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circusfly··on Debugging (2003)
If the code in PROD was fine before the rollout, and there is a bug in the newly deployed code; then I was saying above to undo that deployment going back to the previous version then replicate the bug, preferably locally.

It seems like there a misunderstanding about what I wrote or there is a misunderstanding about how kube works and the misunderstanding isn't mine.

circusfly··on There's still life in the old combustion engine
It burns purple too.
circusfly··on Debugging (2003)
kubectl rollout undo deployment/foo then replicate. The article predates kube though.

If it can't be replicated, loop back to the reporter and seek any clarifying details. If that fails, then communicate to management the extremely high risk of attempting a fix.

circusfly··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)
I'm happy to get into a legacy Java stack and make it nice!
circusfly··on Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced
AI thanks you for your efforts.
circusfly··on AT&T Addresses Recent Data Set Released on the Dark Web
> Apparently they encrypted customer passwords instead of one-way hashing [1].

Pretty incredible, I use one way hashing for my own sites and I don't even have customers, just a couple of accounts I use when I want to demo something.

circusfly··on Are we heading back to Waterfall?
I Googled "online gantt tool" and there are whole companies that do nothing but Gantt charts. Pretty wild.
circusfly··on Are we heading back to Waterfall?
I saw a job posting for Aha! which bills itself as #1 product development software. It seems to be a mashup of a Gantt chart, web forums, virtual sticky notes, document database and a Kanban looking board, and they mention "AI" near the bottom.

I'm not against it but the whole thing does look quite anti-Agile to me, which might not be a bad thing.

circusfly··on How long till we get to Neptune? [pdf]
At the speed of the ISS, a very long time, pack tuna sandwiches.
circusfly··on XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable."
Down voted for asking a valid question? Or is every reader of every HN post expected to be an in depth expert in every article posted every minute of every day of the year? What kind of asshole who has earned the right to down vote comments on HN would down vote a legitimate question?
circusfly··on XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable."
Well, yes, I can, but unlike ssh which is open to the world, my VPN is only open to me and the family. It seems like that greatly reduces the potential attack surface.
circusfly··on XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable."
Could the backdoor have targeted Wireguard instead of ssh?
circusfly··on JetBrains keeps mum on 26 'security problems' fixed after Rapid7 spat
Originally I saw this at the following link but the title was editorialized from The Register's article:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1bqq79u/jetb...

circusfly··on Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
Waiting for the new YouTube videos on this. "Woah! Linux has a back door dudes!". My distribution, Ubuntu (now Kubuntu) 2022 isn't affected.
circusfly··on The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL
I've nothing against Postgres but MySQL is a wonderful option that is likely still in far higher and heavier use, when considering open source databases.
circusfly··on NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++
Could be, I can't remember when it didn't run well but WINE has improved greatly the past 5 years especially.
circusfly··on NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++
There's no need to. It installs, updates and runs exactly as it did on Windows, I use it every day.
circusfly··on NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++
I use Notepad++ every day, that WINE runs it is implicit, it's like running any other app. I love KDE but I'm not a fan of the Kate editor. Notepad++ even automatically checks for updates like it did on Windows, downloads it, installs it, etc. Works exactly the same. It's great.
circusfly··on NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++
I use Notepad++ on Linux, ran the installer, works, it auto updates just like it did on Windows, WINE enables it to run just fine. I use it every day for small files like my TODO, Notes and Scrap files.
circusfly··on NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++
Re-training propaganda: [only the JetBrains products should be used, repeat after me...].
circusfly··on A Return to Blu-ray as Streaming Value Evaporates
> Sure DVDs won't last forever

"No termination date. I didn't know how long we had together... Who does?"

circusfly··on GOP leaders unleash on Janet Yellen over $110B energy tax hike
Yes, I can't really fathom how much I've saved on fuel costs working remotely the past 15 years, it truly is astounding.
circusfly··on GOP leaders unleash on Janet Yellen over $110B energy tax hike
I wasn't expecting it, it's on the front page of one of the world's leading news organizations. Their main competitor CNN only has racially motivated stories on their front page today.
circusfly··on GOP leaders unleash on Janet Yellen over $110B energy tax hike
It looks like RTO (Return To Office) is going to get more expensive.
circusfly··on Joel Spolsky on Stack Overflow, Inclusion, and How He Broke IT Recruiting (2018)
The contract to hire contracts I've worked as a developer the past 30 years were either 3 month or 6 month periods and 40 hours per week.

No offense but I'd be highly suspicious of someone offering contract to hire only 10 hours per week, it doesn't sound like the company has much skin in the game.

circusfly··on A generalist AI agent for 3D video games
I'm not that great and the only way I died in NMS was playing with the Plasma launcher, turns out you can blow yourself up. Early game, hit C (I think) a lot to find O2 plants, Sodium, etc. Game runs amazing even on my 8 year old laptop which has an nvidia GPU.
circusfly··on Hurricane Electric Network Tools
Some of the listed tools looks useful here.
circusfly··on Singers become singers because they want to be singers, not because want to sing
"You know how Donald Trump loves the trappings of office but has no interest in the actual work of a president, doesn’t think about issues, and skates through by winging it?"

Comparing Trump who got things done for the America people to what we have in the White House now; clearly the rest of the linked document can be 100% discounted.

circusfly··on An engineer's design of intersections that require no traffic lights
Migrating to this no stop merging scheme seems like it would be safer than changing all intersections from traffic lights to roundabouts where the majority of the population (e.g. America) has never seen a roundabout.
circusfly··on An engineer's design of intersections that require no traffic lights
Doesn't it have an advantage over roundabouts in that the main traffic can keep moving at normal speed?
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