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I thought GP comment was replying to this in GGP comment:

>IMO running your own Kubernetes cluster for a company is insanity unless you have a very good reason to do so.

To me, "running your own" means "on-prem", and it did seem to me that the response of "I can create production ready in a day" was directed at that, which I whole-heartedly disagree with.

I think the key element here is that you are using GKE. Managed cloud Kubernetes, and self-hosted on-prem Kubernetes are two different beasts. Yes, it's easy when you don't actually have to run the cluster yourself.

Ansible has its warts, but it is great for managing and configuring individual servers.

An on-prem "production ready" k8s cluster in under a day? What kind of businesses are you setting this up for? Are these all greenfield projects? I'm sorry, but I find it hard to believe that.

We run on-prem k8s, on bare metal and VMs. Integration with existing storage (we use NetApp Solidfire and NFS), load balancers, firewalls, backup strategy, DR, etc. takes weeks, if not months of work. But we may disagree on what "production ready" means.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned (with legal representation).

Not that I have mastered it, but what I have found richly rewarding, and in a similar vein, is learning about MIDI and beatmaking. I bought a MIDIFighter 3D from DJ Tech Tools, and just started messing around. I'm still a novice, but expanding out from there and purchasing a Roland TR-8 (rebooted TR-808) and learning how to program beats into it has been a blast. And I have learned a ton in process. You naturally move into how to get better sounds for your recording, and learn what you need to know to try to get the sound in your head into the recording. You get to experiment. You get exposed to new types of music, and whole subcultures of enthusiasts and professionals that you probably never knew existed.

I've mostly tried to practice "controllerism" or "finger drumming". There's tons of different soundpacks for Ableton (Lite is free, but limited), Traktor, and other software. It's really relaxing sometimes to just sit and tap out beats and clear your mind by concentrating on it. It's like an adult version of Simon where you get to set the pattern. It's really fun, and you can get a capable USB MIDI controller for a hundred bucks, even better deals on Craigslist. There's a lot of tutorials on Youtube to get you started, if you decide to give it a try.

Here's a good example of what controllerism is, if you are curious: https://youtu.be/mUUbbaBkZHw?t=28 (skipped ahead of some cursing at the beginning of the video).

They do if they end up divorced. If you are earning enough money to support your spouse, guess what? If you get divorced, you get to continue doing that!

You will support your spouse directly via alimony, usually for a period half the length of your marriage, but if you were married 10 years or longer, this does not apply and there may be no set end to alimony. Mine was $1800 per month for 4 years.

I have 40% shared custody of my kids (they actually spend more non-school hours with me, but I digress) and still have to pay $1700 per month in child support, because (at least in CA) you are required to maintain the same standard of living as the children had during the marriage.

It may not be about income and finances during the marriage, but if it goes wrong, and you are the one that has been providing the support, prepare to swallow some very bitter pills.

Will there be an API for the registrar service?

How about "k2s", short for "K.I.S.S."? So simple it saves you an S. :)

The Scion xB is one of the best vehicles I have ever owned. I traded in my 2001 Jetta VR6 (mystifying mass airflow sensor issues VW could never fix for more than a couple weeks) for an xB in 2004. It had its flaws, but for a daily driver, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a better car than those first generation xBs. Mine is currently owned by my parents and has 300K+ and the only major service has been a new clutch at 175K.

Same here. My kids have early dismissal every Wednesday. The winter and spring breaks are 4 weeks(!!!). They schedule "open house" type events which you are expected to attend monthly at 2:30pm on a Friday.

I'm very lucky that I have support from family and an employer that is very accommodating to my schedule, as I am a divorced dad with a full time job.

I used to work for Music Trader, which was a local San Diego used media chain that was purchased by CDNow. It's been forever since I've seen that name! Crazy to think they ended up being bought by Amazon. I was only there for like 8 months of their ownership, but it always felt like they were on the edge of going under. I recall the FoxPro based computer system they brought in was life changing for us.

For reference, 350 lbs is about 3 gallons of liquid mercury. Mercury is heavy.

True, and I don't think it's a meth lab, but using abandoned military buildings does have precedent on drug manufacturing: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/wamego-lsd-missile-silo

I have an old HP pen plotter, I may give it a go.

I've seen arguments that water is a form of ash, since it is already oxidized and cannot be combusted (I guess in pure flourine it can). So I guess one could argue that fish are covered in ashes.

There's also a pretty active subreddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art if you like these sorts of images. I think most of the time you end up with something that's cool, but mostly just "wallpaper". Occasionally you'll get something really cool and evocative that can stand on its own.

