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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Unbelievable geniuses don’t exist

    “I haven’t seen one so it must not exist” ?

    I’ve met one. He’s unbelievable. He’s a great guy, but sometimes a little hard to follow if you’re only taking part in one conversation at a time when he’s talking in two and listening to a third because he expects you to be on the ball in your own discussion when he jumps in to drop a tidbit or ask a question like a chess master playing 4 games in the park at once – in heated discussions about topics as diverse as economy, politics, technology, and the history of Coffee. He’s so nice and so unfathomably intelligent that when he’s working you just naturally want to see if he needs anything on the way back to his desk and otherwise leave him alone to craft miracles in the environment of his choosing.

    Like, I’ve sat down and taken those tests from back in the day when measuring IQ was a thing. I did well. I’m proud of how well I did. This guy cannot be measured by any yardstick built by mortals.



  • Ansible.

    I fucking hate YAML, and I hate Ansible ‘programming’ (see “HTML ‘programming’ language” for rage context).

    Chatgpt - I’ll use the one in bing or the one in regular-skype - feeds me stuff I can copy/paste/review, and I can get on with my day having lost fewer brain cells to the rage of existing in a world with Ansible fanboys who seem to have forgotten there is NOTHING Ansible does now that we weren’t doing in 2003 … and that the state of the art is 2 generations PAST that glorified mess.

    Having used puppet and chef and seen mgmtconfig, I can only applaud RedHat for going with the worst-of-two options and promoting it so hard it appeared viable.

    I don’t mean to dunk on Michael. Just, James’ idea was way better and RH still went with Michael’s, and I one day need to know whether the person who had the final say got help.