> Also IME EVPN is mostly deployed/pushed when clueless app developers expect to have arbitrary L2 reachability across any two points in a (cross DC!) fabric [1], or when they want IP addresses that can follow them around the DC or other dumb shit that they just assumed they can do.

Sorry, but that's really reductive and backwards. It's usually pushed by requirements from the lower regions of the stack, operators don't want to let VMs have downtime so they live migrate to other places in the DC. It's not a weird requirement to let those VM's keep the same IP once migrated. I never had a developer ask me for L2 reachability.

If your history looks like in that screenshot, then yeah, you definitely need like software like that

Where is the inception?

my problem is still that i want to use enterprise SSDs, but 2280, alas, as the article mentions they are pretty hard to come by.

It's become unreliable under linux as well. It used to work fine. The whole UEFI including the new si0x or whatever that word is again destroyed a perfectly fine experience all because it seemed like a good idea by microsoft.

I can understand you are like this. Just be upfront about it during interviews. You might be surprised there are companies which are absolutely fine with that.

I'm on the other end, I do think your life should revolve around the thing that you are doing 8+ hours a day. I currently have colleagues which are the same like you and it feels I have to pull them through the mud. Just be upfront about it and find a good fit ( I too should find a better fit 8) )

> You might be surprised there are companies which are absolutely fine with that.

You can't be serious.

Or maybe it's too difficult? Or maybe you are just holding it wrong

The unpredictability for using things like cursor or Claude code is just a showstopper and indeed I'm not sure it has ever saved me time in the grand scheme of things

I do worry I’m holding it wrong. But also, it would make me feel better if the answer was that my job is too hard vs. too easy :-)

Brother's minor included making webpages. Pure html. That led to listings in a computer magazine for making a guestbook in php more comprehensible. That was in 2001. That was enough to get me hooked. Continued with the java bible and by then there was no doubt, going to do CS in uni. I hated it with a passion. And only 10+ years after graduating I understand the value of it

I think I would have enjoyed the chronicles back then. Alas too young.

Oh. Have you talked to a grey-beard about users groups? Computer Chronicles was sort of like having a users group presentation in your living room every week. I learned about computers by users groups, computer chronicles, hanging out in computer stores and a few long distance phone calls to the bay area.

Stop it, you are making me nostalgic for a time i never completely lived through.

My first memories are of sitting on my father's lap as a 3y old, connecting to a BBS. Even as small as that I understood completely that was special. The interconnectedness of our society is now taking for granted, but man how special it was.

SKREEEEE... BLORT BLORT SKREEEE.... CACHUNK BLORT SKREEE...

At least you got to experience the carol of the modem tones.

A few years ago I used the 1200 baud connect sequence as a phone ring tone. Everyone chuckled, my child asked "what the he'll was that, I think I heard it in a movie."

I honestly never paid that much attention to Computer Chronicles back in the day. But when I clicked on the link to the obit, I instantly recognized him from the photo.

I use magit with emacs, Id say terminal purists and vscoders are missing out. But now I probably sound like that insufferable emacs guy from work.