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  • That’s a great idea if it’s possible, but I want to say it wouldn’t have helped with our environment at the time.

    I almost wish I could look back at that repo and share the yaml file here, maybe I was missing something back then. I’m certainly more proficient with yaml now.

    I do recall wishing there was a way to simulate the execution locally. I think I remember hearing about a local runner, but it had too many caveats to help.


  • We use Azure Devops at my current gig. It works pretty well for our setup. I’ve used GHA before; it definitely didn’t “spark joy”. I wastedspent way too many hours in the “update yaml file, commit, push, wait 5 minutes for it to fail again” spiral of despairfeedback loop.

    Nice thing with ADO is its release dashboard – you get a really nice summary of recent builds and where they went:

    $project - dev - test - prod

    I didn’t see anything similar for GHA.





  • Roughly equal parts “git is clever” and “once in a while, someone has to take some time to figure it out”.

    Say the code is split into two files. You and I both make changes, but you’re working on file A and I’m in file B. No problem!

    Now we both make changes in file A. Sometimes Git can just “figure it out”, like if all your changes are in the beginning of the file, and all my changes are at the end.

    But sometimes we both change the same section. Git can’t figure that part out, so one of us has to sit down and reconcile the changes. Sometimes this is pretty simple, other times…not so much.

    Put it all together, and it works out pretty well most of the time.









  • No, order of magnitude is 10x off. You can’t massage the numbers enough to get there with any reasonable assumptions.

    Obviously the average household size is not 10 people, but let’s be generous and say that it’s 5 people, so you’re looking at 2 million houses. Rooftop solar installation costs between $10k and $30k per building. Frankly, in this context, $15k is generously low as a cost estimate.

    Also, go back and re-read my original comment in this thread. The context was the idea of spending $30 billion on installing solar panels everywhere instead of building the nuclear plant. Flippant, sure, but – actually, the numbers aren’t far off even with these sandpaper-rough estimates.