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Mechanic Advisor | Remote | Latin America | Full-time | Senior Platform Engineer - Kubernetes, AWS - LATAM

Mechanic Advisor offers a market-leading CRM ( https://steercrm.com ) suite for automotive repair shops, complete with text messaging, email automation, direct mail integration, reputation management, appointment reminders, declined/recommended services, and many other features.

We have a large, modern infrastructure but there's a lot of growth, scaling, automating, new solutions and improvements to do.

You must have extensive, senior-level experience with:

- Kubernetes (EKS preferred)

- AWS

- Terraform

- CI/CD (Github Actions preferred)

- a modern programming language (Go preferred)

- working fully remotely in a startup environment

You must be located in Latin America and be a confident communicator.

The successful candidate will join our small Platform Engineering Team and get to work with a diverse suite of technologies, wear many hats or other job post cliches. It's a very busy environment and you need to be comfortable with autonomous work, changing priorities, ad-hoc requests and owning the delivery.

This is a fully remote, no travel required position. We have very few meetings, we're light on process, with mostly flat hierarchy.

If you're a truly senior Platform Engineer please email your resume to senior_platform_engineer___remote_cde699be7us@kelp.greenhouse.io

Keywords: Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Go
> PWRs can't explode like what happened in Chernobyl.

No, sadly.

PWR's sure can explode (due to hydrogen, vapor...).

The root causes will not be identical to Chernobyl's causes, and the containment will probably limit leaks for a while (theoretically at least a few days), but they sure can explode.

It also happened at Fukushima.

Some protective measures are PACs and containment, however nothing can guarantee that an explosion won't happen, nor that dangerous radionuclides won't leak outside the plant.

PAC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_autocatalytic_recombin...

Containment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment_building
Deterrence works on corporations.

How much time is spent complying with HIPPA, GDPR, and other regulations that have huge penalties? A lot.

How much time is spent on piddling little fines for laws you've never heard of, but are vitally important? They came up with the term "cost of doing business" specifically to cover how little corporations care about these.

Financial penalties are incredibly effective when consistently applied via regulation. Money is the blood of a corporation, losing it can lead to radical therapies from the shareholders including replacement of the leadership. Leadership fears this outcome. When settlements like these go forward that minimize the culpability of a corporation, they are being told that there is a cost to using harmful chemicals, but it will be a fraction of the gain and exacted a long time after the money is made. What possible reason would they have to think twice in the future about hiding chemical spills and hoping the bill just doesn't come due if the consequences aren't at least enough to clean up the problem?

The issue of piercing the corporate veil is a secondary one, really. People who act with malice against society should have criminal penalties assessed against them regardless of how exalted their position is. The problem is, proving that they personally did X or Y and what that contributed to the overall problem, etc. Our legal system is not set up to deal with this by design and no one in the position to make the changes required is interested in signing the laws that would put their donors in prison.

There's only one viable means of disincentivizing bad behavior for corporations in our current system, which is the one we are stuck with. The threat of large financial penalties are making tech companies come to heel in the EU, whether we like that outcome or not. We could pass laws like that in the US to deal with real physical harms if there was a will as well.
That does not make it better, that makes it quite a bit more horrifying.
What they have done is taken the chaos of networking scattered across 1/2 dozen (or more) configuration files and commands and centralizes so the chaos is in one place. They've succeeded in simplifying some parts and I have faith they will make network configuration much simpler in the future.

You only think ifupdown-ng, nmcli/nmtui work well because you don't remember how hard it was to learn and developed scar tissue from using them. To my scar tissue, Debian/Ubuntu is well organized and tools like netplan clicked very fast and make network configuration much easier.
That, and the fact that it wasn't was not communicated. The necessary assessments have not been done during Chernobyl No. 4s commissioning, hence not counter measures have beem defined and put in the procedures. The RBMK chief engineering org wanted to adress the incident in Lithuania, and informed operators and authorities about that intention. Chief engineering didn't follow up so, and nobody bothered asking where the announced measures and procedures were.

