BossingAround

Your nodes & containers keep running, but is your networking up when your control plane is down?

I love k8s, but bringing back up a single app that crashed is a very different problem from "our k8s is down" - because if you think your k8s won't go down, you're in for a surprise.

You can view a single k8s also as a single host, which will go down at some point (e.g. a botched upgrade, cloud network partition, or something similar). While much less frequent, also much more difficult to get out of.

Of course, if you have a multi-cloud setup with automatic (and periodically tested!) app migration across clouds, well then... Perhaps that's the answer nowadays.. :)

Sounds like we need a WSL in the other direction - have a Windows subsystem for Linux, so that your $distro integrates with Windows and you can run apps on Windows while having the window show up on your Linux system :)

So even after this thought process, it comes down to "do you trust the author" (just like before it)... Not unreasonable to answer either way if you ask me.

Depending on the phone, if the phone has a USB-C, you could definitely turn it into a NAS with an external disk caddy and an ethernet connection (usb-c port extenders do that). That said, it'd definitely be cheaper and better user experience to just use something with Linux on it (like an older NUC, openWRT as you say, or something similar).

I'd say the saying is common in a lot of Eastern European languages, not only Russian :)

It's open source for sure. But yeah, there's no DIY required (which is why ZSA and their keyboards are so popular - it's the Apple of the DIY-programmable-ergonomic-keyboard world, providing excellent build quality and great experience for a price).

If only UHK was ortholinear. I have Ergodox EZ now and it's almost perfect. Wouldn't want to go back to a non-ortholinear keyboard.

Ads do not encourage more use, they do the opposite - annoy users into closing the app.

Teens do not need encouragement to spend more time on TikTok than they already do.

IT work does not force you to stare at content that's spreading brain rot...

Unless you work with in a cloud-native, ai-native environment that has more microservices than developers I guess (I jest, I jest).

Isn't it reasonable to assume that one of the consequences will be "Google, and nobody else, can do this," therefore applying OP's logic?

They could, and they should, but they definitely won't. Similar to how they use just a ChatGPT anonymized wrapper for their "advanced AI features", they'll just outsource search to some big player as well.

Right, much better to deal with all of those issues in production only.

Honestly, I'd like to see the candidate's CV. This description seems off to me:

> I've got a lot of skills - video production, security, Linux, Mikrotiks, Ciscos, virtualization, cloud, domains, DNS, the list goes on and on.

Based on this gumbo of skills (why is there "video production?" And what does even "virtualization" and "cloud" mean in this context?), I would have 0 confidence in the candidate.

> My homelab is probably bigger than some businesses and it's taught me a lot. Even got an SD-WAN site to site VPN set up to my parent's house so they can watch movies off my home Plex server

This gives me a bit more confidence about the candidate, but setting up a VPN is not really a complex task. Is that all there is to the "big homelab?"

> With a fresh CCNA cert in hand, and a CompTIA Security+ to back it up, finding a network or security job should be no problem at all.

CCNA and CompTIA are junior-level certifications. Having a "Security+" cert means nothing if you have no experience in security to back it up.

I don't mean this negatively, but either OP is overestimating their abilities, or is vastly underselling them.

Writing a good CV is a skill... Learn it, or pay someone to do it for you.

The font makes this practically unreadable for dyslexic folks.

Well, the correct path forward would be to wait for a large OSS player, like Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical, ..., and make the build secure.

Typically, Fedora and openSUSE have a policy that distributed packages (which includes container images) have to build with only packages from the repository, or explicitly added binaries during the build. So once you can `dnf/zypper install` something (or pull it from the vendor's container registry), you know the artifacts are trusted.

If you need to be on a bleeding edge, you deal with random internet crap shrug.

Of course a random OSS developer won't create offline-ready, trusted build artifacts. They don't have the infrastructure for it. And this is why companies like Red Hat or SUSE exist - a multi-billion dollar corporation is happy to pay for someone to do the plumbing and make a random artifact from the internet a trusted, reproducible, signed artifact, which tracks CVEs and updates regularly.

The last time I tried, I couldn't get a VM running for whatever reason. Any issues with OC?

Really... It's also one of non-native speakers' favorite words.

> The exercise of writing the work has intrinsic value.

Nobody's disputing that. But why do I need Canonical to do it? And why do I need to submit the work to Canonical for my interview?

To me, this'd be an indicator of how Canonical is going to treat my time in the future. If they don't care about me doing hours of free work for their silly interview games (while I have a full-time job, family, and daily responsibilities), I can infer that they most likely won't care about my well-being if faced with overtime on site.

Why would "Before delving into code..." be a red flag that marks the text as LLM-generated?

How is it "for free?" Do you need Canonical and 20-page essay to reflect about your high school achievements? Or can I bill canonical for my work on the insane 10+ round interview process?

So op thought "I want to develop Linux" and applied to Canonical? That's like wanting to make it as a painter and going to your local highschool to study.

Yes, nobody wants to work with Shuttleworth, it's a pain. Yes, Canonical has insane interview processes, which is partly why it doesn't attract talent.

But Canonical is at fractional scale compared to even SUSE, let alone Red Hat and IBM. If you want to "develop linux," Canonical is not the place to go to. You might be better off joining Google than Canonical, honestly.

Sounds to me more like you consume _a lot_ (therefore have a very strong physical dependence) rather than having extremely fast metabolism.

Alternatively, you might be prone to migraines, and thus are sensitive to headaches of all kinds. That's me, I truly hope that's not you (wouldn't wish that upon anyone).

Caffeine doesn't enhance any function, it simply masks tiredness in the short term, at the cost of reduced quality of sleep.

The question is, does caffeine "clearly enhance" cognitive functions long-term.

Probably one of the most useless and pointless TLA I've come across so far. TIHI.

Isn't it better to find out? I.e. first to stop with the caffeine, then wait until your body readjusts (e.g. a month or two), and possibly get diagnosed by a professional in case you do feel like you need help? Diagnosis doesn't necessarily mean prescription stimulant drugs.

I was using caffeine to mask my burnout. Needless to say, it only exacerbated the total feeling of burnout, and "helped" only short-term. It took me a long time to get out of the burnout, and I'm still feeling the effects. It would have been much healthier to not mask the burnout, but deal with it right there and then.

How much caffeine do you consume regularly? Sounds to me like your body potentially has too much already, and is reacting by making you drowsy. Note that caffeine is also in non-coffee/tea related beverages like sodas (e.g. Coke/Pepsi/...), or sometimes certain pain killers (e.g. migraine pain killers frequently contain something like 50mg of caffeine).

Anyone with anxiety or sleep issues should reexamine their caffeine usage. Maybe those problems do not stem from caffeine, but maybe they do. I don't know many people that do not consume caffeine regularly, at least once a day - in such cases, you cannot know whether your anxiety, sleep problems, general tiredness, bad moods, ... are or are not caused by one's caffeine consumption.

Some people swear by drinking a shot of espresso right after dinner, claiming that they can "sleep just fine" (or that it even calms them). It's not whether you can or cannot fall asleep, it's how deep and restorative your sleep is that is important here.

What does TFA mean in this context?

How is single-threaded code slower without GIL?