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An ECS health check should only check for the health of things *inside* the container. If your health check reaches out to a DB & that DB is down... the ALB will start crash-looping the docker container. That won't fix the database.

So we got two promising vaccines.

Oh, I'm going to guess everyone is going to say "You should denormalize tables" but I bet if you probe deeper, it will be because relational thinking never clicked & they don't understand why you'd want data split into many tables. https://x.com/norootcause/status/1327746627323367424

Draft 1 of star wars: "The Sith follow the rule of 4.
1 to develop evil.
1 to test evil and see if works
1 to stage evil in Exegol as a final dress rehearsal with evil chanting for the Imperial Change Committee
1 to produce the evil."

38% of y'all in a death cult or something https://x.com/thehill/status/1327749426002227201

__eq__ is automatically defined for Enum & str in #python now I feel like I need to override __eq__ in enums to safely use them.

The souvenir shops have called the election. https://x.com/andrewvandam/status/1327331683209719809

IDEA: what if #pip mocked out all the dangerous apis, (system calls, network calls) so it could install in "safe" mode. A poor man's sandbox.

#python

Y’all made slides with so many words PPT is turning into an dreaded https://x.com/MicrosoftEDU/status/1313917038558150656

If a build step can't fail the build, it's just wasting electrons.

This would be a great enterprise product. Bet 10c that Gitlab will copy the concept. https://x.com/ShortJared/status/1326917264592023554

This is sort of like political mailing lists- 1 pol raises $$$ with a mailing list. 535 pols copy them. Now I got 535 emails per day & I probably give less than when it was just 1. https://x.com/RabbitRabbitHQ/status/1283029969434808320

IDEA: Instead of hyperloop, I will give people piggyback rides to downtown DC.
- Innovative
- Flexible routing
- Runs on wheat & rice, not diesel
- Requires no collective action from anyone
- 8MPH in speed tests, will overtake bullet train in 13 years
- High tech, I write code

Montgomery County Schools looks like they are going to be remote all year except for special classes and parents, for lack of a phrase, have a hardship exeption. Just my take from reading their parent survey I took.

He can only be thinking he'll run in 2024 if he's thinking of conceding. Talk about burying the lede. https://x.com/Reuters/status/1326701255431958528

Maryland Covid alert shows up in the Google Play Store now... yesterday it didn't for me. https://x.com/riccimike/status/1326534543193436165

Do you have a huge AWS Config bill? I do! As soon as I get a chance, I got to do this & find out why. Some blogs think autoscaling is a likely culprit. I wonder if ECS crash looping is.

https://serebrov.github.io/html/2019-10-08-aws-config-charges.html

A careful reading of this thread makes me think an AWS cloud engineer might be on the job market. https://x.com/tobyw4n/status/1326594363011575808

Covid-time-WFH holiday mostly means, same as any other day, but no meetings. https://x.com/EricSchillerDev/status/1326617857829048320

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today's pet peeves:
- build languages that only run on servers
- Jekindsfile
- gitlab-ci.yml
- etc
- build tools that only run on servers

# Everything that happens on a build server should be runnable on a workstation

Welcome to the world of government contracting. You will get no honest answers on any of these questions. Do you want a job or not? https://x.com/odannyboy/status/1326215481204764672

What y'all think, is the US military vulnerable to a coup?

If AWS opened a donut shop.

me: Hello, I'd like a c5n.9xlarge soy latte
them: OK, one c5n.9xlarge ASL

Name your xbox yboy because xbox is too girly.

Thinking about the "no one can run them when you leave" -- this also has to do with how purchasing and orgs systematically imagine that the cost of an app is only upfront costs & 0 staff, or one person, will take over the train wreck from a team of 12. I was that one person. https://twitter.com/krusynth/status/1325804233522868226

What is going to happen with all the abandoned Boring Company tunnels?

Writing code for the trash can. I guess this has a private sector analog when your employer goes bankrupt. Different mechanisms though, same effects on motivation. https://x.com/laurenancona/status/1326040552756768768

Anyone care to guess if the badging office will support this and will the guards with guns at the building doors support this? IT department plan to keep these guy's network credentials active? https://x.com/DistrictOfKatya/status/1325944122780299266

Oh we do this every time we do a brain dump before moving on to the next contract. You talk to someone non-stop for 4 hours. And they end you lose a 1 pt for sure and maybe the other person gains 1/2 a point. https://twitter.com/morecobol/status/1325938376839671810

Well yeah, I'm not going to clutter my namespace with an infinite number of named identifiers for numbers. https://x.com/fauxstackdev/status/1325852227068686338

computer: I wanna run updates!
computer: I want you to run windirstat!
me: No I don't
computer: No drive spaces. Everything is failing.

Name this song!

<bing bing!> du da dum, du da dum,
<zoom-za-zoom, zoom, soom>
ba-bweeba-bwee.
hoo hoo, hoo hoo,...<hoo>
hooo hoo hoo HOOO!
du da dum, du da dum

I dreamed I was going to move to Fredricksburg, VA to work remote at my job & no one was wearing masks. In my dream Fredrickburg had a walkable core. On google maps, it appears I have no access to google maps when dreaming.