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by sgarland 1y ago
Bare-metal management isn’t custom, it’s just not cloud. A TFTP server, your choice of confirmation management, your choice of image builder, probably - but not necessarily - a hypervisor, and that’s pretty much it. This stuff isn’t hard, a
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I have never, ever seen dev-created infra that was well done, much less with repeatable IaC. It’s always résumé-driven nonsense based on whatever someone read on blogs, and they have no clue how any of it works, only that the output what th
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by sgarland 1y ago
The issue is that precious few devs are actually good at ops. There are a ton of abstractions that have sprung up that attempt to paper over this, and they all suck for various reasons. If you think you need to actually know your programmin
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by sgarland 1y ago
Not saying those things don’t happen, but having worked with on-prem for 2 years, and having ran ancient (13 years old currently) servers in my homelab for 5 years, I’ve never seen them. Bad CPU, bad RAM, yes - and modern servers are extrem
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by sgarland 1y ago
Nailed it. I’ve found that people get super defensive when you inadvertently reveal that they don’t know the fundamentals of their job.
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by sgarland 1y ago
Bosch 800-series dishwashers are amazing . I’ve bought one at every house I’ve lived at, regardless of what’s installed. They’re quiet, they get everything clean no matter what, and they dry without a heating element, and without popping t
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by sgarland 1y ago
IMO, all of those make logical sense. If you’re inserting a line break or literal line, it can be thought of as a 1-dimensional object, which cannot enclose anything. If you want another one, insert another one. In contrast, paragraphs and
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by sgarland 1y ago
I hesitate to want any changes, but I could maybe get behind dynamic font sizing. Maybe. On mobile it’s fine, on Mac with a Retina display it’s fine; the only one where it isn’t is a 4K display rendering at native resolution - for that, I h
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by sgarland 1y ago
Me too, and I hope this article gets more traction.
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WeWork thought that as well.
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> I guess the problem is there's no way of knowing that? Is there a Proof of Work for code review? In a live setting, you could ask the submitter to explain various parts of the code. Async, that doesn’t work, because presumably som
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by sgarland 1y ago
> In those situations the Montessori classroom's weakness is that there is only one guide for all subjects as opposed to a traditional school's subject-specific teachers. This is very much dependent on the school (and probably
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by sgarland 1y ago
Update: I asked my wife, she said that without other context, it sounded like the school may not be “following the child,” a core tenet of Montessori. She said that while they might steer a new student away from that initially, if they’re c
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by sgarland 1y ago
Center for Montessori Teacher Education/North Carolina. They don’t have the greatest website, but they’re MACTE-accredited, and AMS-affiliated.
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That is definitely not my experience. The teachers at my kids’ school are vivacious and friendly. They very clearly love their jobs, and love watching kids grow.
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by sgarland 1y ago
I’m sorry you’ve had that experience. My kids’ Montessori school has a playground, athletic field, and butts up against woods, which they regularly go into for activities. One of the classes actually spends most of their time outside - weat
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by sgarland 1y ago
I’m by far not an expert on it (my wife is, she teaches Montessori), but AFAIK what you observed was because it isn’t viewed as play, but as work - as in school work. All of the activities are called “works,” and they’re taken very seriousl
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by sgarland 1y ago
There are a few K-12 Montessori schools, but not many. My wife is a primary (3-5 year olds) at the only one in our state. My kids are in 2nd and 4th grade, and we intend to see it through. They love it.
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by sgarland 1y ago
Yes, it’s the ephemerality that’s the biggest issue. Enterprise-grade SSDs are quite reliable, and typically have PLP so even in the event of a sudden power loss, any queued writes that the drive has accepted - and thus ack’d the fsync() -
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by sgarland 1y ago
> For more senior roles I look to make sure they can then communicate that understanding to a team, and then drive consensus around some approach. This is why I’m stuck at Senior lol. I can craft incredibly deep technical documents on wh
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Dude, this is _awesome_. Thank you for sharing!
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One problem with this is that it presupposes that the interviewer is skilled enough to spot problems, ask the right probing questions, etc. Casey is definitely skilled enough. I can’t say that’s universal. Another problem, which TFA hints a
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by sgarland 1y ago
IANAL, and furthermore have no idea what Hungary’s legal system is like, but mens rea is a thing. If I break a window by using it as a target for practicing my golf swing (I don’t golf; I have no idea if this is something golfers do) I am c
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by sgarland 1y ago
Somewhere, there is a table with a `frequency` column, storing client-supplied values, and an application happily accepting them as-is. This is why you normalize your tables and use FK Constraints - you aren’t going to catch all the edge ca
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by sgarland 1y ago
I don’t assume that (and am not a dev - DBRE / SRE) at all. I have massive respect for game devs, since you’re one of the few subsets that seems to give a shit about performance. I bet you could figure out `apt install nginx` and a bas
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Carthago delenda est.
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Installing a web server is in no way the same as writing a game engine, let alone in assembly, and I think you know that.
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by sgarland 1y ago
> click your way into a HA NoSQL data store Maybe not click, but Scylla’s install script [0] doesn’t seem overly complicated. 0: https://docs.scylladb.com/manual/stable/getting-started/inst...
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You know that “scale” existed long before K8s - or even Borg - was a thing, right? I mean, how do you think Google ran before creating them?
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> APIs that don’t do what they document Oh god, this. At my company, we found a bug recently with rds.describe_events, which we needed to read binlog information after a B/G cutover. The bug, which AWS support “could not see the det

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