In the end the operators of Chernobyl No. 4 were the fucked ones, their procedures were incomplete, sometimes dangerously wrong. Leadership, incl. Dyatlov, failed to put a safety culture in place. The reactor design was not well understood, operating characteristics at below 50% capacity were never even analyzed or modelled, and inheretly unsafe (missing sensors, bad control rod design and operating procedures...). And the night shift wasn't even briefed on the test to be conducted.

One of the conclusions of INSAG-7 was, that the accident could even have happened with properly designed control rods, coolant failure could have led to the same accident. If your equipment is so inherently unstable and fragile, operating procedure, training and operators have to compensate. None of those measures was taken.

Heck, in some circunstances RBMK operators had to conduct up to 1,000 manual operations per hour (!) to keep the reactor stable. And by the way, the RBMK design didn't even meet Soviet design and safety requirements applicable in 70s when those reactors were designed.

A complete clusterfuck. The circumstances allowing said clusterfuck still exist everywhere, in all countries, industries and organisations to this day.
Do you also have an aversion to paperwork? Seems to be "a thing". Paperwork has paralysed me ever since I've been in high school. Have gotten in trouble and paid fines over procrastinating paperwork over my whole life.

I am also on the "Highly Likely", and currently on the waitlist for a clinic. The best thing I did was being open and honest with my partner, as my ADD behaviors would sometimes exasperate her. I did the same with my manager at work, and it can usually get you some degree of accommodation which can help you cope.

I suffer for the 3-for-1 Triple A special: Autism, Anxiety and ADD. Seems to be a fairly common combination. Physical exercise helps greatly with anxiety, and helps to some degree to ADD as it does generate a certain sense of "reward" in my brain.
Sorry if this is ignorant, but I never understand what serverless Postgres means. What's different from a hosted Postgres instance? Some scaling characteristics or the fact you interact with it via an API instead of some library, ORM, or plain SQL?
Every now and again a certain disorder becomes more culturally prominent and psychiatrists get a wave of patients interested in being screened. The unfortunate part is this is what's happening with ADHD at the moment. Mostly outside of America it was always hard to get a diagnosis because ADHD is treated by 'drugs of abuse' (which really sketches doctors out.) It's a very common experience for people to try get a diagnosis only to have a doctor that either believes ADHD is BS or that the patient is just after getting high. But now there's a new stigma too: doctors who believe the condition is being massively over-diagnosed.

I think in America you should still be able to get access to meds fast. But trying to chase local doctors means all the slowness that comes from a local economy (you really want an ADHD specialist because of stigma.) I would be trying to find telehealth options if they're there. I do agree with you about the behavioral approaches. The best option IMO is pharmaceutical. Stimulants are ~70-80% effective for people with ADHD.
Doesn’t this kind of rub you the wrong way? The government telling you “hey, private citizen, we decided we are going to manage the EM spectrum, so you'd better follow our rules if you want to transmit anything.”
I understand it’s to help coordinate everything and make the space better for the largest amount of people, but referring to transmitting as a privilege, not a right, seems asinine
You can ask them to be polite. They're not going to know that there's anything to be polite about on their own.
And people still wants it to be rewritten in Rust. Does Rust can actually targets all those arch / os?
Huh. I wonder if that meets the definition of open source. I didn't notice the special license.
Your story reminded me of a case I personally know of a guy who was a very disciplined poker player for a period of time and one day won a sweet €90000 prize in an online tournament after a lot of effort. Apart from poker, his life was a mess (living with his mother, no even a driving licence, no serious job). He spent the whole amount on partying, hotels and cocaine. He never got again any substantial money from poker and his life is still a mess last time I knew.
Note that ADHD can manifest physically, mentally, or a combination of the two. I've been recently diagnosed with ADHD in my late 30s after finally seeing a psychiatrist, and at most my physical manifestation of it is minor fidgeting.

