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The Irish too… though they were given things like prisons. Scots legacy of the empire can still be seen in the bank HSBC. Unfortunately, history sort of forgets that the Scots were…

That I have a DevOps company working entirely on Linux can be directly attributed to realizing as a kid that Unix was a real thing and I needed to install it on my own computer. In…

Never worked at Dropbox, but I absolutely loved Paper. The problem at Dropbox seems to have been that there was no cohesiveness to all the products. Paper, Passwords, Sign, all see…

If you read their annual report they bet the farm on RedHat and Kubernetes. They spun off their legacy services business and have basically have monopoly power over the Federal gov…

Heh. Got a customer recently around this. Entire infrastructure and CI/CD vibecoded. They half implemented Kubernetes in Github Actions that were several thousand lines long and im…

Oh man infrasearch. With Gene Kan right? Was trying to revive xcf at Berkeley with some friends.

The type of oil that the US produces (light and sweet) can't be handled by US refineries which need (heavy sours). Why we are still a major importer of oil.

All oil is global commodity and the US refineries can’t take the oil that the US produces. So they mix it with heavy sours from Canada so the refineries can handle them. So a lot o…

California is more reliant on foreign oil. https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo... And seems about 23% comes from the Middle East. https://www.energy.ca.gov…

The real problem I see is the one child policy. If China decides to go to war and say they have 1000 deaths. How many bloodline die? I feel like there would be a hesitation to figh…

Anecdotally, I heard some Indians in the USA working at Big Tech are moving back to India to take the skills they developed in the USA to train and organize teams in India. I’d say…

I’ve been wondering if the showdown in Iran if it leads to a conflict will bifurcate the oil prices, the US vs rest of the world. If the Middle East is in smokes then the US can di…

I have the same problem. It wants to launch iPhone apps instead of the Mac apps. Super frustrating.

I have a lot of contacts in Hyderabad, India and it doesn’t seem like any of them are really worried about their jobs. Haven’t heard of any layoffs there. With additional GCCs bein…

Also found https://crowci.dev/4.5/ which seems to have better docs.

https://woodpecker-ci.org/

I have been converting a lot of my makefiles to pyinvoke and fabric and it makes things so much easier to manage than bash or make. Don't know why I held on for so long.

I remember it being a part of the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley and thought it couldn’t be true. But apparently it was. https://youtu.be/VyQEbLx6AEY?si=CwhqHQEdFGCsE33l

I do have a degree in History with a focus on India and British Empire from Berkeley. So no I don’t think I am being baseless. Hindutva is complex, the 20s were a difficult time in…

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Like Azure. 90% in the UX and the one feature that you need that is only accessible on the cli…

I loved how consistent it was. Just peak Microsoft UI for me. Don’t know what happened after that but it all went to hell.

I do wonder if a lot of the stuff that Google has worked on Google Docs, Chromebook were inspired by Sun. Eric Schmidt was a VP at Sun and Novell before joining Google.

I have nickname@berkeley.edu as my alumni email address and I get a lot of interesting emails directed towards more important people…

I worked at two crowdsourcing companies built on MTurk. Humanoid and CloudCrowd. Had millions of tasks go through from transcriptions to labeling.