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DiggyJohnsonon AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

The electric grid is much more important than most private sector software projects by an order of magnitude.

Catastrophic data loss or lack of disaster recovery kills companies. AWS outages do not.

DiggyJohnsonon Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption

Depends on if you’re using Docker or Podman Desktop versus straight Docker/Podman and where you’re pulling your images from.

DiggyJohnsonon Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption

Sounds like we’ve walked a similar path on this. Especially with IAM and network policies.

> There’s like hundreds of these little issues

Exactly. If it is a handful of things that is fine. It’s often as you describe.

DiggyJohnsonon Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption

Multi cloud is not nearly as trivial as often implied to implement for real world complex projects. Things get challenging the second your application steps off the happy path

DiggyJohnsonon Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?

Because those policies didn’t account for the workflows of engineering and dev teams. And I’m not even really asking for them to trust 3rd parties but to instead have a workflow to escalate and petition tools and workflows to become supported in house.

For example Docker Desktop being disallowed with vigor for Windows machines because it’s a virtualization tool. But Docker is fine for Linux users. And confirmed it’s not a licensing or purchasing issue.

DiggyJohnsonon Abandoned land drives dangerous heat in Houston, study finds

We keep the happiest pet cows in the old field in front of the family farmhouse after the farm downsized and sold most of the land so the city and state wouldn’t try to include it in the house plot sorts front yard acreage.

Different state but I think a similar conundrum. They’re old dairy cows living their best life.

DiggyJohnsonon Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?

Mostly bitching to corporate IT to make it possible to use alternative tools and workflows.

Not kidding, that’s the main blocker. We have the DevOps knowledge on our team to go to containers, prepackaged dev environments, etc. But corporate cyber tends to respond to our requests to discuss cyber policy and escalate via proper channels with “sorry that’s against policy”.

This is not my experience at one company but multiple good, name brand companies that generally do good engineering and software work.

DiggyJohnsonon The Spherical Cows of Programming

This might be my longest run on sentence since I learned to write lol

DiggyJohnsonon The Spherical Cows of Programming

I’m more DevOps but we have issues wear we discuss the spherical cow of build pipelines like we have a handful of static environments in the same cloud account with the same permissions and database requirements that does not stand up to encountering the actual requirements where we have destructible and static environments, an environment in a different cloud account for our customer to review per contract requirements, and a prod environment with heavy security and data protection requirements hosted by a entirely different cloud vendor with bad infrastructure support resources.

DiggyJohnsonon The Trinary Dream Endures

Thanks. That’s a deep rabbit hole upon initial glances to say the least

DiggyJohnsonon Replacement.ai

Even though I disagree with this extension, I do think it’s an interesting and completely valid metaphor for your point.

How would we handle regulating sex bots? Complete ban on manufacturing and import of full size humanoid bots? They are large enough that it could be partially effective I guess. I’m imagining two dudes in a shady meetup for a black market sale of sex bot which is kinda funny but also scary because the future is coming fast.

Or in this case, a husband having police investigate and apprehend the wife in the act? Crazy times.

DiggyJohnsonon The Trinary Dream Endures

What is PAM in this context?

DiggyJohnsonon The Trinary Dream Endures

This is off topic but how do you build and post to that blog? Homegrown or framework?

DiggyJohnsonon A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

What on Earth?

DiggyJohnsonon A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

Examples?

DiggyJohnsonon Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at

Really nice site design btw

DiggyJohnsonon A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

https://www.reddit.com/user/turbostrider27/

That's fascinating. How does an account like this not blatantly violate the TOC for personal or commercial use of Reddit?

DiggyJohnsonon A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

Trans related topics are expressly against TOC and enforced unless a subreddit is ruthless in removing any comments that aren't expressly positive and affirming. There is no room for nuance on this topic. Just giving an example.

DiggyJohnsonon A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

I can testify this is credible. You can prove this by trying it out yourself.

DiggyJohnsonon Nobel Prize in Literature 2025: László Krasznahorkai

what's wrong with obsessing about whales?

DiggyJohnsonon Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant

I genuinely don’t understand why a realistic actor in Canadian politics, intelligence, or private sector would be incentivized to advocate for this.

DiggyJohnsonon Packing the world for longest lines of sight

Panorama in the first of three links is stunning.

DiggyJohnsonon Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account

That is a bit inconvenient but replacing a faulty device is an example of excellent customer service

DiggyJohnsonon Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows?

yes, that would be ideal. especially in a world with infrastructure tied so closely to the application this standard cannot always be met for many teams.

DiggyJohnsonon Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society

Personal gambling debt is individual unless credited to a joint account no?

DiggyJohnsonon How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?

> digging 400m of trench over nightmare terrain with 70m of vertical drop, crossing a road twice, burying 90mm HDPE water line, fibre and 4x25mm2 power

This seems like a $50000 bit of work. Will it ever pay off or was it more of a hobby project?

DiggyJohnsonon How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?

you have personal hydropower? that sounds pretty cool

DiggyJohnsonon Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah

That’s not funny at all.

DiggyJohnsonon Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah

Among young people (especially on TikTok, I’m told, not on that platform though) I would say he’s more well known that a figure like Stephen Colbert. Just trying to put this into perspective for those who aren’t familiar. Nobody can know every publix figure, especially these days.

DiggyJohnsonon Windows 10 resists its end: usage share climbs while Windows 11's falls

I’m kinda shocked by your first paragraph. I’ve played all sorts of games. I still enjoy AAA FPS games even if I mostly play other genres.