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Cake day: August 28th, 2023

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  • It provides a safety net by pooling the resources of the community to support the less fortunate. This prevents people from having to sacrifice their long term goals because their short term needs may not be otherwise met.

    Also in contrast to capitalism that treats society as a zero sum game (“I can’t get ahead unless I take something from someone else”) socialism is a benefit multiplier (“I’m part of the community. By making the life of everyone in the community better I’m also improving my own life”).

















  • You can’t run vmalert without flags

    Running grep without parameters is also pretty fucking useless.

    500 words in to the over 3,000 word dump, I gave up.

    Claims to have a Unix background, doesn’t RTFM.

    Nobody really uses Kubernetes for day-to-day work, and it shows. Where UNIX concepts like files and pipes exist from OS internals up to interaction by actual people, cloud-native tooling feels like it’s meant for bureaucrats in well-paid jobs.

    Translation: Author does not understand APIs.

    Want an asynchronous, hierarchical, recursive, key-value database? With metadata like modified times and access control built-in? Sounds pretty fancy! Files and directories.

    Ok. Now give me high availability, atomic writes to sets of keys, caching, access control…

    I’m ashamed enough that I can’t really apply to these jobs

    This reads as “I applied to the jobs and got rejected. There’s nothing wrong with me, so the jobs must be broken”.