This announcement is inexplicably amusing. It's like the announcement of the iPhone without the iPhone.
Ive has finally made something so thin - you can't even see it!
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This was a publicly traded SaaS company.
After acquisition - we were handed down the order to migrate to AWS.
This was after (in the mess of the merger) the colo contracts were basically ignored and not renewed. Once someone within the company realized the issue, it was the 11th hour.
After many, many attempts to discuss our (Operations team) concerns, we abandoned our protests. It was clear the new CTO wouldn't cave and sign the contract.
Some superficial testing was conducted and the order came down to move...NOW.
We began moving hundreds (maybe thousands) of very resource hungry DB servers first (there was no way to use something like RDS without major app/config changes).
Once the AWS bill came in, the CFO blew their lid and within 90 days we were migrating BACK to our DCs (and the millions of dollars of hardware we left idling).
sllewe commented on Boeing CEO Calhoun to step down at end of 2024 reuters.com/business/aero... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
I feel like Boeing needs a "Pat Gelsinger returns to Intel" type of choice here.
Granted the jury is still out on Intel (IMO) but it was certainly a signal of a culture shift.
Anecdotal experience - Good friend of mine who struggles with weight was taking Ozempic for about two months.
He described nausea quite often when I saw him but the results were pretty astounding.
He then hit a wall where gastroparesis would happen quite often and I happened to be at his house when one of these bouts got very severe. He went from feeling bad, to hunched over in pain and started projectile vomiting in the span of 30 minutes. He said it was clearly the meal he had eaten several days ago...it was awful.
I believe this happened to him several more times - and AFAIK he stopped taking it, and promptly regained some weight back.
sllewe commented on VSCode remote code execution advisory github.com/google/securit... · Posted by u/dijit
vscode does not provide MSI for download. Even Microsoft can't be bothered to do it.
MSFT provides a method to repackage .EXE into a deployable package (named: Intunewin).
https://github.com/microsoft/Microsoft-Win32-Content-Prep-To...
sllewe commented on VSCode remote code execution advisory github.com/google/securit... · Posted by u/dijit
Related question about this, with apologies if this is a dumb question. For small to mid size tech companies (say small startups to 1000 employees), what are the general recommended IT procedures to ensure application software like this is updated across the company?
That is, every company I've worked at has had some form of device management software on their laptops, but that software only ensured that the OS and some specific "managed applications" were always patched. For developers, though, we never had fully "locked down" machines because they made our job so much more difficult (that is, more than other departments we'd often be installing and running new software).
In that case, are there some specific corporate controls to ensure nobody is running an unpatched VSCode, beyond messaging all engineers and saying "you better make sure your VSCode installation is updated, or else..."?
For Windows deployments - Microsoft Intune provides the ability to monitor any application and its version. Updating is automatic provided its installed correctly and using detection rules. The responsible party updates the MSI installation files and the local management service will perform the update.
What's the best alternative you've found? I personally use anydesk from time to time when helping family with tech issues remotely, but I haven't looked too much at other software.
Screenconnect and Splashtop come to mind. Yes - both have their flaws, but are much more palatable then TV.
sllewe commented on Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser flowful.app... · Posted by u/printscreen
Using an anecdotal source - My Wife (ICU RN) this is sounds right.
Outside of the existing issues with Bedside nursing (long days, physically demanding) - the primary issue is staffing. Pre-pandemic the ratios were already bad but now many are leaving for travel contracts which carry significantly better wages. It quickly becomes a loop where employees leave for Travel Contracts, and then can only be backfilled with Travel Contracts. The remaining FT staff nurses are left making much less money, and have to assist "training" with the outside Travel nurses. And while this is nothing against them - The travel RNs also often have a different "vibe" as they are much less focused on long term improvement or problem solving within the Unit.
Also ICU/PCU/ER nursing throughout the pandemic was a terribly depressing place to be. Leaving many of my Wifes colleagues (including herself) with what is essentially PTSD with little or no support from the Hospital System.