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My second job in large-scale software was at Google, which used the "DevOps model" since before DevOps was named. I have no need to read a blog on it.

You want the person who designs the car to know what a car is, and to be able to diagnose basic issues like "the fuel gauge says 'empty' and engine won't start". And there's no analogy to an Indy car driver in software, every distributed system is self-driving.

The most popular alternative to "DevOps" is a team of developers who do not run the software, and may not even have the skills or capabilities needed to boot up the server process. They do their development in an IDE, run unit tests to verify functionality, and do not have permission to log in to the production environment.

Meanwhile the "ops" side consists of people who may know basic shell scripting, or some Python if they're a go-getter, but are unable to read stack traces or diagnose performance excursions.
There are a huge number of activities which are "productive". Children need around 60 hours per week of attention between the ages of 1 and 5.
It's been possible to increase growth hormone by injection for a couple decades now, and I thought there was a cancer problem[0].

Also, there's the drive for homeostasis. In my own experiments with dietary supplements, I get a short term boost due to the supplement, but the body gradually re-configures itself accordingly, so there's no long term benefit. e.g., caffeine[1]

[0] Growth Hormone's Links to Cancer
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30500870/

[1] Chronic Caffeine Alters the Density of Adenosine, Adrenergic, Cholinergic, GABA, and Serotonin Receptors and Calcium Channels in Mouse Brain
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3437321/

EDIT: Author has a wikipedia article and a website.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Hanley_(microbiologist)
https://bf-sci.com/
Godel Escher Bach: High-Level Thoughts
Ask HN: What to ask when interviewing at an acquired startup?
As the title says, I've past the initial phone screening with a SV startup that was acquired this fall. Is there anything that I should ask about that would be unique in this situation?
Kleinberg's HITS algorithm actually came first. PageRank simplified HITS and made it more practical, by performing the ranking mechanism in batch mode for the entire web graph. If you read the original HITS paper, you'll see that HITS computes the top two eigenvectors for the cluster of all pages containing the query word (and pages pointing to those pages). Computing new eigenvectors for every search query obviously is much slower than PageRank.
The author has a master's in science writing, so it's surprisingly sloppy.

They did it again too: "The clone is about 1.5 orders of magnitude larger than the largest fungi [770 hectares] and the longest sea animal [120 metres]." It's over 3 orders of magnitude longer than that animal, and closer to 1.4 orders of magnitude larger area than that fungus.

But also, it's not a single connected organism anyway (emphasis mine): "a single polyploid clone spanning more than 180 km in fragmented, near-shore meadows".
I understood your comment to be an argument in favour of the simulation hypothesis. So my comment says that that doesn't work.

On second reading though it seems like all you're proposing is a mental model for 'analog' computation; that it's like outsourcing the computation to a lower level of hardware. Then yes I agree with that.
> Article is pointing towards doing 1

No, it's not.

> I think it's ridiculous and how we end with a significant proportion of kids on antidepressants.

The most common treatment for diagnosable childhood anxiety seems to be talk therapy, not medication (and, anti-anxiety and anti-depreasant are different sets of drugs, anyway.)
This is maybe a bit unrelated, but it's really pretty heartwarming to see things, however small, that are Firefox-only or Firefox-first. Sure, yes, Chrome is the wildly more popular browser (and Webkit-derived browsers are essentially everything that isn't FF), but a thousand tiny cuts like this are how we break out of the browser monoculture.

Having everything be Chrome-first (and, often, Chrome-only) is how we got here in the first place. <3 to the OP for focusing on Firefox first, and putting a pebble on the right side of the scale!
On the other hand, the others are all highly addictive in a way that MDMA isn't. And if something isn't addictive then it becomes a lot harder to argue that an adult shouldn't be able to self-determine whether they want to take something potentially harmful or not.

> I doubt you can do MDMA even once weekly for a year without being much worse off in the end

I know some people who did this while in university (twice at a week at times). I would say it definitely did have some negative effect (mostly depressed mood - leading to actual depression in some cases but not others), but that this didn't persist long past the period of use (a few months), and none of these people still use MDMA with such regularity (a lot of them do still take it occasionally), all of them passed their degrees and have good jobs and normal lives now.
Attacker can’t sign in with victims email unless they have gained access to victims email account. No session gets created for the authorized user until they provide a valid code and salt (within 3 tries and 5 min).
This is like asking: if writing code in a high level language is the solution, then why are there so many software engineering jobs?
I'm not sure how config maps are "useless". It seems to be a pretty important element of the platform in general.
Let me be the first to say that hardcore capitalism isn't my usual purview. And that exactly the diversity of stakeholders is why I like this question.

