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by nvarsj 3y ago
I don’t think that’s what podmansh does. Instead it’s a system replacement shell. Nothing to do with your running containers. Instead it seems to let you sandbox users on your VM/baremetal to a container.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
I did the same as DiggyJohnson. And I'm introverted. Even introverts need human connection and interaction. And in my experience, being in an office is easier for an introvert. Being 100% remote for several years was terrible for my me
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by nvarsj 3y ago
What do you mean it's decentralised? It's a central service you have to query for name->IP lookup, with authoritative name servers for every domain. It's the very definition of centralised. Just because it's hierarchi
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by nvarsj 3y ago
I agree with this, having built large dev platforms on both. GCP in my experience takes 2-5x the engineering effort, to deal with "GCPisms" and the terrible documentation. AWS is simpler and does what it says most of the time.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Not sure if you’re being sarcastic. In my experience DNS is probably in the top 2-3 causes of global outages at large internet tech companies. It is a giant SPOF in most services, often having many hidden dependencies. I can generally tell
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Sounds a lot like something the U.K. Home Secretary would say, sadly.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
fbthrift is still alive and kicking.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
I think you got it flipped. It’s a lot easier to switch off as an SWE compared to SRE. I moved to SWE precisely for that reason.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Agreed. It's a common problem that many teams don't even realise they have. Same thing with stacked PRs. It's a wonder Github hasn't shipped with merge queue+stacked PRs by now.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
It wasn't end to end encrypted either before Meta bought it. Maybe it's not all bad?
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Hi Alex, great blog post. I know exactly what you’re saying! I should blog more too - it is time consuming but it always makes me feel good. Like you say, we should blog for ourselves foremost and not worry about what others think. It’s alw
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Ctrl isn't bad at all if you karate chop it with your palm. Doesn't work on a laptop keyboard though.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
I noticed issues with networking as well. For example if I plug in an Ethernet cable, it will still use Wi-Fi as the default route in many cases - so I have to disable Wi-Fi every time. This works flawlessly on Windows/Linux in compari
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Similar. I saw a dentist in SoCal when I was visiting my family (I live in the UK) and I was under some misguided impression dentistry was better in the US. Very fancy office, took colour X-rays, then told me I needed all 6 of my fillings r
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Just think about what you said. "There is no value in a middle man". Do you only purchase goods from the person who made it? Our entire economy runs on "middlemen". Convenience has huge value to most people.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
It's quite a statement. You're almost saying capitalism and efficient markets are pointless. Maybe they are, but I think it's nothing like crypto. In the old days before HFT, you weren't sure you'd get the best pric
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by nvarsj 3y ago
It's basically The Wire in the making here in the UK. In 10-20 years, if not now already, we are going to have full blown ghettos I'm sure. Whereas 10 years ago I felt safe in most parts of London. Crime has noticeably gone up and
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by nvarsj 3y ago
I think the only people who think exercise solves depression are those that have never suffered clinical depression. Dopamine from exercise is pretty much a temporary relief. Just like drinking, smoking, or binging netflix - they provide te
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Come on, you can’t honestly say Adderall has no side effects.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Ditto. Renting in London means space is a premium and moves are frequent. I limit myself to one bookshelf. I also try to get everything digitally that I can.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
I live in London and think it’s a fairly correct statement. The conservative government basically imploded as a result of Brexit. We’ve had 4 PMs in the space of a few years, each more degenerate than the last. Covid further enabled cronyis
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Touché.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Pretty sure London pays more than Dublin but it is close.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Big tech internal incentives really exacerbates this. The entire performance system incentivizes engineers to create imaginary problems and solve them. Honestly, I think a good chunk of engineering activity are along these lines. Literally
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by nvarsj 3y ago
If you read more from Carmack, I think you can see why. He pretty much just works on things he finds interesting. Even at FB/Meta, he avoided the draining work of active leadership and was basically a research scientist that occasional
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by nvarsj 3y ago
What you say is very true and I have seen it myself a few times (even being said consultant :)). I’ll add that platform engineering is where much of the hardcore engineering happens nowadays in modern software stacks. In the olden days, SWE
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Thinking about it more, one cool thing about level scaling is I can play with my friends at whatever level they are. It doesn't really matter for the endgame at all, but when you're leveling up early on it is pretty nice.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
The level scaling is a really bizarre design choice. Every game with this feels bad. There is no sense of progression as your character gets punished for levelling up. Some game designers think it’s a great idea though - hence it’s in D4. I
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Just quit out of slack when you need to focus. I’ve done this before at gigs where people abused Slack notifications. The strategic solution is to improve the culture around chat notifications.
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by nvarsj 3y ago
My experience is you lose any gains elsewhere - messing with config files, random apps breaking in a tiling WM, having to plan your workspaces, having to do like 5 chords to get the optimal layout, etc.. I also think i3/sway style tili

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