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This is the main point. I bought Backblaze too early in its post IPO phase. It's a good company and I am a customer, but I am down $15k on the buy.

I live in a smallish city, we have a lot of stores I can shop at and a Costco within a 30 minute drive. For me, incremental marginal cost of the delivery is negligible compared to me driving to a couple stores, not finding what I need, and still ordering online anyway. In general, I go to stores to get something that I know they have, not because they have "pallets of goods"

Everything old is new again. I wouldn't be surprised if there were people that thought GitHub invented git.

I watched it. I am not dead, in a nursing home, nor retired.

I love my Voron Trident. It might not be under $1000. I have about $1300 in it, I start with the Voron Tap tool head which added a bit plus other stuff.

Quite sad really

I have seen him speak several times. Does anyone take him seriously?

I have a Thinkpad P1 Gen 4i with a RTX 3080 16GB running Debian. I run ollama and it works quite well.

I am newly diagnosed with HH. How do you monitor your ferritin levels?

Excellent answer.

We hired the guy who said it was a dump question, he became our manager. He then decided to retire and we had to replace him. One of the candidates answered the 5 cli question with terminal eye candy, not functional commands. He was not hired for the job.

Thank you. I took it as both. :)

> My experience differs a lot. Many insanely skilled people are somewhat "weird" (including possibly

I am actually a bit weird myself, so I can relate.

> What you consider to be "skilled people" is what I would rather call "skilled self-promoters". "Skilled people" and "skilled self-promoter" are quite different breeds of people.

I don't mean that they have told me that they are skilled, or that their resume has implied it. I mean that they actually have the skills. Self-promoters that don't know the information always look good on paper, but after a few minutes of talking to them you can tell that they don't quite match.

Before IT, I was a live sound engineer TV, theater, music. There was also a entertainment university starting up around the same time. They were pumping out tons of "trained" engineers that looked good on paper but couldn't mix for shit. I think we can blame them for the shitification of pop music.

I mostly skipped the technical questions in the last few interviews I have conducted. I have a conversation, ask them about their career, about job changes, about hobbies, what they do after work. If you know the subject, skilled people talk a certain way, whether it is IT, construction, sailing.

I do rely on HR having, hopefully, done their job and validated the work history.

I do have one technical question that started out as fun and quirky but has actually shown more value than expected. I call it the desert island cli.

What are your 5 linux cli desert island commands?

Having a hardware background, today, mine are: vi, lsof, netcat, glances, and I am blanking on a fifth. We have been doing a lot of terraform lately

I have had several interesting responses

Manager level candidate with 15+ years hands on experience. He thought it was a dumb question because it would never happen. He became the teams manager a few months after hiring. He was a great manager and we are friends.

Manager level to replace the dumb question manager. His were all Mac terminal eye candy. He did not get the job.

Senior level SRE hire with a software background. He only needed two emacs and a compiler, he could write anything else he needed.

Look at fancy pants input button over here.

I have a ~2022 Samsung OLED, and it doesn't have an input button that I can find. I have to go into the home ribbon menu to find the inputs.

In the 90s domain registration was all handled through email. You emailed from an approved address, with a specific format, to change anything about the registration. This included where your name servers were.

Made self-hosting interesting when your home IP changed, or you moved, and that was where you hosted your DNS and email.

We get our eggs from a specialty butcher, their meat prices are rather high. Their organic, locally sourced eggs are a good $4 cheaper than the big box groceries regular eggs.

I was quite surprised.

Lack of collaboration and proper git support are a big hold back for me. Otherwise, it is not bad.

I had a Sun as my desktop until 2010 when my Solaris admin gig was eliminated. It was running KDE on three displays. Loved it.

I manage phplist for a small doctor's office. Works well with 4k subscribers. Open Source.

https://www.phplist.com

I have two Palm Vx in the garage. I love that game too.

> There wouldn't be a docking pilot on board nor would there be any tugs.

There is likely a pilot onboard until it leaves the Chesapeake, well past the CB Bridge-Tunnel.

When I worked on cruise ships, a pilot boarded a few miles out from the Sunshine Skyway going into Tampa.

I only buy and recommend Brother. Always just works.

I would change your b to, your project needs a lot of scalability. You will pay big salaries to make sure it is run correctly.

Corporate implosions of the dot-com era are fantastic reads. I was a part of the Northwestern Corporation, Expanets, Lucent fiasco. It was crazy the decisions that were made. I spec'ed a million dollar Sun Hardware purchase, my boss turned it into a $25 million 5 year, rental at a Quest DC in Denver.

We also had an entire floor of an Arthur Andersen building in Jersey where we were writing our new app. There was another floor that was off limits to anyone not a partner. A friend of mine saw trucks of document boxes come in. The paper shredders were working overtime there, we assume anyway.

Expanets didn't need to go down that way, greed and stupidity are powerful drugs.

I have been using refact.ai on my laptop, it has been quite good.

https://github.com/smallcloudai/refact/blob/main/README.md

I don't do much work in Kate anymore, but in the last 10 years or so it has become my virtual note pad. There is almost always an instance running with a dozen or so unsaved documents open. The one feature I use the most is the ability to pipe out to a shell command, you can string pipes inside that too. I do this for quick data manipulation.

It did, they state that right in the summary.

> Perhaps one ought not take sysadmin advice from a blog post with a first sentence that reads "I’m not a sysadmin, and I don’t want to be".

That's just perfect.

My stepdad had one of these, it was still working in the early 90's. Very cool "tech".