nwmcsween

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by nwmcsween 6d ago
The issue imo with Gentoo is the compiler flag explosion, the giant case statement I had long ago for packages that would fail to compile on even simple standard -Werror= was huge.
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by nwmcsween 6d ago
Is there a reason almalinux or rockylinux wasn't used? I would except CERN to want first class Selinux support no?
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by nwmcsween 1mo ago
Would you be able to put a payload into EEPROM with this?
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by nwmcsween 4mo ago
This is like string functions, there are some variants with just crazy SIMD when the mean string length is ~14-20 bytes
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by nwmcsween 6mo ago
> Junior and mid-level engineers will now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted changes, Treadwell added. Beatings will continue until senior engineers leave?
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by nwmcsween 8mo ago
So, there is professional skills and then there is "soft skills" which at many places is a euphemism for political theatre. Nearly everyone I've ever met has professional skills; few can stomach "soft skills"
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by nwmcsween 8mo ago
If anyone was around for the dot-com bubble any company internet related or with a web like name was irrationally funded, P/E didn't matter, burn didn't matter, product didn't matter. AI has all the same markers of a the
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by nwmcsween 8mo ago
Proper CI/CD for Gitops is actually really hard, how do you alert to failures that doesn't tie you to a specific provider and follows an alert chain? How do you chain dependent Gitops pipelines without coding a giant pipeline mess
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by nwmcsween 9mo ago
The whole business model of cloud providers is to charge a premium for their ecosystem and to create lock-in by making everything interdependent. A Kubernetes deployment could cost 100k/yr a similar cloud deployment would be ~1m/y
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by nwmcsween 9mo ago
Have you worked at an organization without RFCs, ADRs, etc? The alternative is really just the wild west and whatever politics or pull a person has. RFCs and ADRs are good in the sense that they document _something_ even if the document is
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by nwmcsween 10mo ago
It's strange organizations want to push users off of a minor $100/yr/user cost when there are many other ways to save money that don't involve making a power user useless for years.
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by nwmcsween 10mo ago
Use helm to generate the manifests with a Makefile, use Kustomize to change said manifests for prod, staging, etc.
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by nwmcsween 11mo ago
I just want prettier default diagrams in d2, the default theme (and other ones) is a hard sell to orgs where management isn't technical. Something similar to the Obsidian diagram theme
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by nwmcsween 1y ago
I recently looked into this at it looks like the IETF(?) RFC draft for SSH3 was abandoned? It's great this exists but I think the standard needs to be done as well.
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by nwmcsween 1y ago
This would be my personal hell, let me just read n files of AI slop from the CEO.
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by nwmcsween 1y ago
What I don't understand is why not use what I've seen in industrial processes? Why not a low boiling point liquid and a heat exchanger? Or even better power a turbine like biogas plants do
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by nwmcsween 1y ago
It's because of their target, they target corporate non-technical IT where the end users have no idea of what they actually want but want it all integrated, badly, and it all works brilliantly for Microsoft as feature x is $y/mo.
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by nwmcsween 1y ago
This is more than enough to prop them up. More often then not the consultee already has a plan even if the plan is horrendous the consulting company is there to insulate management from any fallout (read incompetence).
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by nwmcsween 1y ago
Sadly the time when an org wanted people to excel and really grow at is over, the new normal is peak capitalism of maximizing value. People develop relationships with coworkers, you care if someone has issues, you're happy if a soluti
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by nwmcsween 1y ago
Sam Altman complaining about "unethical" corporate behavior is pure gold
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by nwmcsween 1y ago
Why "Remember"? php-fpm is probably powering millions of sites right now.
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by nwmcsween 1y ago
I have first hand knowledge with large consultant companies, they are largely sales teams with minimal IT knowledge. I had to help a one of their overseas "senior cloud professional" that had issues even understanding how to navig
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by nwmcsween 2y ago
Just use `open_file_cache`?
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by nwmcsween 2y ago
The goal of an abstraction should be to make reasoning about the code easier, generally that means hiding complexity but that shouldn't be the goal. In my opinion a common issue in programming is premature abstraction without understan
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by nwmcsween 2y ago
I mean considering I did document classification back in 2010 using tesseract, I wouldn't say it was impossible.
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by nwmcsween 2y ago
S6 and really all skarnet code is kind of "djb c" which makes reasoning about it a bit convoluted.
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by nwmcsween 2y ago
DSC has a really really wide variety of windows modules and unfortunately there isn't really anything comparable, Puppet and Ansible do have interfaces to DSC modules but it's kind of janky compared to just using DSC.
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by nwmcsween 2y ago
I mean making changes in prod without testing will do that, Gitops or not.
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by nwmcsween 2y ago
Canada has very lax crime punishment, which is sad for the victims. There's been cases where people have killed others after 3-x crimes and released with future court dates.
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by nwmcsween 2y ago
So HAProxy has a bit of a love/hate relationship in Kubernetes, the problem really being UDP and the mess(?) that is proxying stateless traffic. The Gateway API kind of expecting UDP proxying support doesn't help.

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