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hijinks··on Nikola’s founder steps down from board as company faces fraud allegations
he just got arrested

https://twitter.com/sttbreakingnews/status/13080528194301091...

hijinks··on The Crisis in the Skies of San Francisco
title to get you to click so they get ad venue
hijinks··on The Clean Network – United States Department of State
only the NSA is allowed to backdoor US networking hardware
hijinks··on Ask HN: Security audits. Worth it? Who's good?
we just went through one and it was one of the security as a service. It was around $18k.

So expect to pay around that and a lot more for how in depth you want them to go.

hijinks··on Never Hertz to Ask
a good friend of mine was a trader for Goldman.

He is almost 100% positive the funds and larger firms are pumping this market to get newer retail investors to buy in and right now we are at the top or close to the top of one of the largest bear markets we have seen in a long time.

He expects maybe 2-3 weeks of small but choppy rise in the market to hit around Feb highs. Then you will see big time collapse that will make what we saw in Feb seem tiny. Then we will enter a bear market for a good 12-16 months.

hijinks··on Never Hertz to Ask
not saying you are 100% wrong but there was a MASSIVE influx of robinhood buyers into Hertz as the stock crashed

https://robintrack.net/symbol/HTZ?symbol=HTZ

hijinks··on What are your bets on the future?
I don't trade in over 4 week options to expire.

There is usually a sell off in Sept/Oct even in a bullish market. So if covid is still with us during that time and things start to get worse what you'll see is panic selloffs like we saw in early march but this will be a lot worse.

hijinks··on What are your bets on the future?
Sept/Oct the central banks can't save economies from the 2nd wave of covid-19 and the markets fall 40-50% in 7-10 days time.
hijinks··on Kubernetes Journey – How to setup the HAProxy Cluster with high availability
as someone that works in operations.. This is pretty common think. Lets still do things how we did it on bare metal inside kubernetes.

They are stuck in the same mindset and just think Kubernetes is a automation tool.

I see it all day long as I interview people.

hijinks··on Tesla remotely removed autopilot features from used Tesla without notice
If you fix your Tesla by yourself.. they can just turn off super charging if they want. It's bullshit
hijinks··on Tesla remotely removed autopilot features from used Tesla without notice
This is one of the main reasons I won't buy a Tesla. They can just turn off things you paid for at will.

The other is they won't open up their parts for people to work on their own cars. That's one of the main reasons used Teslas are so expensive. I mean even salvaged Teslas are really expensive.

hijinks··on Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?
Kubernetes.. almost all the companies are on it or looking at it in one way or another.
hijinks··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2020)
Location: Denver, CO

Remote: Only Remote

Willing to Relocate: No

Technologoies: Devops/SRE, Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, Python, Go

Resume: On demand but some highlights include

- Architect for Azure to AWS migration of the RMSOne Platform

- Redesigned an Azure Terraform setup to AWS using versioned modules for safer deployments across multiple development and production environments.

- Redesigned Ansible roles to work in both AWS and Azure. Also able to take Azure run times for a full platform run from 2 hours to 45 minutes.

- Designed a Kubernetes cluster using Terraform on AWS EKS. This heavily utilized autoscale node groups via launch templates. Certain node groups ran in spot while others were on demand showing a 50-60% savings cost.

- Helped development teams migrate their apps running in DCOS/Marathon in Azure to run on AWS in Kubernetes

- Kubernetes cluster was able to instance autoscale along with pod autoscale to maximize cost savings when application(s) were not in use.

email: devops.looking.for.job@gmail.com

hijinks··on Bacteria and sand engineered into living concrete
that's great and all but it's the sand part that's making concrete expensive. The type of sand to use is becoming harder and harder to source
hijinks··on Firefox 72.0
use containers in FF instead. That was what got me to switch from Chrome years ago to FF.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

hijinks··on Grafana Labs raises $24M
grafana is just visualizations if you self host it. Splunk is a complete product
hijinks··on Mark Zuckerberg Has Quietly Advised Pete Buttigieg on Campaign Hires
well i had high hopes for him in 4-8 years.. now i'm rethinking his choices
hijinks··on Ask HN: Are there hedgefunds for ordinary people?
The definition of a hedge fund is a fund that takes high risks for the benefit of high capital gains. The average investor shouldn't be in a hedge fund and should stick to something like index funds.
hijinks··on Liverpool Football Club’s reliance on analytics
So I didn't read the article but 25 years ago I was part of a group of 100 15-17 year olds in the US recruited by Liverpool to see if we were good enough to go over seas to their academy to finish up school. So I've been following them ever since.

What I remember reading in their 2nd game against Barcelona is the data team told the coaches about how Barcelona was slow to setup for set pieces mostly corner kicks. The ball boys are all academy players and the coaches told the ball boys on corner kicks to get the ball to the Liverpool player as quickly as possible.

I believe it went as far as them having more ball boys then usually to just have 4 of them sit with a ball in each corner.

hijinks··on Tenants win right to physical keys over smart locks from landlords
As a landlord.. why would I want a smart lock? If there's one thing you learn as a landlord is if it can break, it will break. Why would you want a tenant calling you at 2am because the smart lock won't work.
hijinks··on Ask HN: Is Forex Trading Gambling?
I worked at a Forex company and most people will lose. So ya it's pretty much like going into a casino
hijinks··on AT&T’s “5G E” is slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, study finds
I'm 15 minutes south of Denver and outside my house I barely get 2 bars of LTE and speeds are awful.
hijinks··on Leaving NYC for Nashville
NYC area isn't like SF. You can go 40 minutes outside of SF and it's still expensive.

It all depends where you want to live in NYC. Manhattan you'll want to make at least 150k to live alone. If you move outside then you have a lot more options but still be able to commute into the city easily.

I lived in Manhattan for 7 years and SF area for 6. I now live outside of Denver and its by far the best move of my life.

hijinks··on Lessons from Coinbase’s Wild Ascent
So about a year before the crazy growth I interviewed there. Their platform at the time was on heroku and all the services were managed services.

So ya they had a ton of tech debt to deal with to handle hyper growth.

hijinks··on Ask HN: Google Inbox is shutting down, what should I use now?
I believe most of inbox for merged into gmail.. almost looks the same
hijinks··on Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack
I dunno.. I like Tesla but can't see myself buying one till they open up and let 3rd parties work on them. I can't see paying Tesla 12k on a repair when people that know how to do the repair say $3k max.
hijinks··on Las Vegas vertical farm aims to produce over a million pounds of produce a year
Depends if it offsets the inefficiency of watering. As water becomes more and more of an issue the power needed to run LED grow lights isn't the biggest issue.

I believe farms like this use a lot less water to grow the same yield.

hijinks··on Paris Rolls Out Sidewalk Urinals to Tame "Wild Peeing"
You can walk into almost any place where you get food in the US to use a toilet.

Last time I was in EU was 10 years ago but tried to use a toilet in a bar and got yelled at unless I bought something first.

hijinks··on Massive Comcast Outage Hits the US
It was the same with Denver. I couldn't hit a handful of sites including github for almost an hour.
hijinks··on Startup Won't Give in to Motivational Health Messaging's $35k Patent Demand
I don't care about the general patents they give out. I think there should be patent categories like tech, physical, medical, etc

A tech patent should only last 3-5 years, which is a lifetime in tech to give you an upper hand.

I think that would help solve the problem. I mean its insane Amazon was able to patent a 1 click buy and just stop everyone else from using it for so long.

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