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> I expected devops conference to have devs ONLY.

In the past five years I've been doing this, I can emphatically say that the number of software engineers/developer types that I've met at DevOps events are so few that I can more or less count them with both of my hands.

In many ways, I consider DevOps an evolution of what systems administrators do. These days, there's so much demand on infrastructure teams to do more with less. Automation systems have massively improved our productivity that the business types are happy to do so much more that it leads to a vicious cycle of compression and stress.

Don't get me wrong, I love automation and such. But it's terrifying that we're asked to put together systems that we can't comprehend.

I'd consider myself an oddball in the "DevOps scene". I was a bona-fide polyglot software engineer before I pivoted. I did embedded systems in C and C++, full stack Java work, Nodejs stuff, etc. I later did QA automation work in Python, and pivoted from that into DevOps. It wasn't that far of a jump.

But most people I know in the "DevOps scene" are nothing like that. They don't have years of experience in OSS allowing them to see the real gold in the pile of fool's gold. They don't have professional experience doing software development. Many of them only barely understand software architectures. Life cycles? Beyond systems maintenance, there's not much for them to learn about.

I would argue that proper DevOps teams wouldn't have things like on-call rotations that give periodic or constant on-job demands, as that's usually an SRE-type responsibility. But DevOps is just a fancy way to reduce your Ops teams for most places.
I don't think that Signal uploads the backups to the cloud though. It seems like they're stored on device and encrypted.
Stopping the deforestation isn't going to affect the GDP at all, let alone slash a quarter of it.

Keep in mind that the deforestation is purely caused by the livestock industry trying to squeeze profits. There are other ways to produce meat that don't involve invading and burning forests.

According to the government, in 2017 only 5,7% of the GDP is directly related to agriculture and livestock production [1]. And according to an industry website livestock was responsible for only 31% of that [2].

The rest of that "one quarter" is related to processing and distribution, which can happen in urban areas closer to the southeast, far away from the Amazon, and those things don't benefit at all from the deforestation.

And the processing/distribution industry could exist by itself without local production, as proved by places like Hong Kong, the largest importer of Brazilian beef. [3]

By the way, the biggest producer of beef in Brazil is the state of Sao Paulo, which is on the other side of the country, not at all related to Amazon. [3]

So nope. Stopping the Amazon deforestation RIGHT NOW won't even make dent in our GDP.

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[1] http://www.agricultura.gov.br/noticias/agropecuaria-puxa-o-p...

[2] https://www.beefpoint.com.br/abiec-perfil-da-pecuaria-no-bra...

[3] https://www.globalmeatnews.com/Article/2018/01/18/Brazilian-...
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/09/28/global-climate-intell... (which is a site that denies that there is a climate emergency) describes this as a brand new group, and "the brainchild of Professor Guus Berkhout".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guus_Berkhout#Climate_change_d... further describes it as:

> Berkhout founded the Netherlands-based climate change denial organization Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL). Mid 2019 plans of CLINTEL and Berkhout were leaked showing that they were organizing a campaign against political commitments to net zero carbon emissions being made to law. According to The Independent these campaign feature "hundreds of climate change deniers including academics, politicians and lobbyists". Signatories come from several denial organizations such as Koch-founded Cato Institute and Heartland Institute, which are also part of the Atlas Network, Institute of Economic Affairs, Adam Smith Institute and TaxPayers' Alliance as well as members from oil- and gas companies. The letter, which was confirmed by Berkhout, claims that current changes in the climate are “expected from the cyclic behaviour of the climate system” and that there is “no proof” that carbon dioxide is a major driver of global warming.[8] According to Desmog the "international organising group" behind the campaign "includes some well-known figures from the climate misinformation world" such as Richard Lindzen, Vic Forbes, Fritz Vahrenholt, Jeffrey Foss, Jim O'Brien and Terence Dunleavy.
I got my first full-time job at age 41 after being a homemaker for two decades. I basically had nothing on my resume but education and volunteer work. I started at better than minimum wage at a Fortune 500 company in a job that some of my co-workers spent years trying to qualify for.

If you have hobbies, volunteer work or other experiences that are more recent, I would not hesitate to say something like "Because I've been self-employed for two decades, the last time I had a disagreement with a manager was 1999. But last month at (local non-profit/recent group project in a class I took/whatever), I disagreed with how the people in charge were handling X and..."

They probably really don't care if you talk about work experiences per se. They want to know things like how you handle interpersonal friction.

Can you play well with others at all? Or have you been self-employed for two decades precisely because no one in their right mind would want to put up with you for more than two weeks?

So try to think about some recent experiences that would provide some kind of evidence supporting the idea that, yes, you can get along with other people and they won't regret inviting you into their social group known as X Department at Google.

