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Re: Days since last GitHub incident

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Post by colechristensen »

llbbdd wrote: post #16

I've gotten accustomed lately to spending a lot of time in the Github Copilot / agent management page. In particular I've been having a lot of fun using agents to browse some of my decade-old throwaway projects; telling it to "setup playwright, write some tests, record screenshots/videos and commit them to the repo" works every time and it's a great way to browse memory lane without spending my own time getting some…

An NVIDIA DGX Spark is $4000, pair that with a relatively cheap second box to run GitLab in the corner and you would have pretty good local AI inference setup. (you'd probably have to write a nontrivial amount of software to get your setup where you want)

The local models are just right on the edge of being really useful, there's a tipping point to where accuracy is high enough so that getting things done is easy vs models getting continuously stuck. We're in the neighborhood.

Alternatively, just have local GitLab and use one of the many APIs, those are much more stable than github. Honestly just get yourself a Claude subscription.

Re: Days since last GitHub incident

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Post by cedws »

I found out when Actions started failing again for the Nth time this month.

The internal conversation about moving away from Actions or possibly GitHub has been triggered. I didn't like Zig's post about leaving GitHub because it felt immature, but they weren't wrong. It's decaying.

Re: Days since last GitHub incident

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Post by echelon »

GaryBluto wrote: post #7
udev4096 wrote: post #3

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Friendly reminder to stop saying friendly reminder when what you're saying isn't a reminder.

For any ESL folks here -

"Friendly reminder" is typically used for reminding people of common knowledge. Especially for beneficial but inconvenient things that some or most people neglect to do, either because they're annoying, inconvenient, or time consuming. Things for which busy people might need a "wink wink, nudge nudge".

Friendly reminder to floss. Friendly reminder to have your cancer screening. Friendly reminder to check your tires. Friendly reminder to file your taxes early. Friendly reminder to drink more water, eat fiber, etc.

Re: Days since last GitHub incident

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Post by 0xdeafbeef »

ferguess_k wrote: post #38

I guess none of us really needs those 9s, and even two 9s are just good enough. I even doubt whether *SOME* of the banking transactions really really really need those 9s too -- like, I don't really mind if 1 out of 100 credit payment doesn't go through so I have to do it again -- it does happen once for a while and I just swiped it again.

Retry is fine, but imagine being unable to pay for something within 10 minutes in month. And 10m in 1M is 99.98% sla. So it depends

Re: Days since last GitHub incident

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Post by tormeh »

tracker1 wrote: post #28
behnamoh wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is Microsoft supposed to listen? I'm not happy with them either but I understand their shift in business strategy. So many people here treat github like it's a utility; it's not. If you're not happy with it, move on to alternatives or make your own version.

Largely, because they want money from people. If you are in a business selling a product or service and you don't at least pay some attention to what customers are calling for, then you're likely to eventually fall flat no matter how big you are. Of course IBM and Oracle still exist, so who knows.

An optimal business only cares about whether the invoices get paid and the shareholders are hyped. Everything else is noise they block out. Not saying Microsoft is optimal, but this is just a business doing business.

Re: Days since last GitHub incident

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Post by kermatt »

rob74 wrote: post #13
ZeroConcerns wrote: post #11

This is a bit... low-effort, isn't it? I'd at least expect a video of an exasperated Github user walking up to the '# days since the last GitHub incident' board, sliding out the '1' or '2' card, and replacing it with a '0'. I mean, that joke is as old as the universe (heck, in the brief period that I worked in an office, decades ago, I had a "# days since the last person asked a stupid question" sign to enact the exa…

Or an octocat standing in front of the board, holding cards from 0 to 7 in its tentacles (with the rest lying on the ground) and looking at them quizzically?

An octocat with zero tentacles?

Re: Days since last GitHub incident

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Post by dec0dedab0de »

ferguess_k wrote: post #38

I guess none of us really needs those 9s, and even two 9s are just good enough. I even doubt whether *SOME* of the banking transactions really really really need those 9s too -- like, I don't really mind if 1 out of 100 credit payment doesn't go through so I have to do it again -- it does happen once for a while and I just swiped it again.

I had an ATM glitch out on me a few months ago, I tried again and it confiscated my card. I called, and they explained that it is the failure mode to prevent people modifying them while they're offline.

Re: Days since last GitHub incident

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Post by tormeh »

ferguess_k wrote: post #38

I guess none of us really needs those 9s, and even two 9s are just good enough. I even doubt whether *SOME* of the banking transactions really really really need those 9s too -- like, I don't really mind if 1 out of 100 credit payment doesn't go through so I have to do it again -- it does happen once for a while and I just swiped it again.

GitHub has a container registry. That going down can cause pod start failure. I agree the source code probably doesn't need infinite nines, but the container registry is different.
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