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Re: Interview with Jeff Geerling

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Post by user_7832 »

kelnos wrote: post #97
user_7832 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your reply. I'm curious to know if your views have changed in the years/decade(s) since. (I'm asking specifically because there appear to be a few logical flaws in some of the arguments in one of your blog posts from 2009, at the risk of going significantly off topic for this HN thread)

Not only is it off-topic, but I don't think anyone is likely to learn anything interesting from a reply, and the most likely outcome is an abortion-related flamewar. I don't agree with Jeff's 2009 views on abortion, but it's not really relevant to the work he's done here, and neither is whether or not he's changed his mind in any way about it.

I mostly agree with your point about it being off topic. However I wonder what decides what’s the threshold to separate the art from the artist metaphorically speaking. Not that I don’t think the different shades of grey shouldn’t be discussed in general, but if this was someone else with more controversial issues (eg Stallman) the discussion would be different, and some/many wouldn’t have considered that off topic to the discussion. Anyway, such things are fortunately not critical. (Fwiw I’m not particularly for or against what Jeff has written from an ideological view)

Re: Interview with Jeff Geerling

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Post by obscurette »

mikece wrote: post #84
criddell wrote: post #83

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That's true, but there really aren't that many power tool companies: https://www.protoolreviews.com/power-tool-manufacturers-who-...

And that doesn't account for brands like Harbor Freight who clearly are having their tools made by someone else but they refuse to say who is making their Bauer and Hercules lines.

And it doesn't seem to account many brands from Europe and Asia.

Re: Interview with Jeff Geerling

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Post by sureglymop »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #37

In I think 2019 or 2020, I found some of Jeff's stuff online. I realized I actually had a pi in a box somewhere I'd won in a hackathon way back when. Set it up. I'd been doing a lot of linux sysadmin stuff in the past and kinda missed having a server I could upload stuff to. I set up a blog and some other stuff. Got lured into Jeff's cluster shenanigans and got a few more pis and set up a tiny cluster with various se…

So that's the origin of your search engine! Wow. Both Jeff and you are amazing. Keep it up and keep building cool stuff. :)

Re: Interview with Jeff Geerling

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Post by xnzakg »

mikece wrote: post #82
geerlingguy wrote: post #57

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I hate it :( At least with the tools, if you pick a brand like DeWalt or Milwaukee... they have been around for decades and will stay around for decades, and the tools don't just die if the company gets bought out. Well, at least until 'smart' tools start getting forcibly pushed into the market. But Internet connectivity is bad enough in many construction environments that it might never happen (we can hope...).

Having done a bunch of research into top-end Milwaukee, DeWalt, Makita, Bosch, Hilti, etc tools I've learned that the tools themselves have management circuitry that talks to the circuitry in the battery (which is monitoring remaining charge, temperature, and a lot of other variables) and the tool and battery can negotiate bursts of electrical current based on the work that is happening (like hammer drilling into con…

> (Oh and Japan mandates a particular kind of battery-to-device interface that isn't required anywhere else in the world which is why Makita batteries look different than everyone else's...)

This is interesting, got any sources?

Re: Interview with Jeff Geerling

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Post by theodric »

airstrike wrote: post #109
theodric wrote: post #100

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If - to paraphrase the other folks before me - it causes more annoyance than it does good, then the fact that one can spend more effort undoing its damage after the fact is, in fact, a bug rather than a feature.

But you're only hearing from the people who are annoyed enough to write a comment complaining about it. Many other users (such as myself) may be +1 or +0 on the functionality, in which case you can't conclude that "it causes more annoyance than it does good". You'd need to know user's preferences (if you're solving for that) or the value HN admin attributes to the feature vs. the value they attribute to the cost impo…

Fair enough.

Re: Interview with Jeff Geerling

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Post by TheNewsIsHere »

riffic wrote: post #27

the Mansible of Ansible

I’m going to start referring to Jeff this way.

I bought a used print copy of his book during lockdown and bought the digital copy to directly support him.

He’s a good writer on the page as well as a good hands-on/interactive instructor.

Re: Interview with Jeff Geerling

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Post by TheNewsIsHere »

emptysongglass wrote: post #105
kelnos wrote: post #95

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I tend not to take seriously the opinions of people who call others who use open source software according to the terms of its license "freeloaders". (And I say this as an open source developer myself, who has spent thousands of hours writing code for free.) If you want to side with Red Hat on this, fine, but it's not necessary to exaggerate the actions of those with an opposing view to the point that you're trying t…

I also don't believe in defending big corporate but Jeff's takes were wildly out of touch with what was actually happening. I do not love Red Hat or any corporation and I think their messaging could have been a lot better but I don't think the people who together make up Alma or Rocky acted in any way in good faith and I do find their desire to have everything hand prepared for them by Red Hat spoiled behavior. The s…

I had some very early, somewhat tangential, and long-discontinued involvement in the very early days of Rocky. Before CIQ was even a thing.

Generally speaking, the people who did the work to found RESF weren’t doing so in order to have someone else do their work for them and just rebrand it. There was a terrific amount of work that happened because a huge community of users had just had the rugged pulled out from under them.

(To be very clear, on a personal level I have some deep and stringently opposed views to some people in the RESF/CIQ ecosystem. I’m not offering any unconditional or personal defenses.)

Jeff’s takes were some of the most measured of the disagreement with Red Hat’s moves that I’ve seen.

Re: Interview with Jeff Geerling

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Post by alphabettsy »

eliaspro wrote: post #98
criddell wrote: post #49

> It’s like the tool world: I use DEWALT mostly, because the first tool I bought was a DEWALT. So you gotta use the DEWALT battery, and then you’re like, well, I could buy this cheaper tool, it’s better. But then it won’t work with my battery. So now I have something like 25 DEWALT tools. Oh man, this is something I wish the EU would work on fixing. There's no reason there couldn't be a battery standard.

Bosch opened their battery ecosystem, branded as "Bosch AmpShare" together with Fein and Rothenberger, which covers now more than 25 brands: https://www.ampshare.com/us/en/

Do they own all of the brands though?

Re: Interview with Jeff Geerling

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Post by TheBozzCL »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #37

In I think 2019 or 2020, I found some of Jeff's stuff online. I realized I actually had a pi in a box somewhere I'd won in a hackathon way back when. Set it up. I'd been doing a lot of linux sysadmin stuff in the past and kinda missed having a server I could upload stuff to. I set up a blog and some other stuff. Got lured into Jeff's cluster shenanigans and got a few more pis and set up a tiny cluster with various se…

lol that’s very similar to what’s been happening to me: I have a 6-Pi cluster at home, running Docker Swarm + Portainer + GlusterFS to host a series of services I use daily. That includes a blog that I’ve been afraid to post to because the project grew so big I wouldn’t even know where to start.
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