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Here is what I'm doing: - All work is meaningless, so I started seeking the ones that pay the most (banks, hedges, FAANGs). - By making a lot of money early, I plan to soft retire …

I use Nomad a lot in my company and I really like it. Our team tried to migrate to AWS ECS a few times and found it much harder to abstract stuff from devs / create self-service pa…

Well written!

When I was part of academia I was under the impression we were aiming for publishing papers, which is why I left.

In my first job as a sysadmin I tried my best to support business and two things happened: 1 - My paycheck did not increase when business was successful. 2 - When something broke a…

Installing python does not require admin permissions in Windows, just choose $HOME/... as install path. It also does not require admin permissions in Linux, although most distros d…

+1 My company's internal apps use a mix of VPNs and IP fenced load balancers. We are migrating to app proxy. No inbound connections + access based on Azure AD identity with conditi…

+1 During the past three years I went from being my workplace's Windows hater to ditching Linux in my personal machines in favor of Win + WSL2.

I have the opposite use case. Most of the stuff my company is running is made up of data pipelines and machine learning pipelines. So we have a lot of infrequent jobs that don't re…

Oof Makes sense! I wish Fargate was easier to use and had a scale to 0 feature. If App Runner ends up supporting private deployments then we can have a true Cloud Run competitor.

Really cool post! From the architecture, it's not really clear to me why Lambdas have the 15 min limitation. It seems to me AWS could use the same infrastructure to make a product …

> The pricing model is admittedly a bit complex, but from what I've been told it is a fairly common pricing model in this industry Yes, but that's one of the reasons Public Clouds …

Not sure if that's the case with others, but I have a really hard time connecting CT with actual applications. My classes were full of complex maths and toy examples, but very weak…

I'm a paying customer and I agree. Meanwhile many core features are still unpolished e.g.: running your own runners sucks and you can't test CI/CD locally.

Yeah models assume future data can be predicted with past data, which of course is not always true in real life due fundamental limitations of statistics, such as very fat tailed d…

I generally dislike this tone too. If they really felt sorry for this particular customer, they would be actually solving their issues, not answering with automatic messages.

I generally don't care about certifications, but was convinced to try the AWS Solutions Architect path. While I'm still studying, I've found many knowledge gaps due learning things…

Wait, what? People can do that? That's the coolest thing since a friend showed me he could move his ears.

Yeah that's my issue as well. I generally forget anything I don't use often and git is full of important stuff that you need infrequently.

"The tendency to spend valuable hours practicing perfectionism resulted in weeks of timeline delays and loss of design integration and verification time." Students in a nutshell.

Which is why basic stuff like MFA and MDM (block sign-ins coming from non compliant devices) works wonders against ransomware attacks.

ISPs do not know as much as Google/FB thanks to SSL, but they know a lot more than you'd think by analyzing connection metadata. Also many ISPs are also carriers, which makes thing…

At this point one might consider using a real language and common software practices for type checking, extending, modularization, testing, etc... Instead of building an ecosystem …

Also true for allowing email addresses with "+".

I guess in an ideal world where everything in your org is behind MFA, app authentication and protected from denial of service, then solutions like tailscale would not be needed. Bu…