work retreat and it was SMASHING.
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by jeffrallen 3mo ago
> Have a strong anti-counterfeit strategy. Don’t overlook this. Hope we can read more about this.
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by jeffrallen 3mo ago
Practical Engineering already explained the correct solution to this problem: https://youtu.be/zqmOSMAtadc?si=UUlmnk9sI-leq0SV But of course, American infrastructure was built on the cheap, and is not maintained correctly.
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by jeffrallen 3mo ago
Right, and good luck getting a correct bill from Azure. And when you are finally fed up, it will take months to close your Azure account.
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by jeffrallen 3mo ago
When something surprises and delights me, I tell it. Why not, it lifts my own mood to say something nice.
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by jeffrallen 3mo ago
Yeah, sure totally the same thing, dude.
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by jeffrallen 3mo ago
Yeah, at $WORK, the incident doc has a section for corrective actions. And they mostly get done, but having them struggle for priority with regular work is a problem. Also, it occurs to me that we leaders should do a better job of saying, &
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by jeffrallen 3mo ago
Cheese warehouse: the feta buckets always leaked onto to wooden pallets, making an unholy stink. My step dad's worst was shoveling iron shot used to grind cement out of the grinder, lifting them up over his head, next to the kiln on an
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by jeffrallen 3mo ago
Those who do not learn from history... probably don't make gloves.
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by jeffrallen 3mo ago
You might enjoy the book Escher Gödel Bach, the Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter, which will open up the world, power, and "danger" of proofs using contradiction to you. Bonne lecture !
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by jeffrallen 3mo ago
Discrete math and Algorithms were two of my favorite college classes. They were really the only part of computer science that was mind blowing. The rest was software engineering, which was transparently "possible". Like, yes, big
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by jeffrallen 3mo ago
War is a racket.
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by jeffrallen 3mo ago
Progress, but towards what?
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by jeffrallen 3mo ago
Farage is such an ass, the King should make him feed donkeys or something.
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by jeffrallen 3mo ago
Ooh, now do USA.
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by jeffrallen 3mo ago
Only open loop systems, the dumbest loop systems.
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by jeffrallen 3mo ago
We should all keep in mind that foreign interests may be astroturfing right here on HN.
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by jeffrallen 4mo ago
I'm a happy PagerDuty customer, but also in the 90's we just did stuff like that with some she'll scripts. It's not rocket science, if you don't care about a bunch of metrics, etc. So, I wonder if this is an instanc
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by jeffrallen 4mo ago
No feature updates sounds like a feature these days. It's why I use a crappy old Debian install too.
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by jeffrallen 4mo ago
Refreshing honesty from the billionaire class. Not that being a billionaire is particularly classy.
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by jeffrallen 4mo ago
Absolutism is absolutely terrible. Open source projects that cannot adapt to the times will be replaced by those which can.
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by jeffrallen 4mo ago
I'm recruiting for apprentices right now. By definition, they have almost nothing to put on their CVs, and thus their CVs are more or less identical, or rather all of them have almost zero signal. We took a chance on a flash recruiting
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by jeffrallen 4mo ago
Yes. This happened.
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by jeffrallen 4mo ago
In the early 2000's they did the same dumb thing to WebTV: forced a move from Solaris to Windows, that completely wrecked the engineering team's velocity and motivation.

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