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I’m fairly confused by some comments here claiming Covid or vaccines were the cause as the article clearly points out the uptick in deaths started in 2012.

I tend to think it might be the uptick in use of amphetamines. Millineials and late genx were the first to use them in wide scale with a 2.5 increase and a second derivative maxima in 2012, the same time heart failures began dramatically increasing.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6261411/

Hm, we have it setup to do all dependency updates on the same branch/MR. We’ve had broken builds but it’s typically because of a breaking api change in a dep. We’ve never really had issues but we’ve only used it for node/golang that has pretty good dependency management systems.

I use it at work and it’s fantastic.

Certs expiring is a common occurrence and a source of many RCAs. Not keeping definitions of your configuration separate from running servers (and no baseline) is a big issue. Not keeping secrets in a secret storage and syncing them is another red flag.

Thing is, none of these are kubernetes issues. They’re poor practices, these aren’t lessons of running kubernetes they’re poor management of a system.

Every large organization is going to have competing interests and ideas. Whether it’s a difference in priority or project approach or perhaps an entire product.

Knowing how to navigate conflict is essential to any relationship including professional one. In addition knowing how to well communicate (e.g., sell) your ideas (or youself) is also needed.

I get there’s toxic individuals to take this to a dark place as they would anything. But at its core I don’t see anything inherently evil about it, perhaps just that it can make manipulative people become more public.

Salt Lake City, UT

Pros: plenty of tech jobs, mountains and national parks right next door, very clean and safe city, healthy and well educated population, delta hub.

Cons: the lake may kill us one day, or the house prices.

I've been taking Adderall for a very long time. Prior to it I had a very difficult time motivating myself and simply being able to block out a thousand other thoughts and stimulus. I developed techniques to cope prior to taking it but once I started it was like night and day. It doesn't at all make me smarter but allows me to decide what I want to do rather than some sub-cognitive part of me. Should people take it to make them smarter? In my experience it helps focus, not intelligence.

It gets cold in the desert. People head out to southern Utah to camp in October and November and are met with 40/30 degree weather and have to head back. Deserts can get really cold at night.

It could contain a lot more than that depending on what was recoded during the session.

Yes, don’t share har files

It’s probably worth pointing out that cloudflare uploaded sensitive tokens to their support website and their support website was compromised.

Cloudflare probably shouldn’t be posting their tokens anywhere to anyone so it’s hard for me to think they’re some how in a moral high ground.

That takes an enormous amount of frozen capital. For regulation reasons MasterCard (and other networks) need to keep huge cash on hand to cover stand-ins and other network blips.

Di Fara even calls it Neapolitan style https://www.goldbelly.com/di-fara-pizza/classic-pepperoni-ne...

> You fold it then you eat it.

I’m very aware, then you get a grease slick coming down your arm or pants. Ruined many a shirt that way.

I feel like New York “style” pizza is, well, not great. Usually it’s over sized making it difficult to eat. The crust is more reminiscent of oiled cardboard.

Most pizza outlets make them factory style and bake them at 10am then reheat your slice or pizza when you order it. Why anyone thinks this is notable and not disappointing is exasperating to me.

There are some good New York pizza place, di fara comes to mind. But the ones like di fara are closer to neapolitan pizza, not New York.

My kids share an iPad and you can enable screen time and parental controls to do everything you’ve mentioned. Also for YouTube just install YouTube Kids it has no ads and prescreened content for kids 8 and less. Parents can also block channels on it.

  Duplication is bad. In fact, duplication is one of the most dangerous mistakes in coding.

I have to disagree with this; the article feels lofty in its assumption that when you start to program you know what to abstract. More often people begin abstracting due to a misguided axioms like "DRY" rather than to solve a problem with a real cost benefit trade off. DRY as a goal in itself is fairly dangerous.

I can't count how many convoluted and confusing frameworks people have put together under this misguided perspective. It's not atypical for an abstraction born of "DRY" motivations to be more code and brittle than just copying and pasting 2 lines in 15 places.

Not to say abstractions are inherently bad, but to the point of abstracting for the sake of DRY is a mistake.

Working for a company that requires triaging critical vulnerabilities within a few days I’ll attest to how many “critical” that are mostly unexploitable due to a variety of reasons. There has to be a better way.

In my experience ICs make product, managers make people, directors make process and VPs make policy. Everyone over that is an approval step in budget requests.

Istio is amazing once you grok how it works and get it running. It has a lot of gotchas (objects in istio-system become global?) and there’s a lot of ways to abuse or misuse it.

The last large company Visa attempted to purchase (Plaid) got shutdown by the DoJ for antitrust issues.

Say what you want about the guy, but his burgers are terrible, and have 950 calories to add insult to injury.

Managers have to manage up, down and outward. Most ICs will generally see downward management, but not the hours put in reporting up to executives, aligning and planning initiatives, resource/ allocations/PI’s, budgeting, procurement, audits, client/product demos/presentations, hiring and sometimes firing.

Managing down tends to be the easy part, career planning, 1:1’s, performance/development and running rituals is a cake walk. The only real hard part of managing down is when you have an employee that’s poisoning the well or is on a PIP.

Oh, and some managers also have to still pick up cards and push code in some orgs.

Utah actually has a rolled out Mobile ID program where you can choose which data to share, including just if you’re over 18 or 21. It can be validated via Utah’s public mID certificate.

Easiest solution would be to implement that on sites requiring a DOB. Maybe then more than a miserable 24K of people would have them.

A few things:

Disincentivize property investments in family homes.

Return R&D tax credits.

Return so a semblance of the glass & steagall act.

Up the amount of coverage the FDIC is authorized to cover even before regulators need to take over.

Allow an upfront loan privately for banks to lend against temporarily with stock put as collateral.

Up the corporate tax rate.

Remove the cap on SALT taxes for those under 400k.

Change marginal tax rates for individuals.

There insane amount of things congress can do if they just… do it.

I think more to the point was that much of this pain from the feds blunt toolset wouldn’t be necessary if congress could cooperate on a fiscal & monetary policy.

It’s not overly complicated, it’s just trying to serve everyone’s use cases. I’ve tried deploying to 10k servers with custom scripts in Jenkins, bamboo and AWS auto scaling groups but I’ve found kubernetes is the only tool that will elegantly handle a problem. You can probably write a script for the happy path but for a production service I’d bet my money on something that can handle all of the problems that come along with the statistics blow ups at scale. That said, I can be complete overkill for most systems.

Before anyone working on commercial code bases thinks to use this, stop. Uploaded code becomes part of OpenAI.

Nothing wrong with it I suppose, it's definitely more difficult for them to use but doable. I haven't really had that many issues with locking down an iPad. The settings for it are pretty buried under "Screen Time" but it does allow you to turn off nearly any built-in app on the iPad, restrict content by specific ratings, limit the domains safari is allowed to go to and restrict app installation/upgrades.

I also have a 5-year old, we've given him an iPad that doesn't allow software to be installed via the app store; doesn't allow any websites to be visited and has a screentime set to an hour a day. If he wants something on the iPad we have to unlock the parent settings and install the specific app they want on it. The iPad has iMessage/iPhoto/Music and everything else turned off. Most of the time he plays angry birds for a an hour or plays the piano on it or some other innocent activity.

As far as giving him a smartphone; both my wife and I have agreed not until he's 16 and no social media until he's 18. We may give him a kids phone when he's older that only allows phone calls to a locked set of people and has no apps on it.

I'm not too concerned about what his peers have or do; him feeling left out is a small price to pay for not having to endure the problems associated with social media.