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rexarexon Against Testing

  def identify_function(a:str) -> str:
    if a is ‘postalrat’:
      return a

rexarexon LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

I also have had a lot of luck with LinkedIn. I suppose if you went to Stanford for SE then yeah you already have a good network!

rexarexon Quora goes permanently remote-first

I might have misinterpreted your comment, however I’m poking fun at the cyclical nature of change.

The fact that people want to go remote and distributed and then maybe start up these things called ‘offices’ is analogous to quasi anarchist hippies at festivals that want to move off the grid and let a new society flourish organically. Ultimately we end up in the same place.

rexarexon Returning from a Year of Isolation in Antarctica

All the old winter-overs in McMurdo Station hated when the flights started coming in for the summer season, especially that early WinFly in September with all those “damn GERMS”. Kind of funny the population is so isolated that everyone is immune to the local viruses for a little bit.

rexarexon Quora goes permanently remote-first

You ever try living in SF? You seem to have described it in a sense.

Also see this great South Park clip for an analogy: https://youtu.be/a3ezyTXFgYM

rexarexon Apple is building an operating system for health

If this is anything like find my iPhone they don’t have access to the data even if they want to. It’s all encrypted and your hardware is the key.

rexarexon Best practices for managing and storing secrets like API keys and credentials

HA has always been in OSS

rexarexon Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone

Reminds me of Christiania https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania

rexarexon Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not part of our stack

‘We couldn’t figure out k8s, so read our blog post on why it sucks’

rexarexon SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Seattle Internet Exchange

Read the Cisco CCNA1 certification book. It goes deep on the theory and levels of the OSI model like switching. From there it’s a lot easier to grok.

rexarexon Bell, Telus to use Nokia and Ericsson, not Huawei, in building their 5G networks

I moved from an unremarkable city in Canada to San Francisco and the cellular service here is terrible. Only Verizon is comparable and even then that just means it is reliable. T-Mobile is a joke in SF.

rexarexon An introduction to RabbitMQ

I have never had a good experience with RabbitMQ wherever I have worked. Often it was buggy and unreliable. It’s almost always been some thing shoehorned into a service, but failed to gain widespread adoption with future services. Furthermore, it’s usually some hot potato no one even wants to deal with. We have written some code around it to make it more reliable. You quickly figure out why there seems to be so many half baked implementations of it wherever you go work.

It’s basically caught between being too bloated and complex for use with smaller systems (as some commenters have poked at people for not being the ‘right’ kind of person to be running it)

While at the same time, it’s not robust and reliable enough to use in prime time.

What’s left is this enticing and sexy sounding message broker called RabbitMQ that actually just sort of sucks.

In my experience someone gets stoked on trying this out but once everything is all implemented it disappoints and the system or service it is apart of is a one off after future services use something more mature the next time around.

For scale I have used NSQ to handle millions of message a second and then for smaller scale AWS services like SQS can handle things much more reliably.

rexarexon Error messages in Haiku?

Juniper networking equipment has a hidden CLI command that spits out a nerdy or sleep deprived haiku:

E.G

  Juniper> show version and haiku;

  IS-IS Screams,
  BGP peer flapping;
  I want my mommy!

  TTL down one
  the end nearer with each hop
  little packet, poof.

  Amazing photons
  Carry our data worldwide
  Never seem to stop

  My session is dead:
  Forgot to commit confirm.
  Where are my car keys?

For some reason, it’s hard to find all of them compiled in one place. I think it changes over time depending on the version of JUNOS and the hardware platform.

It was always a little uplifting when you had an incident occurring and you needed a little something—anything—to keep you going (:

rexarexon SaltStack Mining Attack

Are you seriously telling me that you went from infrastructure as code to doing things by hand!?

rexarexon SaltStack Mining Attack

Not me

rexarexon Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their contact-tracing system

Exactly why they aren’t collecting GPS data and the system is built using anonymous Bluetooth keys, similar to the find my iPhone anonymous network. Can’t hand over what you don’t have.

rexarexon Hacker Bribed 'Roblox' Insider to Access User Data

get a real bank.

rexarexon A scheduling tool for bread baking

It’s Canadian style

rexarexon SpaceX loses its third Starship prototype during a cryogenic test

It’s a good thing they’re trying to break it on the ground, PR be damned. Better they than hiding failures like Boeing

rexarexon Planning and Managing Layoffs

Agreed, I thought 8 weeks was very low for a lay-off based on what I’ve heard from others.

rexarexon Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs

It’s sad that you have so little control over your time. This is an extreme rationalization if I’ve ever heard it. Wouldn’t you rather have alone time anywhere else but crammed in a train? Perhaps, a park?

rexarexon Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs

Where are you finding all the good night skiing?

rexarexon What It's Like to Work on League of Legends

Are you trying to gaslight people? You can’t seriously be trying to say that someone’s opinion that a company culture is toxic is offensive making you a victim. Come on! Anyone whose actually worked at a toxic company knows when to call a spade a spade. Some company cultures suck! Especially outside the ivory tower of SV. And the gaming industry as a whole is known for a lot of the complaints made!

rexarexon Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level

It’s for real

rexarexon Giving every IPv6 address a name

Is this accomplished by ip6.arpa?

https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/support/document...

rexarexon Luxury hotel guests keep stealing mattresses

Incorrect, I know someone who got bedbugs in Winnipeg

rexarexon WeWork and Counterfeit Capitalism

Cheaper to be down? I guess if you don’t have users sure.

rexarexon The Myth of the Wealthy Welder

Linemen were some of the highest compensated employees at McMurdo Station, Antarctica when I was there a couple years ago.

rexarexon Why Does Developing on Kubernetes Suck?

I think the author is doing it wrong personally. Just spin up a real dev cluster and use that? Why putz around with setups on your laptop? That’s never going to scale team-wise? And if you damn well insist on running your own local k8s cluster for development then the whole thing should be automated infrastructure as code anyways that you start with a command so that other developers will get the same behavior.

Even after local dev the changes should be getting picked up and tested by a testing cluster.

I think leaving it up to devs to come up with their own local testing k8s is asking for bugs.

rexarexon “Roman Biro”, complete with joke, found at London building site

dice = plural

die = singular