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by einhverfr 2y ago
A second thought is that open source software rose up in the era when we were trying to build a great interconnected world of business, communications, and more. Now that there is an effort to tear that apart, it isn't at all surprisi
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by einhverfr 2y ago
This is a shot across the bow of pretty much anyone working on the Linux kernel from outside the G7. Living in Southeast Asia, I will certainly be having plenty of conversations as to whether *BSDs are likely to be better bets for countrie
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by einhverfr 2y ago
Not reusing passwords at all is pretty impractical. If you really want to depend on a single password manager then you have some other issues. Usually I have settled for rotating, compartmentalized password modules which allows me to some
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by einhverfr 2y ago
People in crisis mode do stupid things. This is why the first thing you should do in a crisis is wait a few seconds. Then calm down and think things through. Evidently they never got this memo.
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by einhverfr 2y ago
"Bulls do not win bullfights. People do. People do not win people fights. Lawyers do." -- Norman Augustine, "Augustine's Laws" 1985.
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by einhverfr 2y ago
The comment was US-specific. Similar doctrines are found though in Canadian, British, and continental European (though not so much in Scandinavian systems which often do allow totally one-sided contracts in the idea that promises are bindi
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by einhverfr 2y ago
Crowdstrike: Irredeemable just like their vouchers!
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by einhverfr 2y ago
It seems to me that this is what happens when you have nobody in leadership who can do crisis management. First thing you do in a crisis? Take a few breaths and calm down. Take the pressure off of yourself. Agree to a timeline and start g
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by einhverfr 2y ago
This is becoming a larger trend and it will hurt open source generally because of the efforts at pushing American culture war issues globally. I try hard to work with projects which are not Western-centric for this reason or at least which
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by einhverfr 3y ago
In the UK, traffic accidents don't happen? Of course someone is at fault, though.
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by einhverfr 3y ago
This is an outstanding postmortem of this incident. I really did not expect it from Forbes. Accidents will happen. One thing that will be important going forward is a proper operational response to the problem and this is likely to become
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by einhverfr 3y ago
It is truly scary.
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by einhverfr 3y ago
I don't know. Hand-written SQL means a bunch of work and you have to know SQL. But it is simple and transparent. ORMs automate a lot of simple and repetitive SQL, but to use them effectively you really have to know SQL extremely well
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by einhverfr 3y ago
So, really, all we need then is a language sufficiently precise enough to specify what a program needs to do and we can then feed it into a program which can write software that implements that specification, possibly adopting safe transfor
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by einhverfr 3y ago
I think the problem of engineering management is that componentization is a hard problem. One needs to recognize that Conway's Law is an inevitability, but it can be a positive as well as a negative thing. If you design your organiza
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by einhverfr 3y ago
I am in Jakarta. was thinking of moving to Bali but that isn't practical. I think you know what "The West" is when you are outside it. If you look at which countries are sanctioning Russia, it overlaps almost entirely with
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by einhverfr 3y ago
I think a more likely scenario is that all countries did what they could and China succeeded better than any other major land country. But then, as victims of their success, the costs of doing less increased with each new wave and when Om
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by einhverfr 3y ago
I am an American expat who just moved from Germany to Indonesia about six months ago. One thing I see is that the comments he makes about China echo my views of the West. Where there was once optimism and openness, there is growing politi
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by einhverfr 4y ago
I wonder how the context by which these enter the production environment affect the relevant harm caused by either. For example, drunkenness happens via escallations to those not on call, while tiredness comes into play routinely and at al
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by einhverfr 4y ago
Over time, if you come to understand the technology, you can fix things a managed service cannot, so you might actually risk less downtime if you prioritize that. At least that's my experience based on fighting weird bugs on managed da
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by einhverfr 4y ago
In my experience drunk and unexpectedly called means careful and tired means "screw it, I want to go back to sleep."
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by einhverfr 4y ago
Let's imagine a scenario here: On call engineer wakes up to an alert. Realizes there is a major problem developing that he or she is underqualified to handle. Escalates the call. Eventually this gets escalated to the top subject matt
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by einhverfr 4y ago
I think there are contextual reasons why drunken incidence response, despite being largely unavoidable (you cannot expect your subject matter experts never to consume alcohol) causes few problems. However, I think one under-recognized probl
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Which is worse when working on production databases? Being drunk or tired?(ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com)
10 points by einhverfr 4y ago|12 comments
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by einhverfr 4y ago
Generally good tips, but I have noticed a few other things too. 1. If there are challenges, particularly if they are take home tests, it is important to make these reflect the sort of work someone will do without raising concerns that the
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by einhverfr 4y ago
I now have joined the club too Unbelievable, the crater is visible from Earth Score: 314.8 point crash Speed: 2657.5mph Angle: 174.1° Time: 471 seconds Flips: 0 Max speed: 2657.5mph Max height: 179734ft Engine used: 4 times Boosters used: 8
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by einhverfr 4y ago
https://pgconf.in/conferences/pgconfin2023/program/proposals... Maybe check back in a week and see if they have the video up.
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by einhverfr 4y ago
At PGConf India, one of the keynotes addressed exactly this topic. The largest stock broker firm in India had made the decision to self-host everything. The CTO made a number of points that I think are missed in this discussion and articl
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by einhverfr 4y ago
Certainly geopolitical boundaries reduce the pool of people. This has good and bad effects. A major aspect of open source software though is that it ensures that these boundaries can be crossed by labor but not necessarily by capital. I.
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by einhverfr 4y ago
the beauty of open source is that you can use it without relying on the other for development, but both are enriched by cooperation and sharing. If a Russian fork of a project reviews changes from an American fork and uses whatever they wan

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