nathwill

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by nathwill 6y ago
the problem with vitamin D is there's a lot of confounders that D is a proxy for, particularly met-syn and old age, so until there's actual mechanistic descriptions for how D inhibits covid severity, i'm remaining cautiously-
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by nathwill 10y ago
We just went through an extensive ecosystem survey and reached an identical design, which we're currently implementing. So far, so good! AWS has aws-kinesis-agent, which you can deploy for the log aggregation bit, which is very easy t
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by nathwill 10y ago
We use heka and love it
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by nathwill 11y ago
I just pulled Baudolino back off the shelf this morning, going to try to make it through this time. I love the idea of the untrustworthy narrator, and the writing is excellent, though dense. like Foucault's Pendulum, I find Baudolino h
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by nathwill 11y ago
its still pretty raw. check out cve-2015-8660, which basically let unprivileged users bypass normal file permissions without even trying. it's fixed in mainline now, but still hasn't hit a lot of distros.
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by nathwill 11y ago
between ubuntu, debian and centos adopting systemd, it seems like a good idea to plan on getting familiar with it, regardless.
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by nathwill 11y ago
since we're plugging init cookbooks, i'll plug a systemd cookbook[0] we're working on. would love some feedback from chef users using systemd-based systems! [0]: https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/syst
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by nathwill 11y ago
we run a ~70 node system, ~95% virtual/5% physical, almost fully converted from Scientific Linux 6 to CentOS 7 (only the NFS boxes left!), which is systemd based. Concerning systemd as an init system, it's been extremely reliable
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by nathwill 11y ago
ah, thanks.
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by nathwill 11y ago
Why not ldd?