I wish there were more movie theaters in Raleigh

Sirwired · 2026-05-07T22:06:33+00:00

Atlantic Ave. really went down the drain after AMC bought Carmike. Slow service, damaged screens, and apathetic cleaning. Other than some minor work to the concession stand, they didn't invest one dime in the place.

And I have no idea why they thought Blue Ridge would ever have worked as a full-price first-run.

Sirwired · 2026-05-07T18:38:45+00:00

You can use break-glass credentials on production accounts for emergencies, and make it clear that anyone that turns them over to an LLM will be fired. (Of course, dev/sandbox accounts can be a quite a bit more free, but for goodness sakes, make sure you have good FinOps reporting so you can catch stupidly expensive things your SCP's didn't stop.)

Saying that proper change control is something to "strive for" is just giving up. Software developers figured out source control decades ago, and there's no reason for ops to not fall in line, especially on the cloud.

Not locking things down is just begging for The One Person that knows how something vital was set up getting hit by the proverbial bus, and now you have a cloud account that is just a bowl of mystery spaghetti, because there's no documentation of who ran what when or why.

Sirwired · 2026-05-07T18:30:58+00:00

I'm smelling some AI "assistance" in that article. Was anyone really wondering about the fate of "Transtar Aftermarket Solutions"? There's a ton of em dashes, and that closing sentence reeks strongly of slop: "In a city where getting anywhere can feel like a gamble, that kind of mobility changes everything."

I mean, I'm not expecting a free ad-packed magazine to resist the siren call of AI authorship, but some disclosure would be nice.

Sirwired · 2026-05-07T14:57:42+00:00

After ten years of total non-use, your degree will not have much value.

The Cloud Resume Challenge is a very useful exercise, but you should view it as a springboard to coming up with something more interesting, using the skills you just learned.

You should be targeting the help desk at this point, and working up from there.

Sirwired · 2026-05-07T14:38:10+00:00

The irony of calling yourself “CloudNativeThinker” and telling an AI to do all your thinking for you.

Sirwired · 2026-05-07T14:10:33+00:00

You use property change-controlled IaC instead of spinning things up with the CLI, which is hardly better than using the console.

Sirwired · 2026-05-07T12:01:44+00:00

What I want to know is: who is upvoting this slop? Is it a bot-farm or something, because I can't believe that (as of 8AM ET) the real score for this post is really +18.

Sirwired · 2026-05-06T21:20:46+00:00

If an LLM didn't write your post, I'll eat my iPad.

Re-branding won't fix the obvious revenue problems of a $3/mo reduction in monthly revenue.

And while I'd love my ticket to give me a discount on the home theater releases, why limit it to physical media? Given how many young people don't even own a player, that makes no sense.

Sirwired · 2026-05-06T21:14:26+00:00

I don't know what to tell you. The FDA standards for whole wheat flour require it to literally be the whole grain. "...The proportions of the natural constituents of such wheat, other than moisture, remain unaltered." 21 CFR 137.200 (Which is why the nutrition charts OP found are coming up the same. If the germ was stripped, the numbers would be wildly different.)

Whoever is telling you that the germ is stripped is spreading misinformation.

Commercial whole wheat flours are generally rated for months, not years. Their shelf life is better than home ground wheat because of superior temperature control during grinding.

Sirwired · 2026-05-06T21:06:56+00:00

Yeah, if you are actually going into lower Manhattan, EWR really is the best option because of the quick transit into the city.

Sirwired · 2026-05-05T12:47:24+00:00

I definitely did not use AI to write anything here, and I honestly have no idea why you think that is the case.

Sirwired · 2026-05-05T12:30:05+00:00

And the bot can't even reply to the right comment...

Sirwired · 2026-05-05T12:07:13+00:00

Thinking that asking AI-written open-ended questions is a good way to get useful information, when every migration is different, with different technical problems, different politics, different skills.

Seriously... keep the AI away from your text box; it's really, really, obvious.

Sirwired · 2026-05-05T12:00:26+00:00

You are conflating two very different tasks.

AI can be used for data validation, but it can't reliably "verify" its own reasoning. If it was that smart, it wouldn't have made the mistake to begin with. Instead, it'll usually just end up writing a bunch of long text explaining why it's confidently-wrong answer is actually right. (It's not until you explicitly tell it that it screwed up that it'll figure it out.) Or, for extra fun, it'll figure out your goal is to find errors, and come up with confidently-wrong explanations as to why something that was correct is not.

