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No go if the pennies are fiat. Has to be crypto, blockchain, blugh blag blah.

Even more points if it's a centralized blockchain like the ones a16z are funding.

Much appreciated!

> Ansible has a very low barrier to entry in terms of dependencies that need to be installed into the machines you want to manage: they need to have python 2.6+ or python 3.5+, and you need to be able to connect to the machines over ssh.

I understand what you're saying but do understand that to other people these can be concepts that they arn't familiar with or might actively struggle with

That said - were there any obstacles you faced when you started with Ansible?

What could have been better (tooling/docs/training/etc) to get you upto speed better/faster?

I want to learn from you more.

What if I gave you 2 docker containers:

1. one with ansible loaded and ready to go

2. another one with just SSH running that you can point the above to and experiment with

If you don't know docker - that's ok! It's easy and I will set you up to do that. let me know

This way, you don't have to mess around with either installing ansible or setting up VMsVPS/hosts blah blah

> Much of the job that ansible or other config management tools might have done is handled by docker build to bake container images, and k8s to manage custom running services

OK but there has to be something that executes the docker build and then kicks the jobs off - right?

What's that tool at the $dayjob?

Do you think unqlite would be a better fit?

Have you looked at unqlite?

Do you think unqlite would be a better fit?

Have you looked at unqlite?

> why go through all the trouble of setting this up instead of just using AWS

1. Have you ever hosted something on AWS, for public consumption by parties not under your control, where you, personally were footing the bill?

2. Have you ever hosted something on AWS where a misconfiguration on your side and/or upset/impatient customer caused a bill so large that you had to shut the company down?

AWS will scale to fill your bank balance, irregardless of whether you can afford to pay for that scale. AWS is great for elasticity when you can afford to pay.

AWS has no functional bill limits, even after 10 years. For those who post a link to the AWS bill limits havn't actually handled any meaningful scale, at which point a set of dedicated servers is great value.

Would this be possible using SQLite:

- I point it to a bunch of JSON files on disk. They have similar schema but not exact (slight variations)

- I SQLite import them into one virtual table (I would rather not literally import them - think PostgreSQL JSON FDW)

- Then index certain fields so looking up records by certain fields is very fast (faster than having to "FTS" through all the files)

- Allow fuzzy text search on certain fields (say a field was company name and other fields were city, street and human names)

All the while (best case) not actually having to import the files into the DB (it's ok if the indices need to be rebuilt everytime)

> I meant that now we never hang out, we don’t trust each other any more, and code review has suffered as a result. > It’s especially hard for new people joining a team where baseline trust is basically equal to that of Internet stranger.

Huh. How's your hiring process like? Do you hire very young people?

The only time I've seen this happen is when the team used to work in a colocated manner, and then some members started to WFH. Eventually some of those people WFH got too tied into the "home" part of WFH and work suffered. Simultaneously other people in the office just started to treat those WFH as second class citizens as well. This really caused a mess.

If this is what you're seeing, the easiest solution is to just move to a remote only team.

If you want to stay, you need to have a good manager in place who understands these dynamics and can mitigate issues.

Ha ha haha - EXACTLY to the last dot!

I am terrified of where we are headed as a society. I get that writing blogs are more time consuming than tweeting but for the consumer - is this content really valuable in the long term?

> I don't have a Twitter account, but I view posts and threads simply by opening Twitter links in a private browser window. Does that not work for you all?

No. After a while there's a huge modal layer asking me to log in

> It’s more common than you think

I didn't say septics are uncommon. To ask you differently:

- How large was that plot (on which the septic system was installed)

- Was the septic system dedicated to your house or shared

- How large was that septic system