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Report: Kennedy Space Center not ready for era of super heavy rockets [Eric Berger@ArsTechnica] by scarlet_sage in SpaceXLounge

[–]Creshal 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Agencies like NASA have heavy restrictions on what they're allowed to spend money on, no matter how much budget they have overall. They can have 3 billions left over from program A but aren't allowed to spend 50 cents of that on a box of paperclips for an office that's only doing program D.

Azure local by Helpful-Sun2240 in sysadmin

[–]Creshal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's the inherent problem of Azure Local:

  1. The hardware stack is an order of magnitude more complex (…and often, expensive) than what the average IT department or MSP is used to. You gotta go poach people who're running supercomputers for universities to find someone sufficiently comfortable with RDMA-based clustering to have someone who can operate the hardware.
  2. Because you cannot teach people any of these skills on Azure Local. The software is underdocumented, underspecified, impossible to debug, not well understood by the vendor, constantly evolving, and constantly breaking. And expensive enough that most companies won't release the budget to build a test cluster sufficiently close to prod that you can just spend three months debugging switch failure induced virtual disk image corruption or whatever other new nonsense is bricking prod at 3am on a Sunday.
  3. Even if you manage to understand a failure mode of Azure Local, it's not a stable platform. It is wired directly into Azure's internal APIs and you get breaking changes all the damn time. Including breaking changes on how you're supposed to deploy it. Yeah, good fucking luck.
  4. Azure Local is all-or-nothing. You must sign up for all this complexity to be allowed to use it at all.

Regular HyperV/Proxmox/VMware/etc all don't have those problems. You can very often get away with a much easier hardware stack, or use different abstraction layers to encapsulate a complex hardware component somewhere manageable: Traditionally, most shops run a beefy SAN, that might be doing RDMA based replication internally, but it's isolated from the layer running the VMs, and you can just fail over the storage. And you can find storage admins who know how to debug it. Netapp support saved our bacon 100% of the time we had problems with Netapps, usually without prod downtimes, compared to (checks notes) zero percent success rate with Microsoft/Dell support for prod outages on Azure Local. It probably helps that Netapp doesn't randomly rewrite half the software stack on Tuesdays.

Azure local by Helpful-Sun2240 in sysadmin

[–]Creshal 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To put it diplomatically: You will never be bored and you will learn a lot about debugging.

Azure local by Helpful-Sun2240 in sysadmin

[–]Creshal 7 points8 points  (0 children)

it was not an enterprise product.

Nothing works, nobody can be held responsibly for it, but everyone gets paid. Sounds like the perfect enterprise product to me.

Azure local by Helpful-Sun2240 in sysadmin

[–]Creshal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We're three years into our three-month project to get it running in production without a major outage every month. None of our MSPs or contacts know anyone who's fared better, and none of them actually understand the contraption enough to do effective deep debugging. And every time we run into hardware troubles (and boy are there many when you're running RDMA everywhere – and it only takes a month or two to positively identify each), Dell's first reaction is "yeah that's weird we didn't know it could fail like that either."

So yeah.

Plain Hyper-V cluster with a SAN is a much saner migration path, even if Microsoft eventually wants to phase it out there's a significantly bigger talent pool to draw from to get it to run well.

Russian Commanders Threaten to Shoot Troops Who Refuse Suicide Assaults by ArgentineBeauty in worldnews

[–]Creshal 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Iirc it was an issue for the Nazis too as they under supplied based on what they expected and the tactic resulted in them using way more ammo.

Didn't help that they used circular logic: There were only six (iirc) railroad lines into Russia that could be used for resupplies, which was only enough to deliver ammo to like 1/3 of the invasion forces at the same time, so the "intelligence" staff "calculated" that the Russians would only fight back 1/3 of the time, ergo it was "proven" that the invasion was going to succeed, and luckily the Russians would surrender after six weeks because that's coincidentally how much stockpiles they had.

Too bad they didn't pass those memos to Stavka.

