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This article and the one before it are based on a paper in nature that says if the seas rise 10ft-23ft that New Orleans is screwed. Notably it does not predict this, just says that if sea levels rise the city is screwed. Which it is!

But so is lower Manhattan, Miami, 60% of the land in the Netherlands, almost all of Bangladesh, along with numerous other places.

Now 3m-7m is vastly higher than any current predictions, but hey lets scare monger about a single city!

The DIY part of the solar market and now most none Tesla options have moved towards Lithium Phosphate batteries, particularly in rack mount format. They're denser and way easier to handle then lead acid.

30kwh of batteries is about $10k wholesale, and inverters run about $1500, although most of the time you need 2 if you want to supply 240v.

Sample system: https://signaturesolar.com/off-grid-eg4-system-13kw-120-240v...

What's being skipped over in a lot of reporting is that Southwest has serious issues maintaining ground staff staffing, and has been struggling with that the entire pandemic because they refuse to pay market rate. This means that planes can't be unloaded and turned around in any reasonable amount of time. I gave up completely on southwest after I was stuck on a plane for 4 hours this summer, because of lack of ground crew to unload the planes, and thus planes were stuck on the tarmac.

Add on to that the latest technology woes, the storm was just the thing that tipped over a company that had cut operational capacity to the bone.

This is gonna be hard, I’d honestly look at fly.io.

But argocd hooked up to each provider along with provider specific overrides should work with enough tweaking.

A lot of the “finops” practitioners I’ve seen are myopically focused on tagging of AWS resources; and that falls to pieces with kubernetes because AWS can’t see inside the kubernetes clusters.

I’m not surprised they don’t like it.

My FiL works in the industry on large projects, and the word from suppliers is that in Jan, prices should drop 50% from where ever Dec ends up, as there is going to be a ton of supply.

They were repeatedly warned by local groups, international NGOs and the US State Department that the speech was inciting violence. They refused to do anything and it escalated into a pogrom.

While it's not exactly the same as ITAR, NZ already allows citizens of five eye countries to get security clearances without any ties to NZ.

So I would imagine that from NZs perspective it wouldn't be a big deal to let foreigners work on export controlled projects.

I dislike it personally because it robs any agency on the part of the locals and ascribes everything happening because of Westerners. I think the simplistic view presented in textbooks is wrong. Sykes-Picot never really came into effect and as much as the British/French tried to control the area their attempts at control were co-opted by savvy local nationalist parties to establish local nation states after the collapse of the Ottoman empire.

The map of the modern day middle east has more in common with Ottoman Provinces then it does with the Lines of Control that Sykes-Picot proposed. Now I am not trying to absolve the west of all it's guilt, it did a number of shitty and horrific things, but I think the narrative that the West screwed up the Middle East ignores both a significant history of conflict in the area over land and resources, as well as the political situation on the ground being influenced more by locals then outsiders. I am also not saying that colonialism is not a horrific thing, I think that efforts elsewhere(Africa, Asia) started earlier and were more heavy handed.

The reason why Sykes-Picot appeals to so many people is that it provides a simplistic political narrative for why the region is so messed up, and allows blame to be shifted on a politically convenient scapegoat. Hopefully as we shift away from the "Great Man"(and I think Westerners trying to impose their will on the Middle East were bad folks) theory of history we will come to view these simple theories as useless and try to understand the nuance of how the modern Middle East came to be as not something that two Westerners in 1917 could ever hope to dictate.

Honestly to explain the nuance of the situation would take too long and isn't super easy to reduce to right and wrong. The background required to understand how syria came to be is not something that can be sufficiently and succinctly explained in a comment thread.

Attempts to simplify it run into the exact issues you've noticed above. You're bias comes into play which conflicts with various other peoples PoV, and it all devolves into a shouting match.

Also the pipeline/Syke-Picot people will interject themselves into any conversation about the middle east because "this one simple event explains everything" is appealing to a ton of folks.

Location: Baltimore

Remote: Heavily Prefer

Willing to relocate: Theoretically in short term but leaning towards no, but was already looking to move in year

Technologies: Mesos(including overlay networks and persistent data), AWS, Containers, General Linux, Ansible, MongoDB

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-lewis-95799610/

Email: me (at] andrewlew.is

Looking for a Devops/SRE role. Currently doing all things Mesos(including running MongoDB in mesos), with some exposure to kubernetes. Looking primarily for a remote position, but onsite isn't out of the question. Also have experience with networking, VPNs and a bunch of other stuff.

Yo, is your DNS server down? I get no responses for either the US or EU endpoints when I try to query for A records.

This looks awesome, and saves someone the headache of trying to setup the VPN, but is not using the nvidia GPU's ability to use hardware encoding which is much faster than going the CPU route in most cases. If someone could adapt that, and open source it, that'd be the game changer that people are looking for to build this sort of stuff.

Location: DC metro area

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, anywhere

Technologies: NGINX, KVM, Xen, VMware, Ansable, Docker, AWS, Git, Linux, Windows, OS X, Network Security, Sysadmin/Wannabe Devops

Resume:

  - https://www.linkedin.com/pub/andrew-lewis/10/996/957

Email: me at andrewlew.is