I wonder if it is saying that he should be maxing it out each year, and maybe he hasn't contributed this year, meaning he would need to contribute that much in the next two to three months in order to meet the goal for 2018? I dunno. Like you said, that seems like it can't be right.

Ah, I was confused by the parent post, I thought we were discussing 401k and "savings" as separate things.

I'm not sure what others have saved in theirs, but in my case, it was more like $200,000 in my 401k when I got divorced at age 40. I didn't always earn the same income as I do now, and also had times where I have needed to decrease my contributions, etc.

According to the article you linked, based on your age (I'm in the same cohort), the average 401k is worth $91,000. Are you not contributing at all to your 401k? Did you get a late start, or have some hardship that required you to break into the 401k (divorce in my case)?

I've never heard the 3x annual salary in savings, but that also seems super extreme. Assume a salary of $100K per year... No one I know has ~ $300K in their savings. Maybe they have equity in their house, or other equity assets that get them to that sort of number on paper, but I've never heard of someone in our age group (40-50) just having $300K liquid in a bank account.

I think it could be more beneficial to give classes in what we would have previously called "Systems Administration", or the "Ops" portion of "DevOps". It feels like too much focus has been put on learning how to code, which is likely not a skill that a majority of people will ever use again. But it is very likely that they will have to maintain their own computer network at home, and understanding how to administer their systems, basic networking concepts, how to troubleshoot, basic security practices, etc. would be far more useful in their daily life in the future.

What if we called it something like "Computer Arts", "Computer Ed", or "Computer Shop" (a la Sex Ed, Phys Ed, Wood Shop, Metal Shop) and treated it less as a science at this point, and more like we treat vocational or elective courses? Focus less on the programming aspect, and more on fundamentals of logic, how to troubleshoot problems, understanding the abstractions, how a network works, basic security practices, how to use a command line interface, general programming _concepts_, etc. They could take this course as a required class their freshman year in HS, and the school could offer other more advanced courses available as electives to more senior classes, AP courses, etc.

"Hangin' On The Telephone" - The Nerves (not the Blondie cover!)

Such a great song. I love the original, he sounds like Weird Al! Beats the Blondie version hands down imho...

https://youtu.be/emy5mA8Ixtc

As long as you are also willing to do the same with alcohol, which I would absolutely argue is a much more damaging drug to both the individual and society at large.

Hashicorp Vault uses SSS as part of its security model for unsealing the data.

https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/internals/security.html

I believe most military vehicles in the US run on JP-8 (based on kerosene).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JP-8

Take a look at the site that was posted in some of the comments[0]. A choice quote:

"Should the guy have to pay that much as a result of a casual encounter? Wagner says emphatically yes: "The child had nothing to say about being born or the wisdom of a one-night stand. That child should be supported exactly as if those parties had married and stayed married forever." Is he worried about an incentive structure where a one-night stand is more lucrative than going to college and working? "A judge would slap you silly if you pointed out that a plaintiff would be earning more from child support than from attending college and working," Wagner says. "Put yourself in the diaper of the child. Public policy says that he or she has a human right to be raised in the lifestyle of the two parents. If you don't like that philosophy get the hell out of California." Wagner explains that the current law came about because "California was ranked 45th in nation in late 1980s in the amount of child support obtainable. The legislature was astounded and created the current system. It is public policy that California will always be ranked among the top 5 states [in potential profits from child support]."

[0]http://www.realworlddivorce.com

True, true. I mention divorce since marriage is a risky behavior which leads to terminal conditions in more than 50% of the cases contracted. ;)

Yeah, I was pretty skilled too, and we had it all agreed to, and then the night before the appearance she decided she wanted $20K for my unvested RSUs and $5K for a house with no community property value because we had used some money from an inheritance she got to replace the AC two years before we split. That's when the attorneys got called, and the rest is history.

Your story sounds like most I have heard where no lawyers got involved. Hell hath no fury like a partner scorned (with a retainer).

Glad to hear that you made it out without exercising Mutually Assured Destruction. :)

You can set it up different ways, but you will definitely have to get a QDRO for splitting up any retirement accounts into two new accounts.

You can try to do the same thing with stocks, where you pay when you vest or sell, or sell on behalf of the other party, but in my case, and I suspect many others, I wanted the cleanest break possible and I settled on a payout amount simply to reduce the amount of communication with my ex-wife that would be necessary to pull this off.

Thanks for posting this, it's incredibly informative and interesting. If you look at "Scenario 1: Professional Wife and Slacker Husband" in the California section, you'll see a situation very similar to the one I am in, just that the dollar amounts involved are lower, (I earn around $125K, invested about $10K into ex-wife's part time business), the child were both from one parent, and the genders are swapped. In my case the monthly combined spousal and child support that Dissomaster spit out was $3,300.