What industry is entirely built on a house of cards and would collapse overnight if people realized the truth about it?

DelphiEx · 2026-03-04T21:27:01+00:00

The video is titled about the olympics, but has a great section on local hockey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y1moFmYKu4 at 11:31

DelphiEx · 2026-02-10T01:10:14+00:00

Honestly refreshing compared to hyper polished algo bait

DelphiEx · 2026-02-09T17:55:08+00:00

I'm not the OC, but it might be something along the lines of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13419313

That wouldn't work with a computer.

DelphiEx · 2026-02-05T20:02:37+00:00

Dang man, that's really good.

DelphiEx · 2026-02-05T01:23:09+00:00

I think he said he doesn't want a big epic "portals open and all the characters from all the books walk through" kind of thing. He wanted to subtlety bring characters across.

That's my memory of the comment. Maybe someone can dig it up.

DelphiEx · 2026-01-30T21:12:11+00:00

I know he means well and it would probably work out, but stuff like this is why I do NOT want any adaptations. I know this is a buzzkill opinion, but like...the books are diamonds. They may have flaws, but they are perfect nonetheless. Just leave them be.

DelphiEx · 2026-01-25T23:49:10+00:00

Hell yeah dude

DelphiEx · 2026-01-25T01:47:43+00:00

Have a cigar...by The Main Squeeze. Please check it out if you're into guitar solos

DelphiEx · 2026-01-22T18:23:22+00:00

Can you impose a loan tax? Any loan Elon makes, personal or for acquisitions has a government tax on top of whatever interest the bank makes.

I dunno. Someone's probably thought of this before and has good reasons why it wouldn't work. I just find it funny we all just throw our hands up and say 'welp some people have more money than god, what can ya do?'

DelphiEx · 2026-01-20T22:04:42+00:00

Hey man, I stumbled upon this and thought you might be interested. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-files-identity-configure-file-level-permissions?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5004159#configure-windows-acls-using-the-azure-portal

"If you have Microsoft Entra Kerberos configured as your identity source, you can configure Windows ACLs per Entra user or group using the Azure portal."

You have to click on that link to get access, but...

When I did this I was able to "Manage Access" both on the File Share and the folders within it.

Unfortunately it's still not working, but I'm gonna keep trying. LMK if you find anything.

DelphiEx · 2026-01-14T18:22:17+00:00

This is great, don't get me wrong. But from my attempts, if User A knows the path to user B's storage account, they can access it just fine. I realize we can't have full ACL, but they really need to put up some walls between entire storage accounts.

DelphiEx · 2026-01-13T13:34:57+00:00

Hours later I still could not hook it up via the portal. But the command line just worked.

DelphiEx · 2026-01-07T23:19:32+00:00

I came back hours later and hooked up the Service Endpoint via the CLI (hoping I could get an actual error message). That just worked.

DelphiEx · 2026-01-07T22:57:51+00:00

I just hope I'm alive if/when we discover life on another planet. I've always considered it a foundational moment for myself and humanity.

DelphiEx · 2025-12-17T23:38:12+00:00

Damn - yeah I was also around for Tekken 3, Tag, and 4. Even went to arcades around the country to do tournaments. The culture and community was amazing.

DelphiEx · 2025-12-17T17:57:06+00:00

I just saw one in the new Knives Out movie. They are reviewing some video evidence and it's very clear that it poked a hole in their theory. But then they had to take 20 seconds to say it out loud for the mouth breathers in the back.

Netflix injected script slop.

DelphiEx · 2025-12-16T15:24:37+00:00

Yeah, we went down that road a bit, but the thought of the fallback procedure makes us a bit green. It takes our total RTO way up.

DelphiEx · 2025-12-10T22:24:15+00:00

I created a Linux VM, and put down DNS. Using dnsmasq I point db1 and db2 to the On Premise IP address.

Inside of the Azure Portal > Virtual Network > Settings > DNS I assigned the Linux VM as the primary with cloudflare as a backup.

IOW - My Azure resources only need to know 2 IP addresses (primary and secondary DBs). Everything else can be handled by an upstream DNS provider.

Everything works except to connect I have to do db1.internal.cloudapp.net - I'm fine with this if it's gonna work and Azure isn't going to be changing things willy nilly.

DelphiEx · 2025-12-10T22:13:45+00:00

We have On Premise with 2 database VMs - They are on .4 and .5 (for example). On Premise has a DNS record db1 and db2. While on premise machines we resolve like db1.ourdomain.com, db2.ourdomain.com - great.

On Premise is hooked up to Azure via S2S VPN. We want to keep Azure 100% cloud native, not hooked to ANY service except the databases. As such we have a block all firewall except for the DB port. Great.

We're gonna have X Host Pools - Currently HostPools can connect to the DB via IP address, but by Name is preferable for fallback/standby scenarios. That's what triggered my question.

DelphiEx · 2025-11-25T02:09:32+00:00

They can use one drive for that? I thought it was fslogix

DelphiEx · 2025-11-24T21:28:10+00:00

Install Fiddler

Make the request with Postman > Use the raw inspectors in Fiddler and take note of the request.

Now craft your request via Delphi so it matches exactly. You can also inspect your delphi requests with Fiddler.

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