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Oh, but what about Ruby's versioning policy, which they call "Semantic Versioning", but the semantics are: > MINOR: increased every christmas, may be API incompatible That's right,…

The debit card behavior is probably bank specific. I had fraudulent transactions on my debit card. The bank caught it after a few transactions, alerted me, and shutdown the card wh…

> can anyone explain why in the US if I click unlock on the remote, it just unlocks the front door? This keeps happening on rental cars. You have to click twice on unlock to get al…

This is vehicle specific. Not all 2023 vehicles behave this way. I have a current generation vehicle (same generation and tech as 2023). - Doors stay unlocked. Eventually the engin…

Microsoft open sourced 3D Movie Maker a few months ago: https://github.com/microsoft/Microsoft-3D-Movie-Maker

In my experience the recruiters are great about helping you prep. They have a PDF called "Google Interview Prep Guide Site Reliability Engineer" that talks about SRE-SE vs. SRE-SWE…

Container-Optimized OS is based on Chromium OS and is more of a traditional Linux, in the sense that is runs on servers. https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs

MySQL has some robust tooling in this space. Some of the tools use triggers to copy to a new table. GitHub's gh-ost[1] is probably the state of the art, and uses the binary log str…

That is true, I was thinking specifically about the metadata and SSH keys. But DHCP can also set DNS servers, NTP servers, and other things that can either cause disruptions or be …

While there are a series of vulnerabilities here, none of them would be exploitable in this way if the metadata server was accessed via an IP instead of the hostname metadata.googl…

> Eusociality typically requires two other conditions. ... And since the ferns spread asexually on shared roots, they don’t actually exhibit an active system of resource acquisitio…

This is effectively required when open sourcing something that was previously internal. I've done it at a company. There could be company internal things that leak in old revisions…

The Terraform provider for Google Cloud uses partial autogeneration, here is the repo that does the autogeneration for multiple automation tools: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlat…

> Open Source SDK > The SDK is a CLI and collection of libraries for defining and deploying cloud apps and infrastructure in code. https://www.pulumi.com/pricing/ With Terraform th…

Everyone's needs are different. To me GCP is easier to get started with. I don't want white glove service where they try to architect my architecture for me. Pushing me into cloud …

You can get GCP support for as little as $100/month. AWS charges for support too. https://cloud.google.com/support

Do you trust Debian LTS? As much as RHEL? The documentation about Debian LTS always made me think it is not a fully fledged thing. I've always felt like Debian releases reached EOL…