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> flight times of up to 22 hours Making flight connections is never fun, but this sounds absolutely brutal.

It is indeed wild that the easiest way to do large-scale logging in those days was to slap together some tracks and roadbed and run trains up the valley. And then tear it all down …

Wikipedia also has a list that is a bit easier to read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shay_locomotive#Survivors

It's a lot closer to junk (approx 2.7%) than it is to investment grade (approx 0.8%): https://www.macrotrends.net/3006/high-yield-spread https://www.macrotrends.net/3042/us-corpora…

I think you've got an extra zero in there somewhere $35k - $26k = $9k $9k / $0.12/mile savings ~= 75,000 miles breakeven

We are mostly using Standard_DXds_v4

Newer generation SKUs (which that one is) are often in short supply. I have plenty of bad things to say about Azure, but I've never had trouble getting capacity older than bleeding…

You'd have to be spectacularly stupid to bet on these kinds of things without having insider knowledge, because you ought to know good and damn well by now that the people with ins…

> I probably have five different systems This is the story of Microsoft - five different ways to do the thing, none of which do everything, and all of which are in various states o…

Don't forget maintenance costs in the TCO calculation too. Transmissions, fuel pumps, timing belts, radiators (mostly), fuel injectors, emissions systems, etc are all out of the pi…

Automatic snow chains are a thing, often seen on emergency vehicles even outside of the normal snow band. Ex: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/yus43b/wha... No ide…

We ran 100% of our workloads on VMWare this time last year. We'll be at 0% this time next year. We were heading that direction over the long term anyway, but the Broadcom shenaniga…

Also S3 related: the bucket owner can now be configured as the object owner no matter where the object originated. In the past this was exceedingly painful if you wanted to allow o…

I don't use them when it's an option - but Home Depot in particular often has zero actual cashiers. They've always got a couple people standing around in self checkout to assist wh…

If you take this approach, you have to reindex when groups/roles changes - not always a feasible choice

The font nerd / metalhead mashup we didn't know we needed - I love this!

This is where I read it: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Special-Delivery

> The premium they ask is substantial. You can spec out a beefy Dell PowerEdge with a ton of drive bays for cheap and install TrueNAS, and you’ll likely be much happier. Yeah, but …

The Venn diagram of people who think it's ok to treat parents like this and people who vote "for liberty" is a circle.

The other reply to this post has it right. Your argument against identity politics appears to be to engage in identity politics, and that was the reason for my snarky comment. But …

"done with identity politics" "military veteran from a poor family with no college degree" okaaaay.

If you are a white male (I am) then you almost certainly ARE privileged at some level and imo should be aware of that. This is a completely separate matter from being ashamed of sa…

A company with the size and financial resources of Geico ought to be able to handle on-prem just fine. I am a huge public cloud fan, but it is definitely not a great (or even good)…

Well that is true, but I don't use AWS or Azure because I want to run servers. If you treat a public cloud like a datacenter, you're likely to have a bad time.

Yup, and you also get to make AWS deal with OS upgrades, DB upgrades, backups, etc.