nucleardog

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by nucleardog 1y ago
> Planning for an AWS outage is a complete waste of time and energy for most companies. Yes it does happen but very rarely to the tune of a few hours every 5-10 years. Not only that, but as you're seeing with this and the last few d
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by nucleardog 1y ago
> Insane take because we're talking about binding something from /dev/ to a namespace, which is much easier and faster than any VM pass-through even if your CPU has features for that pass-through. Defining "works bett
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by nucleardog 1y ago
Thirty minutes. If at any point you expect to touch down at the nearest safe airport with less than 30 minutes of fuel remaining, you are required by regulation to make a mayday call. Mayday is a term enshrined in law. It is only to be used
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by nucleardog 1y ago
I think some of the "coupons" are only usable once, so could be a way to price more fairly when there's limited inventory or something? Like you can buy one at regular price, but 2nd and beyond get marked up 100%?
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by nucleardog 1y ago
"I'll pay you to look at this and give me your thoughts next time you're drunk." and "I'll pay you to look at this when you're drunk." are not mutually exclusive.
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by nucleardog 1y ago
Yes, you need some way to connect to the BMC. That is never going to be something like "eh just throw it on the public internet" or similar. It's going on a separate, isolated network with strict access controls. There are ot
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by nucleardog 1y ago
> As for the actual Ikea-style instruction pamphlet... I suspect that making it was very helpful for the author. But I don't think the result would have helped me as a novice. I have no formal CS background or education at all, but
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by nucleardog 1y ago
It's the least-annoying option in a lot of cases. JSON is for computers. Writing and editing by hand is not great. Escaping things sucks. A simple multi line string or something gets really awkward. XML goes too far the other way... it
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by nucleardog 1y ago
> How would any bag be an obvious diaper bag? We used to tote around one of these: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/388909924480 Not very fashionable, has wet wipes hanging out the side, the pockets have stitched icons for w
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by nucleardog 1y ago
> Adequacy of the hood seems like it's not going to be usefully quantifiable or provable If we can't come up with something a little more scientific I'm happy to send my wife over to do some cooking! The effectiveness of t
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by nucleardog 1y ago
> Why not just sell a reusable vape that can be filled with the extract you want? That's where the vapes started, and they still sell them. I have a battery holder that's really just some control circuitry and a spot to shove a
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by nucleardog 1y ago
A while back I got curious and tried to do a bit of digging on this. I looked into the Hutterites in Canada as a group that lives a somewhat similar lifestyle, but don't entirely eschew modern technology and have free access to healthc
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by nucleardog 1y ago
> horror stories like “I got DDOSed and AWS shutdown all my EC2s and destroyed the data I accidentally wrote to ephemeral storage.” I mean, S3 also incurs ongoing charges, so if you're going to stop accruing charges you'd also
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by nucleardog 1y ago
I think I'm up to two five figure bills and two six figure bills refunded for various companies/clients. On one account, we had about $70k refunded, then a year or two later $130k. The normal monthly spend was closer to $30k. Ther
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by nucleardog 1y ago
So you want to proactively determine if, at the current rate charges are accumulating, the budget will be exceeded? That _also_ runs into problems! Take, for example, a nightly job that spins up a few giant instances to do some batch proces
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by nucleardog 1y ago
In general that would be a good question, but you've asked it in a case where "use AWS" is the _only_ way to accomplish the goal... which is learning AWS.
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by nucleardog 1y ago
While it has its own flaws, I do think that in practice a lot of these things are at least blunted by the Westminster system. (I'm in Canada, so mostly talking about that one specifically... I'm aware there are differences.) I thi
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by nucleardog 1y ago
I found out I had ADHD because I was catching up with a friend who had been diagnosed since I last saw them. They'd been seeing a psychologist, taking medication, and generally addressing it. They were describing their experiences, str
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by nucleardog 1y ago
Nothing running for days, but sometimes a half hour or so. When the process kicks off it starts a trace, but individual steps of the process create separate spans within that trace (and sometimes further nested spans) that don't run th
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by nucleardog 1y ago
> I took that backpack off and how I can run the same race as everyone else. And you know what? When you've been practicing your whole life with an extra weight on your back, and you take it off, sometimes it's surprising how f
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by nucleardog 1y ago
Not OP, but as far as I know that's how it works, yeah. When I was in China, using a Chinese SIM had half the internet inaccessible (because China). As I was flying out I swapped my SIM back to my North American one... and even within
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by nucleardog 1y ago
> Interruptions suck for everyone because there are always leaky abstractions and messy dependency trees I think the "dependency trees" is usually the most obvious killer. You're putting tables away... who made sure everyo
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by nucleardog 1y ago
When I'm doing "physical labour" I find interruptions almost as impactful. (Though I'd accept that I'm the type to just overthink things.) "Take this pile of stuff and pack it in that moving truck." I mean
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by nucleardog 1y ago
> Honestly, if you're maintaining a lawn in places that don't get year-round rain, you need to water it. Only if you want to grow non-native species and always have it looking like a magazine cover. My house is sitting in a fiv
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by nucleardog 1y ago
> Just put some sensible request limits per hour per ip, and be done. I have no personal experience, but probably worth reading like... any of the comments where people are complaining about these crawlers. Claims are that they're:
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by nucleardog 1y ago
Agreed. With _what_ Americans are electing, the number of additional policy questions, etc, I can see how hand counting could be a lot more difficult than elsewhere. However my question would be more one of... why do that then? Are voters a
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by nucleardog 1y ago
Bodies are generally pretty amazing in that sense. As long as things go out of spec _slowly_, we will often adapt quite well. In the short term, we will tend to balance even fairly extreme changes out through various chemical processes and
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by nucleardog 1y ago
> Sure, datacenters will get rid of the hardware - but only because it's no longer commercially profitable run them, presumably because compute demands have eclipsed their abilities. I think the existence of a pretty large secondary
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by nucleardog 1y ago
> Honestly it's difficult to not grow the instant opinion that IT should just shut the fuck up and fire themselves. Who the hell do they even work for? Management. Management whose goals and incentives don't align with yours. O
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by nucleardog 1y ago
> It rarely becomes a source of career hindrance or long-lasting judgement, it just ends up being useless because there's not a lot of incentive for the expert side of the equation. Yeah, the incentive structure for something like t

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