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OldFatCactuson Great White Sharks Are Terrified of Orcas

Are you suggesting the marks on sperm whales are made by an unknown creature? I thought they were understood to be made by Giant Squid

OldFatCactuson USS Pueblo

If I'm being charitable, anti-Israel sentiment. The conspiracy theory is that Israel did it deliberately

OldFatCactuson Two of America's biggest coal plants closed this month

Everyone needs power though. There is some form of energy generation going on and they are qualified to work on it with a little training for the specifics

OldFatCactuson Two of America's biggest coal plants closed this month

I used to work at a coal plant. The skillsets(mechanic, electrician, boiler, welding, labor, tech) have plenty of overlap with other types of plants. Workers regularly transferred to hydro and nuclear plants when necessary or for better opportunities. The majority of workers will be fine if they're willing to move to another region. The co-op or owner will oftentimes pay for the move

OldFatCactuson 'Alarming' loss of insects and spiders recorded

Neoliberal party?

OldFatCactuson Lack of cdnjs activity

still waiting on an answer as to why you felt the need lock the project down so that people actually contributing to it couldn't continue to do so. Seems like very poor stewardship of FOSS projects on your part.

OldFatCactuson Grafana Labs raises $24M

I don't have an easy way of sharing this but I'm free to answer any questions about it.

My process is 1. identify services that benefit from a generated dashboard (a service that I am running hundreds of instances of, for instance) 2. create the first dashboard by manually 3. export the dashboard to JSON and turn it into a jinja2 template 4. use ansible to access the cloud provider api to get whatever metadata I need to populate the now templated dashboard 5. store the updated dashboard as code and also push it to Grafana via API with Ansible

This is all automated and you can skip all the way to step 4/5 if you plumb this to your service build/delivery automation.

OldFatCactuson Grafana Labs raises $24M

Have you thought about adding dashboard generation to your build automation? This is something we've implemented with Ansible. When a new service is built, it generates a dashboard and pushes it to Grafana via the API.

Similarly, if the service is updated, it also generates a dashboard and updates the previous one (this is easy because the update is an UPSERT). You can do interesting things like modularize pieces of the dashboard and update those modules independently. They can then get pulled into the Jinja template during the update.

OldFatCactuson Grafana Labs raises $24M

Love your product! Can you build an official Mongo Atlas datasource? :)

OldFatCactuson Grafana Labs raises $24M

I use Ansible + Jinja2 templates to create and update my dashboards. Minor tweaks and changes can be pushed to hundreds of dashboards using the grafana API

OldFatCactuson Anti-union activity is heating up ahead of Google contractor's vote to unionize

You would get lazy having a 40 hour work week and 2 weeks paid vacation?

OldFatCactuson When we work out rigorously, our bodies limit our ability to expend energy

Source for this? Middle-aged runners look like they're in great shape. Evidence suggests long-distance running, if done correctly, has no adverse effects on the body. We've literally evolved for it

OldFatCactuson I got asked LeetCode questions for a dev-ops systems engineering job today

90% of my devops interviews have included a tech screen with some whiteboarding of a fundamental CS problem

OldFatCactuson Nearly 400 medical devices, procedures and practices found ineffective in study

the website you linked reads like homeopathic conspiratorial junk. I would be wary of anything they cite

OldFatCactuson Protecting Sleep in the Hospital, for Both Patients and Doctors

Is there a website or service that scores hospitals? Customer service, outcomes, incidents, and whatever other relevant data

OldFatCactuson SEC Charges Kik With Conducting $100M Unregistered ICO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augur_(software)

too few users to even be considered, in my opinion

OldFatCactuson Chrome extension manifest v3 proposal: comment from uBlock Origin author

I've been resisting the switch to Firefox but this is has finally compelled me to make the jump

OldFatCactuson The preachers getting rich from poor Americans

I grew up near the Falwell family's sphere of influence and I'm still stunned at the extent of their deceit. They effectively control a mid-tier city, a large private Christian university, and a huge voting bloc of conservative Christians

OldFatCactuson American life is improving for the lowest paid

Please edit your earlier post, it is misleading

OldFatCactuson U.S. adults are spending big on video games, playing mostly on smartphones

Not relevant. Article specifically points to casual games played on smart-devices. These aren't people frequenting internet cafes

OldFatCactuson Pixel 3a

Pretty standard marketing for all phones and "smart" devices these days

OldFatCactuson Smartphone shipments: Apple down 30%, Samsung down 8%, Huawei up 50%

I like to buy last year's Nexus at a steep discount

OldFatCactuson Julian Assange: Wikileaks co-founder jailed over bail breach

isn't he?

OldFatCactuson I'm Against Podcasts

ah oops I meant to respond to GP

OldFatCactuson I'm Against Podcasts

What's wrong with Gladwell? I love Revisionist History

OldFatCactuson Why Do People with Depression Like Listening to Sad Music?

catharsis

OldFatCactuson A Measles Case Hits Google's Silicon Valley Headquarters

I feel this way about college-educated adults that I meet that believe in Astrology. So nuts how many I've met since moving to New York

OldFatCactuson Hollywood Upended as Unions Tell Writers to Fire Agents

Does the LDAP group submit a Grievance to your org? Do they demand to be paid wages lost from your usurpation of their role? Apples to Oranges. Ftr I am pro-union but this is a uniquely union problem

OldFatCactuson Hollywood Upended as Unions Tell Writers to Fire Agents

Union vs union happens all the time on the worksite. Try changing lightbulbs at a factory without being part of the electricians union

OldFatCactuson Major Chinese-made web browsers are reportedly blocking 996ICU's GitHub repo

Russian, more likely