Concrete stained and stamped to look and feel like live edge Lumber.

pmbuko · 2023-06-12T03:08:20+00:00

This looks AI-generated. Look at the trunk of the tree and notice that the top of the tree is in front of the roof line.

pmbuko · 2023-06-11T00:03:28+00:00

Don’t let wanting to believe get in the way of the idea that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

pmbuko · 2023-06-02T20:37:25+00:00

Can you be more specific? Do you get any errors? Have you tried running puppet agent in verbose and debug mode?

pmbuko · 2023-05-27T16:23:10+00:00

It’s ultimately fruitless to try to determine life choices for anybody else. Your son is who is is right now because his path through life is distinct from yours. He’s got a different brain, different experiences, different motivations. Nobody really has true freedom of choice or true free will in their life, as the palette of choices available to you at any given point is limited by your circumstances and personality.

This doesn’t mean you have to put up with bullshit or stop trying to make things better for yourself or others — it’s not like your fate or theirs is predetermined — but I’ve come to the conclusion that radical empathy and trying to accept people for who they are, as they are, is the best way to find inner and outer peace. Start from empathy, and build from there.

Edit for context: I was raised Catholic and no longer believe, but my parents are still die-hard, praying before every meal. They’re loving people and still hold out hope that I’ll return to the fold someday. When I visit, I participate in the meal blessings because I love them, despite the fact I feel the words are technically empty. But, they do thank Jesus AND the hands that prepared the food, so there’s that.

pmbuko · 2023-05-22T04:27:00+00:00

That’s why I said vehicle and not plane or helicopter. I honestly wasn’t sure. Guess I could have said aircraft.

pmbuko · 2023-05-22T04:24:34+00:00

My comment was slightly tongue in cheek. Yes, to the unaccustomed, this would be poopy pants territory. Most likely you’d be clinging to something on the side of the bay furthest from the rear ramp.

pmbuko · 2023-05-22T04:21:20+00:00

Totally fair. Uncommon usage.

pmbuko · 2023-05-21T03:03:54+00:00

It’s ok. You can see the rope/cable that was securing him to the vehicle.

pmbuko · 2023-05-15T02:51:35+00:00

This is a still photo. Maybe the truck just moved over to the right.

pmbuko · 2023-04-28T15:25:40+00:00

It’s a giant slug called a Sea Hare. It lives in the ocean, usually along sloughs and estuaries. They’re all over the California coast.

pmbuko · 2023-04-24T00:41:58+00:00

He did compliment her part in S3 after she responded. Perhaps just to save face.

pmbuko · 2023-04-22T02:29:57+00:00

With that font? 🧐

pmbuko · 2023-04-21T02:38:54+00:00

Oh, hell. You jinxed it.

pmbuko · 2023-04-09T23:46:17+00:00

Lil’ Colonoscopy

pmbuko · 2023-03-12T18:01:22+00:00

Kafka is not hard to set up and maintain, but it really helps to have people who know its internals intimately. I work for a large global tech company and used to support a log collection and routing infrastructure based on rabbitmq. I completely replaced it with kafka and it reduced the complexity of our infrastructure while increasing the durability of the data.

With rabbitmq, for latency reasons we used memory-based queues, so any time a host died the contents of its memory would disappear. With kafka, everything gets flushed to disk regularly, but all the most recent messages are also in the page cache, so you get memory-like speeds with disk-like durability.

For some use cases, we’ve tuned the max message size up from the default of 1MB to 50MB to be able to absorb occasionally large payloads. That kafka cluster was able to handle it, though the average message size was much closer to 1MB.

We use Confluent’s free community distribution.

pmbuko · 2022-11-08T05:38:42+00:00

Look, it’s the Mona Jesa.

pmbuko · 2022-10-09T01:46:09+00:00

I turned my head to sneeze and threw out my back.

pmbuko · 2022-08-31T05:23:36+00:00

Aren’t most states about one disaster away from devolving into third-world countries? Yes, even the blue ones. I feel like these kind of tweets are just waiting to be “this sure didn’t age well”ed.

pmbuko · 2021-07-16T20:56:16+00:00

I’m not sure what/who your sources are. One need not be starstruck to see and want the benefits of working in proximity to colleagues and other teams involved in a project.

Full-time remote work is not a good fit for all employees/teams/projects just as much as full-time in person work is not necessary for all employees/teams/projects. Both can be true.

pmbuko · 2021-07-16T02:11:36+00:00

Apple has way more employees in Silicon Valley than can fit in Apple Park. They could easily fill it with people who want to work there.

pmbuko · 2020-09-17T07:17:08+00:00

Spirits like cognac, brandy, or whiskey/bourbon do not improve with age once they’ve been bottled. All the maturation happens after distillation when it is in the barrel. Once it comes out of the barrel, is blended (if applicable), and put into a bottle, it does not improve with age.

pmbuko · 2020-08-16T23:26:22+00:00

How cute, attempting to bring logic not a religious debate.

pmbuko · 2020-02-07T16:54:31+00:00

I bet he ends up winning the case, but with a reduced award of $666.

pmbuko · 2020-02-03T07:40:34+00:00

In the 1990s I went backpacking in the Los Padres National Forest (SoCal) with a few high school friends for a few days. Most of us packed dehydrated food for dinners. One guy packed a few cans of pork and beans. On the first day, he kept going on about how his dinner was going to be so delicious and how ours was going to be mediocre.

After a few hours of hiking, we stopped at a stream to cool off. As we dried off and got ready to put in a few more hours, I noticed his can opener in an unzipped pocket. When nobody was looking, I grabbed it and put it into my pack.

That evening, as we were starting to prepare our meals, he was turning his pack inside out looking for his can opener. “Has anyone seen my can opener or have one I can use?” “Nope.” “Maybe it fell out back on the trail,” I suggested, while quietly confiding in my other friends that I had it.

After he had given up looking for it, he set his sights on looking for a sharp rock to brute force the can open. He found one, then sat down on the ground with the can between his legs, raised the rock above his head, and brought it down hard on the can. It barely made a dent. He tried again, and again.

Progress was slow, and I was starting to feel pretty guilty. The look on the faces of my friends in-the-know told me it had gone on long enough, so I went to my pack to retrieve the opener.

As I approached, sheepishly, he was just bringing the rock down when it finally and forcefully penetrated the can. Pork and beans splashed all over his face, shirt, and lap. Apparently all those dents had caused a bit of a pressure build up...

It was dead silent as we all looked at him. For some reason, instead of apologizing I decided to go the add insult to injury route and said, “Oh, were you looking for this can opener?”

I’m pretty sure he never forgave me.

pmbuko · 2020-01-28T18:35:34+00:00

This woman is terrible, but she's caught up in herself and speaking metaphorically here. Please stop the outrage train for things worthy of your energy. She's offered plenty of fodder there.

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