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Also known as the Wal-Mart business model.
Also known as the Wal-Mart business model.
For some reason, that one didn’t annoy me as much. Maybe I saw that season only after it came out on DVD, and thought “yeah, this is dated, but I see how it landed when it was still fresh. This season, I’m watching the episodes within a day or two of them coming out, so it feels like getting stale bread at the bakery.
So they name this episode Parasites Regained.
Not sure if everyone here knows that Paradise Regained is Milton’s sequel to his earlier Paradise Lost.
A big part of why this season feels stale is that its topical references are several years old. Like Dune and Ivermectin, in this episode. Was this season written two years ago and is only being released now?
Yeah, there’s a lot to be said for letting the hosting be done by people who know what they’re doing.
Minix.
But then I wised up and switched to FreeBSD.
It’s right there in Matthew 15:
22 A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.” 23 Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.” 24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”
People act as though Jesus was a paragon of virtue, but even according to the Bible, he could be a right bastard sometimes.
All your base are belong to us!
undefined> On-prem infrastructure is way less fun than having a full cloud stack, how are you enjoying that, and are there any big snags you all have run into?
There are people who do enjoy playing with hardware, and I’m not going to say they’re wrong, especially since I’m glad they’re around. But that’s not what I want to do for a living.
I think the biggest challenge I’ve seen is: with on-prem hardware, you can brick a server or a router, and have to go down to the machine room to reimage it from the console. With cloud infrastructure, it’s possible to not just brick, but destroy your entire machine room.
Having said that, I really like infrastructure-as-code. I’ve set up racks of hardware, and IaC is way more fun.
I don’t have any retired hardware from my current job, since I’m 100% cloud (and I don’t miss hardware one bit (well, except for the one time I found that I didn’t have any spare power cables for the homebrew PC)).
I have, however, converted my old QNAP NAS to TrueNAS, and it’s much better now.
The nafety for safety.