TomTom obviously offers no value to shareholders (no dividend policy, history of losses, perhaps except those searching for volatily). It's 49% owned by the directors with a 51% float. It clearly offers some value to customers since it has revenues. However, the revenues have been falling for a decade and most auto manufacturers seem able to procure these materials in-house.

It has value to 4500 employees who retain gainful employment at TomTom! But the financial metric to measure value added for those employees is lacking: TomTom is worth nearly nothing. Society would be better of 'cancelling' TomTom and letting all employees go to companies with higher added value to society. They could be teachers, nurses and researchers at companies that further the technical boundary. Instead, they are working for no value at all except their salaries. It's sad. (: Hyperbole.)
Single Server kubernetes on a managed platform like Digital Ocean is a lot like having a managed server but you are more flexible with separating your services.
I no longer just run imagemagick by shelling out of my ruby process in rails I use an external service that does just that. Which I can scale very easily. I can add an image for chrome with chrome driver instead of trying to build that in my dockerfile
I think the point is BC isnt prosecuting or jailing people now.

I have family there and even big time dealers rarely do prison time unless it some bigger criminal conspiracy.

Users? Never. Even when repeated charged.
I work in an academic research software development team. We develop software that helps researchers execute neuroscientific models on HPC. Funding is our biggest headache. Currently we're funded through a (very) large EU grant, which gave our project a runway, but we find that nobody in general is funding such supportive (but essential) projects. Research funding is tied to scientific outputs (i.e. papers), and not anything else. We're trying to get some researchers interested in getting funding together, but it's not going very well, and we don't expect to be able to keep our current strength.

If anyone has ideas, I'm all ears!
Similarly, we switched from self-managed k8s on EC2 to Fargate. Took about 2 months part-time with some consultants to get thing squared away.

Once we deployed, we ran into all sorts of SRE-issues. Turns out AWS sets all those “sane limits” that our own folks never did. Still hunting ghosts from the rollout 6 months ago.

Makes for good resume fodder, and makes me laugh at the prestigious titles and positions the folks who built this system went on to receive at big name firms.

Guess it is someone else’s management problem now. :shrug:
Definitely check out all the aws offerings under ECS

There's now even onprem ECS variants which means not having to pay aws very much and still get the benefit of them running and maintaining the control plane
> I don't think mass meditating children is a viable solution,

That's actually probably a very good and cost effective solution to part of the problem, despite probably being a typo.
Quotes aren't what they once were. They don't guarantee that the term you quoted will be in the results.
Few reasons :

- Kubernetes is very complex to setup

- It is not needed for many use cases

- It is (hopefully) not the defacto and standard for devops

- Load Balancing is already a solved problem way before Kubernetes. For many use cases, you don't need the complexity. Even things like Self Healing are kinda solved by AWS Auto Scaling for example.

- NOt every use case needs Kubernetes and its additional overhead/complexity

- Most importantly, devops is not "one size fits all" magic wand that Kubernetes or any other tool can solve. Various nuances to consider and hence you need DevOps as a role.
Not having to rotate shared passwords after an employee leaves I suppose?
I don't think so, as Washington DC is nowhere near 180km across. Or did you mean some other circle?
Yeah, but Desoxyn is a last resort for a very good reason, and it most often has pretty serious negative effects. Just not as serious as severe unmedicated ADHD.
Suggesting that anyone who uses meth must have a general disregard for the law is just prejudice.

It's perfectly rational to think that the law against meth use is unjust while being otherwise law abiding. Most people would consider drug use an issue of personal freedom.
I used Gale for years (met my spouse there a long time ago!) -- I think you can think of it as a Zephyr clone (as the name implies.. but from Caltech), so it shares the same kind of auto-created sub-categories model, and has federation. There were a decent array of text, nurses, and GUI (Tk!) clients.
It doesn't all fall into affordable housing category, people are complaining in London about new luxury high rise apartments because they are high end and "not affordable".
You can do this type of analysis for most software, since building on existing solutions allows us to write powerful tools with less code. Listing out the existing solutions that allow developers to write less code doesn't necessarily mean the new solution is bad.

Every time I read a post like this about Kubernetes, I scratch my head. It takes me maybe half a day to deploy a CI/CD pipeline pushing into a new Kubernetes cluster with persistent DB's, configuration management, auto-renewing SSL certs and autoscaling API/web servers per environment. I'm by no means an expert, but I've been running 10+ sites this way for various clients over the past five years, with almost zero headache and downtime.

When I compare this solution to the mishmash of previous technologies I used prior to Kubernetes, it clearly comes out on top (and I use/d Terraform religiously). Setting up automatic server provisioning, rolling updates, rollbacks, auto-scaling, continuous deployment, SSL, load balancing, configuration management, etc... requires an incredible amount of work. Kubernetes either provides most of these out of the box, or makes them trivial to implement.

