I think you've got an extra zero in there somewhere $35k - $26k = $9k $9k / $0.12/mile savings ~= 75,000 miles breakeven
We are mostly using Standard_DXds_v4
Newer generation SKUs (which that one is) are often in short supply. I have plenty of bad things to say about Azure, but I've never had trouble getting capacity older than bleeding edge in eastus2 and centralus regions,…
You'd have to be spectacularly stupid to bet on these kinds of things without having insider knowledge, because you ought to know good and damn well by now that the people with insider knowledge are DEFINITELY betting…
> I probably have five different systems This is the story of Microsoft - five different ways to do the thing, none of which do everything, and all of which are in various states of disrepair ranging from outright…
Don't forget maintenance costs in the TCO calculation too. Transmissions, fuel pumps, timing belts, radiators (mostly), fuel injectors, emissions systems, etc are all out of the picture in an EV. Servicing those things…
Automatic snow chains are a thing, often seen on emergency vehicles even outside of the normal snow band. Ex: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/yus43b/wha... No idea if they're compatible with Jaguars or…
We ran 100% of our workloads on VMWare this time last year. We'll be at 0% this time next year. We were heading that direction over the long term anyway, but the Broadcom shenanigans made us double down on that effort.…
Also S3 related: the bucket owner can now be configured as the object owner no matter where the object originated. In the past this was exceedingly painful if you wanted to allow one account contribute objects to a…
I don't use them when it's an option - but Home Depot in particular often has zero actual cashiers. They've always got a couple people standing around in self checkout to assist when the system (inevitably?) doesn't…
If you take this approach, you have to reindex when groups/roles changes - not always a feasible choice
The font nerd / metalhead mashup we didn't know we needed - I love this!
This is where I read it: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Special-Delivery
> The premium they ask is substantial. You can spec out a beefy Dell PowerEdge with a ton of drive bays for cheap and install TrueNAS, and you’ll likely be much happier. Yeah, but then you have a PowerEdge with all the…
The Venn diagram of people who think it's ok to treat parents like this and people who vote "for liberty" is a circle.
The other reply to this post has it right. Your argument against identity politics appears to be to engage in identity politics, and that was the reason for my snarky comment. But I'll bite and make a serious reply, I'd…
"done with identity politics" "military veteran from a poor family with no college degree" okaaaay.
If you are a white male (I am) then you almost certainly ARE privileged at some level and imo should be aware of that. This is a completely separate matter from being ashamed of said privilege (I don't think this is…
A company with the size and financial resources of Geico ought to be able to handle on-prem just fine. I am a huge public cloud fan, but it is definitely not a great (or even good) fit for everyone.
Well that is true, but I don't use AWS or Azure because I want to run servers. If you treat a public cloud like a datacenter, you're likely to have a bad time.
Yup, and you also get to make AWS deal with OS upgrades, DB upgrades, backups, etc.
Probably not - but by calling out EC2 instances as the way and then failing to mention patching or configuration management, this article loses some credibility for me. These considerations are not optional over any…
Also Not Awesome - AWS Config rule evaluations
Seriously, integrating with a single vendor is often nightmarish. And this guy is proposing some unholy vendor centipede? Harrrrrrd pass.
You can keep it non-cloud as far as I know. I just bought a gen2 cloud key to replace the [persistently crappy] gen1 cloud key that I've had for ~5 years and I was able to skip the cloud login during initial setup. Of…
I think you've got an extra zero in there somewhere $35k - $26k = $9k $9k / $0.12/mile savings ~= 75,000 miles breakeven
We are mostly using Standard_DXds_v4
Newer generation SKUs (which that one is) are often in short supply. I have plenty of bad things to say about Azure, but I've never had trouble getting capacity older than bleeding edge in eastus2 and centralus regions,…
You'd have to be spectacularly stupid to bet on these kinds of things without having insider knowledge, because you ought to know good and damn well by now that the people with insider knowledge are DEFINITELY betting…
> I probably have five different systems This is the story of Microsoft - five different ways to do the thing, none of which do everything, and all of which are in various states of disrepair ranging from outright…
Don't forget maintenance costs in the TCO calculation too. Transmissions, fuel pumps, timing belts, radiators (mostly), fuel injectors, emissions systems, etc are all out of the picture in an EV. Servicing those things…
Automatic snow chains are a thing, often seen on emergency vehicles even outside of the normal snow band. Ex: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/yus43b/wha... No idea if they're compatible with Jaguars or…
We ran 100% of our workloads on VMWare this time last year. We'll be at 0% this time next year. We were heading that direction over the long term anyway, but the Broadcom shenanigans made us double down on that effort.…
Also S3 related: the bucket owner can now be configured as the object owner no matter where the object originated. In the past this was exceedingly painful if you wanted to allow one account contribute objects to a…
I don't use them when it's an option - but Home Depot in particular often has zero actual cashiers. They've always got a couple people standing around in self checkout to assist when the system (inevitably?) doesn't…
If you take this approach, you have to reindex when groups/roles changes - not always a feasible choice
The font nerd / metalhead mashup we didn't know we needed - I love this!
This is where I read it: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Special-Delivery
> The premium they ask is substantial. You can spec out a beefy Dell PowerEdge with a ton of drive bays for cheap and install TrueNAS, and you’ll likely be much happier. Yeah, but then you have a PowerEdge with all the…
The Venn diagram of people who think it's ok to treat parents like this and people who vote "for liberty" is a circle.
The other reply to this post has it right. Your argument against identity politics appears to be to engage in identity politics, and that was the reason for my snarky comment. But I'll bite and make a serious reply, I'd…
"done with identity politics" "military veteran from a poor family with no college degree" okaaaay.
If you are a white male (I am) then you almost certainly ARE privileged at some level and imo should be aware of that. This is a completely separate matter from being ashamed of said privilege (I don't think this is…
A company with the size and financial resources of Geico ought to be able to handle on-prem just fine. I am a huge public cloud fan, but it is definitely not a great (or even good) fit for everyone.
Well that is true, but I don't use AWS or Azure because I want to run servers. If you treat a public cloud like a datacenter, you're likely to have a bad time.
Yup, and you also get to make AWS deal with OS upgrades, DB upgrades, backups, etc.
Probably not - but by calling out EC2 instances as the way and then failing to mention patching or configuration management, this article loses some credibility for me. These considerations are not optional over any…
Also Not Awesome - AWS Config rule evaluations
Seriously, integrating with a single vendor is often nightmarish. And this guy is proposing some unholy vendor centipede? Harrrrrrd pass.
You can keep it non-cloud as far as I know. I just bought a gen2 cloud key to replace the [persistently crappy] gen1 cloud key that I've had for ~5 years and I was able to skip the cloud login during initial setup. Of…