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elijahwright··on VMware Kills Off 56 Products
I loved spotting the .joyent directory on one of the screenshots.

Some things live on!

elijahwright··on Did Reddit just denylist all IPs?
That’s a brilliant idea.
elijahwright··on Nikki Haley: "I want everybody's name" (on social media)
Yeah, not gonna happen. The republicans will cease this line of advocacy when it becomes apparent that it’s going to be a huge self-own…
elijahwright··on Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB
People lie to their IRBs all the time, unfortunately.
elijahwright··on Rhetoric and Reality [pdf]
This is a blast from the past for me. Read this as a rhetoric graduate student years and years ago.
elijahwright··on Linux Foundation Adopting Terraform Fork Provokes Ire of HashiCorp CEO
This guy has no clue. He’s going to be a historically notable failure, though!
elijahwright··on Ask HN: What's the book that people in your field pretend to have read?
The Phoenix Project.
elijahwright··on Ask HN: People interested in a dev toolbox for back end / DevOps?
It sounds like you don’t understand the breadth of what “devops” people get asked to do.
elijahwright··on Ask HN: Why are most US startups not solving novel problems?
All the brain cells are tied up trying to make fast money - cryptobros and fintech and now ML/AI/LLM madness...
elijahwright··on Remote Work Is Here to Stay, and Employers Aren’t Happy About It
It took me a minute to parse this and understand that you meant the DSM-5. Don’t know why.
elijahwright··on Tell HN: Raspberry Pi 4 8GB available again
Awesome news!
elijahwright··on Ask HN: What is the best password management guide for 50 year olds?
Fifty isn’t old, youngsters.
elijahwright··on Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness
TLS errors from chrome on iOS.
elijahwright··on Ask HN: Is there an equivalent of the Dewey Decimal System for data collections?
I used to work in a library school. I'm not just making a trivial appeal to authority.
elijahwright··on Ask HN: Is there an equivalent of the Dewey Decimal System for data collections?
Nobody uses the Dewey Decimal system for cataloguing resources. Unless you're an elementary school librarian, possibly, and even then... no.

You really want the Library of Congress's classification outline.

elijahwright··on San Francisco to Pay Hotel Whitcomb $19.5M in Property Damage
I’ve heard some pretty legendary stories about street people and the Hotel Whitcomb - worked for a place that stopped housing consultants there because of all the chaos of those stories. (They’re not apocryphal, either - real talk.)
elijahwright··on Ask HN: Which is the most useful CS/math topic that you have learnt?
Graph theory and a solid machine learning course.
elijahwright··on New free developer version of the next-gen Oracle Database 23c!
If it doesn't come with a bundled illumos I don't want it.
elijahwright··on Ask HN: How do you fix disorganized and unstructured thought/speech?
Get an editor.
elijahwright··on Oxide builds servers as they should be [audio]
This is the funniest thing I’ve read today. Thank you!
elijahwright··on IQ scores are falling and have been for decades (2018)
You are referring to browser tabs?
elijahwright··on The Sound of Bells – The acoustics, sound, tuning and history of church bells
I read a few pages of this and found it most enjoyable. The sheer nerdiness of tuning bells and improving them - it's great!
elijahwright··on Syncthing: The Data Deduplication Master
There are several comments about filesystem support in this article that I think are just patently incorrect. Exercise for the reader to suss them out.
elijahwright··on Grant: Paving the way to use GSM/GPRS technology on amateur radio bands
This sounds awesome.
elijahwright··on Jira: Software Status
I guess a lot of people are finding out just HOW mission critical Jira is this week...
elijahwright··on Is Platform Engineering the New DevOps or SRE?
No.
elijahwright··on Ask HN: What are the best DevOps / EngOps communities out there worth joining?
Hangops.
elijahwright··on Ask HN: Senior FAANG engineer, going back to school for PhD. Is it a bad idea?
You don’t need the Ph.D is what I’m hearing.
elijahwright··on T-Shaped People and Academia
T shaped person here. Abandoned PhD due to politics and abusive environment- much happier doing devops work and living a life of learning.
elijahwright··on Ask HN: Cheapest/Industry standard for Load testing?
Time spent learning JMeter is not time wasted. Figure out the parts that let you reuse scripts from code fragments - this is very valuable. It's also worthwhile to build complex scripts "by hand" a few times by clicking around - you will quickly learn where all the buttons are in the UI and how to translate back and forth between the UI controls and the XML fragments.
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