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ghshephard commented on PYX: The next step in Python packaging   astral.sh/blog/introducin... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko
nemomarx · 15 days ago
from what I hear uv is the "solved" and venv by hand is the old way
ghshephard · 15 days ago
uv is venv + insanely fast pip. I’ve used it every day for 5+ months and I still stare in amazement every time I use it. It’s probably the most joy I’ve ever gotten out of technology.
ghshephard commented on GCP Outage   status.cloud.google.com/... · Posted by u/thanhhaimai
tibbar · 3 months ago
What's the alternative here? Do you want them to replicate their infrastructure across different cloud providers with automatic fail-over? That sounds -- heck -- I don't know if modern devops is really up to that. It would probably cause more problems than it would solve...
ghshephard · 3 months ago
There are roughly 20-25 major IaaS providers in the world that should have close to dependency on each other. I'm almost certain that cloud flare believe that was their posture, and that the action items coming out of this post mortem will be to make sure that this is the case.
ghshephard commented on CINC Is Not Chef   cinc.sh/... · Posted by u/duck
acidmath · 5 months ago
I haven't encountered any Chef code in almost ten years. For the stragglers not yet primarily on Kubernetes and Terraform, I see Ansible and some extra Terraform. Maybe I see some Salt here and there.

These are just my anecdotes, for sure, but (also anecdotal) I rarely hear of other "ops" type people using Chef, and most of the ones I know never got more than just their feet wet with Chef (the SaltStack beta was out early enough to avoid Chef).

ghshephard · 5 months ago
I think you would be quite shocked to discover how many millions (10s of millions?) of nodes at hyperscalers and adjuncts are configured with Chef.

> For the stragglers not yet primarily on Kubernetes and Terraform

In my experience - you see all three of these, k8s, TF and chef working in the same cluster. But, I'm only an anecdote of n=2.

ghshephard commented on 4o Image Generation   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
kh_hk · 5 months ago
If that's so then there's no need to be hyperbolic about it. Why would they publish a model that is not their most advanced model?
ghshephard · 5 months ago
o3 mini wasn't so much a most advanced model, as it was incredibly affordable for the IQ it was presenting at the time. Sometimes it's about efficiency and not being on the frontier.
ghshephard commented on Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)   oncontracts.com/monster-c... · Posted by u/wallflower
ghshephard · 5 months ago
I read the letter and it looked like pretty much the first negotiating position of any lawyer. Regardless of what you think, convince the opposition that you are prepared to litigate to the end of time.
ghshephard commented on OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules   finance.yahoo.com/news/op... · Posted by u/jonbaer
cogman10 · 6 months ago
Regulatory capture is usually the company pushing for regulations that align with the business practices they already implement and would be hard for a competitor to implement. For example, a car company that wants to require all other manufactures to build and operate wind tunnels for aerodynamics testing. Or more realistically, regulations requiring 3rd party sellers for vehicles.
ghshephard · 5 months ago
I haven't heard that definition of "Regulatory Capture" before. I mostly thought it was just when the regulators are working for industry instead of the people. That is, the regulators have been "Captured." The politicians who nominate the regulatory bodies are paid off by industry to keep it that way.
ghshephard commented on Judge ends man's 11-year quest to dig up landfill and recover $765M in Bitcoin   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/LinuxBender
Trasmatta · 7 months ago
> The council said that excavating the landfill site would let harmful substances escape into the environment, endangering residents with "potentially serious risks which raises public health issues and environmental concerns," the ruling said.

The extreme unlikelihood of finding the drive in a salvageable condition combined with the near certainty of polluting the local community makes it a pretty clear decision to me.

ghshephard · 7 months ago
I don't get why there would be any risk of polluting the local community. Just create a second-landfill, properly lined - in exactly the same way thousands of landfills each year are created near to the first one - then just run an industrial-conveyor from Landfill A -> Landfill B. Create a spill-container underneath if you want to be 100% super certain 0.000% of pollution.

Run at a reasonable rate - should be relative straightforward for a team to pick through the garbage, particularly because it's metal.

This project gets rebooted when/if bitcoin hits $1mm.

ghshephard commented on Party Squasher: guest occupancy counter for homes   partysquasher.com/... · Posted by u/teractiveodular
amyfp214 · 8 months ago
Gosh that's just awful. "Hi ghshepard, welcome home! Before we unlock your door for you, please watch this 30 second ad! Oh my, once a day you'll need to fill out a survey - what did you think of the ad?" "your commons room use is 5 minutes over the limit. you'll need to pay the $200 excess use charge, or you can upgrade to our UNLIMITED commons room plan, which lets you use the commons room for five hours a month"
ghshephard · 8 months ago
Even better - and I kid you not - the first notice I had that my door no longer accepted my key was when I came home one night and there was a new digital lock on the door. It was late, and thankfully I was able to find some details in my spam folder that let me get into my apartment that night.

They did the same thing to me a second time with the bluetooth connection to the apartment complex - and were very passive aggressive about let me know how to activate the application. Initially told me I had "a problem with email" if I hadn't properly read their single random-sourced mention of a new app I needed to install on my phone a couple weeks earlier that I had instantly dropped into a spam bucket as obvious phishing.

I really hate corporate apartment management.

ghshephard commented on Party Squasher: guest occupancy counter for homes   partysquasher.com/... · Posted by u/teractiveodular
ghshephard · 8 months ago
The new thing in Corporate controlled apartments is they have your apartment fully set up with remote telemetry, which also means they have WiFi Hotspots installed in all units. From there, they track things like the hot water tank, water in the sink, heating/cooling, etc..

I can see "PartySquasher" type technology becoming a feature in w/corporate controlled apartments. Mine is particularly intrusive (Park Place, San Mateo) - in that they also have all the doors digitalized as well as the entry into mailroom/complex via Bluetooth authentication. Just to make sure you have to digitally log in to your apartment - they also lock you in 120 seconds after entering, so you can't just leave your door unlocked.

You just know that this is absolutely the future of housing once private equity starts to dominate the corporate landlord space.

ghshephard commented on Why does storing 2FA codes in your password manager make sense?   andygrunwald.com/blog/why... · Posted by u/andygrunwald
cycomanic · 8 months ago
It's interesting how many argue that putting 2FA codes into a password manager is wrong because you combine 2 factors into one (not don't fully agree with that reasoning), but then are happy with passkeys. How are passkeys better?
ghshephard · 8 months ago
Passkeys aren't susceptible to phishing. 2FA TOTP is. Also -your seed/token can be trivially stolen from a password manager. Getting the passkey private key somewhat more challenging.

u/ghshephard

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I'm an SRE. My day mostly consists of wrangling Hashicorp Nomad, Consul, Vault with lots of Chef, Ansible, and Terraform.

In past lives I was a Data Engineer, Systems Engineer (IPv6 Mesh Networks) and Network Engineer.

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