NDizzle

I feel you. I’m 46 and now on the hunt for the right company to work for, and hopefully finish out my career there. While the company values haven’t technically changed, the actions taken in the past 5 years have eroded my trust so much I barely recognize the place. When you no longer have a sense of pride working somewhere, it’s time to move on. At least that is what I believe to be true.

I really think that.

I think JD Vance has plenty of charisma.

SQL Server support would certainly help you sell enterprise plans.

The only thing holding me back is nvidia drivers. I want people talking about how good they are before I switch over my gaming laptop.

A company that bet the farm on gamers back in the '90s needs to embrace their bread and butter. AI is cool, but don't forget what got you here.

I want the doctor who has performed the operation and was still with the hospital in 6m, 12m, 18m, 24m to see the results of the operations that they performed.

Not the one who does a few operations and is never around to see the results of their decisions and actions.

This was back in the era when manuals (and companion documents) were needed by many, if not most games.

There was a lord of the rings PC RPG I played around 1990, I believe, where many of the NPC interactions said to refer to page N, paragraph M. They didn't have the space to store all the text in the game.

What can’t Randy do?!

It was also kind of creepy that a very good way to level up was to kill that pack of aggro children north of town.

Anyone can be a company if you try hard enough!

They re-added it once the site was accessible.

They briefly had a statement about using Traffic Manager to work with your AFD to work around this issue, with a link to learn.microsoft.com/...traffic-manager, and the link didn't work. Due to the same issue affecting everyone right now.

They quickly updated the message to REMOVE the link. Comical at this point.

It's absolutely not only the admin portal.

It's CDN and FrontDoor at least.

Yeah, I have non prod environments that don't use FD that are functioning. Routing through FD does not work. And a different app, nonprod doesn't use FD (and is working) but loads assets from the CDN (which is not working).

FD and CDN are global resources and are experiencing issues. Probably some other global resources as well.

Hate to say it, but DNS is looking like it's still the undisputed champ.

My best guess at the moment is something global like the CDN is having problems affecting things everywhere. I'm able to use a legacy application we have that goes directly to resources in uswest3, but I'm not able to use our more modern application which uses APIM/CDN networks at all.

Maybe everyone is retaining generalists. I keep being given retention bonuses every year, without asking for a single one so far.

As mentioned below, never labeled "full stack", never plan on it. "Generalist" is what my actual title became back in the mid 2000s. My career has been all over the place... the key is being stubborn when confronted with challenges and being able to scale up (mentally and sometimes physically) to meet the needs, when needed. And chill out when it's not.

I mean - try clicking the CoPilot button and see what it can actually do. Last I checked, it told me it couldn't change any of the actual data itself, but it could give you suggestions. Low bar for excellence here.

Sure. What do all of these events have in common?

Why more people don't keep their cars long term has always been a mystery to me. Sure, I had plenty of them in my 20s when I was young without a bunch (3) of responsibilities roaming the earth. But currently, counting my oldest kid's (19) car, we have 4. I don't worry about any of them. 2008 Land Cruiser and RAV4, 175k on one, 185k on the other. Both bought used. 2013 Sienna, bought new (with a huge discount) - 161k. 2022 RAV4 Prime, 55k, bought new. Zero car payments, zero upcoming 20k battery replacements in my future. I'll sell the Prime in probably 2-3 years for $30k (thanks, Toyota resale value) and get another reliable wife-mobile.

Batteries don't work like that and you know they don't.

Why would it be +1? The Devops duties that were performed on AWS are no longer being performed... wouldn't it simply shift to the new stack?

Do you think Devops is not required when you use cloud providers or something? Of course it is...

Does anyone think this causes problems with HSTS? I had a few clients report issues with our site last week... I was unable to see any kind of problem across all browsers and several geographic locations. auth0, using letsencrypt

I love love love Claude Code. It's my weapon of choice. However, we're still a ways off.

The most recent thing I did prior to typing this comment was have it look at a cosmosdb integration and recommend changes to my CosmosClientOptions to reduce CPU, based on a few exceptions I'm seeing.

It recommended 5 changes to 5 settings, and every single one of them was outside of the allowed range for those 5 settings. I told it as much, and asked nicely (always nicely, I don't want to be on the Singularity's naughty list) to try again, those aren't valid values. It came back with 4/5 values within the allowed scope, one still outside of the scope, and 2 of the 4 that were accurate were the same values that I already have configured.

Not there yet. Better every day, but definitely not there.

This is the stuff nightmares are made out of. Keep that style of coding out of any project I’m involved in, please.

Maybe it's because I'm a bit older school, but I turn these kind of things off traditionally. In my experience they degrade sound quality. There might be higher end (or the technology made its way down to affordable) that don't degrade the quality, but I'm not taking any chances with the amount of coin I have put into my setup.

Well, you were technically wrong. Which is wrong. var wholeNumber = 3.0; - what type will be assumed for that value?

> in my opinion big SQLs are one of the best ways to store complexity.

Only if, ONLY IF, you have a lot of people that are well versed in SQL. It's very easy to write bad SQL. It's difficult to unravel thousands of lines of bad SQL spread across hundreds of procedures / views / functions. Ask me how I know...

I like to think it's more than a nit to pick, but does anyone else absolutely despise the way the sql is written in the example? Join table1, table2, table3, table4... then the "on" logic in the where clause, without explicitly defining which columns belong to which table? Completely unsupportable and wastes so much time years from now. Please don't write sql like that, everyone.

Is the content in these articles incorrect?