I will add that they probably frame it as work related because they don't want to hear about your spat with your wife or teenaged son. So don't pull out personal anecdotes of that sort. The social setting needs to be comparable to a work relationship.
Two paragraphs being the full story would be an anomaly.

But it matters whether they are true.
I believe the force-reset button combination is a firmware (read-only) routine for that reason.

See: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/force-restart-iphone-...
In my not so humble opinion
It's amazing how can a professional solve this cases where others couldn't. Why there is so much hate towards women in US? I mean, particularly, these serial killers. Cases like this are rarely seen in South America, where violence has other drives (many times much less psychological).
That's great. I am a legal knee-girl ready for all-legal action.
And when you refuse to testify that someone else did the murder, you become the murderer in that system?
Ask HN: Any Good US or International React, JavaScript, Angular Groups on FB?
By “good” I mean you are active in and 100% would recommend
Can anyone help me understand our facination with fantasy maps ? Why do I feel inspired or awesome when looking at them ?

Is it because of the anticipated dopamine hit from the expected discovery of the complexity of the terrains, stories, cultures, races etc ? Is it because of the endless possibilities that an open map presents ?

Is it why I was crazy about skyrim, Baldur's, Fallout & open worlds back in the days ?
I think a lot of time a client wants the developer to implement business rules, but these change so frequently that developers should not automate it, but make operations easier. In this case the business rule was “every submission gets a gift card” but this business rule needs exceptions. So giving out gift cards should be done manually but should be easy to do and this would prevent problems like these as well as other probably fraudulent behavior.
What’s being used in your child’s 8th grade class is the flipped classroom strategy [1], as already mentioned. In my own experience through two graduate degrees, I rarely saw the benefit of attending a live class. I now come to find, many years later, that students’ class attendance in some graduate programs is at an all time low [2], and seems not to make a difference [3].

I encourage my 5th grade daughter to do both. She’ll workout problems with pen and paper or on a white board, and complement her studies with online tools [4,5,6]. Based on this regimen with a sample of one, she’s done very well. ;-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom?wprov=sfti1
[2] https://www.statnews.com/2018/08/14/medical-students-skippin...
[3] https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2018-06-...
[4] https://beastacademy.com/
[5] https://aopsacademy.org/
[6] https://www.curriculumassociates.com/products/i-ready
> 2) most of the people working on our ops teams have a formal education in software engineering.

You are so lucky. This is incredibly rare. I'm also lucky that my team is the same way. But most teams are not.
So You Married a Hegelian
There’s a big caveat: all state is on server which will bite you (in terms of RAM) if you’re not careful.

A small thread including my own experience here: https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1153586545426862080 It’s fairly obvious, but is worth mentioning.
> DevOps means the veteran admins had to check in their personal scripts

Oh my, this is an epiphany.

I don't even know what DevOps means. But if the implication was that the "veteran admin" was making arbitrary state changes and is now forced by DevOps to document it in the commit history, I am firmly in favor of whatever DevOps is.
I guess the temptation would be to say that it is in fact a hard problem. But then I look at something like HOCON which basically solves all the problems with YAML, you can understand it after about half an hour of reading, but somehow it's a fraction as popular as yaml or json. Maybe it just lacks marketing muscle or a really visible project.
There are really 2 types of companies when it comes to DevOps: those companies that and gender a culture of DevOps with their Dev and Ops teams, and those companies which hire a dedicated DevOps team. In my experience people who go to these conferences are almost always from companies of the latter type. It is often argued that the only true DevOps way is that of the former type, but in my experience the company's that talk about DevOps are more often of the 2nd type as that setup in a company is much more common.

It is like REST API's. Most folks that write REST API's are really writing HTTP RPC API's, only a few are doing true REST, but nobody cares; it does the job.
From what I can tell, it seems like the US is not forcing a backdoor. is that correct? This sounds like UK is forcing the issue.

However, I don't care if it "keeps us safe". It's just wrong in so many ways
> medium-sized company

this is mind boggling! For med size company to have a separate ops department. I can't imagine that responsibility for MY code in production (and delivery of the said code to production) lies on a different team/department that are possibly not even on the same floor/building I'm at.

Separate OPS department is where dev's happiness and job satisfaction go to die.

I'd imagine this outdated setup in some government agency but not in a med-size company.
Digital alternative to BTC and cash from a central bank
> When you read rising inequality, you should read it as 'failure in our meritocracy is producing a rise in unjust inequality' if that will make you feel better.

I don't, because the predominant measure for inequality is the GINI, which has exactly those flaws that I am pointing out.

