With some price transparency into what companies actually pay for services such as GitHub, maybe we can find out.

Puppet has been doing this for over 15 years. Declarative config management is great and I love it. Unfortunately, it doesn't solve all administration problems as some software assumes an imperative installation or upgrade process.

What’s an example of something you couldn’t upgrade declaratively, by having those imperative steps in a script?

An awful lot of 3rd party "enterprise" systems have ancient, GUI installers. Particularly ones on Windows, although there are also occasional examples of this kind of silliness on Linux.

One timecard system we ran deployed a WAR in JBoss, but the associated DB schema upgrades were hand-compiled into a Java GUI with literally no externally-scriptable control surface.

vyos would be another, though is also networking focused.

Thanks, I didn't know this was an option. Turning on now. :)

I'm not sure what this comment is meant to imply, except that Bay Area is the only place that matters?

It is specifically addressing the GPs statement "as if its usual for any company to know what a 'polycule' is."

It is usual for a large number of companies (and tech folks) to know what that means, but disproportionately so for the Bay area. The blog poster certainly works for a company I'd call Bay adjacent, so they wrote in a language familiar to them.

It has nothing to do with "only place that matters", but simply explaining that given the context of the writer, it's a high likelihood they assume general familiarity.

You're likely going through a Tailscale relay when you're out of your house too. It's still an extra hop through their servers, but yes it "just works".

According to them, not necessarily [0]. They do have relay servers (they call them DERPs) [1] but they're only used in rare situations where UDP is blocked entirely.

I admit I wasn't able to understand most of those explanations so I could be wrong. :)

[0] https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/

[1] https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works/#encrypted-re... under "Encrypted TCP relays (DERP)"

What is your solution for mobile clients? A quick perusal didn't show anything in the docs.

We don't have our own mobile client yet, so right now we rely on the WireGuard app. You configure a gateway, and then generate raw WireGuard configs + QR codes which hook them into the network: https://docs.netmaker.org/external-clients.html

You don't have to give them time nor attention. Being snarky is giving them both, and is done precisely to increase animosity between groups.

Sure, the electorate has thus far been unwilling to increase the capacity. At the same time the private medical facilities have been underpaying, overworking, and under-resourcing our hospitals. They close rural hospitals because they're not profitable /enough/. We could have more beds, and happier staff, but then the profits would be lower.

I agree that the hospitals as private businesses have not handled the situation well because they are seeking profit, but the electorate has no punished them for it.

There are no single issue voters for increasing the medical systems capacity. There are multiple political groups who care about the medical system but none who are willing to sacrifice every other possible gain if they get an improved medical system. That is what I mean about the electorate signaling that they do not care

Humans are social animals and we can most definitely have negative long term impacts from social issues at childhood.