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burpsnard | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why was system admin re-branded as devops?

first software i bought came in a box, disks and manuals.

now i rent an online service.

the coders behind each of these ventures have different tasks : the first, devising installation and operating manuals for an offline world, the second for a day by day continuous challenge of measuring and updating the service's capabilities and market value

burpsnard | 6 years ago | on: 2020 Leap Day Bugs

it's bad enough guessing dmy or mdy, without wondering if we earned interest on that 10 billion euros that appears to have spent an entire second in a transit account earning 2.7% per annum (legal think 'annum' implicitly includes the leapsecond, an assurance resting on dozens of assumptions and misunderstandings of many ibscure treaties and standards and policies, modulo the case law in jurisdictions where precedents can redefine)

burpsnard | 6 years ago | on: Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes (2019)

I am that old curmudgeon.

There's a cycle in tool ecology:

- simple useful tool

- adds formats, integrations, config, etc

- codebase is large and change is slow

- the skijump has become an overhang on the learning curve

- a frustrated person writes a simple useful tool

- goto 10

I haven't used k8 but it looks useful for uncommon workloads.

I expect some nu shinyee thing will replace it eventually.

burpsnard | 6 years ago | on: In glyphosate review, WHO agency edited out “non-carcinogenic” findings (2017)

Part of the controversy is around what constitutes a demonstration of safety.

One is "i fed it 50 rabbits and they were all fine the next morning";

another is "LD50 (50% died) within 24hrs of consuming X milligrams per kg of rabbit weight, which well above expected levels present in food";

Another is "more tumours in these 500 rats who were fed glyphosphate - exposed crops, than in these other 500 genetically identical rats fed the same but organic version, after 9 months"

burpsnard | 6 years ago | on: Scaling Etsy

One i saw, was a banking backend; stored blobs retrieved by accountnumber from the mainframe were passed to mid-tier servers that mounted the blobs as r/w db instances.

Sort of like piles of sqlite db's on S3

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