markbnj

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by markbnj 6y ago
Yeah that was my take as well. I think there's some sort of trade-off point here, though I don't know where it is. Yes modern outdoor agriculture is hyper efficient, although I think the author's comments about cash flow self
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by markbnj 6y ago
Many of the author's issues with kubernetes are specific comparisons with their current workflow. One I can definitely agree with is the burden of upgrades and keeping the platform current. There are techniques which can make that easi
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by markbnj 6y ago
I've been a critic of their hardware in the past, but yes they do a great job on the software. And to be fair the purchase on which my earlier criticisms were based is almost four years old now. Hopefully they have improved the hardwar
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by markbnj 6y ago
Well you've got me beat anyway :). My hat's off to you. I started as a hobby in 1975 on an HP3000 mainframe, aged 15, and landed my first professional gig in 1987.
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by markbnj 6y ago
Sure, if a "tech company" can only make money by selling in-house developed technology, and not by packaging in-house developed technology into other products, then I concede the point. There are fairly few "tech companies&qu
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by markbnj 6y ago
Are you implying that Google is a "tech" company that is actually an advertising vendor? I understand where they derive most of their revenue from but given their contributions to everything from the linux kernel, to networking, c
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by markbnj 6y ago
I still have an original GW-BASIC quick reference pamphlet that came with a compaq luggable from about that time, in case anyone wants to complete their collection :).
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by markbnj 6y ago
When we get take-out, which is admittedly not very often in these times, we go straight to the restaurant. I'd much rather do the driving and let them keep the overhead of the delivery service fees. We live in a suburban area west of N
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by markbnj 6y ago
That's not what you said, and why don't you take a look at that article I linked. The restaurant case and the call center case it looks at were hardly in the category of "someone sneezes in your mouth."
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by markbnj 6y ago
> No, the virus doesn't just float around in the air, at least, not for any appreciable amount of time. Here is a pretty approachable summary of how transmission happens that contains a review of some specific cases where airflow wa
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by markbnj 6y ago
I always agree with a lot of what Rachel writes, and she gets a lot right here too, but having said that flexibility also has value. Like her I've done it both ways... actually I've done it more than two ways. Servers in the close
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by markbnj 6y ago
I appreciate your clarification, but no that is not what I was trying to do. My intent, as already mentioned, was to highlight that the mortality rate among various categories of people doesn't tell the whole story.
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by markbnj 6y ago
>> Sounds crazy - even if it was something in the blood, if you are oxygen starved, how can it be worse to flush your lungs with pure oxygen than not? Absolutely not an expert and being married to a critical care nurse doesn't ma
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by markbnj 6y ago
>> Your right, we should ignore statistical evidence and go with your wife's anecdotal evidence. I didn't offer anecdotal "evidence" of anything. I told a story from a professional who is on the front lines of this
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by markbnj 6y ago
> You and I can. Many of my friends have missed a rent or car payment, and may soon miss another. Most people cannot work from home. Sure, and I'm very aware of my privilege in that sense. If people have the choice of getting the di
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by markbnj 6y ago
>> My father is currently in a hospital for an unrelated reason and it's almost empty -> they are 'prepared for war' and there isn't a single COVID patient in the entire area, let alone hospital. They are all em
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by markbnj 6y ago
Yeah, I asked my wife about that the other day because I read some of the same reports. They are trying many different things but for various reasons the most serious patients still end up on ventilators.
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by markbnj 6y ago
It could be that it's a small regional hospital, or it could be something else, I don't know. It could be that the statistics are measuring something different. She's been on the cardiac critical care unit (converted to negat
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by markbnj 6y ago
I usually stay out of the political/topical threads on HN but this is personal to me. From my point of view few if any of us commenting here are knowledgeable enough to connect all the disparate data points we keep snatching at and syn
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by markbnj 6y ago
Do you work at a grocery store or other retail establishment dealing with the public every day? I'm no statistician but I suspect your take on the odds is pretty meaningless. It's probably riskier to be bagging groceries in Jersey
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by markbnj 7y ago
The author nowhere claims that these things are universally applicable, and is careful to note many exceptions. If enough people read it and think the shoe fits, then it probably fits.
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by markbnj 7y ago
> If there aren't enough masks for health care workers, doctors and nurses will stop coming to work people won't be able to get medical attention the death rate will sky rocket because of lack of simple medical procedures, ther
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by markbnj 7y ago
> If that statement is true, It’s amazing to me that this is something China can do and not the U.S.A. The country that put man on the moon not even a century ago! My wife is an R.N. and is the clinical care coordinator on a cardiac crit
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by markbnj 7y ago
Nothing in software is ever "the future." How many things change as fast as software technology? For many of us not concerned with "building our brands" through "resume driven development", but instead focused
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by markbnj 7y ago
Why does the author think Sentry isn't logging, and can't have side effects? Very strange article. Starts with principles I agree with: don't log unimportant events and when you do log send everything you need to understand t
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by markbnj 7y ago
I started professionally as a c++ programmer, and have worked in a few different languages, on a few different platforms since. This job is my first devops position and I wasn't actually looking for devops roles when it was offered to
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by markbnj 7y ago
Salute to you. I wrote my first code the year the author of the article was born, on an HP-3000 using a teletype :). I'll be 60 next year, and currently work as a sr. devops engineer building infrastructure and toolchains on google clo
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by markbnj 7y ago
It certainly stands if you base the decision on volume anyway. And millions of people have heard of Herr's. I can only empathize with those who haven't.
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by markbnj 7y ago
> That’s a mural I saw in the Frito-Lay headquarters in Plano, Texas. I was there! My pilgrimage to the pinnacle of potato chips! Oh I think not... for that you would need to visit Nottingham, PA ;). https://www.herrs.com&#x2F
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by markbnj 7y ago
> I can appreciate the effort that went into this, but I don't really understand its appeal, or even the appeal of Helm, when installing anything on Kubernetes is as simple as running `kubectl apply -f <manifest.yml>`. True at

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