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> That's where the message gets lost.

I think that message is loud and clear.

At what point does this violate the Possee Comitatus ?

From my perspective militarizing the police crossed the line some time ago

Yet every crisis the 1% seem to make more... very opportunistic of them to leverage our society and not give back

I think shell is the most plagiarized code in existence.

So many sysadmins have rudimentary skills and simply copy what works.

I have seen some folks with huge repos of code snippets like that

I wonder how many wars we would have if soldiers were allowed to pillage like they did back in the day ?

Civilized war is silly

So some of us think the govt is no longer serving the public.

That would play into this

Wish there was an insightful comment to make here about hope for the future but I just cant think of one

Nature has a way of winning the long game. I fear vaccines overall will soon lose momentum much like antibiotics have.

Both are really new medical technologies in the scope of life.

But it does point out the fact we are doing damage to prevent damage.

The curves do intersect and likely already have

Testing and tracing doesnt change the fact that everyone will need to be exposed at some time.

A vaccine isnt likely

How does a great depression level event benefit society ?

When you tell everyone to stay home its not an individual you are impacting. You are damaging the entire social structure to prevent damage to the social structure.

Is the cure worse than the disease ? Prove the disease is worse because you are supposed to have due process to remove rights.

Interesting test of the bill of rights isnt it ?

Where is the balance ?

Individual not being able to work and feed his family vs some of society getting sick and those who had pre existing conditions sometimes dying.

How do you predict what is worse ?

If you read about the impact of the great depression it makes covid look rather trivial. Do we repeat the great depression and is that for the benefit of society as a whole ?

>What's the issue if they're closed for a few weeks?

If you think a few weeks is all its going to take you arent paying attention to the lack of testing capacity or the lack of a viable vaccine.

6 months minimum and likely 18 months is how long things will take to get testing or a vaccine in place ( if one is actually viable )

How many weeks have already passed ?

Not sure why you are downvoted.

Its likely there wont ever be an effective vaccine and folks seem to want to quarantine us until that happens.

At some point people are going to have to be exposed

I would assume Zoom is banned at many corporate offices. I can name two not published

I work with some Indians and heard them talk about kids in the street playing "corona tag" ....

Perhaps a lockdown might prevent those sorts of things ?

Try tunneling things thru VOIP packets and see if you notice a difference

They work for google, however there just arent many companies with the resources of google.

If you had a small army of SRE and seriously senior devs / devops you could easily manage containers.

If you are just stuck on running containers and k8s I suggest you leverage their resources and get to GKE

But then releasing k8s might just have been the plan to get people into GKE instead of AWS

Who am I to speculate on googles marketing acumen ?

Good read for you

http://boringtechnology.club/

I'll leave this one alone as opinionated experienced guys get like that for a reason

There is some merit to that but what I see over and over is companies try to use too much.

Most menial tasks senior guys have figured out how to automate. We hate menial repetitive tasks and find ways to eliminate them so the ROI of having a senior guy is yes payroll is higher but you have less headcount.

There really isnt anything new being done. Containers have been around for ages ( Solaris doms / freebsd jails )

What I see is companies prematurely optimizing by saying they need portability and multi cloud strategies before they have achieved profitability.

Multi cloud is expensive and difficult and if you don't have a successful business you really don't need it to be portable.

Just some observations from someone watching various business models

I am experienced and biased because of that obviously but I have seen so many train wrecks created with this method.

The amount of waste in corporate american and startups is insane. IMO

There are solutions experienced folks know that save so much money when you look at the big picture it always baffles me when I see that..

The other thing that baffles me is when a CIO makes choices based off of things he has read online instead of taking the business need and finding the most economical solution

If you are interested in making money finding technical solutions with known failures is the key. Experience always knows those.

Just a perspective and comment to an opposing. Not arguing.

>1. Hiring in tech has definitely not gone to zero, even for the junior-level roles we skew towards.

This always makes me curious. Why do companies look for junior levels instead of senior ?

It seems to me that with the choice you would want experience if it was an option.

Disclaimer : am employed not looking for work simply perspective

Living in AZ all summer long you have heated water for cold. The metal tanks sitting on top of mountains are great water heaters.

During the winter its a bit colder but still nothing like the well water back in the midwest. Well water bidet would cause hypothermia to your anus

Californias GDP compared to the rest of the world tells a different story than what you are telling here.

k8s came from where ?

Containers ( cgroups ) came from where ?

Hashicorp is the standard for devops

Elon and Tesla took a curve out of IT but guess where they started ?

Your few startups are nice but the technology they run on is built in SV and that continues to be the place of innovation regardless of VCs trying to spark it elsewhere.

Yes other areas are innovating but SV does remain one of the most innovative area if not the main one. Everything else pales in comparison

If HN had content worth paying for they could charge for it.

Terraform has some good presentations on it.

At least the conference they had presented this material. I might have it saved somewhere and will look around and reply if I remember

If someone gave you a set of unassembled Ikea stuff and you didn't know if you could use it until you assembled it.

Who should pay for the assembly of the stuff ?

Would you put it together for free just to decide ?

Who pays for the used resources ?

When you work in SV its really common to ask a question on an internal company mailing list and get a reply from the developer contributing that feature to the kernel / filesystem / DB

It was a bit unnerving the first time it happened but you have access to so many people like that and you are around it daily.

You constantly find out about new things from your buddy over at the other company who tells you about something they are working on that is a completely new product.

Not to mention when something hits mainstream outside SV its aging in SV and soon will likely be obsolete

Example you might not know this but k8s is googles borg lite and everyone who has been around the valley has ran into someone who worked on it for years.

You simply don't have that experience outside SV...Not to mention things considered common knowledge in SV isnt common outside... eg I still have to explain to people why ITIL doesnt work with Agile DevOps ever since I left.

My problem when I WFH is I work too much.

You need an office to go to so work is isolated from home

SV companies are constantly trying to get you to move back to the area after you leave.

Talent outside the bay lags behind so its not as desirable for those companies. Not to mention the valley culture is a bit guild like