When the enterprise OS company I worked for in 2k1 was considering forking a Linux distro to offer as a freemium product, they evaluated enterprise Linux and Debian.
Debian lost then as its package format had weaker validation and consistency guarantees. It'd've been harder to support.
The packaging in both hasn't changed much, except RH forgot how to use /etc/alternatives properly and now has some ungodly rinkydink thing supplementing it like a colo bag on the side, but the validation difference is still there.
Maybe that was why. Both are riddled with fridge art - oh hi Systemd, network manager, et al - but both are generally similar other than packaging and pipeline.
It's like a bleep on YouTube over some naughty word a guy says before he mows bad guys down with his machine gun. YouTube wants to protect its already-confirmed-adult viewers from hearing the spicy words as it could detract from the purity of the bloodshed.
I talked general stuff with the Google guy (pingpong balls in a bus et al) but no coding challenges.
I guess I have truly left the realm of hard coding (at C) as it's all "solve this excellent infrastructure requirement and then rip out your brain and grab the crayons because it's in yaml and fucking ansible" now.
I learned this from my dad. The hardest part is to be nice to absolute assholes, but I've seen it does improve relations when you have to work alongside them.
Yes, I'm pissed that I have to mod my behaviour to be extra-nice to these dicks. Yes, I do enjoy that they coordinate better with me after I've nicely indicated where the last joint effort could have been better with that coordination.
It's all about how we be professional knowledge workers work and coordinate like adults and express disappointment and a wish for improvement, I guess.
You think for-profit healthcare, including elder care, pharma care, and long-term care, aren't a huge problem with capitalism written all over it, with every layer maximizing profits and minimizing services, then I urge you to re-assess it.
Yes! I can't find that Thompson Twins mix on streaming any more. I may have to actually self-host just to play my own rip of it.
I dubbed it into a blank and then cut it into a loop so it'd repeat forever, and used that as tunes when I needed to walk somewhere really far. It's etched into my brain.
I'm just gonna mention it's historically been a lot easier for people to send others into the fray than go themselves. I think we called those people chickenhawks, in the day, but I don't think it applies here.
Declarative is awesome.