mienski

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by mienski 5y ago
Think I've posted this before but my employer paid Elastic for the official training - and even that course included everything on how to set up, run and tune ES but applying any security was only covered in the advanced course that yo
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by mienski 5y ago
Kind of more limited to a 200OK-level health check, but Structurizr does support basic checks like this ( https://structurizr.com/help/health-checks ) - though I do love the idea of being able to add links to an object s
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by mienski 5y ago
You're really going for the straw-man argument here I see, there is a huge difference between launching a space ship and creating a new way to mine the earth and destroy the environment. I understand that they have this little catch-al
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by mienski 6y ago
You're right, anecdotal knowledge does apply to everyone's job market... HN worldviews are wild sometimes
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by mienski 6y ago
TIL price gouging of medical supplies during pandemics is a good feature of markets..
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by mienski 6y ago
I'm sure this gets mentioned every time, but this is great supplementary reading to 13 Minutes to the Moon podcast https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p083t547
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by mienski 6y ago
The stated motivation is to reduce misinformation from China in lead up to election. Pretty wild that Facebook which was 100% proven to have been used for Russian misinformation in the last, and this election, somehow dodged a bullet on thi
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by mienski 6y ago
Even doing the official Elastic training - Elasticsearch Engineer 1 gives you everything you need to hurt yourself to set up, use and admin a cluster, but no security is covered unless you sign up for the next course and pay another couple
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by mienski 6y ago
But it's not a scandal - it's an issue with a product, not some government conspiracy
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by mienski 6y ago
Agreed, unfortunately try getting anyone with that goal elected though, they immediately get eaten alive by the other side with "but they want to spend all your money!". I may just be speaking for Australian politics though.
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by mienski 6y ago
Ah yes the engineering nirvana where no-one is a manager and targets don't exist..
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by mienski 6y ago
Totally agree on environmental factors but the philosophy of a take a train instead of fly domestic, and not fly at all international - is great for countries where you can travel by alternative means to another country, and great for count
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by mienski 6y ago
Never seen a piece of "commentary" offer so little other than open conjecture that will probably be interpreted by plenty to justify some ridiculous conspiracy theory.
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by mienski 7y ago
While I’m totally onboard with the privacy concerns, this is ridiculous FUD to just assume that every company just took on the security and storage risk of holding that data. Find me an enterprise department/exec that would willingly t
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by mienski 8y ago
As someone that spends most of their days at the design/scoping phase, then watching the product go into development where it encounters constant misunderstandings and gotchas that the customer never told us about or never realised the