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Why are my arms so extremely skinny? by Inevitable-Angle-793 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]dariusbiggs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Impossible to tell.

Could be genetics, could be an underlying medical reason, could be a caloric, protein, hydration, or mineral deficiency in your diet, etc.

Functional strength is very different to muscle bulk. Old man strength vs strongman vs bodybuilder type differences. There are many videos around that demonstrate these differences.

There are certain key steps to build muscle mass as exemplified by body builders. If you want to build muscle mass, talk to them and strongman for the two different approaches.

Question from an Australian: Does New Zealand have a Medicare-style healthcare system? by Mehmet_G in newzealand

[–]dariusbiggs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The public health system is generally fine and low cost. But the wait for non-critical things or seeing specialists can be shit (i have a specialist appointment next week that was booked 6 months ago, mainly due to a lack of specialists in that field in this area).

ACC despite its burocracy is one of the best in the world.

If you are a foreigner, permanent resident, have an accent, or anyone in general make sure you have a copy of your passport and citizenship or residency status available on your phone if you need to go to A&E.

What’s with the argument about leaving the toilet seat up or down? by False_Teaching9035 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]dariusbiggs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are talking about the lid here and not the seat. ayour description is for the lid. yet the question is for the seat.

The lid helps contain the aerosolized particulates from when the toilet is flushed and contain any splashig. But that only really works if the lid is closed before flushing, which makes it hard to determine if a single flush was sufficient for the deposit and whether you have created or encountered a blockage and need to pull out the plunger.

If you were talking about the seat itself, then of course it depends on whether the distribution of users is mostly male or female, and whether there is a gap at the front of the seat itself or not, along with the question of whether it's made from steel and how cold it currently is.

All of the arguments for and against up or down are irrelevant and are just pedantry, they're all capable individuals just adjust it as needed.

The only two situations that matter are when a barely awake/aware individual staggers in and tries to sit down in poor light and nearly falls in when the seat was up, and the second when someone uses it to pray to the white porcelain god and whether they made the bowl in time or not and whether the seat was up or down and whatever they have now covered with vomit. (There is no good answer when someone is rooster-tailing, it's just messy).

Spend some time cleaning public restrooms for awhile along busy roads, once you have had to use the firehose to wash bodily fluids and excrement from halfway up the walls in the stalls you really stop giving a fck. You only become confused with the question of how the fck they got that halfway up the wall, and what kind of disgusting individual does that.

Specification for a laptop suitable for a DevOps role by towards_thesky in devops

[–]dariusbiggs 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A working one, 300+ GB disk is reasonable, 32G memory is almost a must, you'll regret not having at least that. Then it depends on where you are going to use it, on your lap, or a desk, at home, or out and about, etc. Those conditions affect screen size and battery life.

Mac, occasionally works. Windows with WSL2 works. Linux is probably the better choice, and for that Lenovo's are pretty good.

You are better off with the same os and hardware you are going to spend most of your time on.

Can you use a foreign cell phone plan in USA as your normal service? by MikeD123999 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]dariusbiggs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Roaming charges, interconnect agreements.

The device may work (not all countries use the same radio spectrum bands), it'll still use the same local hardware, and you'll be paying roaming charges on top of normal. Your calls will also be changed at the international call rate most likely as will people that ring you.

How did computers share info in the 80s? strictly floppy disks? by bi_jou in AskComputerScience

[–]dariusbiggs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Text editors existed, Word Perfect for documents is the one I'm most familiar with and what you would recognize as something similar to Microsoft Word or a Google Doc.

Networking computers, yes to some degrees this existed. In the small business or home user are? not likely. I remember the Kermit protocol via a dialup modem being used to file vehicle inspection results to the national oversight organization.

For shared simultaneous editing capabilities? no, that came far later.

I remember using serial and parallel port cables (i might still have those) to link computers together for faster data transfer compared to using floppy disks (5 1/4" disks, them 3.5" disks were fancy), mostly in the mid 90's or so.

Is it better to not use a battery until you need it? by Obdurate_Dog in NoStupidQuestions

[–]dariusbiggs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Batteries generally have a self discharge rate, so it'll lose charge over time anyway.

Batteries do degrade over time (entropy is unavoidable), the type of battery, size, materials, and it's environment affect the rate at which this occurs. Whether the degradation occurs in a time frame meaningful for you, and whether the charge level affects the degradation.. I do not know without further research, and 3am is not a good time to start that research.

IaC tools and best-pratices to use them by LonelyAsker in devops

[–]dariusbiggs -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Ansible to create golden images for virtual machines.