Furthermore, the GINI based on wealth is even more misleading, because it's mostly based on the paper wealth that people have accumulated. Economic stimulus policy that inflates asset prices is responsible for that rise. Just look at the GINI vs the S&P500 [1] and you'll find that suddenly in 2008 people became "more equal". They weren't better off for it though.

[1] https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/economic-synops...
"best" is however you define the term :)
This ignores the objective truth that despite your intentions children are being harmed intentionally by the state. Stop pretending to care, it’s deceitful.
I've done two "stage one" builds of Gentoo. I'm not super skilled but, I had a lot of time and reference material. My bet is that folks could but would not want to. There is significant time cost.

Also, I'm still using one of those original builds on my laptop - upgraded of course...still mad love for my daily driver.
>Bad bad point. There are statically-typed languages with fairly complex type systems. There are even dependently typed languages which check essentially any property of you values and can be used to prove your program correct.

An introductory discussion such as this is better kept at languages / type systems people actually use, not what might be possible, or whatever academic or niche stuff is out there.

Dependent types are totally academic/enthusiast concern at this point, Haskell is still very much niche, and only Rust might cut it as having a slightly more complex type system and being actually used...

So, this would be like correcting a post about modern music for failing to include "12-tone Nordic heavy metal-afrobeat ragas" that all 3 bands with 200 fans altogether listen to...
You’re missing the bait part of clickbait. Baiting a fish is tricking them into thinking they’ll get a meal, when they won’t. Clickbait is for things like “You won’t believe the shocking thing Harrison Ford did this morning!!” —and it turns out he buttered his toast. All too common, when media companies actually do not have a story, or the funds to go deep on a story, so instead mislead the reader into thinking a story is there when it isn’t. In other words, bait.

This article delivers what it promises, which is unveiling the mystery and the context around it in a well written and researched fashion.

I would be very sad if all headlines had to be so reductionistically explicit that there was no room for narrative. For example in this case the presence of the box was hanging over the family for years. Leaving that mystery to the reader does make a tantalizing headline, but also allows for increased identification with the family itself. That will not be true for all readers, but let’s please separate clickbait from anticipation and suspense.
Bringing the freedom to access all the internet and suggesting the the US actions are because Trump cares about that is ... , so let's agree that Trump or US don't started this because of human rights (see Saudi Arabia money accepted with open arms) . It is an political/economic issue and even if you as a person care about the human rights if you claim this is about that you are naive.

My points about racism is not to try to put an equality between the 2 countries, I want to show that there are issues that have no simple solution, you make a lay that from tomorrow all races are equal and it takes a few generations for the racism to completely disappear. As similar you can't have China embrace all Western values over night, it is not possible. it takes generations so you need to be patient.

I did not see your simple solutions for the US or China issues, do you have them? If there are no such solutions what do you want? An invasion or tariffs to bring down the firewall and magically fix the racism in China (while at the same time you have a racist leader)
> The answer is they probably don't know. Or if they do know, they can't be 100% in their answer.

So whose fault is that? It's inexcusable to be forced to accept a service before being told how much it costs. If the doctor really is completely helpless, I want to know who's forcing them to go along. "That's just the way things are" is not an acceptable answer.
They aren't they same architecture at all.

SuperFX is a CISC. Byte opcodes with prefixes, complex memory access instructions, two address, etc.

ARCompact is a RISC. 32-bit instructions with a 16-bit subset that expands to what you could encode with the 32-bit, fairly simple load store arch, three address ops, huge register file, etc.

They're about as different as two archs can get; they're just made by the same people.
I can’t tell if your post was being sarcastic or sincere.

It’s a first degree murder. Putting him away for life is what he deserves and others (law-abiding free citizens) should not have to bear the risk that he would commit more extreme crimes given the extreme nature of the crime here. That’s not medieval or inhumane, it’s appropriate and common sense.

The relation you imply between laws, sentencing, and crime rates between different locations and demographics is not causal and doesn’t account for various other factors, and is therefore irrelevant.
I have a lot of sympathy for the intent of this, but—now—using the same phrase that appears all through title eight of federal law to identify an applicable individual in New York City can result in you getting fined.
How does Wayback machine get around this? Is it because this material is freely published or simply because way back isn't monetized?
Public investment is surely one option. Another is appropriate taxation. Vancouver’s residential property taxes are amongst the world’s lowest in terms of total tax take vs properly value. Property taxes should be massively higher and income taxes substantially lower. Too much of the tax burden is on the middle income worker and far too little on the wealthy landowner.
Still remember how one German Islamist terror group just used their web-email provider's draft feature. They never 'sent' anything. There are often quite simple ways to circumvent this kind of thing.
Jeremy’s co-author for the gradual typing series was Walid Taha—one of the principle creators of MetaOCaml. They are both top-notch programming language researchers.
Study suggesting CRISPR babies experiment shortens lives had major errors
This concept of not reviewing any libraries you rely on, and installing them from a third party, mutable source is really holding nodejs back.

