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Indeed. An excellent sailor, an excellent prof, and an excellent woman.

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As long as they are owned by a 5-eyes nation, there's no alternative they can offer. Instead, look to Exoscale, Proton, Infomaniak, or Scaleway. Disclaimer: I work for one of 'em.

You know, we don't actually have to do this. The people could block the gates and prevent the delivery of the turbines. The local fire department could fail their inspection and pr…

...or "the UPS batteries caught on fire", or "the first unit failed and the contractor who was supposed to replace it replaced the second one instead, resulting in an outage". Or s…

pets.com has entered the chat.

Today I added a temporary data source to Prometheus to help me monitor a system closely during a tricky ops task. I would not have done that except that the LLM gave me a small scr…

Companies that use riddles get the employees they deserve.

I know, and worse yet, LISTENING. Ugh. /s

Feels like SF Standard gonna get a copyright strike from The Onion for this headline.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Thank you for this. Also, I'll never use it. Because a language feature that needs marketing is against readability, among those in my target audience who have not yet read the mar…

A colleague gave his first ever lightning talk about this at a work retreat and it was SMASHING.

> Have a strong anti-counterfeit strategy. Don’t overlook this. Hope we can read more about this.

Practical Engineering already explained the correct solution to this problem: https://youtu.be/zqmOSMAtadc?si=UUlmnk9sI-leq0SV But of course, American infrastructure was built on t…

Right, and good luck getting a correct bill from Azure. And when you are finally fed up, it will take months to close your Azure account.

When something surprises and delights me, I tell it. Why not, it lifts my own mood to say something nice.

Yeah, sure totally the same thing, dude.

Yeah, at $WORK, the incident doc has a section for corrective actions. And they mostly get done, but having them struggle for priority with regular work is a problem. Also, it occu…

Cheese warehouse: the feta buckets always leaked onto to wooden pallets, making an unholy stink. My step dad's worst was shoveling iron shot used to grind cement out of the grinder…

Those who do not learn from history... probably don't make gloves.

You might enjoy the book Escher Gödel Bach, the Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter, which will open up the world, power, and "danger" of proofs using contradiction to you. …

Discrete math and Algorithms were two of my favorite college classes. They were really the only part of computer science that was mind blowing. The rest was software engineering, w…

War is a racket.