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After working solely with AWS for 11+ years I managed to answer 3/20 correctly…What a relief.

Attempts to redirect blame to faulty procedures and policies is starting to seem like a weak argument when it really comes down to poor leadership and lack of foresight, which is a stretch to pin on a single person.

That said, I think the intentional choice to not use sirens was likely a good call in this case and an example of good leadership. If the community is conditioned to recognize the sirens for tsunami’s only maybe that’s where the reform should start. If they CAN be used for other things, can they have different sounds for different things. It doesn’t need to be complicated.

Can’t you already do this using their online account transcript? I’m not yet comfortable using that as the source of truth at this current time but it seems like they do let you at least view what was sent to them albeit in pretty raw form. It looks like all the forms are converted into dot-matrix printed text documents.

Just want to add a bit to round this out a bit more. Even if I were a manager for a team and I found out a member of my team was looking for work, why would I stop them? Frankly, I might even consider encouraging them to look. “See if you can find a better opportunity.” As a manager, I would ultimately want the best for them. It’s almost always in my best interest to let them search unless there are very clear and immediate actions I can take to keep them happy long term. Why keep an employee who’s not invested? That can do so much damage to a team, it’s hard to imagine until you experience it. Pay alone is not enough to motivate someone to stay long term. I think this is a common misconception because it’s often given in exit interviews as a cop out to avoid burning bridges. “I left because of pay” is often given as a reason because it’s just such an easy excuse to not really piss anyone off.

Way way more often, the case is either flat out bad management or misalignment of the employee expectations with management and/or organizational vision which is way way harder to quantify so thus, nobody does. In the latter, there are often performance issues anyway.

All that said, I’ve worked for companies and have also seen people fired just for simply “looking.” Usually this is a sign of clear toxicity in the company culture because the management ego was hurt when they found out their employee was disloyal. We all know the company would just kick an employee to the curb at the first sign of trouble so it’s unfair to expect anything else from an employee.

I understand the temptation to comment on the character of OP (against HN guidelines) but we don’t know anything about OP and should assume good faith and it’s entirely possible OP is new to the field. At face value, OP might think the right thing to do is “report it.” I have trust in the system that at worst, whoever they report it to will just say “ok, thanks for reporting” and the world simply shrugs and moves on.

Not a recruiter. You ignore it and keep it to yourself. Full stop. People look for jobs for any number of personal reasons.

Ok apple’s screen time is moderately broken. But why is no one talking about the absolute dumpster fire that is Google Family Link which is, by far, the most infuriating software product I’ve used in the last decade? I’ll spare HN the rant.

Nah, I like Xter better.

Purely another anecdote from my own personal experience, When watching anything on a TV screen I never feel like I have the same tangible connection with what I’m viewing.

There’s some innate connection that happens when I make real eye contact with another mammal only feet away from me. You can’t really earn the respect for nature or the respect of nature from a documentary.

Honestly it’s this same lack of connection I get on Zoom calls and I think it’s undervalued and difficult, if not impossible to measure.

I do think zoos have positively impacted many people, myself included, my kids (who are extremely passionate about taking care of the planet and animals partly due to their exposure). Of course I also feel the need to explain the business/darker side of zoos but young kids aren’t ready for the world to be so grim. They need to start learning coming from a place of optimism and hope. There will always be time for the other parts when they might actually be able to do something about it.

I’ve been using it in production for many years and I agree that it’s vastly simpler than kubernetes, by many orders of magnitude. I’m currently migrating off of it because I reached a point where I needed more enterprise-y features for not a ton of money such as rbac, federation, multi-tenant isolation, resource quotas, and less-often mentioned, hireability (it’s easier to hire for since more people have had exposure to it). HashiCorps enterprise products are also notoriously expensive.

Kubernetes has a lot of merits and open source community support which is attractive which means out of the box integrations are vast.

That said, Nomad builds in a lot of sensible default behaviors that are way way closer to production ready with significantly less effort. Many things in Nomad, with Consul and Vault “just work” like you’d expect. Some of it seems like magic.

Kubernetes on the other hand does almost nothing for you to make your custom app production ready out of the box. This means there’s a ton of room for error and incorrectly configured applications. CNIs, Ingress, PodAffinity, PodDisruptionBudgets, Services, HPAs, ServiceRoles, Secrets management are not defined for you and must be exactly correct or orchestrated in clunky and obscure ways, or a ton of effort needs to go into filling these gaps. “Just use EKS/GKE” quickly becomes a list of subsequent decision trees and you need to hope yoy made the right decision because if you don’t your choice will be deprecated in 6-9 months.

The two config options for Kubernetes are Helm/Kustomize Yaml. Both are great for quick POCs but at production scale are completely inferior to HCL and generally an absolute nightmare to work with on the day-to-day.

If I’m a team of one in a startup, I’d choose Nomad.

Yikes this travesty of a website with all the ads and popups makes this page impossible to read.

Kill me

Wait, if there’s a site I don’t want to see search results for I can just submit a DMCA?

Just order the item you want for store pickup before you leave and it’s usually ready by the time you get there. That’s my experience and it’s quite literally in-n-out.

Please let me continue with my unhealthy sedentary lifestyle and give me pharmaceuticals to keep me alive. /s