Embracing reliable development and deployment practices would prevent you from being the butt of the joke next time someone pulls a leftpad, or what have you.
How about no surveillance and other such "solutions" in need of a problem?
Those Chromebook ads annoy me. They say something like "the laptop with built-in antivirus", in such a way as to imply that's somehow unique - it isn't.
That’s not a cartel, that’s a free market. It’s not as if two or three landlords run the show.
> Social media platforms based in the U.S. including Facebook and WhatsApp will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages with British police under a new treaty between the two countries, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Would Apple's iMessage qualify? (I can't read the whole article because of the paywall).
The only reason we are allowed guns is to use them to overthrow such corrupt governments before they overrun the planet starting with cooking the jews.

So... use them, pussies.
The reality of the world is that people are not paid by how much they deserve but by supply and demand.

The even deeper reality is that people aren't even paid by supply and demand but they are paid on the perception of supply and demand.

(Most) executives are paid not by supply and demand but by perception.
True, but when the YAML file gets long and complicated, such as when a kubernetes YAML spec, it becomes difficult to figure out what indentation different items need to be at and you end up needing to use tools other than just your laptop: https://twitter.com/Caged/status/1039937162769096704?s=19
No matter. Under 5 eyes if one has it they all have it.
I found the same problem on Android
Thank you for persevering, extracting the nugget, and also validating my notion that this was a pretty bad opening sentence and paragraph.
> There are restrictions on many things you “own”.

Are any of these restrictions there so a private third party can decide what you do with your property?
How do they keep a pile of shit afloat, though? Do they build log monitors and trigger restarts when shit dies?
>> But most people I know in the "DevOps scene" are nothing like that.

This feels almost universally like the case (unless you "started out" in devops, I guess). It's a catch-all for everything infra. A "good devops" (IMO) will know the ins/outs of all components of the product/business and (more importantly) how it runs and reacts in the real world (and not in the ivory tower/developers' laptop).
been in an ops role for 2.5 years, 2 years as software dev and currently i'm in a devops role for 2.5 years now.
this article hits the nail on the head. this was nothing more than a rebranding of the word ops. it has very little to do with actual software development.
not to say that i don't enjoy it, for the better part of the time i was a software dev, i really missed setting up machines and day to day network/system administrator work. i know my way around 4-5 programming languages so i'd say if the need arises i can use the right tool for the right job.
however, kubernetes, aws, terraform, packer, ansible, bash, etc are everyday things. i'd say in the last years i've developed a love hate relationship with pretty much every tool out there (looking at you terraform and k8s).
the pitfall with this position is that there's a lot of buzzwords flying around and 9/10 and if you have some idiotic management you end up implementing some overkill solution to fix your problems.
the other pitfall, from an infrastructure perspective, is that the ecosystem around kubernetes is so big that there are now an insane number of moving parts that you need to maintain and monitor.
> sample a part of someone else's music for your own song, use someone else's graphics as your own, use an unlicensed font, etc.,

No, but snippets are considered fair use. At least, they were until Article 13 killed the concept.
Ask HN: Why was Usb Audio Support Removed in Android 9?
Since Android Pie/9 the support for AOAv2 which enables using usb audio devices we removed from Android (see https://source.android.com/compatibility/10/android-10-cdd).

Why is it that highly useful features like this are removed without any explanation, workaround or alternative solutions?

On iOs you can use external sound cards for music production or using your car stereo if it does not support Bluetooth.

Anybody on a relevant Google team care to comment?
Thanks!
The plot pixel instruction was a 'write to SNES's custom tile/attribute format as if it were a linear framebuffer' instruction. Pretty difficult to use generally.
>boohoo someone stopped google from piping propaganda directly to users' rectums
I was arguing against the idea of "if you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to hide".

It's a bad attitude to have because allowing the government to have that power at all is a problem, even for terrorists and murderers and pedophiles. Because we don't know if people are those things until we investigate them, which means the government gets broad powers to investigate people to look for those kinds of crimes, and maybe find other people they want to get for other reasons.

I used to investigate computer crime. Yeah, my job would have been a lot easier if I had unlimited access to anyone's email. But instead I had to investigate and build a case without privileged access. It was harder, but I was glad that the system couldn't be abused.

Why should governments or law enforcement have privileged access?
Very few people are for open borders. Humane treatment of human beings is what so many people are for. If you don't like the possibility of immigration for those in desperate straits, you should talk about that reality instead of arguing it's open borders or nothing.