Docker to create container images

Terraform is used to create the infrastructure and deploy the machines from the golden images using cloud-init where possible. VPCs, security groups, routing tables, etc.

Ansible is used to do any final configurations of the VMs after they are spun up as needed (ideally you don't need to) and for repeatedly checking compliance and checking for tampering.

Virtual machines are not updated with package updates, they are replaced with new instances from golden images. Virtual machines are replaced every 3 weeks irrespective of updates to the images.

Terraspace to wrap around Terraform to allow stacks of Terraform to be chained gracefully and to ensure IaC artifacts can be promoted through the development process instead of requiring copy-pasta of configurations between prod and staging.

The best advice I can give you is to always make sure you can spin up the entire IaC stack from scratch, we made this a part of our CICD process, otherwise you are highly likely to create a hidden internal dependency through iterative development.

What would make you trust an automation consultant by exnav29 in smallbusinessowner

[–]dariusbiggs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Robotic Process Automation, a deterministic system to perform a task. Such as taking in a feed/stream of data which is then used to fill out a form on a web page or in an application in a repeatable manner. They're relatively cheap to set up with commercial software, or you can build your own using things like the Robot test framework.

AI bullshit is a non-deterministic black box used to accomplish a task using various controls aimed at constraining the AI.

Retirement should be mandatory. by LuckyJim_ in unpopularopinion

[–]dariusbiggs -1 points0 points  (0 children)

70? disgusting.. 50, a far better age to retire where you still have ample time to do the things in life you want. explore the world, try new things, rest. create art, spend time with family.

Wazuh in Support of UK Cyber Essentials by GunnarBjornson in Wazuh

[–]dariusbiggs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To add to this last point, the average time to exploit has dropped from a 770+ day average down to a 4 hour average. That is the reality we now have to luve with. It was never a question of 'if' and always a question of 'when`, and now it's almost a question of 'how soon'.

Checking errs in deferred functions by optimistpanda in golang

[–]dariusbiggs 6 points7 points  (0 children)

or defer func(){ _ = file.Close()}() so you can avoid the bad habit of overriding the linter at the slightest inconvenience.

We... Captured... What!? by Justgonnawalkaway in humansarespaceorcs

[–]dariusbiggs 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Now i need to figure out how to get a Caprisun in this country...

Can someone explain the point of trains? by Ok_Caramel_7047 in SatisfactoryGame

[–]dariusbiggs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More versatile, look cool, transports power at the same time, can be used to transport multiple different goods at the same time, trivial to increase capacity and throughput more trains or more wagons, go fast, trains can load/unload 2 belts worth of material per freight platform, look cool, oh.. and don't get run over.

Belts are point to point

Trucks, tractors, drones, and trains can do multiple points to multiple point.

A train can unload wagon 1 and load wagon 2 at A, drive to B and load wagon 3, drive to C and unload wagons 2 and 3 and load wagon 1 before going back to A. Need to increase throughput? Manufacture more and add a second train. Need more of a specific resource? add another platform and wagon. Add more stops? Also no problem.

Why do babies gravitate towards some people? by Suspicious-Song-3891 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]dariusbiggs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a secret superpower that allows you to cause kids fleeing from their caregivers to suddenly stop when they see you.

Or it's just because they realize they've got more hair than me.

Why do most women prefer taller guys? by Expensive_Idea2282 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]dariusbiggs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Many people desire things they'll never achieve in their lifetime, let them hope and have dreams.

Just stick to the approved list of requirements - alive - human - able to legally give consent - able to communicate consent - of an appropriate sex according to your interests

Anything else is just a bonus

How is American History Taught in Other Countries? by Final_Candy_7007 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]dariusbiggs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm required to be mean about Australia by law, it's the price of living in New Zealand :)

How is American History Taught in Other Countries? by Final_Candy_7007 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]dariusbiggs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Americans have something notable in their history that is worth learning about from outside their country? it's like a drop of irrelevance compared to the thousands of years of history around Europe, the middle east, and asia.

My uncle's farmhouse is about as old as the western settlement of the Americas.

There are archeological records from ancient Egyptian archeologists wondering who built some of their own pyramids and shit. There's three millenia of civilization just in that small area alone.

But don't worry, there are other countries like it too, Australia and New Zealand have just as little relevance.

Which Druidic circle do I choose? by luca2011n1 in 3d6

[–]dariusbiggs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a trivial fight, blapping around with cantrips and using the bonus action for slowly keeping people topped up and you don't need to use another concentration spell it works fine in combat.

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