The only way I understand this argument is if you're building an extremely simple application. The nice thing about simple applications is that you can build them using any technology you want, because they're simple. Despite this, I often Kubernetes anyways, because it's _so simple_ to take a Helm chart and update the image name.
Elon from the very beginning wanted engineers to work as close to factory floor as possible. E.g. at SpaceX you can stand up from your cubicle and walk max couple of hundred of meters and have a look at the factory floor.

Exactly the same philosophy applies at Tesla.

Whatever it is that Elon does it works for his companies.

If you don't want the expectation to give 110% of what you can, don't work for Elon companies.

You can argue that factory workers don't have choice what job their are doing, so they need checks and balances.

But people who could work remotely certainly can change employer if they dislike Elon work ethics.
Not much difference here, Calculation (or, more generally, Computation) is the manipulation of abstract symbols according to pure rules that may or may not represent concrete entities, e.g. the simplification of polynomials according to the rule of adding like powers.

Simulation is when we manipulate things (concrete or abstract) according to the rules that govern other concrete things, e.g. pushing around balls in circles to (highly inaccurately) represent the orbit of planets around a star.

Not all calculation is simulation, and not all simulation is calculation, but there exists an intersection of both.

The key trick you can do with that last category is that when the physical system you're simulating is controllable enough, you can use the correspondence in the other direction: Use the concrete things to simulate the abstract things. It's simulation, because you're manipulating concrete entities according to the rules that govern other entities (who happen to be abstract),but what you're doing also amounts to doing a calculation with those abstract entities.
>DevOps isn't a job.

And Agile isn't Scrum, but once again a buzzword became the catalyst for a change that the buzzword isn't even "supposed to" represent.

It's our fault for never learning our lesson about buzzwords.
Wow it's a relief that we've found a new excuse to blame another mass shooting on! It looked like we were going with "the shooter was bullied", but now we've got another arrow in the quiver! Bullying might be a factor, but 24 years of schools telling kids only they can prevent bullying has put lie to that excuse.
Woodworker here.
Yeah, the title is literally wrong - someone pointed out that they a/b test titles, etc. So just ars being ars i guess.

The paper doesn't claim it's the varnish, it claims it's the wood treatment and its effect on density. That would make some sense.

The varnish is the finishing layer that is on top. That layer is also, fwiw, about 3-5 mils most of the time (IE 0.003-0.005 inches). Depends obviously on what and why (IE marine finishes are thicker, etc). It's affect on sound is almost certainly near nil.

If you could produce serious damping effects with 0.003-0.005 of a coating, we'd use it on walls, etc.

In reality, mass is much more important, which is why the treatment affecting the moisture content and density of wood would make more sense.
Why think when you can just have paranoid fever dreams instead.

> It's also not a paradox for why many lifetime smokers never get cancer while non-smokers are now more commonly the ones with lung cancer.

This is simply wrong.
In Switzerland, you can visit the specialized centers for drug users, buy pharmaceutical-quality substances, and consume there directly (no outside consumption is allowed). This works, because the interior of the center is very uncool, boring, and it is filled with leaflets on getting help on quitting drugs.

This system is amazing, and I can only wonder why it is not implemented everywhere (Switzerland and Portugal are working examples).
Terraform Labs Caught Moving $4.8M Through Shell Company
> I don't think its about best practices, its about good design and communication.

I would argue these should be included in best practices for software engineering.

> So should a mechanical engineer PhD be designing and making all their own robot parts? Or should the shop engineer help them? The few mechanical engineer PhD's in robotics I know made a few early prototype test parts themselves with help from the shop engineer, but the shop engineer made and even helped design most of it, especially the final prototype.

This is an interesting example. Every mechanical engineer I know has huge respect for their in-house machine shops. Everyone has a story about some design they submitted for fabrication, only to be told by the machinist that their design was terrible and they should do it another way. Generally machining jobs are very well-defined though, you have to submit CAD documents, tolerances etc.

The shops in universities I've worked in have a strong incentive to help people optimise designs because they're the ones doing the manufacturing, and they know what sort of things will work and what won't. But by and large this is informal. Usually this comes in the form of "have you thought about designing this another way, because this is really difficult/expensive/time-consuming to machine". Maybe this is just a cultural thing for machinists?

The PhD question - if your project is to design a new type of part then you should probably do the design. Should you make it though? It depends if the project is specifically looking at fabrication. Otherwise it's normal to dispatch this to a workshop.

In my opinion, it comes down to what your PhD is training you for or what you're hired to do as a postdoc. If your job is data analysis, then I think you should be writing code, but you should be able to get guidance and support. If you're a field biologist with no coding experience and you want to develop an app to take measurements, then that's a case when contracting it out to an in-house development team makes sense. I'm not saying it can't work, but the make in making it work is important.

