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by johngalt 5y ago
Modern cars have improved drastically since 1981 by all metrics. Power, efficiency, safety, reliability, cost, and emissions have all improved. An amazing example of iterative refinement combined with economies of scale. If there is some ca
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by johngalt 5y ago
Don't listen to your brain. It will give you a bunch of reasons to be sad, and ruminating about it will only pull you in deeper. Ensure you have enough of the following: Sunlight, physical activity, sleep. Set a specific time to sleep
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by johngalt 5y ago
Never is a long time. Imagine trying to conceptualize modern shipping capabilities before the industrial revolution. It is not only that the cost per ton/mile has fallen drastically, but also the amount of purchasing power average peop
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by johngalt 5y ago
> percentage of its population behind bars, should ramp up punishment and somehow jail even more of its own people? Corruption isn't only about who avoids punishment, but also who is the target of punishment. In highly corrupt env
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by johngalt 5y ago
That's a Synology released four years ago. Contrast with a model released in February this year. Not a single drive non-Synology drive on the HCL larger than 4TB: https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility?search
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by johngalt 5y ago
This has been exactly my path. Can write data security guidelines and also read PCAP files fluently. However, you will not find very many of me. Sysadmin/ops has too many offramps that drain talent before year 10. If you can integrate
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by johngalt 5y ago
Don't. It doesn't make sense to try to jump into an area rapidly being commoditized. At most, rent bare metal/dedicated servers rather than VPS. > Has anyone done this and what was your experience? It works as expected. Bi
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by johngalt 5y ago
This is also common on the IT/Ops side of the house. E.g. Trying to explain that VLANs, LLDP and 802.1x are not Cisco specific. Often there are just flat misunderstandings of how to identify 'technical' experience. E.G. someo
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by johngalt 5y ago
I was a SysOp from the twilight years of BBS. To answer your questions: The costs were mostly paid by the SysOps. In the form of additional phone lines, disk space, maintenance time etc... A user would have to worry about long distance char
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by johngalt 5y ago
https://www.jrothman.com/pragmaticmanager/2002/01/volume-5-n...
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by johngalt 5y ago
Former network engineer that went into management. My email is in profile if you would like more candid guidance than I can give on a public forum. 1. Not realistic, but not outside of normal for an management infrastructure/ops positi
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by johngalt 5y ago
The problem with tech hiring is that a significant fraction of tech people are basically unskilled. Despite education and experience in some cases. Odds are either the interviewee is unskilled or the interviewer is. In the best case where
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by johngalt 5y ago
At one point running wireshark and reviewing network traces with developers was a full time job. Guess what percentage of time it was actually a network problem?
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by johngalt 5y ago
It's not anything nefarious, just the natural blind spots of human reasoning. Titles are cheap. Your existing employer will always want to hand you more work, but not more money. If you are handling the work well, then the pain of not
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by johngalt 5y ago
Some are happy where they are, but most are stuck in a rut. There is a natural tendency to just "keep doing what you are doing", and many people don't have long term plans. For example, how many people sit down and decide to
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by johngalt 5y ago
SPF = This list of servers are authorized to send email for my domain. DKIM = This specific email can by verified/authenticated by my DNS. DMARC = What to do with email that doesn't comply with above. And how to tell me about it (
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by johngalt 5y ago
It is counterintuitive but A/C in general has a much smaller footprint than heating.
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by johngalt 5y ago
It's a different scenario. Charging vs fueling has different constraints, and a facility designed for one is not necessarily designed for the other. Probably more effective for some restaurant franchise to add EV charging as part of th
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by johngalt 5y ago
> Do you think you could pass an amendment expanding the second amendment had the court ruled more narrowly on it? Depends on how narrowly. Overall I would consider an amendment strengthening the 2A more likely than removing the 2A. Ther
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by johngalt 5y ago
900 LTO-U8 tapes
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by johngalt 6y ago
It's amazing how often giant IT projects like these go off the rails. Exploding costs and garbage implementations. If you start the sentence with: "A 5+ year government IT project that cost over 100 million-" I already know h
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by johngalt 6y ago
This may not mean much from some stranger on the internet, but I'm sorry that this happened to you. I wish you well.
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by johngalt 6y ago
Not exactly a fair comparison as it doesn't appear to be counting the generation of the electricity for the EV. However, EV's still win by a large margin. It's a lot easier to make one big powerplant clean, efficient, and cos
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by johngalt 6y ago
Summary: "we failed on outsourcing so many times that the costs exceeded any possible cost savings, even taking into account future projections." Imagine how much it cost them to build up and tear down development teams six times.
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by johngalt 6y ago
The problem isn't that people make the wrong decisions about batch sizes or failure tolerance, but that they don't make a decision at all. The default state is a blind push towards both more changes and less pain. Not acknowledgin
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by johngalt 6y ago
> Is this a joke? Yes. The person I was replying to seemed to assume that college was where people are disabused of idealism. My response was satirical.
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by johngalt 6y ago
"education, it shifts people to the left, as analytical thinking starts undoing idealism." True; college students are noted for their lack of idealism. Conversely right leaning occupations such as veterans, oil rig workers and far
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by johngalt 6y ago
Generally you want to negotiate compensation as part of accepting the new promotion/title. Not as part of the normal review process. If they won't budge on compensation, accept the title and add it to your resume. Start looking fo
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by johngalt 6y ago
Paraphrasing: "People don't want a drill, they want the hole" Talk to your intended audience to figure out what they want to accomplish, not just the tools they ask for. This is a useful way of looking at things. Yet, there i
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by johngalt 6y ago
> one single tribe that is objectively correct There are conclusions that are more true than others, but it gets messy when people start talking policy. Ground level facts have regularly led to horrible policy decisions despite being &#

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