> My home cluster is built from surplus Dell Optiplex desktops
I used to do this as well and this is fine if you're able to source cheap power. But I'm in the UK, electricity prices are insane and I can't afford to run this kind of setup any more.
When I was a young broth of a boy I worked as a field engineer looking after a whole bunch of different hardware. One of these was a Pick machine with its own dedicated Pick branded hardware, amongst a fleet of terminals and early PC hardware. Nothing ever seemed to go wrong with it.
As a former Data General engineer, I too would like to see some love for RDOS and AOS. And also their diagnostic tool ADES which was a specialised OS in its own right, and ICOS.
> Part of the justification for that refusal is that young people will allow death-marches.
Where I work the young team are sticking hard to their contracted hours (nothing wrong with that). It's the seniors that pull the extra (but not mad) hours to get shit completed.
I see lots of comments blaming MS about this turn of events. I think this project has been going on pre-MS.
But what did we expect from GitHub....MS or not? This was an obvious survival mechanism for GitHub sans MS. All that coding data there? Let's turn machine learning or AI onto that and make something.
And if MS were treating GitHub as an "at arms length" corporate entity so as to NOT to upset the opensource/free software community (because MS) then the blame lies fair and square with the management of GitHub.
I see lots of comments blaming MS about this turn of events.
But what did we expect from GitHub....MS or not? This was an obvious survival mechanism for GitHub sans MS. All that coding data there? Let's turn machine learning or AI onto that and make something.
And of MS were treating GitHub as an "at arms length" corporate entity with their own lawyers etc such as to NOT
Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful.
This ^^^ we do a 30 minute standup every morning (remotely) and it's mostly the same except we get about three mins per team member. It's also a good time to bring up issues if user stories/acceptance criteria aren't well enough refined after coming out of draft and that gets taken to another, usually short meeting with the PM's individually.
In that 30 mins we also handle bug reports and assign blah blah blah.
Those 30 mins are 100% focused to stuff people are working on, except for an initial 5 mins or so of chit chat. It's massively efficient and massively productive. So whatever the writer of this article was doing, it certainly wasn't a standup. I'm not big on prescriptive process, but a well organised standup is unbeatable.
He married someone from India and the UK Home Office wouldn't grant his partner a visa initially. I think it's all sorted now and she's now living with him in the UK:
That whole stuffing 240v into a BabyBel cheese and Co-op mincemeat pies thing was quite amusing, I guess the festive season can be "slow news" days even for video bloggers. That said, back in the early 90's when I was a field engineer, a mate and myself used apply 240v to foodstuffs in the company workshop "just to see what happened" when things were a bit slow. The resulting smells were somewhat odd.
One of my favourite Big Clive moments was when he turned up on Barry Lewis's channel (a thoroughly nice and decent British amateur cook and kitchen gadget tester) when Barry had plugged a 120v rated grilled cheese toaster into a UK 240v household supply, near kitchen conflagration hilarity ensues:
"The best bit about this video is seeing you plug a 120V appliance into 240V without realising it, and then watching the horror unfold as the grossly overloaded appliance makes loud stressed noises and emits flames. The appliance doesn't just run at twice it's normal power, it's closer to four times the power. Good job. Very entertaining."
I've followed Big Clive for about 5 years now and he's a great presenter. Especially his "what cheap shite I bought from my local Poundland on the Isle of Man" videos...which actually kinda reassure you that Poundland's "cheapo" electrics aren't that terrible or are going to burn your house down.