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jjayj
·3 months ago·discuss
But GitHub's postmortems are usually related to internal rollouts rather than traffic load
jjayj
·6 months ago·discuss
This is a massive commercial product with a serious issue (everyone knows about the flickering) that hasn't been solved for months now. I don't think leeway is warranted.
jjayj
·11 months ago·discuss
But my work's VPN is in AWS, and HN and Reddit are sometimes helpful...

Not sure what my point is here tbh. The internet sucks and I don't have a solution
jjayj
·12 months ago·discuss
... to live, not work. I can't edit comments from Harmonic.
jjayj
·12 months ago·discuss
There's no garage, and the only driveway-facing outlet is at the front door - opposite where my parking spot is allocated (an extension cord would have to go under/through the landlord's cars.) I have to drive 60km to work every day.

Only laws (accommodate EVs and/or WFH) or spending time sitting at a gas station will help me here. No landlord is interested in accommodating an EV unless it's a net benefit to them (and thus a net negative to me, who already spends 40% income just to have a place to work.)
jjayj
·12 months ago·discuss
I would love to have gone electric (bought a car in September) but I rent and don't have any way to charge at my residence. How do we solve the renters-that-cant-charge-their-cars problem?
jjayj
·last year·discuss
The other option here is "pick an OS and when necessary install newer packages from source."

We've been doing this for a long time at my current workplace (for dev containers) and haven't run into any problems.
jjayj
·last year·discuss
> You did mention in another reply that only certain root apps can do [what we expect]. Is there a link where I can learn more about that?

Actually in the same comment I replied to, but there doesn't seem to be a way to edit posts in my mobile client.
jjayj
·last year·discuss
> Android does provide a WiFi suggestion API [1], but it has several limitations and doesn’t behave quite as expected.

Can you expand on this? I read the linked doc, and it looked like a separate API should be used to used to "persist a network connection" (my words), but as someone with no Android dev experience there don't seem to be any obvious limitations.

You did mention in another reply that only certain root apps can do [what we expect]. Is there a link where I can learn more about that?
jjayj
·last year·discuss
I guess the question is "why generate a QR code rather than just connect?"

> You can instantly connect using Google Circle to Search or Google Lens.

Is there something special about the Google integrations that other apps can't achieve (I'm not an Android developer)?
jjayj
·last year·discuss
Just to add some (unprovoked) additional info here: I'm a 26 year old Canadian. We covered early Canadian history, abuse of the aboriginal peoples of Canada, war with America, and WW1/WW2/the Holocaust.

I don't think we were really taught at all about European/Asian history or the Soviet Union. I think I could have taken some classes related to those in highschool (secondary school), but for anyone working towards a non-history bachelor's degree those courses were generally not something that you could fit in your timetable.
jjayj
·last year·discuss
Similarly, I globally exclude `*.tmp`. I can pipe logs or anything else to some `example.tmp` and never worry about checking them in.
jjayj
·last year·discuss
We are multi-cloud, multi-region, multi-environment, multi-deployment with hundreds of AWS accounts.

This is split over hundreds of microservice repositories, each of which maintains its own Terraform.

We don't read state from other Terraform deployments, and use published reusable modules when convenient and a tfvars file for every deployment.

At this point I can't imagine doing Terraform any other way.
jjayj
·last year·discuss
It would be a tough sell for my org to triple our license spend on GHEC just so we can teach a bunch of folks new software.
jjayj
·last year·discuss
We ran into this, informed our users to reinstall Docker (we use Homebrew), and seemingly have had no further issues. I guess we're the minority?

I would be more inclined to blame this on Apple than Docker, but I haven't looked too deeply since things are working for us. Curious about you folks' opinions.
jjayj
·2 years ago·discuss
Will Anderson, another Scrabble champion/grandmaster, uploaded a video talking about Nigel's win here. The win is a lot more impressive than memorizing bingoes - Spanish scrabble has different letter distributions and point values, resulting in different metas. He didn't just memorize the Spanish Scrabble dictionary - he learned how to play Spanish Scrabble and dominated the first Spanish tournament he participated in.

Definitely worth a watch if you're interested in Scrabble at all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RvNxkQ6Bgs
jjayj
·2 years ago·discuss
We do development/builds in containers to make things easier on the devs. These are the Python build containers, so we have to rebuild every time there's a new version of Python or one of its dependencies.
jjayj
·2 years ago·discuss
I regularly build images where we install Python from source, which makes 30m seem quite normal...
jjayj
·2 years ago·discuss
> I'm more inclined to invest time in git itself.

This is fine until you're working with hundreds of other developers. I believe the reason solutions like this exist is to abstract git away from most devs, because in (my experience) many enterprise devs have only rudimentary git knowledge.

Sure, the devs should "just learn git" - but the same argument applies to a lot of other tech nowadays. Ultimately most folks seem to want to close their ticket off and move to the next one.

Git submodules and git subtrees generally do not fit my org's needs - we have internal tooling similar to this. Happy to expand on that if you have questions.
jjayj
·2 years ago·discuss
GHES is a massive monolith running dozens (hundreds?) of services in Nomad, so it's not surprising to me that GH has a hard time supporting it and wants folks to move away from it.

I'm tired of slow, risky, late-night upgrades to the appliance. I'm tired of sending support bundles and being told to run a customized string of MySQL commands to resolve peculiar issues. I'm tired of checking the roadmap and telling folks "yes, they announced that feature, but it won't be available to us for at least 12 months." I'm tired of a feature eventually being in the GHES release notes, only for GitHub to have made a mistake and it not be available for another two versions.

We're moving to GHEC. I'm concerned about the semi-frequent outages there, but we're not running HA GHES so it has become a liability for us.