Got 330 pounds on the deadlift tonight! After that, I could hardly do anything else because I used it all in that one lift.
But now we’re getting damn heavy.
Day: February 19, 2019, 11:22 PM
Converted
sometimes you find something and you realized how very Not Programmer some people are, and how differently they think.
I just found a forum post where they were crowdsourcing an effort to convert about 9000 numbers from decimal to hexadecimal
— foone (@Foone) February 19, 2019
Oh, that’s hilarious. I’m not a competent programmer and I could write something in 15 minutes to convert them all. Someone who knows what they are doing it’d take 2-3 minutes.
That’s amazing. Like, you’re AT a computer typing this. That’s the kind of stuff it was born to do. Just…what.
Easy
This has always puzzled me, too — how resistant people are to using the correct technologies, always wanting to do something unsupported and very, very complex for some notional gain that never materializes.
I’ve been in this exact scenario multiple times.
An “easy button” for multi-DC is like the quest for the holy grail. I explain to my clients that the answer is right in front of them – local IP addressing, L3 routing, and DNS. But they refuse to accept that, draw their swords, and engage in a fruitless war against common sense. Asymmetry, stateful inspection, ingress routing, split-brain, quorums, host mobility, cache coherency, non-RFC complaint ARP, etc.
From what I can gather, because people don’t understand networking and they do understand when things “look the same,” they think it’s easier to have stretch clusters, stretched L2, non-standard ARP configs and all that, not realizing the absolutely enormous amounts of infrastructure complexity just below the surface that must occur for these things to happen.
They are essentially forcing we infrastructure people to use a car as an airplane and that works about as well as you’d expect, particularly when anything goes wrong.
It makes sense, then, that Cisco is making it easier to use a car as an airplane since so many clients demand that.
What’s weird about it is that the correct solution is actually easier and better both for the client and the infrastructure provider, but try telling that to an MBA who thinks he’s an infrastructure expert because he “can configure his home router.”
Not Unwarrented
Well, Bernie is running. I still support Warren.
Though I was accused of being BernieBro because I wasn’t a Clinton zombie, as I said in 2016 I never was that sold on Bernie and if a better alternative appeared I’d be for that.
But I guess all it really takes to be a BernieBro is not being a warmonger-supporting ideologue.
Cycle
if it weren’t already grandfathered in, even the politicians i like would be saying that free, universal elementary school was pie-in-the-sky and too expensive, propose “affordable” schooling on an ACA-ish means-tested sliding scale. sigh. https://t.co/HYToujN2Su ht @paulkrugman
— Steve Randy Waldman (@interfluidity) February 18, 2019
Very much the same for public libraries, Social Security, Medicare, etc. It’s all just propaganda so that the rich don’t have to give up a little, just as it was when these things I mentioned were new.
Shut Nell
DFIR interview: Need you to reverse this packed malware with zero reference materials, write your own Wireshark protocol analyzer, and list 50 malware friendly reg keys from memory.
DFIR first day: Just look for AV alerts and tell the client to wipe and rebuild.
— The Cyber (@r0wdy_) February 18, 2019
But this is every IT job in the history of ever. The interview questions are always one in a million occurrences, or inane trivia questions. On the job is routine stuff that could be and should be automated, but no one has time or inclination.
That’s the IT world in a nutshell.