Honestly, fuck Ansible.

It’s the dialup of automation tools. It was probably amazing 10 years ago.

It’s YAML is awful, it scales terribly, it’s so fucking slow at literally everything, it gives people who have no clue what they’re doing a false sense of confidence.

The number of times I’ve seen app teams waste the time of support groups and engineers because something went wrong and they didn’t have the knowledge to know why and need to waste so many man hours having other people solve it for them. I (the engineer) was added to a chat that had 15 people in it because they, after running ansible, saw errors in their server… So clearly there was a problem with the server… At no point did they question there Ansible job.

Of the various tools I’ve used, I prefer Salt. The YAML is slightly less ass and it’s so much faster while also seeming to scaling better too. It by no means is perfect.

This happened in Minnesota some years ago. Team threatened to leave if tax payer money want used to build a new playground for the Vikings to continue losing in.

You’re not wrong… especially since he feels the need to plaster his name on everything. But don’t give him ideas…

On that note, can we collectively change “trump card” to being a bad thing?

In my teens, I stole some CDs. This was pre-napster. I didn’t have money to spend bit it’s hard to deny the importance of music to people, especially in those formative years. I only took 2 maybe 3 total, because the guilt of taking it a CD each time wasn’t worth it.

To give you an idea of how much guilt, I don’t like people offering me food… Because it was theirs and now it’s not. The fact they offered it means nothing. (Of course, the reverse isn’t true)

My question is once everyone’s out of a job who’s going to buy things? You end up haveing zero profits.

Terrible idea. People clearly already struggling at naming kids. Coming up with a family name will be endless letters making the wrong sound, random sections being ‘silent’, so many puns or references to things, corporate advertising “oh it’s the X.com family!”… Terrible, just terrible.

I hated it when everything became ‘smart’.

Now everything has ‘AI’.

Nothing was smart. And that’s not AI.

Everything costs more, everything has a stupid app that gets abandoned, IoT backend that’s on life support the moment it was turned on. Subscriptions everywhere! Everything is built with lower quality, lower standards.

I didn’t think any will work.

Rickroll has been a thing for what 20 years? It’s not about just being catchy. It came about in a time when ‘going viral’ still meant something. Early Internet culture spread it everywhere. I remember an addon in WoW that was a full screen Rickroll. People everywhere in various forums were tricking folks. So many people have grown up with it.

At least half of the people working in tech shouldn’t be. They have 0 clue what they’re doing and that’s dangerous. And far to many people solve everything with a golden hammer.

You don’t need a Mac to work in IT. Especially if all your doing is ansible.

Ansible sucks. It’s slow, it’s limited, it gives a false sense of understanding to do many. I mean it’s nice that it’s a structured playground for some folks I suppose. But there are better tools that do the exact same thing. Or you could just write a proper script.

Agreed.

Stories are trope filled and unoriginal most of the time (there’s a few that seem like they try). The art is lazy. There used to be complex mature themes and now there’s like 5 madlibs used to pump out generic crap. I feel like the last one I saw that felt like classic anime was Knights of Sidonia

Is this a bad time to say that I failed art class in grade school… Because that actually happened

So Musk really is just going full Bond-esk super villain with world domination right? That’s what this is? He doesn’t have to win any election so long as he can just buy every government, which he can then ensure he owns all the money, to buy more…

I learned the cello what can I do?

Sometime in the future, assuming the human race even lasts long enough.

Basically when a world like Star Trek TNG exists.

All my stupid health problems could be fixed.

To be able to travel space would be great, to lay on the moon and watch the Earth. Go admire Jupiter (from a distance).

Work, not because I have to, but because I enjoy the challenge and want to better myself and humanity.

I know for the show they couldn’t really go all out, but I think being a holodeck author would be fun as a side hobby. Could be in a fun working out with whomever inspired you. Hands on learning, anything. Visit places you can’t (like surface of Venus). But also think of like what a video game would be like because you wouldn’t need a controller or VR headset you’re just there. So you could be a Space Marine. Or be Spider-Man! We’ve done reading books, we’ve done watching books, we’ve even done audiobooks… But there you could participate. Or maybe just be there and watch it unfold.

They hire psychologists to explicitly figure out how to better make sales. Logical thinking will not win. Microtransactions, which consists of crap you don’t need, is a billion dollar industry and has bankrupted numerous homes.

I have an electric blower. But I use it to clean my gutters.

I mean really yeah.

Either God doesn’t exist. Or God does exist and allows this crap to happen, which is akin to just approving of it. And if that’s the case hail Satan.

Just send the CEOs some (cheap) pizza, single topping. They seem to think that fixes everything.

Finally got around to to watching Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3. I liked it a lot. Rented it on Amazon Video.

Before that, I watch ‘The 5th Wave’ which I think falls under the context of OPs question. Rented on Amazon Video. Garbage movie. Saw it because I saw a single clip of the movie that looked good. It was the only part of the movie that was good.

And before that one, I watched ‘Smile’. Dumb, lazy, predictable writing. Rented on Amazon Video.

Before that, I watched ‘The Edge of Sleep’. Very good series. Also Amazon Video.

Finally, ‘The Menu’, also Amazon Video. I liked it.

I saw all that for probably the cost of a single movie theater ticket. A matinee ticket right now, for my local theater (ordered online) is $17.60. I think the rent price of each of those movies was maybe $4 and ‘Edge of Sleep’ is free.

I don’t think it has to be caramelized, but that would be good. But if someone uses low quality pineapple it’s going to suck. And you kind know, like if you see a pizza place and your thoughts are “well it’s cheap and quick” I wouldn’t get from there. But, if someone says “OMG, the pizza here is so good”, that’s the kind of place to get it. Local family pizzeria, yes. Dominoes/Pizza Hut/Pizza Ranch, probably a no.