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by weberc2 7y ago
Yeah, I think Dhall is the right idea, but I think it’s going to have the same syntax/ergonomics issues that Haskell and OCaml suffer from. Our company invested heavily in Nix, but the developers really struggled with the expression la
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by weberc2 7y ago
Yeah, I misunderstood your post—sorry about that. I thought you said “Guix and Nix show us that scheme is the answer”. In any case, I don’t know how you conclude that Guix won over Nix nor how you conclude that the winner is superior to all
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by weberc2 7y ago
I’m sorry to hear that, but have you considered the possibility that the team you work with is not emblematic of the entire industry?
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by weberc2 7y ago
There is no authoritative definition of DevOps, so there’s really no point in arguing that one of our definitions is wrong. I’m telling you that it is more valuable to treat ops as an engineering problem rather than “duct-tape it and keep i
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by weberc2 7y ago
Honesty question for everyone proposing bicycling and public transit: are these feasible in rural environments? (Especially WRT cycling if you have a disability or young children and/or have to commute long distances in very cold or ve
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by weberc2 7y ago
Is NixOS a scheme? Anyway, we moved away from Nix because of all its problems (the language being only a medium-sized one). Also, I detest CMake, but by your own standard (longevity, popularity), it is better than Nix or Guix. Frankly those
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by weberc2 7y ago
It’s not just adopting technology, but the package of lifestyle and cultural changes that go along with it. Perhaps it is “consumerism” in some broad sense—we adopt our culture quickly to our convenience and entertainment.
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by weberc2 7y ago
This isn’t it. DevOps aren’t the (exclusive) oncall engineers, the dev teams should be responsible for oncall as well—the people empowered to create or fix the operations problems should be responsible for operations. See my sibling comment
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by weberc2 7y ago
Familiarity with different problem domains. Software engineering is essential to the DevOps skillset since we do a lot of automation, but also understanding the (constantly changing) ecosystem of tools, how to design a CI/CD pipeline,
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by weberc2 7y ago
A willingness to learn new tech is essential but not sufficient. Mostly it seems folks with a more traditional sysadmin background are looking to be Kubernetes sysadmins or AWS sysadmins, but we’re not looking for sysadmins, we’re looking f
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by weberc2 7y ago
> Switching my title from "System Administrator" to "SRE" within my last company resulted in a job family change and a 10% raise (I had to show I could code as well as a software engineer in order to make the switch).
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by weberc2 7y ago
Yeah, what I want is JSON with comments and nice multi-line string support. I don't like how much syntactic magic YAML does (I don't need or want the country code for Norway to be parsed as a boolean False value). I still don&#x27
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by weberc2 7y ago
I find that the extent to which men (and to a lesser extent, women) have this support varies between secular and religious (or at least Christian) communities. Christianity (as I’ve experienced it, anyway) promotes sharing feelings—for exam
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by weberc2 7y ago
Agreed. What dang referred to admiringly as “integrated masculinity” sounds a lot like stoicism to me.
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by weberc2 7y ago
> Cultural changes and evolves, of course, but it's really hard to uproot a norm or more once it's settled in, even if it's one that causes you personal pain. I don’t know if I believe this in general. Certainly we are hap
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by weberc2 7y ago
These things have applications for stealth aircraft as they often absorb radar as well as visible light. But even for visible light, if you're looking at something painted vantablack in broad daylight, you only see a silhouette--much l
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by weberc2 7y ago
The article defines the acronym: > SIP, as system integrity protection is usually abbreviated, was introduced in 2015
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by weberc2 7y ago
The solution is not picking children from the crowd to use as your political shield.
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by weberc2 7y ago
> Its not like Corporate America is going to make up the difference and start paying cash to compensate for the lost benefit, at least thats what happened as pensions got stripped away from the workplace. They may not have compensated in
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by weberc2 7y ago
Earnest question: when is it cheaper for a business to use mainframes rather than x86 clusters? If they are easier to develop on (no need to solve distributed problems) even if mainframes have a 1000x upfront cost, they would still likely b
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by weberc2 7y ago
Universities are paid largely by federal student loans and tax dollars. This is not a standard business/patron agreement. Expelling a student $50K in debt can ruin their life. The university owes them a fair trial. And there is no excu
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by weberc2 7y ago
Public universities certainly don’t get to claim treatment as a business. Additionally, like you were driving at, it is dramatically more damaging to be expelled from a university than to be kicked out of a dollar general. And most importan
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by weberc2 7y ago
Last I checked k8s required you to have swap disabled and some cgroups settings configured. As I recall, installing Kubernetes was quite difficult, and having something that's ready to go sounds great.
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by weberc2 7y ago
As far as I'm aware, these "tribunals" are dealing with issues like rape and sexual assault, which are actually crimes. As far as I can tell, the generous interpretation for their foundation was that the legal system affords
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by weberc2 7y ago
I would be surprised if the courts would uphold an equivalence between broadcast television and a social network. I would expect them to interpret speech on a public social network like speech in a town square.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Genuine question: can the government legally sponsor a social media network if that network censors legal but abhorrent speech (e.g., anti-black or anti-white hate speech)? Seems like it would either be a cesspool or it would get struck dow
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by weberc2 7y ago
> This still doesn’t make sense. There are portable systems that do the same, and have fully managed options, such as kubernetes. The whole value proposition behind AWS is that they can do it better than your business due (directly or in
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by weberc2 7y ago
That’s kind of what I was driving at—there is a need for good clear communication regarding what to do about climate change. Maybe you feel like there is a clear channel to you—I don’t, and I’m guessing that’s true for most Americans. Maybe
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by weberc2 7y ago
> Tell me again what I don’t understand? As someone who has done both, it's far, far easier to stand up a lambda than it is to manage a cluster of servers.
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by weberc2 7y ago
I’m not sure what centrists are meant to do. It seems like an issue like this requires clear, actionable advice from the science community. Maybe the science community has clear guidance, but what makes its way to me is often contradicted a

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