NostraDavid

that guy who took increasingly elaborate pictures of himself taking the previous picture of his camera

This one: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cmwov/hey_reddit_what_tattoos_do_you_have/c0tpyls/

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Why all this when prayer would keep him safe?

You’re thinking of American Baptists and Evangelicals. Catholics are a little bit more practical, in general. Like protecting pedos, instead of ejecting them. Very practical.

Miles -> km = multiply by 1.6 (roughly the golden ratio, is how I remember it). So about 160 km.

Oh, oh, oh! I got one not mentioned yet:

ELK.

Well, not the whole of the ELK stack (Elastic, Logstash and Kibana, though the full stack size is much larger nowadays), but their watchers. A watcher is a piece of JSON with some search specifications on when to trigger and send an alert to email/slack/teams/whatever. We’re basically abusing it as an alerting system, and generally it works… Fine… Presuming Filebeat actually ingests our logs (which is partially our fault, as there’s a fix, but it takes too damn long to drag 3 teams along to implement what needs implementing to fix that problem).

Anyway, the problem is not the watcher itself, even though it is painful (heh) to learn the structure. It’s “Painless”, the JVM-based scripting language available in a watcher. It’s anything but. It is SO painful to write code, inside of a JSON object, making sure everything is exactly as it should be, having to use the DevTools in Kibana to try and trigger it, wait to see what enormous error comes out while praying it works. No IDE, no nothing. Ah, I lied. It does have Syntax Highlighting, for non-Painless code, IIRC…

Oh, having to dig information out of the data you get is super unintuitive too.

At least the UI/Kibana is good, and Elastic is pretty good too. Fuck Filebeat though. And Painless.

The background noise surpression of Teams is peak quality (vs Webex and Slack, though Webex is somewhat good)…

Did you check the calender in Teams? Not to be confused with the calender in Outlook, which may or may not overlap.

I’m pretty sure you can disable the bleeps and bloops people are complaining about - get a tool, then don’t spend any time to learn it and then suffer using it.

Look at mr fancy, with his interface that can search through topics - we’re just flying by the top of our head >_>

At least we were smart enough to just generate a CloudEvent and jam it into a KafkaMessage before sending it, so that’s pretty standard.

We just use it as a messaging bus - we’re not sending “big data” through Kafka. We tried, failed, and immediately gave up, lmao. Now we just save data on HDFS and send where we stored said file (effectively a “claim-check pattern”, if you’re into design patterns)

i’ve got a subscription for ChatGPT and tend to use it over Google, unless I know Google has decent results.

If a duct that transfers water is an Aquaduct, then a duct that transfers nature is an Ecoduct

Outer Wilds

I will always shill for Outer Wilds, simply because it’s such a niche that only 2 games have come out in its unnamed genre: Majora’s Mask and Outer Wilds.

Yes, Outer Wilds is a spiritual successor to Majora’s Mask.

And the worst part is that talking about the game would probably spoil half of it. All I can say that it’s an adventure like Majora’s Mask.

If you ever were to trust an internet stranger to buy a game blind, now is the time. If you loved MM, you’ll at least like OW.

Happy adventuring, stranger ;)