Where it really burns me is not being able to dedicate brainpower for more than a few minutes at a time, unless I'm in one of my "focus" modes. Similarly, my brain constantly has multiple tasks/"conversations" going on and I'm always thinking of something else. Additionally, I'm always chasing something novel to satisfy some dopamine hit.

I've honestly worked around a lot of the issues I deal with prior to being diagnosed, knowing when I'm not in a "focus" mode and trying to (gently) steer back to being productive. I joke about my "gaming ADHD" where I don't sit with a game for more than a half hour or so before moving on to something else. Internal dialogues are just something I work with.

Not saying you're right or wrong, but it's difficult to compare someone else's problems with your own (potential) issues.

e: Also note that there are non-stimulants on the market. I'm currently trialing one while I wait for a cardiologist to review some records for possible stimulant conflicts.
Best productivity hack is to unplug the ethernet cable.
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If you want to take one more shot at it, try any online pill mill, the diagnostic process is much easier post-covid and may be as simple as a brief in-person interview with a non-MD practitioner.
I'm in the same boat.

Expect to pay between £700 - £1500 (initial consultation, titration fees). Then the ongoing medication costs.

Honestly I am torn on this issue, I don't think we should have a nation filled with amphetamine users, but right now I'm a self funded founder and I can't justify this cost. So I have no choice but to self medicate with medication I have procured myself through alternative means...

The whole thing feels scammy in the UK
One possible explaination (I heard of. Not sure how mainstream an explanation is) is that insect metamorphosis is the result of two species fusing together in a kind of chimera. One "piggybacking" on the other and gradually each phase specializing

EDIT: An article that contains some more pointers (research papers etc) on the idea: https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/08/01/157718428/a...
Nowadays this is not about "nuclear vs. coal" but "nuclear vs. renewables (which are way less deadly than coal)".
Re: Graal, yes exactly.

Yes attestation has to attest to the execution of a program and there's no program that can tell you the developer was competent/honest/not compromised. But what it can do is, for example, tell you that a build was done in a clean and verified environment i.e. one free of attackers/malware. And importantly this guarantee can be made also considering the cloud vendor as an attacker. Think about how horrific it'd be if an attacker got privileged access to AWS or GitHub Actions, for example.
Now there are apps that tell you to play your hand or not based on your opponents playing style and previous hands. You pay for the app and the app is created by the online poker site.

My friend plays professionally full time and he uses these apps for a slight edge. They all do. The apps do not play for him. They just say 80% user Smith123 folds.
Most likely not wanting to repeat Rust's mistakes.
Lots of discussion about how GCs cause problems ("far away from time and space from the original") and destabilize and ruin your life generally.

I knew I was not in favor of GCs. For any reason. A pox upon the landscape of software.
exactly, you can have problems also with rare beef
> I think this is a rabbit hole that makes you want to pull out of it real fast. For instance consider how many tech jobs right now basically devolve into trying to make people see ads that they don't want to watch. Not only are you not adding value to the world, you're actively making it worse.

I don't see this as the same thing at all. Advertisers exist because of demand for them by companies who want to sell their stuff to consumers. Those companies employ people and actually produce things that consumers want. This is not a zero sum game.

Ultimately all we really need is food, water and to keep from freezing to death in some shelter. So sure, we can get rid of almost everything else, but that isn't really the point.
> they were just so biased that every little thing was a proof to their eyes.

While all the accusations were indeed false [1], they actually had surprisingly high standards of proof, and the modern perception of witch hunts is largely an ahistoric lie [2]. If there's one thing to learn from this, it's to question the stories we're told - both their content and their selection.

