bigfatfrock

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I'm into making software engineering suck less - specifically on the infrastructure/ops side. Twenty+ year history creating open source mostly web-based software solutions in varying languages, along with ops/infra implementations to ship them.

Some things that have me especially fired up lately: Containers Local open source ML Tech support for senior citizens Automation Overlanding

Feel free to reach out: sup at metal dot sh

"Hoy por ti, mañana por mi"

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Comment · 1 year ago
> Makes me wonder if there will be a "thirty years discolored" version as well, if you want to print a piece to replace something broken... or can you just leave it out in the sun for a couple weeks or something?

Would probably just need to make this part of a build loop where you send it through a high intensity light/heat cycle such as when they beat up jeans for purchase by people who buy those.

"Would you prefer the color tone of the 1977 Apple II or perhaps a 1980 Apple III?"

Comment · 1 year ago
If only middle management and project managers the world over had such a positive perspective!
Comment · 1 year ago
Super interesting, thank you for your candid post - keep crushing in life as it sounds like you already are, good person! Hope you are staying healthy.
Comment · 1 year ago
Is this series of replies some kind of negative reinforcement learning LLM training at work?
Comment · 1 year ago
Great deep dive, I've been actively curious about some of the results you found that present themselves similarly in infra setups I run or have run previously.

This kind of miffs also:

> AWS doesn’t describe how failure is distributed for gp3 volumes

I wonder why? Because it affects their number of 9s? Rep?

Comment · 1 year ago
^ Poetry! If only we had linters for all the yaml spaghetti out there in ops land.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm a huge fan of HN just for replies such as this that smash the OP's post/product with something better. It's like at least half the reason I stick around here.

Thanks for the great read.

Comment · 1 year ago
Had absolutely no idea Kagi was working on a browser, incredible. Thanks!

I might not even have to rely on a VPN into my house with a DNS blackhole anymore...

Comment · 1 year ago
Sorry for the dude that built their infra and was really tired and then woke up to this, what a bummer.
Comment · 1 year ago
I converted along with most of the people in this thread.

IMO no really hard problem is ever truly solved but as can be seen in other comments, this group of people really crushed the pain of me and *many* others, so bravo alone on that - you have truly done humanity a service.

Comment · 1 year ago
This was wild to contemplate and I was about to raise my finger and say "Really?! 'G&A' at that scale?!" but at the same time even if those kinds of roles are over-hired - they have to be responding to need and within a realm they found risk-averse.

Having said that I just have had the same kinds of questions/trouble as OP about Mozilla's wild spending and budget compared to seeing their devs at grungy linux confs in the midwest when I was an undergrad in the 00s.

You did help point out what I really wondered about also and didn't understand, so thanks.

Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you, that was an awesome laugh this morning, that request was genius:

> 2. Sub CAs Operated by 3rd Parties

> Honest Achmed's uncles may invite some of their friends to issue certificates as well, in particular their cousins Refik and Abdi or "RA" as they're known. Honest Achmed's uncles assure us that their RA can be trusted, apart from that one time when they lent them the keys to the car, but that was a one-off that won't happen again.

Comment · 1 year ago
Who's going to kick off the holy war around self hosting?
Comment · 2 years ago
Propel and Zero (the first options) both contain sucralose, aka Splenda - I'd prefer to just drink salt water personally, or take the hit on a tablespoon of sugar mixed in and walk it off.

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