Hacker News: volume

New comment by volume in "Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads"

volume — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 18:42:05 +0000

neat details shared, might check out later.

Does this apply to Brave browser?

New comment by volume in "Use a work journal"

volume — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 17:46:41 +0000

I think you need to go past this common thinking to "just focus on consistency/habits/discipline". You need to get clear about how/why you decide in the present moment. I assume this takes varying amount of time/effort for different people.

I think one needs to unravel our inner state and psychology ... we cannot simply turn on and off. But then, once we understand our inner state/psychology it makes it easier to turn on/off.

New comment by volume in "Musk orders Twitter to cut infrastructure costs by $1B – sources"

volume — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 03:47:39 +0000

> Why does this article claim to know that Twitter might go down due to cost cutting? Isn't there a possibility that their infrastructure is just hugely wasteful?

I see the authors (Sheila Dang, Paresh Dave and Katie Paul) quote "sources".

New comment by volume in "Notes against note-taking systems"

volume — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 13:36:45 +0000

I agree "elaborate" is the keyword but for a different reason. He doesn't elaborate about what he considers "elaborate" so we have to fill in the blanks.

When I read it, "our most provocative thinkers and writers" made me wonder:

- Given any system don't you have a range of rigid versus loose followers? This looks true from my own observations of the note talking community. - Couldn't normies those who are not "our most provocative thinkers and writers" get value out of such systems? - Is Sasha aspiring to be one of "our most provocative thinkers and writers"? He wants to make his mark on the world so part of this writing is self talk.

Sasha accomplishes his goal. it's provocative writing and has produced a decent HN response. I have no evidence he means what he says because if so, it's a topic of personal preference. Fun and interesting but not immediately valuable (to me).

New comment by volume in "Notes against note-taking systems"

volume — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 22:10:23 +0000

That sounds more powerful than Lion Kimbro's version (https://users.speakeasy.net/~lion/nb/book.pdf). You should document it!

New comment by volume in "Ask HN: Google Search down?"

volume — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 02:44:52 +0000

> A new 500GB hard disk is already in dispatch with Amazon

What if in fact Amazon uses EMC gear underneath

New comment by volume in "Being swamped is normal and not impressive"

volume — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 20:41:38 +0000

eisenhower matrix and cynefin framework

New comment by volume in "Being swamped is normal and not impressive"

volume — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 20:40:24 +0000

I had to re-read this a few times. I think you should go 100% full effort with double negatives and rewrite the last part:

> There is no noise here, just socially acceptable noise.

New comment by volume in "Ask HN: Have You Left Kubernetes?"

volume — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 16:21:57 +0000

Can you share more about your awx-operator and/or k78s pains? I was tinkering with it this weekend and I'd like to compare notes. I got the basic install via kustomize working just now, because I got stuck with the helm-based method.

New comment by volume in "Being on call sucks"

volume — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 13:24:19 +0000

I wish all PMs would go on call for a week at least. The OP's stint with on-call will be quite useful in his career since he can better intuitively view infrastructure more holistically. Then if the group is doing sprints, the "firefighting" will more easily get prioritized.

New comment by volume in "Being on call sucks"

volume — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 13:08:58 +0000

Most places at some scale have some meaningfully defined escalation path. That way you staff people with varying understanding of the system(s).

> This can obviously be fixed with good documentation, but in reality, no one has good enough docs.

One problem I've witnessed related to documentation about on-call issues is the over reliance on the SOP concept. They only commit to one level or one pass of analyzing the issue. They do not future drill down, either by linking to other notes or reviewing the issues deliberately. It's like they read about the 5 Whys and decided why not just 1 why.

New comment by volume in "Guest WiFi using a QR code"

volume — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 17:05:35 +0000

> Please stop using human-unreadable protocols if opposite is possible

how about use both

New comment by volume in "A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit"

volume — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 01:30:16 +0000

To me, there's a venn diagram. some cults are religions. Some are just cults and not religions.

It sounds like you're coming from a legal perspective. Is that really the end-all-be-all representation of reality?

New comment by volume in "Ask HN: If Kubernetes is the solution, why are there so many DevOps jobs?"

volume — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 15:00:16 +0000

let's say there's 5+ leading definitions of DevOps. I'll add this which I think is quite unpopular but true:

DevOps is how Engineering respects the work of sysadmins.

New comment by volume in "Ask HN: If Kubernetes is the solution, why are there so many DevOps jobs?"

volume — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 00:18:49 +0000

> build engineers or sysadmins or developers who learned a bit of bash and terraform.

From what I have seen, it's also getting familiar with the inner workings and process of the company, as well as current and past runtime tendencies for performance and uptime.

New comment by volume in "Ask HN: If Kubernetes is the solution, why are there so many DevOps jobs?"

volume — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 00:15:04 +0000

> So you're familiar with Six Sigma then? Value stream mapping? TPS? > W.E. Deming? Martin Fowler? There's more to DevOps than deployments > and CI/CD.

>> None of those have any relationship to DevOps.

Deming. I think you mean maybe that Deming has less of a relationship to SRE (Google style). The DevOps Cafe guy wears a Deming t-shirt and talks about Deming all the time. Maybe he has denounced Deming for some reason?

Value stream mapping. This has been brought up in at least one talk at DevOps Days.

Six Sigma. There's some obvious overlaps if you look it up.

New comment by volume in "I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Production"

volume — Thu, 05 May 2022 14:52:58 +0000

This reminds of some IRC threads. You post a question and someone's answer assumes you are going to rip out and replace your existing prod setup just so you can use their pet tool.

New comment by volume in "Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)"

volume — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 11:05:51 +0000

what about sshfs?

brew install sshfs

New comment by volume in "I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020)"

volume — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 21:26:11 +0000

in poker tournaments the winner (and all the other loser) can't win (lose) without the collective choices of all other opponents.

New comment by volume in "The End of Social Media"

volume — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 15:14:15 +0000

one middle ground I have taken for Youtube is to periodically delete my watch history. I am naturally curious so then when I watch a new niche I welcome Youtube's flood of new content.