[1] At least in the sense that witchcraft isn't effective, not that there was nobody practicing witchcraft: https://www.reddit.com/r/WitchesVsPatriarchy/

[2] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-malleus-malefic... - Quoting at length because it's too funny: How do you prove an accusation? Kramer’s preferred method is with at least three witnesses (although judges are permitted to occasionally convict with fewer). Who may serve as a witness? [..] It would seem that maybe the suspect’s enemies should not be allowed to testify against her, because they might be motivated by grudges. On the contrary side, most witches are people of bad reputation who have alienated their whole village [..] So Kramer compromises again: enemies may testify, but not mortal enemies. A person is considered a mortal enemy of a suspect if one of them has tried to kill the other, or their families have a blood feud, or something of that nature. [..]

witch hunters are nomadic types. They don’t know who is mortal enemies with whom in every little village. [..] Kramer’s proposed solution is to ask the suspect to list off all her mortal enemies; if she names the witness, something is afoot.

(Some of you may have already noticed a loophole here. A History Of The Inquisition In Spain describes the case of one Gaspar Torralba, accused in 1531: “There were thirty-five witnesses against him, for he was generally hated and feared. In his defence he enumerated no less than a hundred and fifty-two persons, including his wife and daughter, as his mortal enemies, and he gave the reason in each case which amply justified their enmity . . . The tribunal evidently recognized the nature of the accusation; he was admitted to bail, July 1, 1532, and finally escaped with a moderate penance.”)
> Seems likely to be a placebo. You have a vested interest in it working, admit its not based on any sort of science, and one of the setup steps is to overcome distraction (which is the problem that’s trying to be solved).

Fundamentally, if it works for the OP, who the hell cares?

And how would you even double-blind test this anyway?
I found an article written... a while ago now which describes the issue already, having the internet under your fingers and endless short form distractions: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/nadd/.

> My mother first helped diagnose me with NADD. It was the late 1980s and she was bringing me dinner in my bedroom (nerd). I was merrily typing away to my friends in some primitive chat room on my IBM XT (super nerd), listening to music (probably Flock of Seagulls—nerd++), and watching Back to the Future with the sound off (nerrrrrrrrrrd). She commented, “How can you focus on anything with all this stuff going on?” I responded, “Mom, I can’t focus without all this noise.”

I'm confused btw; the date on the page mentions it was written in 2003, but the article mentions Slack which didn't exist until 2013, unless the article's been kept updated over the years.

edit: It has been, that's a cute time box; the 2004 archived version https://web.archive.org/web/20140214120052/http://randsinrep... has the following:

> Me, I’ve got a terminal session open to a chat room, I’m listening to music, I’ve got Safari open with three tabs open where I’m watching Blogshares, tinkering with a web site, and looking at weekend movie returns. Not done yet. I’ve got iChat open, ESPN.COM is downloading sports new trailers in the background, and I’ve got two notepads open where I’m capturing random thoughts for later integration into various to do lists. Oh yeah, I’m writing this column, as well.

the current version:

> Me, I’ve got Slack opened and logged into four different teams, I’m listening to music in Spotify, I’ve got Chrome open with three tabs where I’m watching stocks on E*TRADE, I’m tinkering with WordPress, and I’m looking at weekend movie returns. Not done yet. I’ve got iMessage open, Tweetbot is merrily streaming the latest fortune cookies from friends, and I’ve got two Sublime windows open where I’m capturing random thoughts for later integration into various to-do lists. Oh yeah, I’m rewriting this article as well.
The special liquid is running through a system of tubes, called "coils" so it could exchange heat with the air. Keeping comfortable temperatures inside is also a function of the inside coil's temperature, which depends on the special liquid and the compressor. The higher temperature difference between the inside and outside coils, the higher compression is required and lower is the COP. Incidentally, the high inside coil's temperature is also required to heat the air inside at a reasonable rate.
Rare pork is most certainly a thing! You are missing out.

The scare of pork is the risk of trichinella. To such such a degree that some speculate that is why Muslims have codified it as haram.

Trichinella is practically non-existant in domestic pigs in EU due to regulation/industry.

