I've been building network controllers my entire career and the "hard part" has never been interacting with devices. Like who cares if you're using Ansible? The hard part is configuring these things; Every vendor has a different way of configuring the same 5 solutions to the same problem, and even with a single vendor network you may have to tailor your configs based on the device type that you're configuring.
IMO there needs to be some higher level abstractions emerge. Half the time I just need a layer 2 network (please don't ask me to configure it one way for a point-to-point vs greater than two endpoints. if there's an optimization to be made do it for me). The other half the time I need a layer 3 network that can peer with BGP (don't ask me what underlay or overlay protocols to use, I only care about the VLANs I'm terminating on).
Slightly related: Cloud providers expose APIs for networks to setup peerings between the cloud provider's network and the network's end customers. These APIs aren't standardized at all, and are a complete PITA for networks that try to integrate their SDN solution with multiple cloud providers. This is one area of complexity that the big guys could cleanup without a lot of work.
Cold showers have very real effects on the human body.
> Deliberate cold exposure causes a significant release of epinephrine (aka adrenaline) and norepinephrine (aka noradrenaline) in the brain and body. These neurochemicals make us feel alert and can make us feel agitated and as if we need to move or vocalize during the cold exposure. Cold causes their levels to stay elevated for some time and their ongoing effect after the exposure is to increase your level of energy and focus, which can be applied to other mental and/or physical activities.
The article misses probably the easiest way to level up: Join a team. A four-stack is almost always gonna have a leg up on a team of randoms. Playing a game consistently, with the same squad, form group dynamics and strategies that are much more difficult to execute with a first time squad.
I don't know... Recency sucks when searching for news related stuff. It feels next to impossible to look into the history of news commentary on any given topic.
Most commentators I hear point towards excessive spending as the primary cause of inflation, but I've been wondering: Absent supply chain interruptions, how does inflation manifest when price competition punishes the first one to raise prices?
There are usually news programs on Sunday that will go over the past weeks worth of news. I like Bloomberg radio, which airs like 3 or 4 different weekly recap shows on that day.
The biggest issue I have with Google is that every search is performed in the "now" context. This makes looking back, especially on political issues, basically impossible; There's no way to explore how topics have evolved or progressed over time. I don't mind google search for resolving technical issues as it works pretty well in this context, but the second you start to get curious and look for anything older everything breaks down.