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richm31415on Get unstuck from a creative rut

From Brian Eno et. al. - https://www.oblique-strategies.com/

Ansible generally prefers .yml - https://github.com/redhat-cop/automation-good-practices/tree... "When naming files, use the .yml extension and not .yaml. .yml is what ansible-galaxy init does when creating a new role template."

richm31415on Make systemd better for Podman with Quadlet

You are correct. And there is an Ansible role for automated management: https://github.com/linux-system-roles/podman/

richm31415on 59% of Americans worry student loan forgiveness will make inflation worse

"Hipsters on Food Stamps" or "Why would someone take out $100k student loan to go to U of Chicago to earn a 'useless' degree? And why does it make me so angry?"

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/11/hipsters_on_food_sta... https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/11/hipsters_on_food_sta... https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/12/product_review_panas...

richm31415on 1955 warrant in Emmett Till case found, family seeks arrest

> . . . going against her husband.

or father - https://youtu.be/_6qQ7l8pRGo

richm31415on Python Shouldn't Be the Top Programming Language

re: point 4.

OpenStack and Ansible are pretty large applications/ecosystems

richm31415on Collaborate with kindness: Etiquette tips in Slack

It can be, yes. For someone who is a strong believer in and advocate of FOSS, who makes her/his livelihood developing FOSS for a FOSS software company, to be forced to use proprietary solutions where there are reasonable FOSS alternatives can be very disheartening, demoralizing, and even humiliating.

richm31415on Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying human brain

We've known about this since 1983: https://youtu.be/mTYRH3xpt44

richm31415on The Mythology of Red Bull

It's because of the secret ingredient of Red Bull - https://youtu.be/JbBQqMC0Htw

richm31415on Better Than JSON?

"Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you."

richm31415on NestedText, a nice alternative to JSON, YAML, TOML

Misspelling "Topeka" does not inspire confidence . . .

richm31415on What we learned after a year on Kubernetes

Or eschew config files altogether and write operators in golang . . . https://sdk.operatorframework.io/

richm31415on Elite do-gooders 'fixing' the world are part of the problem: Giridharadas

"Distrust those who profess altruism." "Don't be helpful: be useful, be available." "Helpful people are a nuisance." - Guitar Craft Aphorisms - https://www.dgmlive.com/in-depth/guitar-craft-aphorisms

richm31415on Rob Pike interview

> The small one is the lack of IDE support. You don't need to write an IDE. You just need to have sufficient integration into Jetbrains IDEs (at a minimum).

Visual Studio Code with the Go extension is very good.

richm31415on Comic Strip Tour of the Wild World of Pandemic Modeling

". . . like a hoard of suburbanites descending on a grocery store's toilet paper aisle." Should be "horde" but somehow "hoard" works better here . . .