In the US you should take more care. You should however remember that cooking food safely is not a magic temperature but a function of temperature and time. The threshold for pork is then 63C because mostly everything unwanted is dead at that temperature.

But if you keep it at a lower temperature but for a longer time you will have the same effect. An easy way to do this is using "sous vide". Simply put a water bath at a constant temperature. This has the advantage that if you vacuum your meat it can go into the water straight from the freezer without defrosting first. I usually add one hour to the sous vide time to allow for defrosting time.

So I usually sous vide pork chops (from the neck) at 54C for some hours and then pan sear to finish the crust. With quality pork I honestly find this superior to a regular bovine steak!

See:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichinella
https://douglasbaldwin.com/sous-vide.html#Safety
> what would possess you to use that hostname?

Probably “The Imp of the Perverse”.

It is also a RFC 1178 violation:

<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1178#page-2>
Honestly ... you do not sound like an especially-good candidate for YC

If you are already at "hundreds of sign-ups" (whatever those "sign-ups" translate to), and you have "personally built & sold $1M of [your] own software"...why are you looking for pre-seed funding for current venture?
No, it’s absolutely only about low serotonin. Dopamine spikes do directly result from sugar spikes, but that is the effect and not the cause.
Your statement is different in that it contains a "should":

The reason food safety regulations exist and are much stricter than what you need to apply at home is partly because it affects people at scale, and partly because individuals have no control of it.

So exactly because dining out can be unsafe, food safety should be strictly regulated ("guaranteed").

It seems that the disagreement is mostly how many expectations someone can put into a "guarantee".

> We've accomplished an pretty astonishing modicum of safety and thereby trust in food service.

I completely agree. But I also want to add that it's an unstable equilibrium:

Some years apart you get some scandal where someone kept meat mostly frozen for 30 years.
It's also the smallest possible margin ;)
People who get addicted to the news don’t tend to lose their houses as a result.

Historically most societies have restricted gambling to one extent or the other because it’s clear that there is a subset of the population who can’t self moderate, and this results in a significant cost to everyone else.

We’re currently in a period of loosening regulations and we’ll see how that goes. Early results aren’t great.
If you live in the US - go to Zoom care - talk to a doctor, fill out a survey - walk out with a prescription. I don’t use medication anymore but when I first discovered it, it changed my life for a time - and in the US it is incredibly easy to get prescribed from my experience.
Todo lists help me deal with tasks not worth doing. I feel anxiety over forgetting things, even if they're ultimately not important - it can be hard to tell what's important in the moment.

Putting it in a todo list allows me to let go of the anxiety of forgetting, because I know I'll triage and prune my todo list soon enough.
Show me a single peer-reviewed science paper refuting global warming 100% due to human activities.
Zod Engine
Zod Engine is a remake of the 1996 classic game by Bitmap Brothers called Z. Z is a capture the flag style RTS. In this game you command robots and vehicles with the purpose of destroying the enemy's fort.
My intuitions start with: cut, wc, sort, uniq
Wot? Even if you are building a reverse proxy?
Other things being equal, more construction will lower rents. Has Berlin encouraged construction? If rents rise because a city is a great place to live, there may be no problem to solve.
thanks! have been using the with statement didn't know that's what it was called.
What bothers me as practically 100% shadow IT worker (to the point of buying my own devices and internet connections with my own money) is that IT-departments don't care about the users, usability or productivity almost at all (and security people are especially bad at this). And that a lot of IT people frankly don't understand IT very much.

Without shadowing it, I couldn't get anything done. I have to install new (open source) software or packages more or less every day, but IT would expect me to wait for a week for some bureaucracy for each package. IT fights me getting a computer with a specific GPU although it is required to use a library that I need. IT forces a reboot of my laptop in a middle of a conference presentation. IT blocks me from sending Python source code files over email. IT makes my computer boot to take ten minutes. IT forces me to use OneDrive that often simply doesn't work.

Maybe the abomination is not the private projects? Maybe it's the systems architecture?