I stopped reading at “the Internet got going in 1995”. FFS, even the web dates back to 1991!

And a very happy Christmas to you too, kind stranger!

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.

Are you a programmer?

Hudson? Man, that’s a blast from the past.

Yeah, it’s fairly clever but not actually magical. Sometimes you have to go in and take a look.

Actually, the real magic is that it works out mostly ok most of the time. Much better than older systems where you would have to “check out” a file to work on it which would lock others out. I’ve heard older programmers talk about needing to go find someone who had a file checked out and have them check it back in to enable them to do some work.

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.

Have you looked into a dental appliance? I used to use one of those, it would shift my lower jaw forward to help me breathe.

It’s not perfect, but if CPAP doesn’t work for you, it might be an option. Maybe something to talk about with your sleep doc

Are you interested in setec astronomy?

I use podman at work, mostly just a Docker replacement. My biggest problem with it is typing “pdoman” in commands by mistake.

What do you get when you cross Family guy with BTTF?

1.21 giggetywatts!

A lie spreads worldwide before the truth contradicting it can be typed, unfortunately.

Well, if anyone knows about rigging elections, Putin certainly qualifies!

What facility?

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.

More than one person lives in a building generally.

Gee, really? I never would have guessed /s

More seriously: It’s very quick to search “population of GA”, so that’s what I did. If you have a different figure you’d prefer to use, feel free to post it.

It’s more like $15,000 to install 1kW of solar

Uh, what? $15,000 = $15k which is what I wrote. I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make here.

10 million people. $15k per solar installation. Eh, not too far off.

Throwing a tantrum is one way to express a preference, I suppose, but most people grow out of that in early childhood.

Have you ever heard the phrase “golden child”? It’s sadly relatively common for a certain sort of dysfunctional family. Screws up entire lifetimes for people.