arensb

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[–] arensb 3 points 2 years ago

undefined> On-prem infrastructure is way less fun than having a full cloud stack, how are you enjoying that, and are there any big snags you all have run into?

There are people who do enjoy playing with hardware, and I'm not going to say they're wrong, especially since I'm glad they're around. But that's not what I want to do for a living.

I think the biggest challenge I've seen is: with on-prem hardware, you can brick a server or a router, and have to go down to the machine room to reimage it from the console. With cloud infrastructure, it's possible to not just brick, but destroy your entire machine room.

Having said that, I really like infrastructure-as-code. I've set up racks of hardware, and IaC is way more fun.

[–] arensb 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I don't have any retired hardware from my current job, since I'm 100% cloud (and I don't miss hardware one bit (well, except for the one time I found that I didn't have any spare power cables for the homebrew PC)).

I have, however, converted my old QNAP NAS to TrueNAS, and it's much better now.

[–] arensb 3 points 2 years ago

I met a CEO once, and asked him how many people work in his company. He said, "about half of them".

[–] arensb 4 points 2 years ago

I asked my Magic 8-Ball which email app I should use. It said, "Outlook not so good."

[–] arensb 4 points 2 years ago

With swarms of things.

[–] arensb 2 points 2 years ago

Now I want to make red kibble from The Expanse, but bam! it up a notch and wash it down with Slurm.

[–] arensb 9 points 2 years ago

With great power outages come great responsibility outages.

[–] arensb 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, but is he smart enough to realize that? And if so, does he have the strength of will to STFU when it's in his best interest?

[–] arensb 1 points 2 years ago

I think I might have a few 1- and 2-centime coins somewhere. I'm old enough to remember using them at the post office for something.

[–] arensb 1 points 2 years ago

Is this because fewer Republicans like him, or because they don't think he'd be able to own the libs effectively from prison?

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