If you incentivize RSE's properly then their time will become expensive and we need ways of figuring out how to maximise their impact.
And unlikely to fail during the warranty period. But Ideally, stop working 1 week after warranty ends.
yes
https://youtu.be/6HYdTtIoyts
I guess we’ll never learn why you wouldn’t use it. Good for you!
I do not know the answer to this. I was thinking in broader terms about political instability that can come from a surge in large enough scale employment disruption.
As a late friend put it: "Everything I know about leadership I learned from Colonel Kurtz."
I've used 1password at my last two companies and I wouldn't go back to anything but maybe Bitwarden, which is practically a 1p clone. Last time I used Bitwarden it didn't work with either my Macos fingetprint reader or face unlock, I forget. It was an electron limitation IIRC, and this was years ago.

I don't face any annoyances sharing passwords with 1pass like I used to with lastpass, secretserver, etc. It's a smooth experience all the way.
I've found Fork to be faster than Gitup for very large repos. I used to use Gitup exclusively but switched to Fork a few years back. The graph drawing in Gitup can get bogged down when you have hundreds of branches. I still love that representation of branches but I'm usually not that confused about the repo state and I've found the vertical layout that Fork uses to be sufficient.
"the best camera is the one that's with you” － Chase Jarvis
I've always thought their main intentions would be topical pagerank and author pagerank. Obviously Google have made many leaps with natural language, but measuring 'intent' and inherent trust is still an unsolved one. Google+ may have solved it. I remember hearing about an "author rank" type patent.

All the same, the link graph has been truly bastardised because of it being such a prominent facet of ranking for an audience.
Google was more cagey about Vince and brand power than they were about other updates. The popular theory was that there was some hand-picked set of "popular brand urls" and that pagerank flowing from those had more weight (beyond the already heavy weight they would have because of their link graph).
The hubris in thinking technology is good enough to eavesdrop - but not good enough to circumvent a published research technique to overcome it - is palpable. Besides, is the way to solve the eavesdropping problem really to put more "AI" devices in the home, or to be frank about their implications and remove them entirely?
There's a shift away from programs that run on actual computers to software that runs on clusters, a large conceptual computer. Whether ultimately Kubernetes-the-software is the answer or not I don't know, but I don't think we're going back to installing packages on individual machines, as the benefits of the conceptual large computer are too great and the most logical way to solve challenges with scale and availability.

A lot of what is called DevOps goes into adapting software to this new mindset. A lot of that software is not written with best practices in mind, and likewise lots of tools are still in their infancy and have rough edges. I think it's fair to say some time and resources go into learning new ways of doing things, and it might not be the best choice for everybody at this stage to spend those resources unless there's an obvious need.
People easily copying and pasting the password into a chat app to quickly share it with Greg from finance asking if he could just quickly log into the app even though he's not really supposed to?

Sure, its not too hard to get around that feature, you could just inject your own javascript on the page to dump the contents of the password field. But it does block the low hanging fruit of the millions of users who don't know how to do that who might abuse having access to the password because they don't really know better.

In essence, it helps to prevent those users who don't know better from leaking the password to places it shouldn't be. Obviously it doesn't prevent people who know how to get around it from getting around that protection, but in those circumstances you shouldn't really be sharing your password with someone who will abuse your trust.
But it sounds like it doesn't have continuity (emphasis mine): "a single polyploid clone spanning more than 180 km in fragmented, near-shore meadows".
Happy to take suggestions!
> saw the two as similarly allowing

I love bob moog, so can you explain this a little further? How is gardening a way to interface with the intelligence of the universe?
Exactly. I had had a promising life until housing prices went up and then I ended up a drug addict out of despair of no possibility of owning a single family home in Vancouver.
If your interviewer was there pre-acquisition, ask them what they think changed as a result -- and then ignore their literal answer, which will almost certainly be carefully-guarded bullshit, and listen very very carefully to the tone.

Are they hedging ("not much has changed, honest, just a few little things")? Are they wildly excited ("omg things were on fire before and now we're so much more stable")? You're looking for red flags that suggest the old guard made bank and are already testing the strength of their golden handcuffs and biding their time until they can make a run for it. You don't want to be left holding the bag when that happens...
We used Okta (SSO) for a long time which is $2 per users afaik.
The reason seems to be stigma as far as I can tell. The negative effects don't seem to be worse than Adderall/Dexedrine and the positive effects are usually a bit better.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/know-your-amphetamines
Alternatively, this fact set could suggest that the facility was not in a financial position to lower case load and give out raises.
I largely agree with the point about addiction, but it's worth noting that a lot of banned substances - notably MDMA, Cannabis, LSD, and Psilocybin - aren't particularly addictive.