Then again, I'm sick and maybe I'm misreading it, if that's the case, my apologies.
BetterDev
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Don't hate me here but this feels like that meme where the guy puts a stick in the spokes of his bike and blames the stick.
I think that's just a process problem, definitely depends on the specifics of your organization but I think if you raised that concern, you could probably come up with a solution that isn't quite so burdensome, while maintaining the maturity level of IaC.
And I hate to be that guy but that last sentence doesn't seem have much at all to do with IaC. Big shops can use IaC, so can small shops. In my case it's the latter, we just have so much tech spread across so many platforms that maintaining it purely via GUI is infeasible. IaC is simply the best way to go for us, due to the sheer number of moving pieces.
To me the power of IaC is less in "I can stand this whole thing back up a single deploy" and more "The entire history of every configuration decision and change I've ever made is right here, not buried 4 submenus deep in a "new enhanced ui".
When we're being audited for security/privacy/legal compliance, I have one source of truth to look at, and when it gets changed, those changes get peer reviewed just like any other code change, and git history is a great audit trail if you use decent commit messages.
Also, knowledge transfer and onbording is way easier too, here's all our infrastructure, here's the rules surrounding how it gets updated, yes you will be fired if you break them. Here's the docs regarding how to write this code, and here's some handy formatting and validation scripts to help you along the way.
Doing it by hand in the console is fine if you have full confidence in your ability to hand over the project to another human on your way out the door, but when it comes to that one hacky workaround you had to implement with no documentation due to the limitations of your in-house apps, you're probably forcing the next guy to rediscover why you did it that way by breaking it half a dozen times on the next deploy after your departure, rather than just noticing the inconsistency in the IaC, then looking into the git blame and mumbling "heh, that's dumb".
Upvote for sway, but the word graduate there feels out of place, though to be honest I havent given NIX an earnest shot.
Of course. It's your life, live it how you see fit. I've definitely been in similar shoes.
On a friendlier note, may I just say, you have quite a way with words, and your choice of phrase sparks joy in me. I hope you do find a better life after your debts are paid, as much as I hope you have a good rest of the year, with many more to come.
Sometimes it's okay to be a bit rude. It's rare, but every now and again, necessary in order to not become a doormat. It is totally normal and human to try to change your environment (including the behaviour of others) to suit yourself and your happiness.
I'm great, thanks for asking. I had just woken up and I haven't been sleeping much lately. It's very possible that what I percieved as a perfectly normal way to state that I was taken aback that you could say that about this math problem, came across to you instead as an assault. Please know that wasn't my intention, and I regret the way I phrased that. Thank you for your concern.
Just fucking read the content before you comment next time, okay pal? 😂
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This is just basic algebra, this is actually how the problems in algebra I are written. What the fuck?
Yeah, if you use an arbitrary standardized measuring stick, the problem goes away, as it is no longer infinite.
Still a fun thought experiment to demonstrate how unintuitive infinities are!
Anyway, major kudos to you for engaging with this thread in good faith! That is so rare these days, I barely venture to comment anymore. Respect.
... and thank you for the opportunity to share a weird math fact!
And it may very well be true, but we can't prove it mathematically.
Exactly! It is unintuitive, but there are as many infinite elements of the set of all real numbers between 0 and 1, as there are in the set between 0 and 100.
I hope this demonstrates what the people here arguing for the paradox are saying, to the people who are arguing that one is obviously longer.
Just because something is obvious, doesn't make it true :)
Calm your tits (meaning your birds), I say "daymon", and I relish any opportunity to offend the overly devout.
My reason is simple: I learned the word by reading it and sounding it out, and that's more badass than "haha I say demon because I'm edgy"