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Re:Get unstuck from a creative rut on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @01:23PM (#39457453)
From Brian Eno et. al. - https://www.oblique-strategies.com/
Re:RFC 9512: YAML Media Type on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @11:50AM (#39456159)
Ansible generally prefers .yml - https://github.com/redhat-cop/automation-good-practices/tree... "When naming files, use the .yml extension and not .yaml. .yml is what ansible-galaxy init does when creating a new role template."
Re:Make systemd better for Podman with Quadlet on Monday February 20, 2023 @07:12PM (#34874716)
You are correct. And there is an Ansible role for automated management: https://github.com/linux-system-roles/podman/
"Hipsters on Food Stamps" or "Why would someone take out $100k student loan to go to U of Chicago to earn a 'useless' degree? And why does it make me so angry?"

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/11/hipsters_on_food_sta... https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/11/hipsters_on_food_sta... https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/12/product_review_panas...

> . . . going against her husband.

or father - https://youtu.be/_6qQ7l8pRGo

Re:Python Shouldn't Be the Top Programming Language on Thursday April 28, 2022 @02:51PM (#31196646)
re: point 4.

OpenStack and Ansible are pretty large applications/ecosystems

Re:Collaborate with kindness: Etiquette tips in Slack on Monday March 28, 2022 @05:20PM (#30835729)
It can be, yes. For someone who is a strong believer in and advocate of FOSS, who makes her/his livelihood developing FOSS for a FOSS software company, to be forced to use proprietary solutions where there are reasonable FOSS alternatives can be very disheartening, demoralizing, and even humiliating.
We've known about this since 1983: https://youtu.be/mTYRH3xpt44
Re:The Mythology of Red Bull on Monday April 05, 2021 @02:23PM (#26702619)
It's because of the secret ingredient of Red Bull - https://youtu.be/JbBQqMC0Htw
Re:Better Than JSON? on Friday October 23, 2020 @02:55PM (#24872621)
"Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you."
Re:NestedText, a nice alternative to JSON, YAML, TOML on Saturday October 03, 2020 @06:54PM (#24675274)
Misspelling "Topeka" does not inspire confidence . . .
Re:What we learned after a year on Kubernetes on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @08:19PM (#24499708)
Or eschew config files altogether and write operators in golang . . . https://sdk.operatorframework.io/
"Distrust those who profess altruism." "Don't be helpful: be useful, be available." "Helpful people are a nuisance." - Guitar Craft Aphorisms - https://www.dgmlive.com/in-depth/guitar-craft-aphorisms
Re:Rob Pike interview on Thursday April 30, 2020 @12:27PM (#23032697)
> The small one is the lack of IDE support. You don't need to write an IDE. You just need to have sufficient integration into Jetbrains IDEs (at a minimum).

Visual Studio Code with the Go extension is very good.

". . . like a hoard of suburbanites descending on a grocery store's toilet paper aisle." Should be "horde" but somehow "hoard" works better here . . .