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All true. Life is so simple all of a sudden. Thanks!

Because I want to limit the impact of maxing out a creditcard to one environment. And I want engineers to be able to futz about with all cloud services available, without having to…

Yup - that works pretty well. And gives developers some insight into what is required to get stuff working. It does assume no hardware or complex networking needs to be handled. An…

Nice piece. Looking forward to Part II. What I am missing (often, in these type of articles as well as in actual production environments) is the fact that if you develop (infrastru…

> The Product Owner prioritises the backlog Note: This would require a _really_ good product owner that does not merely focusses on features, but also on feasibility and 'fitness f…

Which is exactly what the author writes. "Was it ever the right sollution? It depends."

From 2012.

Known problem. Here's the workarounds I use: https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/xps-13-9370-wakes-from-sleep... and https://askubuntu.com/questions/1029474/ubuntu-18-04-dell-xp... In …

Being in a simular situation what do you consider "reasonably large"?

> at least in the good times Exactly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_vaccine

Could it be possible that sometimes laws are immoral? And that companies, while following the letter of the law are in fact acting immoral too? Why defend those companies?

> Is it like making smallpox virus available, so it can be studied? You do realize that small pox was eradicated by introducing a malign version of small pox as a vaccine? Kinda li…

Cynefin helps answer these 'why' questions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework

sav·aged, sav·ag·ing, sav·ag·es 1. To assault ferociously. 2. To attack without restraint or pity: The critics savaged the new play. That is exactly what Rutger Bregman did with hi…

This gave me words for that uncomfortable feeling: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-...

I've started to migrate 18 years of email history to Fastmail, after running my own mail infra for almost 2 decades. I am not impressed. Folders moved in the webinterface show up u…

OT: I wish Youtube / technology in general had an option to filter out noisy background music.

Well, he is the God of Mischief (in the Marvelverse anyway).