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APIs are not ubiquitous. Maybe they become because of this.

It depends not only on the own team but also the other teams you collaborate with or provide service for.

We're a small "DevOps" team that provides all kind of services but we figured out that people in our company (it's a small startup) just don't come to us virtually if they need something or want a second opinion.

So we said we'll come into office once a week on a specific day and that day they can approach us with everything. Of course it hasn't changed behavior of everyone but that day we have more interactions with all kind of colleagues than the rest of the remote days combined.

60% (67% if you have at least one kid) of your average net salary over the last 12 month before unemployment. Capped at ~2k in the old states and ~1.8k in the new ones. Paid for a max of 12 month for ages 49 and below after that it gets slightly longer.

Do you know if it's possible to tell clickhouse-local (without the need of a config file) to use environment variables for AWS authentication? I know there is the "use_environment_credentials" property in the config, but I really don't want to create a config for easy use-cases like just querying some data in a private S3 bucket.

Yup already thought about that but IMO it's much more work and prone to errors compared to just installing some sensors. Want to get that running ASAP and after that we can look into CV options. Already found a project [0] that tried to accomplish that with OpenCV but it seems it's abandoned.

[0] https://github.com/StudentCV/TableSoccerCV

Unfortunately the linked UI is in an endless loop on my side and won't open :/ Yup the plan was to buy a (used) table which can also be disassembled to take a look inside and place the sensors where they need to be :) Fortunately they are not that pricey.

Ahh got it. No, HAOS features a full HA installation including the UI which is then of course also accessible via the Raspberry Pi and an attached display :)

> Also tempted to attach a touchscreen to my raspberry pi, put it in a nice case and use that as a UI for it, though adding a web browser to the installation rules out using HAOS directly I guess?

I don't get that part? HAOS is a Linux distribution with a pre-configured / installed version of Home Assistant. It behaves (almost - see below) like a "normal" Home Assistant installation.

> What are the reasons to prefer HAOS over installing via docker on a host system?

For me it's that you can manage "addons" directly via Home Assistant e.g. if you need a MQTT broker on your system (I do because I use zigbee2mqtt for integration of my Zigbee devices) you can just go to the addon store, click install and it also automatically integrates with Home Assistant. Same for zigbee2mqtt. If you want to do that with a container version of HA you need to start up a MQTT / zigbee2mqtt broker manually (as another container) and then connect it to HA. It's not the end of the world, but why make it harder as it could be.

You can also upgrade HA via the UI and don't have to stop the container, chose another image, restart the container. Backup & restore is also breeze.

I want to build a digital / smart foosball table with features like

* automated goal detection

* trigger things like lighten up the field on specific events (e.g. a goal)

* build a league backend / frontend and player management

* allow players to "login" via NFC on the table itself

There are a lot of ideas and questions right now. I pitched the idea to my employer to make it a continous "hackathon" for the employees. If that gets rejected I have at least one colleague that wants to build it in private.

Of course the idea is to make at least the software stack open-source (and give instructions on the integrated / used HW) but before that there is a lot to think about regarding the architecture ("offline" only? connect to a "cloud" component for league management outside of the office?).

Make sure to give Home Assistant a try. It's local first (option to add a "Cloud" connection). It has, by far, the biggest community around home automation. It's easy to extend yourself. It just ticks all the boxes. I've never heard someone talking bad about it.

https://www.home-assistant.io/

Tip: don't bother running it as a container or "standalone", just use their HAOS distribution.

Ah! Ok got it. Thought it meant some kind of lower and upper "limits". But that makes more sense. Thank you! Just getting into embedded / MC stuff.

Maybe it's a stupid question but for the verification bytes you're adding the different constants, commands and options. For the sleep that comes out to 0x173 (as you also wrote down). Why is the higher verification byte then 0x73 and not 0x173? Or is it a typo?

Again?

> That's a key question: pay Linode $1,560/mo for a 3-node 32GB RAM cluster or launch 3 32GB boxes for $720, figure out PostgreSQL replication, make sure you setup the replication users, make sure you don't open any security holes, make sure you have Patroni or Stolon so that you can switch over when the primary fails, make sure you have etcd or Consul or something to handle that coordination, make sure that you have Barman or pgBackRest setup to take your WAL and persist it to S3, setup your S3 buckets, setup a full backup schedule so that you can restore easily, make sure that you're regularly testing your restores, make sure that you're testing your failover (do you even know if Patroni is actually working?), figure out how your app is going to cut over to the new primary when that happens (is there a shared IP that you need to move, are you using a proxy like HAProxy that's checking health-checks to see which it should proxy to, etc).

