niallm.bsky.social
CEO Stanza Systems. Speaking in personal capacity. Author/instigator SRE books, Reliable Machine Learning, History of the Irish Internet. Photography at http://www.edge-cases.photos
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nobody talking to nobody about nothing, with one press of a button
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Five Families Total Landscaping
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I like the retained trees thing
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class revolution, but in the other direction
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SRE for politics
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my problem is, I like knowing who's going to be driving the tanks taking over the city
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long history of sending peacekeepers to places where pretty much everybody agrees the two sides don’t get on. enthusiasm for EU army here is, uh, limited (though actual chances have increased dramatically)
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Bracket the clauses slightly differently and it might also reflect an accurate take!
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not the variety of EDS with the median age of 48 *shudder*
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Depends on what use-cases/products etc, but exoscale.com has been recommended
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yep.
also, chinese military intelligence
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my bet is on extreme ignoring skills, at least for a while
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heh
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The rumours I hear is that he’s been significantly red-pilled, so current evolution is in line with goals.
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Lol
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the only sense in which I was ever senior to you was the sense in which I was born earlier :)
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resonates with today's headlines
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an identity stolen is an identity doubled
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Seeing Like a State that Just Poked Its Own Eyeballs Out
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I was talking (ok, whining) to @niallm.bsky.social about how people describe everything they don't want to do as "toil" and try to automate it away, but not everything we don't want to do counts as toil. I think "boring and frightening" is often a better description.
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(hope you're hanging in there; first few months are woah boy^Wgirl)
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well, I guess she _is_ quite a young one
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(g6? a6?)
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I have in fact seen worse (though this is an exceptional example, agreed)
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beginner's mind
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yep. confirmed - those are the early months.
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In his water
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C’mon Justin, we both know it is physically impossible to do good work outside of Cupertino
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There’s a lot about this historical moment that resonates with a lot of history, and I don’t think anyone is really putting those pieces together - except you
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(also, it was really really really fucking cold up there)