LimaBearz

I've been noticing something similar in the gaming industry as well. What is the least amount of features in a game that we can ship while still maintaining profit? AND how few people can we milk in DLC with this shell of a game to maintain profitability. (I'm looking at you Activision/Blizzard!)

It use to be build a great game with mass appeal and profit. Now its just how small can we make it and how much DLC can we sell to a small subset of people to equal profit.

I'm in that same boat, no pun intended. I've been waiting for the maritime announcement for awhile for my SV. I was very disappointed that they only announced commercial service.

I'd happily pay a huge premium for a gyroscoped dish, that monthly cost tho....

I've been doing since graduating and I'm middle age now. Its not a new phenomenon.

In 07 I was very young and worried about the economy; when expressing my concerns to an older coworker said "dont ever worry, we've always been and always will be in demand". He was right. I jumped ship 3 times during the last recession, all with big bumps in pay. I've never worried about finding work, so much so that if pressed I know I can secure 2-3 offers after a week of looking

But to answer your direct question I think its three fold:

* No one wants a junior in production so unless you're well established and can burden the cost of one good luck getting in

* The educational path is very informal and unless you're going for this type of work specifically you're not learning what you need to be

* Most SWE's dont make good devops (sorry thats a fact no offense meant to anyone)

Slightly maybe but split tunnel would avoid that. If it was full I'd expect to see an increase from popular cloud hosting regions (if it was a prod vpn) or if corporate VPN's their home offices (which would show as a net zero change)

You're absolutely right. Its an interesting solution to the problem but I'm not sure what additional benefit this solution bought them that isn't covered by standard paradigm of VPN w/ role based access controls. (at least for user access)

They did however correctly identify the fact Jenkins is pretty much the holy grail of targets for bad actors and hackers. Failing to identify this has caused more then fair share of known hacks (to not Jenkins specifically but any build/automation system that has the required insane levels of access).

A strict VPN locked down and for external ingress access of automated actions a restrictive proxy sitting on the edge significantly lowers the attack surface. Operationally also much cheaper to maintain.

I had to go through this process once. Large multi-national didn't wanna do the whole paying the state thing(thats reasonable) and I was the only employee moving to that state.

They ended up classifying me as a "contractor" working under one of their existing agency relationships but aside from who signed my paycheck there was no distinction

No. The previous guy installed people in the DOE that made it virtually impossible to forgive the loans even after they jumped through all the hoops to qualify under the law.

All Biden's administration is doing here is ungumming people who were eligible years ago. This is cleanup from the prior administration

Well I share your feelings toward the whole situation for sure but I'm not sure that just building more will do much of anything. As long as we have folks buying with the intention of parking money or using homes as an "investment" you're going to have competition with much deeper pockets.

This outside competition detaches local prices from the local economy. Likewise the speculation sets an anchor(comp) for neighboring homes when they go to sell. One investor overpaying by say 100K.. well now next month if Average Joe wants to sell he can now ask the same or more. Rinse and repeat just a few times and you get to where we are today.

Is it so far fetched to assume some realtors may be juicing the bidding to increase their own commission and to make their firm more uhh "prestigious" by being able to drive up the price for their own marketing purposes further down the line.

Likewise if you dont know who you're bidding against, how do you even know the bidder is even real (foreign or not)? Transparency is good thing.

While there may be some "scarcity" not having full transparency and realtors not in alignment with their own clients needs is a step in the right direction.

(I use scare quotes here because while I know we're not building enough but the current market has a fair share of retail speculation, institutional investors inflating prices, and homes held as purely places to mark money(non-owner occupied). Scarcity is real and building does need to happen, but thats slow and expensive. Millions of homes are kept empty or as poor speculative investments and thats a problem)

Flip it. If I buy a monitor why can't I plug it into any computer I want? Same thing no?

They all follow interoperability standards that have been around decades and that customers have come to expect as normal. Vendor lockin here isn't an "innovation" customers want

Not defending the situation of a preStop hook at least in the case of API's k8s can handle it 100%, its just messy.

We have a preStop hook of 62s. 60s timeouts are set in our apps, 61s is set on the ALBs (ensuring the ALB is never the cause of the hangup), and 62s on the preStop to make sure nothing has come into the container in the last 62s.

Then we set a terminationGracePeriodSeconds of 60 just to make sure it doesn't pop off too fast. This gives us 120s where nothing happens and anything in flight can get to where its going.

What gets me is even if the number was significantly smaller the fallout effect is massive. A common argument I've heard defending the practice is "well they didn't buy that many homes, it was just a small portion of total sales" ...implying that its not a big deal.

Lets no argue the truthiness of that statement but look at it as stated. They buy one house within a 10-20 mile radius away from you and they do so aggressively paying 20-30%+ over the pre-bubble price (think early pandemic times when prices were more realistic then they are now)

Well now thats the anchor price on comps for the next guy just looking to sell his house. Rinse and repeat a few times with anchored expectations on an inflated value and we have runaway prices.

Absolutely, but there is some laissez faire'ness on the producers side as well. A few of the publicly traded builders in earning calls by their own admittance have touted restricting supply of already built inventory purely to protect their high profit margin.

We definitely need to build more, though the producer "market" is failing a bit also