pickle-wizard

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by pickle-wizard 1y ago
I haven't worked with mainframes since the z10, but back then you could get into an entry model for about $100k. Though the sky is the limit. The typical machine I would order had a list price of about 1 million. Of course no one pays
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by pickle-wizard 1y ago
A couple of years ago I wanted to vacation in Sequoia National Park. So I booked a hotel and flew into LAX. Got a rental car and drove to the hotel a few hours away. The next morning I go to leave and put the park entrance into my GPS and i
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by pickle-wizard 1y ago
Handy stuff. This would be good for restricting service accounts. There is a whole lot that SSH can do that most people don't know about.
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by pickle-wizard 2y ago
About 10 years ago I worked for a startup that used a sales agency. Unfortunately it did not go well, in the nearly 3 years I was there they never made a single sale. They didn't understand our product and had no desire to understand o
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by pickle-wizard 2y ago
I haved looked much into Virtual Cards. Do they have the same BIN as a physical card. There are public lists of BINs. You could grab all the virtual card BINs and block them. Though that would take some maintenance as new ones are added. Al
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by pickle-wizard 2y ago
This is great. Just this morning I was just lamenting how I hate creating AWS API Gateways, and I wish I could do it in python like I do with FastAPI. This looks to be exactly what I was looking for. When you are production ready this is so
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by pickle-wizard 2y ago
I worked at IBM for 7 years and I worked with mainframe and AS/400 systems while I was there. If you want to learn Mainframe and COBOL for fun I say do it. I did enjoy working with those technologies and you probably will too. However
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by pickle-wizard 2y ago
This is a really good response. Your last two points are both features I could use.
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by pickle-wizard 2y ago
I would think that tape would be better for archival storage. My experience has been that the writeable optical media does not hold up well long term.
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by pickle-wizard 2y ago
Hopefully this gets merged into the kernel. I could use this, but don't want to have to maintain my own kernel builds.
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by pickle-wizard 2y ago
This looks promising. I am using MongoDB in my application because the data is document oriented. I did take a brief look at using JSONB in Postgres, but I found it a lot harder to work with. I would prefer to use Postgres as my database, s
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by pickle-wizard 2y ago
You are absolutely correct. My company has just a single employee, me. I still document everything. I have a kanban board for things I need to do. Things that need to be done at a specific date/time get a calendar invite with a reminde
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by pickle-wizard 2y ago
I recently started on a frontend project using Svelte, knowing nothing about frontend development. I've found it very easy to use. I had a few failed attempts at this project in the past using React, but I found it quickly overwhelming
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by pickle-wizard 2y ago
While it sounds like you have gotten off on the wrong foot, I recommend still sticking with it. You may end up liking this other team, or if you don't you may be able to do an internal transfer in 6 months to a year.
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by pickle-wizard 2y ago
This is a great start. I've been looking for part time work, so I signed up.
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by pickle-wizard 2y ago
That's pretty neat
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by pickle-wizard 2y ago
This was about 15 years ago, back when I was working at $MEGACORP we had an OC-48 running to our lab. We were having some problems with it. Thanks to 20 years of near constant layoffs all details of who was responsible for that circuit on o
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by pickle-wizard 2y ago
I started my sabbatical in Summer 2023. I couldn't even stand to look at a computer for first 12 months. At the end of this summer, I started working on a software project I've wanted to build for a long time. Programming is so mu
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by pickle-wizard 2y ago
One suggestion I have is to make the components as simple and generic as possible so they will still be available to repair it in the future. Getting a working ASIC in 50 years may be near impossible, but through hole resistors, caps, and 7
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by pickle-wizard 2y ago
At my last job we had a Kubernetes upgrade go so wrong we ended up having to blow away the cluster and redeploy everything. Even a restore of the etcd backup didn't work. I couldn't tell you exactly what went wrong, as I wasn&#x27
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by pickle-wizard 2y ago
Nearly 15 years ago I worked with a product called Cisco Prime Service Catalog. It was a self service portal where users could order IT services, from a new laptop to a provisioning a private cloud. On the backend it used a run book automat
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by pickle-wizard 2y ago
I've been thinking about this lately my self. At this time I don't have much interest in running a hosted SaaS business. I anticipate my target customer will be also be cloud customers. So I have decided I'll provide them ter
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by pickle-wizard 2y ago
I’d run a couple pair of OS2 fiber to each room. I would also have a closet somewhere in the house big enough for a 42u rack, with a 220v 30a circuit, and some cooling. The other thing I would do is have all the switch boxes be extra depth
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by pickle-wizard 2y ago
I’d invest it into a mutual fund and retire. My cost of living is pretty low so I could keep my withdrawal rate below the normal appreciation. From there I would spend my days working out and working on open source projects.
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by pickle-wizard 3y ago
What are thinking about doing? I’ve looked into a couple of AI master programs, but I’m not sure how useful they would be.
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by pickle-wizard 3y ago
Yes for the most part. I burned out hard last year, and quit my job without a plan. I am so much happier without all the stress of work. Eventually I’ll have to go back to work, but I’ll blow up that bridge when I get to it.
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by pickle-wizard 3y ago
Hurricane Electric offers a whole rack for $400 a month. I'd suggest contacting them. They may have some deals on partial racks closer to your budget.
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Ask HN: Non-SaaS enterprise software business?
7 points by pickle-wizard 3y ago|7 comments
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by pickle-wizard 3y ago
2 is causing 3 which in turn is causing dissatisfaction leading to 1.
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by pickle-wizard 3y ago
About 15 years ago I took a RHCE prep class at the local community college. I never took the exam, but the class was very worth while. I learned a lot in it. However we didn't focus on memorization of test questions like you are propos

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