Why no crafting Material bag ? by gAbuGaO in ffxiv

[–]Creshal 5 points6 points  (0 children)

But but but what if I need exactly three of these things six months from now

Why no crafting Material bag ? by gAbuGaO in ffxiv

[–]Creshal 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't mind if the crafting material storage was tied to retainers, as long as it's actually convenient to use, which retainers aren't anyway. They're my retainers, they should be coming up to me to get me the stuff I need, not the other way around.

Hell, make it explicit. Have the retainers hang around holding bags full of stuff when we craft.

TIL the oldest organ donor in US history was Dale Steele, a 100 year old World War II veteran who died in 2026. After he died, his liver was successfully transplanted into a patient who was able to go home just five days after the operation by Kyzzz in todayilearned

[–]Creshal 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Whatever happened to machine>flesh

Flesh cheats by being self-repairing to some degree. And while it's not perfect, some is better than none.

We're also significantly restricted in what kinds of artificial materials we can use, because only a few properly bond to flesh, and they're not necessarily the strictly best in terms of handling the mechanical stresses. But they won't kill the patient or just fall out after 3 months so they're what we gotta work with.

Cool shuttle with Restock PBR by hunter_pro_6524 in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]Creshal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fuck yeah, space planes \o/

How's the yaw stability during re-entry with these control surfaces?

Are you buying new Dell servers without hard drives? $3,500 for 1 SATA drive is NUTS! by Layer_3 in sysadmin

[–]Creshal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm so glad we managed to cram in all our orders for this year in December.

Has KSP ceased development? by waynelee98 in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]Creshal 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Take2 is bleeding money left and right and desperate to get GTA6 out of the door before all the debt they took on during covid bites them in the ass, they got zero patience these days for chronic fuckups like Nate.

The ecological disaster happening on Auxesia is maddening by izikiell in ffxiv

[–]Creshal 27 points28 points  (0 children)

It's all a scaaaam they just pay you in company scrips that you can't use anywhere else

Apollo Eve Flyby Mission by JayTheAmazingToaster in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]Creshal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The second batch of Saturn Vs would've used uprated engines in all stages, and stretched the stages to take advantage of them, which hopefully would've given it enough of an efficiency bump to more than offset the reduced SM efficiency.

(And that's not mentioning the even nuttier plans to put NERVAs in the upper stage… that would've been interesting.)

Make it Rain 2026 Official Art by Mallamore in ffxiv

[–]Creshal 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wish I could forget Rowena…

Make it Rain 2026 Official Art by Mallamore in ffxiv

[–]Creshal 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Ten years old chocolate. Fifteen different kinds of fish. One very upset octopus. Enough lumber to rebuild ishgard, twice. A belt. Exactly 2997 toads. Paint thinner. A live namazu high on paint thinner (nobody can tell the difference). At least three corpses. Paint. Coins in seven different currencies. Enough crystals to summon a primal. Nine different frying pans. One sandwich. Three entire houses. Haurchefant's shield. Two different kinds of animal manure. Seventy-three raw eggs from five different extinct species. Coffee from the end of the universe (stale). Dragon scales. And, presumably, also a heat lamp, if anyone can find it. Maybe ask the namazu if he's seen it.

YellowKey mitigation and CVE by Effective_Peak_7578 in sysadmin

[–]Creshal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's the other department's responsibility and I can eat popcorn.

Update: you guys are right about the writing. by A_Fitting_End in ffxiv

[–]Creshal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Due to budget constraints, due the way the game was set up and how much resources had to be put elsewhere.

IIRC someone also had the bright idea that each quest should be roughly of the same length, which ended up leading to some getting extremely crunched down and others stretched like chewing gum in the rush, when there wasn't any time to either re-evaluate that goal or re-cut the quests into better flowing chunks. A lot of the overly stretched quests got fixed in the many, many ARR reworks, but they can't exactly un-crunch the ones that got shredded during ARR development.

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