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New comment by theta_d in "GitHub Actions down again today"

theta_d — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:02:55 +0000

The sub-service at IBM cloud I worked on had an insanely small error budget such that pages were nearly constant. On call was hell week until a few of us insisted on fixing the issues. The "few" of us were contractors. The employees seemed more than willing to just let the pages continue.

New comment by theta_d in "A case for Go as the best language for AI agents"

theta_d — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:04:20 +0000

> But for whatever reason it never became that mainstream

Syntax. Syntax is the reason. It's too foreign to be picked up quickly by the mass of developers that already know a C style language. I would also argue that it's not only foreign, it's too clunky.

New comment by theta_d in "IBM to acquire Confluent"

theta_d — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:53:24 +0000

I believe it was an ancient ServiceNow incantation that all the current employees couldn't seem to hunt down.

New comment by theta_d in "IBM to acquire Confluent"

theta_d — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:51:46 +0000

I did, multiple times. I was a contractor. I was the only one on my team of contractors whose account was screwed up. There seemed to be no priority to do anything there. One of many many reasons I left when I could.

New comment by theta_d in "IBM to acquire Confluent"

theta_d — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:07:32 +0000

I worked for IBM Cloud about 6+ years ago. While there, we had to connect to a Softlayer VPN to get into our Jira instance. My VPN account and Jira account never got provisioned so I couldn't connect nor see the Jira board. My team-mates couldn't even assign a ticket to me b/c of this. They would just put my initial's in the ticket summary and send me a slack of the details.

It was right before I left that we got our own Jira instance. This was all around the time of the Red Hat acquisition. I remember the announcement b/c we used SuSE for everything IIRC.

New comment by theta_d in "AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS"

theta_d — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:22:23 +0000

> It could even be outsourced and then a small contract for maintenance.

Yeah, those people we outsourced to happen to work at AWS.

New comment by theta_d in "Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores"

theta_d — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 12:59:04 +0000

Not the same form factor but here you go: https://system76.com/desktops/thelio-astra-a1.1-n1/configure

New comment by theta_d in "Starcloud"

theta_d — Wed, 14 May 2025 00:26:14 +0000

Neat, I wonder if https://star-catcher.com/ could provide power.

New comment by theta_d in "Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust, & why Linux is the only thing that matters"

theta_d — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:53:06 +0000

That was painful to watch.

New comment by theta_d in "Unix version control lore: what, ident"

theta_d — Tue, 14 May 2024 14:39:03 +0000

I worked on a telecom codebase that dated back to 1985. Similar experiences. Was wild to think of contributing to something that was almost as old as me.

New comment by theta_d in "UUID Benchmark War"

theta_d — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 14:50:36 +0000

Depends on the database. Microsoft SQL Server typically uses the PK as the clustering index. This dictates the order the table data is stored on disk. If you row PK is random you're going to have write latency and a fragmented index.

New comment by theta_d in "Firefox on the brink?"

theta_d — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:14:11 +0000

Hopefully it will force Apple to compete again and improve Safari.

New comment by theta_d in "WASM by example"

theta_d — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:02:48 +0000

1998 was the pinnacle of software development. VB6 composing off the shelf COM components purchased form a catalog sent in the physical mail.

Desktop apps were still a thing. The web was simple. ASP or some CGI scripts. Perfection.

New comment by theta_d in "Why is spoken language so hard to understand?"

theta_d — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 11:54:55 +0000

Depending where you are, Colin and calling might be pronounced roughly the same.

New comment by theta_d in "Gitlab.com is down"

theta_d — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 17:15:24 +0000

Yeah, but they also use the Pipeline features to build and deploy changes.

New comment by theta_d in "More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 StackOverflow survey"

theta_d — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 19:38:05 +0000

I have a 16" M1 MBP. Never had this issue. Connected to a OWC TB4 dock with 2 monitors. I have to use Amphetamine to keep it from going to sleep.

Undocking/docking works fine. Perhaps you have some process running that is preventing sleep.

New comment by theta_d in "Okta says its GitHub account hacked, source code stolen"

theta_d — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 12:10:17 +0000

You missed the joke. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a6iW-8xPw3k

New comment by theta_d in "Windows is the strangest, or hardest, operating system to keep curl support for"

theta_d — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 13:12:08 +0000

Do you remember the Weezer “Buddy Holly” video that was included to show off the multimedia features? Hilariously small resolution by today’s standards.

New comment by theta_d in "Windows is the strangest, or hardest, operating system to keep curl support for"

theta_d — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 11:53:34 +0000

Windows was made in the floppy era, not CD era. I still remember picking up my release day copy of windows 95. It was on several floppies.

New comment by theta_d in "Rust in the Linux Kernel: Just the Beginning"

theta_d — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 12:51:18 +0000

It does have GC but that is not the point being made.

I believe the point the author is making is that other languages provide better safety than C and have faster compile times than Rust, therefore Rust should be able to improve its compile times.