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I was wondering about MS quality control as my son hung over my shoulder waiting to join a Minecraft session with his buddies. I was fighting yet another bad update that made the g…

For the orgs where I've worked the important thing isn't availability of compute it's security. Using what we have on our local network is much easier from a governance and approva…

I’m still sore about reader. Gap has never been filled for me.

I tried it. First kit was speced with cheap parts that didn’t really work. Got a replacement kit - same thing. Overall a really disappointing experience. I cancelled and bought a 3…

This is why I originally learned vi. Working on DoD machines as well as this of other consulting customers. I had a notebook of short scripts and commands that would make my life e…

If applied correctly this is good advice. Let your employer know that you want to learn. I'd much rather have the folks on my team learn OJT than try to hire that skill.

I just had to go through the firing process for a contractor like this guy. It was miserable for everyone. Don't be like this guy.

I’ve had good success using lambda and functions for analytics data pipelines. It allows a team of python developers to focus on the business logic instead of the infrastructure. O…

Oh the pains of Minecraft administration! I could write a book about cross platform incompatibility, Microsoft account dysfunction, billing issues, and upgrade blocking execution. …

> However if you are not in a tech city, and don't want to move to one, then online is great. Here is what you can do. I live 40 miles north of Wichita Kansas USA. There's no tech …

Could be worse. They used to ship you an individual physical decoder card.

Takes a day - it will update.

My previous company posted several openings for our team. All specifically excluded Colorado.

Central KS USA here. Moved here five years ago after 20 years in DC. Paid off my house in four years. Day to day it’s not all that different. With kids you cook, clean, watch movie…

I’m a consultant data engineer and am on my third engagement in a row where devops has been the hardest part of my job. Every org has their pet stack with their own poorly document…

I guess the question is why can't you (AWS) fix the problem of the status page not reflecting an outage? Maybe acceptable if the console has a hiccup, but when www.amazon.com isn't…

I’ve got a T460 with 16GB. Didn’t even know about potential ram incompatibility. Just ordered some from crucial and put it in.

Years ago I used Linux as my daily driver. That was before kids and a real house and all the other things that go with being a father and husband. Now, I ain't got time for that. I…

And once again HN becomes the escalation end point for Google support. I wish they’d throw the internet a bone and put 1% of revenue into support. Edit: I do t actually know how mu…

Maybe this will lead to more standardization in clothing sizes. If I could accurately size myself in a particular company's goods then I'd probably not return anything. Note, in pr…

Citing several small countries with many significant differences from the U.S. isn’t solid logic. All of those countries are much smaller, much less diverse, and enjoy the geopolit…

They’ll have to be able to figure out where it will run first. Amazing to me that this is still in question.

I’m surprised no one has mentioned Snowflake. The biggest feature here is no worries. It scales in every dimension, is quite stable, and has few knobs to turn. I’m on a Redshift pr…

For anyone looking for a weight machine recommendation...this one: https://www.costco.com/inspire-fitness-ftx-functional-traine... Gym quality delivered to your house. Weighs A LOT…