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My teammates create e-mail filters to send useless daily e-mail reports to the trash. I try to find out who controls the e-mail process, or the e-mail address, or something, so I c…

So then shouldn't we stop writing software? If it's really impossible to make software that doesn't have tons of bugs, yet it's perfectly possible to make hardware without those bu…

It can work this way (that's how software patches have historically worked) but if you don't test it from the beginning, you will still find the odd case where that added step is b…

That's basically what the do-nothing script is. The difference is that before you write any automation, you document all the steps in the script. Right there - when you've got it a…

What about the do-nothing script do you find is different than a checklist? To me the whole thing is already a checklist, there just aren't check-boxes.

> If you only install a webserver once in a blue moon, make a .txt checklist of the steps you followed. This brings up a very important point about checklists that I don't think ge…

In construction, if the foreman / lead whoever is always angry, people get fearful of speaking up about something, and then more mistakes get made because nobody wanted to point ou…

You could call it an "E-I Script" for Efficiency Interest Script. Over time your costs are gradually lowered as each step is automated - like accruing interest in a savings account…

This is the way. I wish this were taught in computer science class, development bootcamps, operations team onboarding, anywhere there is a procedure that is even slightly complicat…

How is it not a fair comparison? They're machines. Just because we are currently building them in a way that is incredibly fragile and needs constant fixes, does not mean they have…

These kind of organizational problems happen everywhere, that doesn't bug me. What bugs me is when leadership knows about it and doesn't care. After low-level engineers stick their…

Why do your machines need monthly updates? Do you constantly update any other machine that you own? Lawnmower, car, oven, microwave, bicycle, watch, reciprocating saw, vaccum, gara…

Is Apple still the only company you can pay for both hardware and software support? Because all I want is to drop down a couple grand and never have to think about "computer mainte…

I guess not if they're based in Estonia?

"MangoDB is a proxy which uses PostgreSQL as a backend. The proxy translates MongoDB wire protocol commands into SQL queries, and use PostgreSQL as storage." You don't have to supp…

It's not a philosophical difference, it's just complexity. More complex systems are more prone to failure. If the security system is more complex to set up, it's more likely to fai…

I've always used whereis instead of which anyway. More useful info out of one command.

Trying to secure a container via non-VM means is a painful slog. You can pretend containers give you security, and then one of the hundreds of different attack vectors provides a b…

I don't think there's ever been a year without a half dozen privesc holes in the Linux kernel. Linus is also belligerently anti-security because he thinks it always results in wors…

It's important to understand that containers are not a security device. Containers are a mechanism to separate resources used by processes. You should not assume any significant se…

> if { = 0 == 1 } then { What in the heck is that first '=' for?

A job does not care about you. Always care for your own health and life interests above all business interests. You should not quit immediately, and instead job-hunt so you can get…

> Sadly, when the 1% of the time hits this also means that nobody on the team has built up the DBA skills required for the big hairy problem. I see this pattern repeated all the ti…

Nearly every single modern technology that exists, I have been trying to get away from for years. In fact, most technologies aside from the ones that maintain our houses (which are…