Little bit off topic: It's funny that all the time you see comments on HN saying something along the line: why using Kubernetes, it's just overly complex. But after that are, most likely, returning to their self managed DB clusters that need all that maintenance and setup just listed. While, if they were using Kubernetes, they would have Operators or Helm Charts that do 90% of the stuff.

(Now back to topic) Don't get me wrong, I'll chose a managed DB all day every day over something self managed but sometimes (e.g. startup without a indefinitely amount of VC money) self management of infrastructure is the fastest and cheapest way to go.

Genuine question: I always hear about the gigantic military spending in the U.S. I would've expected it to be on top of this list. It can't be only 7. no?

> i feel like devops is just a bucket for lost souls who like tech stuff.

Yup, that's me. I would call my self a generalist with a slight tendency towards cloud infrastructure. But I love ALL the tech!

* Let me install the newest WiFi hardware and rehaul the local network - I'm happy

* Let me dig into the newest cloud-native tools to enhance the developer experience- I'm happy

* Tell me about the small problem you have in a step of your build pipeline - I'll sink 10 days into it and optimize the whole pipeline - I'm happy

* Let me put all the infrastructure configuration into code - I'm happy

The list is endless. The / one downside is that I'm juggling priorities all the time and the backlog of things I would like to do is also - endless.

I totally get you and am very confused about all the comments here labeling you as a hardcore WFO nazi. I guess you really hit a sensitive spot here.

I'm always very torn between WFH and WFO because both have immense upsides and downsides and I can't really tell which I'm rooting more for. I also don't want to discuss these because it'll lead to nowhere.

> But are those really the majority? I always saw tech as the field where a disproportionally large amount of people truly love what they do. Mostly, because it takes so much grit and persistence to get good at it that most people wouldn't succeed unless they see something in it beyond putting food on the table.

Just wanted to comment that I somehow feel the same (also a fellow German) if I would've to spend 8 hours a day as a big part of my life with something I don't care about or have some kind of passion I would get depressed and immediately change profession or look for the things I enjoy and try to earn money that way.

> It's fine if you like kids and didn't have actual plans to have fun in your 30s or 40s, but people with exciting lives will lose a lot if they suddenly have to dedicate almost all of their free time for 5 years to their offspring.

The audacity, unbelievable. So I guess I'll stop having fun now go back to my boring life?

I don't care if it's in json, fmt or your own hacky format, just chose on and structure all you output so that it's predictable where I have to look.

We're using Vault to create ephemeral database credentials for our services that are rotated every other hour, for that use case envs are not even viable because they're injected at startup and then never again.

Best "practical" description of DevOps that I've read so far.

Using Fargate for long / permanently running workloads in EKS is only an option when the costs are none of your concern.

In Berlin you get nowhere near the 120-130k as a senior dev, at least not on average. There may be some (very rare) exceptions.

If I need an image with a specific set of tools it's cumbersome to build a whole workflow to build, store and maintain these images. Having a service that can receive a custom list of Nix packages and returns an image that I can instantly use would be really, really, really nice.

If I may ask, what country are you living in? Getting a salaried $100k without FAANG should be possible for every country in western Europe.

Is that the case? The last thing I read was: For the delta variant it most likely won't matter if you're vaccinated/ill or not, you'll spread it either way. So when I get the delta variant and contract the disease but it won't do any harm because I'm vaccinated I can still spread it. If that's the case the

> vaccination does not prevent transmission

statement is a very valid one. I'm vaccinated but I really dislike the decision to cut public funding for the tests.

Same thing in Germany. I've had just a few interviews for the last three jobs. None of them was a multi day (or even one whole day) interview. The max. that was asked was a (really short) coding challenge with a salary at 80k - to put in perspective I pay 600€ / 105m² for rent and live near some big cities in western Germany.

I tried AppleMaps for the first time like 4-5 years ago. Feature-wise it wasn't where it is now but what annoyed me the most is that the GPS on map lagged FAR (1-2 seconds) behind my real position. More than once I missed a turn because of that, especially when you are driving in an urban area with a lot of smaller streets.

Fast-forward to 2020 - in the meantime I used Google Maps with no issues at all. A friend of mine suggested that I should try the latest version and maybe I would change my mind. So I used it for a day - same urban area - and it's still lagging behind - mind you: at this time I had a new iPhone and a new carrier. For me this makes the App unusable. I don't want to plan ahead 500 - 1000m (Germany) while using navigation.

I'm really curious, does someone have the same problem?

You should support the external authenticators like aws-iam-authenticator for authentication.

Great. Thanks for the response :)