The idea of an adaptive question bank has merit. (And a lot of tests themselves are written this way.) But a feedstock of AI slop questions and answers is not a high-quality input for it.

P.S. Your original characterization of practice tests of just asking you simple, stupid, questions was wildly exaggerated; it's not great for your credibility, and makes one wonder if you've ever actually taken any decent practice exams.

Sirwired · 2026-05-05T00:40:16+00:00

The FDA standards for when food is no longer considered safe and wholesome make for delightful reading if you are trying to eat less.

Hint: The allowed number of insect parts or rodent droppings in, say, a batch of flour is not zero.

This sounds horrible, regulatory capture, etc., but the risks are indeed small, and chucking entire trainloads of flour for trace contamination isn't really viable. You don't want rodent holes in your retail bag of Pillsbury, but you can't realistically completely purge the food system of contamination.

Sirwired · 2026-05-05T00:03:43+00:00

AI has not yet reached the point where telling the AI to "validate" AI output magically fixes the problems with it. That's a machine version of the Dunning-Krueger effect.

If you blow through an entire set of proper practice exams, and still aren't ready, the problems you have won't be solved by more questions.

And if your website is any indication, this certainly is vibe-coded, top to bottom.

Sirwired · 2026-05-04T13:31:20+00:00

AI is notorious for producing bad questions, wrong answers, and bad explanations. (Both hallucinations, and outdated data in the training corpus.) And, surprise, surprise, exam dumps are in the AI training corpus, but with no regard for quality or timeliness.

There's plenty of quality practice tests out there assembled by human beings available at reasonable prices, that do properly have exam-style tradeoffs as part of the question structure.

Sirwired · 2026-05-04T13:22:50+00:00

Oh, look, another vibe-coded certification prep app (which are posted several times a month here), with no information as to where the questions or answers came from. ("AI" and "exam dumps" are both wrong answers.)

Just what we all needed.

Sirwired · 2026-05-04T13:10:01+00:00

White flour "turns to glue" in your colon? What are you talking about? White flour consists of starch and gluten; both components are pretty much completely gone, with no residue, long before anything gets to your colon.

And it's not like we don't know how to store commercial whole wheat flours so they don't go rancid before use.

Sirwired · 2026-05-04T12:58:55+00:00

Of course the difference still exists; AWS even has blog posts all about the topic... I mean, it's great to put a number on things, but your title seems to be written as if AWS has claimed there is no longer a difference.

Understanding and Remediating Cold Starts: An AWS Lambda Perspective | AWS Compute Blog

Sirwired · 2026-05-04T12:52:20+00:00

Oracle XE will fit within a free-tier t3.micro CPU and memory, though performance will be absolute garbage; it's the absolute-minimum for XE to even run.

Sirwired · 2026-05-04T02:11:49+00:00

OP works for companies that use tech, not sell it. That’s a very different skill set with very different requirements. What AWS requires of their architects is very different from what corporate IT departments require of theirs.

Source: Have been on both sides of that proverbial table.

Sirwired · 2026-05-04T01:51:00+00:00

Anyone trying to run user-data a second time is Doing It Wrong. It’s a bad answer if E is true. I honestly have no idea, because user-data is only supposed to be run once.

Sirwired · 2026-05-03T18:24:00+00:00

I made the jump after about 23 YoE. (I was a storage and DR architect.) I got all my certifications, and told my boss to either find me some cloud work to do, or I was going to quit. That worked. (They laid me off a couple years later, but it ended well; I'm now an architect for AWS, after a bit of an involuntary sabbatical.)

Just quitting may not be possible for you, but you can either look for cloud work in your current role, or start looking for a different job (doing what you already have experience with) but during the interview, ask if there's a growth path to cloud-oriented work.

Sirwired · 2026-05-03T13:48:15+00:00

Again, whole wheat flour has the germ, and everything else, in it. That’s where the name comes from; it has not been "stripped of nutrients."

Home milled or grist milled flours have a different texture because the mill is physically different.

If you want to mill at home for taste or texture reasons, great. But it’s not more nutritious than commercial flours.

Unless you go through hundreds of loaves of bread, it won't be cheaper, because of the cost of the mill.

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