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lockedinspace··on Gonzalo Guerrero
Fun fact, Gonzalo means warrior
lockedinspace··on Interconnecting SAP, On-Premises and AWS
Of course if you route everything through the public internet layer, you are not doing anything good to your business security measures. That shouln't be a considered option, not even the last one in the list.

You can use a Direct Connect [1] option if you want a dedicated connection between your data center and AWS. Its more secure, but more hard-to-maintain and a bit more costly than VPN option.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/aws-vpc-conne...

lockedinspace··on Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230
Duck tape FTW, sometimes, simple things achieve the best results.
lockedinspace··on Satoshi Nakamoto identity revealed? HBO claims it
What about a combination of those? Working like a group seems another option...
lockedinspace··on Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)
Love these easter eggs, makes you not forget we are all humans
lockedinspace··on Ask HN: Digital Footprint
I always wonder my internet footprint will last until earth is no more than a lava planet or the bitrot... Intrigues me that somewhere, there will be a server holding your contributions to projects.
lockedinspace··on NASA spacecraft to probe possibility of life in Europa's salty ocean
Yes, and if that occurs during our lifetimes, that's the jackpot.

I would guess that now it's quite unlikely, we might be an ant colony far, far away from others. Finding specific biota or small organisms seems like our most effective approach.

lockedinspace··on NASA spacecraft to probe possibility of life in Europa's salty ocean
Space is undeniably fascinating, and it's completely natural to be captivated by the search for extraterrestrial life. However, the key point I want to emphasize is this:

    Our existence proves that life is possible.
While discovering life elsewhere would indeed be extraordinary, it is ultimately within the realm of possibility. What would be truly remarkable is making such a discovery within our lifetimes—that would be the real stroke of luck, rather than the mere fact that life exists.
lockedinspace··on Renderings Created with Only a Pencil
Cool, interesting, art is something else! No words needed :)
lockedinspace··on Why is it so hard to share links on LinkedIn?
Maybe I am overlapping my personal experience with others, but since I have a small number of connections, my job requests from recruiters in LI are normally optimal, quite elaborate and high-quality.
lockedinspace··on Why is it so hard to share links on LinkedIn?
>You would think so, yes, but it's not how things work in the end.

Maybe a high number of connections causes a better first-impression, but if the candidate does not know how to write or articulate a word makes things much harder. Overall, seeing how a person expresses their ideas in their natural language gives you a better impression of how a person thinks/operates.

Which in the end matters, cause you are dealing with persons, not statistics.

For first instance recruiters, having a large number of people in your LI can get you into the first recruitment stage, but you won't pass if you don't know how to communicate, express and confront ideas, that's how it works.

lockedinspace··on Why is it so hard to share links on LinkedIn?
Fortunately quite many, maybe cause my sector is highly demanded, but having 1k,2k or whatever number of connections is not a metric for a lookable candidate. Years of experience, your github projects, open-source contribs are valuable metrics IMHO.

Maybe recruiters after all also look a the connection number, could be, but its like saying a photographer is better than other cause he just simply posts more pictures.

lockedinspace··on Why is it so hard to share links on LinkedIn?
That correlation between connections and being good/bad it's utterly useless. Would you take more into consideration a person who has more connections than other even tho they have the same resume?

Saying this cause connections can be fakely increased so it's a dumb metric that shows pretty much nothing.

Would think it's more useful seeing how that person expresses themselves or which posts shares rather than how many people has accepted into their "network".

lockedinspace··on The Beginning of the End for Terraform?
There's already a fork, OpenTofu https://opentofu.org/
lockedinspace··on Lessons on building business value
> That is, if there's resistance to open and honest meetings within your teams, most probably it's because historically open and honest has not been a safe bet within that organization.

That sums it up.

lockedinspace··on Lessons on building business value
Makes quite a lot of sense if you think about that. Most juniors could change their perspective cause someone in the meeting who they admire says otherwise.

Of course, always backed up by actual data.

lockedinspace··on Lessons on building business value
Again, lessons are outside of what Amazon brings to the world. Those lessons can be applied into almost all type of business, and that's the value which bring.

Note there are no advices regarding, exploiting, abusing or not-paying extra hours.

lockedinspace··on Lessons on building business value
Guess its a matter of acclimating your work force, on first iterations it could cause damage but over time they will gladly take it for granted.
lockedinspace··on Lessons on building business value
Those are also some good points
lockedinspace··on Lessons on building business value
Seems like your case is out of what Amazon preaches. Of course not everything is perfect, I am just listing some interesting points.
lockedinspace··on CatalaLang/catala: Programming language for law specification
Thought this was realated to the Catalan western romance language. Naming could confuse some Spanish and French users.
lockedinspace··on The Deep Sea (2019)
Very cool infographic, shared amongst my peers.
lockedinspace··on We have broken SHA-1 in practice
Or a distributed botnet, seems more feasible.
lockedinspace··on AWS Creates New Policy-Based Access Control Language Cedar
You can simulate a policy with AWS IAM Policy Simulator
lockedinspace··on Multi-Account Containers
Cargo containers from those big ships are well-known and people can assume that each container brings a set of homogeneous items. The word "container" pictures an isolated thing, which is what the add-on provides.
lockedinspace··on General guidance when working as a cloud engineer
Yep, let's not forget that Murphy's Law, whenever you least expect it, boom.
lockedinspace··on General guidance when working as a cloud engineer
Seems reasonable, but if you work for a large company, you can't guarantee that a major release (which is a production change) won't cause any unexpected harm. I have worked with quite bit organizations, and deployed on Friday and wasted my entire Friday-night and Saturday morning, rolling back the +130 components that an app had.

If you are a small company, or you do not do extra weekend shifts, I understand your point. Elsewhere, you just want to live an adventure every Friday.

lockedinspace··on General guidance when working as a cloud engineer
Maybe I was a bit vague in the fault tolerance statement. What I mean is to have a high availability in your services, e.g: using AWS ASG for your servers, having more than one replica for your Kubernetes pods.

If one of the servers/pods fail, the process behind detects them as "unhealthy" (having a nice monitoring/alarming as you mentioned) and replaces them with a new server with the same software characteristics so, for the end-user, SO, your client. Nothing has changed, the load just moved to a single instance for about 5-10 mins until a new server was deployed.

lockedinspace··on General guidance when working as a cloud engineer
A helpful list of things to have in mind when working with anything tech related.
lockedinspace··on Ask HN: Do you use music when coding/working with computers?
Have you tried ambience music, it's not "music" per se, just relaxing or fitting sounds for your brain. You can choose a huge variety of ambient sounds, but in general it helps setting a mood when youre working.
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