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Tehchops

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About Tehchops

Lead engineer specializing in DevOps, cloud-first architecture, and automation.

Lately, I've been exploring more opportunities to do freelance writing and content creation, mainly centered around engineering and DevOps.

* site: https://mikevanbuskirk.io * twitter: https://twitter.com/mikevanbus

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47498449

    Casting aside the fact that any trading firm of any size or seriousness already has this dataset in 10 different flavors...

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    Comment #33124366

    Why? Is there an alternative? Considering opportunity cost in which parts of my entrepreneurial endeavors I choose to spend time on; self hosting web-servers for a blog does not ha…

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    Comment #32115185

    Yep. Again, the nuance of this point is lost on the "homelab" crowd, but if you're in a software business, your software is what your business is. Not running a monitoring platform…

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    Comment #32110238

    Yea reading HN comments gives me the impression most of the readership has never had to manage anything of complexity beyond their "homelab".

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    Comment #31978852

    I know this utterly misses the larger point of your comment, but: > They used Ansible scripts to spin up various AWS services This seems less about using the "cool/new" tech... rat…

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    Comment #31815304

    Jira is bad, but the worst part about it is that it makes it non-trivially more likely you'll also be using Confluence, which is an absolute blight upon the software landscape.

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    Comment #31784080

    > I hate that people are doing all these weird gymnastics to reconcile being a champion of free speech and firing people that criticize you. You're just seeing the psychic ripples …

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    Comment #31769350

    Yes. I have to ruthlessly prune anyone who reposts chaff... which is sadly a non-trivial number of individuals.

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    Comment #31768461

    Discourse on Blind makes HN look like the Athenian Assembly.

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    Comment #31705343

    It’s almost as if all the right wing pearl-clutching about “free speech” on Twitter was a bad-faith argument…

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    Comment #31658169

    Your logic is unfortunately being cast into the reason-devoid abyss of HN commenters consistently overestimating the value of the lone wolf, "competent" Linux admin. Say you don't …

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    Comment #31636435

    Where was the ad-hominem slant? More straw-men and an appeal to authority! I'm convinced you're playing logical fallacy bingo at this point.

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    Comment #31611318

    > I am expecting more from HN tbh. In a previous comment you(an HN user!) framed all comments or discussion that might portray EM in a negative light as painting him as: > "...the …

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    Comment #31610998

    > the only conclusion would be that Elon is the force of evil and a reincarnation of satan. Speaking of one sided... I'd argue there are many more nuanced conclusions you could der…

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    Comment #31609208

    Despite the zealous beliefs of the visionary, thought-leader techbro space that Musk's every move was to drive civilization forward in some kind of libertarian, technocrat utopia, …

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    Comment #31371709

    It was as if millions of twitter trolls with a distorted idea of free speech suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.

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    Comment #31362480

    Yep. Nothing to fix here: https://www.businessinsider.com/women-running-for-the-open-s... Dr. Singh( https://sis.utk.edu/vandana/2019/07/02/currentnews ) has empirical research dem…

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    Comment #31362434

    Worrying about what the comment rabble on HN will "appreciate" is no useful barometer for success in progressing through life.

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    Comment #31319719

    The idea behind MAD is that anything beyond considering their use in a retaliatory capacity should be fundamentally insane, but that depends on all engagement participants being ra…

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    Comment #31278305

    It is possible they were always that susceptible(I suspect they were), someone just needed the means for mass delivery and when it was available(social media) they weaponized it at…

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    Comment #31278289

    Well that's terrifying. As a serious cat owner I have to imagine I am riddled with TPG.

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    Comment #31116549

    > telephone calls Not the same reach. Telephone calls are ostensibly private exchanges between two willing parties. Twitter is much more akin to a "crowded theater" than a telephon…

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    Comment #31109106

    Well sure, but in the context of this discussion "bias" implies political.

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    Comment #31109100

    Are you saying it's more likely hate crimes are being perpetrated by people that identify as progressive?