bak3y

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by bak3y 4mo ago
No, no I can't.
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by bak3y 6mo ago
Exactly what I came to say, alerts need tuning if you're having to check your monitoring tools by hand.
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by bak3y 6mo ago
There's no magic wand fix to healthcare, it and the related insurance industry are incredibly busted. What I am dead certain of though is that involving the government in it will be worse, not better.
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by bak3y 6mo ago
hopefully we never will - the last thing I want the government MORE involved in is healthcare
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by bak3y 7mo ago
That's because it is. That was human prompted.
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by bak3y 10mo ago
Yes, surely the German government telling it's people what to do has never gotten them in trouble in the past...
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by bak3y 10mo ago
And they were able to get there because they made good games.
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by bak3y 1y ago
Opening a 20k LOC PR is an actively hostile move worthy of an appropriate response. Closed > will not review > make more atomic changes.
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by bak3y 1y ago
Just out here raw-dogging the internet...
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by bak3y 2y ago
Presence in the DB allows for downstream fraud, even by accident. If that DB is the source of truth for SS payouts elsewhere, clean up the data. There's no reason for it to be there.
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by bak3y 3y ago
Spoken like someone who's never done Linux sysadmin at scale.
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by bak3y 4y ago
I've always heard that adding another 9 adds another 3 zeros to the cost.
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by bak3y 4y ago
He's also been sued by Mitchell - multiple times now I think?
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by bak3y 4y ago
But you could find a group you enjoyed playing with and learn from them. I spent hundreds of hours in a UT2k4 server in Team Arena Mode warmup just practicing air rockets, shock combos, and flick lightning gun headshots. RIP UT2k4
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by bak3y 4y ago
Why is it so hard to believe that a giant software project was mismanaged? Not like anyone has ever seen that before.
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by bak3y 4y ago
I'd much rather use Ansible to configure a fleet of identical systems (either all at once or over time) than SSH and configure by hand thanks.
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by bak3y 4y ago
So HTTP is the old school Star Wars fans pretending the prequels don't exist?
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by bak3y 4y ago
As a former sysadmin who had part of his career in that paradigm, I never again want to wait until 10:30 PM to run manual production deployments handed to me by a developer and hoping their documentation was correct. Give me CI/CD pipe
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by bak3y 4y ago
Just coming back around to this, we also used Splunk consultants for their SIEM solution and the first one we got wasn't very good, but the second was amazing (I wish we could have hired her directly). The guy we had help us tune our c
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by bak3y 4y ago
And you're glossing over the pain points that drove the industry to coin DevOps - those times when the zip didn't contain everything it needed to run in production properly and the admin guy had to call the dev multiple times in t
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by bak3y 4y ago
And implement them poorly and then wish for an admin guy or SRE when things go sideways at 3AM and production is down.
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by bak3y 4y ago
It does Enterprise level logging better than any other tool I've ever used. And it drains your bank account.
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by bak3y 4y ago
Anecdotal - I took over a small, ill maintained Splunk installation at $JOB-2 and reworked it following Splunks current best-practices and it ran like a top as of when I left that place. Having done that process I'm fully convinced th
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by bak3y 4y ago
I hate this. I can't wait to try it out.
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by bak3y 5y ago
I've also swapped to colima and the only thing I struggle with sometimes is just remembering the executable name to start it up :D
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by bak3y 5y ago
test edit - I'm an upside down android with antennae?
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by bak3y 5y ago
Technically if the police department doesn't have competition isn't that the opposite of Free Market?
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by bak3y 5y ago
This makes it seem like meaningful work cannot happen outside of a startup environment, which is patently not true.
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by bak3y 6y ago
As long as upvotes can be manipulated (multiple accounts/bots) then having downvotes in places to reduce noise is necessary IMHO
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by bak3y 6y ago
Meanwhile the place I work writes all microservices in go and all of my team's (DevOps) tools are also written in go...

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