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New comment by NikolaeVarius in "Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations"

NikolaeVarius — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 18:57:55 +0000

You are the part of the reason that modern extremism exists in the first place.

New comment by NikolaeVarius in "Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations"

NikolaeVarius — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 18:56:31 +0000

JFC. Liberalism has both left and right forms since its a goddamn political/moral philosophy and not a specific set of political views/policy.

i dont understand why there is such little knowledge on the history of political theory.

New comment by NikolaeVarius in "Ask HN: Why do we push people into STEM?"

NikolaeVarius — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 18:34:08 +0000

Oh get over yourself. It was perfectly intelligible. You just choose to not to try and understand the post and push it off to some claim of not being able to choose to just ignore it like there is some magic going on.

New comment by NikolaeVarius in "Airworthiness Directives; The Boeing Company Airplanes (2019) [pdf]"

NikolaeVarius — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 14:38:22 +0000

And this is also half baked thoughts

How about "Some Boeing 737's cant land on some runways due to programming issue"

The current title is literally incorrect, they can all land due west just fine except for some particular runways

New comment by NikolaeVarius in "Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022"

NikolaeVarius — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 14:36:15 +0000

How? This is something that any news media does when there are large scale events going on, write multiple headlines with multiple outcomes

New comment by NikolaeVarius in "Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022"

NikolaeVarius — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 14:34:43 +0000

While I have strong skepticism of anything from the Government, I literally cannot find any reason that NATO or the USA would have any reason to to start a conflict with Russia inside Ukraine without provocation.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/01/1110912 The UN reports that Russian troop buildup is happening at the border

The area has already had Russian agression via Crimea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_of_Crimea

Are people suggesting that no one should respond militarily to an allies plea for help to respond to military aggression?

New comment by NikolaeVarius in "SpaceX engineers in Fiji for six months"

NikolaeVarius — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 00:41:31 +0000

Human Fundamental Rights are just nice things that most of us have agreed upon sounds nice and is probably a good thing. This generally is maintained by the UN

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...

Take it up with them if you want the internet on this list

New comment by NikolaeVarius in "People Are Creating Sexbot Girlfriends and Treating Them as Punching Bags"

NikolaeVarius — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 23:00:14 +0000

Meh, seen plenty of weirder shit. Come back when its not directed at robots.

New comment by NikolaeVarius in "Rotterdam bridge to be dismantled for Oceanco's 127m sailing yacht Y721"

NikolaeVarius — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 13:55:15 +0000

> The cool thing about democracies is that we could democratically decide to tax the ultra-wealthy at a much higher rate.

And yet it doesn't happen

> And glass-makers are happy when it hails, but that doesn't mean we should be going around breaking windows.

No one is going around breaking windows to give window makers jobs

New comment by NikolaeVarius in "Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Sudoku solver (2018)"

NikolaeVarius — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 12:49:18 +0000

Code is easy, the math is hard.

New comment by NikolaeVarius in "Framework Raises $18M Series A"

NikolaeVarius — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 20:28:04 +0000

My only wish is for an AMD version.

New comment by NikolaeVarius in "Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter"

NikolaeVarius — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 16:00:11 +0000

I ignore 99.9999% of recruiters, but anything that interests me I just toss salary numbers that I find are funny.

Makes it easier on all of us

New comment by NikolaeVarius in "Despite the hype, iPhone security no match for NSO spyware (2021)"

NikolaeVarius — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 15:09:21 +0000

>I can exchange pgp keys with someone and send encrypted messages back and forth. No amount of funding or resources will ever be able to expose those messages

You have no goddamn clue if this is correct or not. Your keys may be compromised, your computer might have spyware on it, your messaging client might be backdoored.

New comment by NikolaeVarius in "Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration"

NikolaeVarius — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 04:38:52 +0000

We use Salt Masterless with Packer to build AMIs.Terraform defines our infra. No matter what happens we ensure any service can boot by itself with 0 intervention

New comment by NikolaeVarius in "‘Maus’ is an Amazon bestseller after Tennessee school ban"

NikolaeVarius — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 01:25:05 +0000

> Minutes of the McMinn school board meeting that led to the book being banned show that while some parents said they supported the idea of teaching about the Holocaust, they had problems with some profanity in the book. They also had an issue with an image showing a nude woman, who is Spiegelman's mother. "We can teach them history and we can teach them graphic history," board member Mike Cochran said, according to minutes of the meeting. "We can tell them exactly what happened, but we don't need all the nakedness and all the other stuff."

Is this 1890?

New comment by NikolaeVarius in "Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration"

NikolaeVarius — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:25:50 +0000

Devs dont want to know. In the spirit of "DevOps" we needed to give Devs full admin access to Production servers. I have seen Staff Engineers do the most mind boggling things on these servers that cause issues.

New comment by NikolaeVarius in "Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration"

NikolaeVarius — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:19:03 +0000

This is just a bad setup.

Ship logs others places, clicking in the GUI outside of testing things out is a mistake, use Terraform or CDK or Cloudformation.

I've managed very large fleets of servers and its dead simple if you have a good setup.

New comment by NikolaeVarius in "Can I have a smaller Prometheus"

NikolaeVarius — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 22:20:53 +0000

The prometheus format is literally just a text page. It dead simple to implement

New comment by NikolaeVarius in "Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration"

NikolaeVarius — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 22:12:19 +0000

I find people dont know how amazing a "immutable" server fleet is until you've experienced it.

It was so trivial to terminate and restart dozens of servers at any given time since unless there was a mistake in the cloud-init, we could bootstrap our entire infrastructure from scratch within an hour.

It was amazing, never had to deal with something missing on a server or a config being wrong in a special case. Dozens of hosts just purring along with 0 downtime since the moment anything became unhealthy, hosts would start auto-booting and terminate the old instance.

New comment by NikolaeVarius in "Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration"

NikolaeVarius — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 21:12:06 +0000

I dont think there is much abstraction about a apt get command and waiting for exit 0