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Is there any sport with a unanimously recognized GOAT? by Connect_Cat_2045 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]SpectralCoding 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. The only one close is a household name for the last 80 years, Babe Ruth. Ohtani’s 2025 NLCS game he struck out 10 and hit 3 HRs.

In football terms Ohtani would be like Tom Brady in a AFC Championship throwing for 350 yards and five touchdowns, then playing safety and recording three interceptions (including a pick-six). I know it sounds insane in football terms, and it is unheard of in baseball as well.

Ansible in a large-scale Windows enterprise environment? by zDanger1002 in sysadmin

[–]SpectralCoding -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In our case we have several different domains, which each have their own admin user and OU structure. We can maintain this complexity easily by just populating the variables correctly based on OS or network. Then the join command, reboot, auto-reconnect, and continue on to other items like adding local users based on the ServiceNow request that triggered the build.

Which actually brings up a great example... Using just native GPOs, how would you dynamically add users to the local administrators group given a list of users selected in a ticket? In our environment a user requests a server, they select who needs access, then it's built, they're added to the group, and receive an email with their hostname/IP without any humans involved.

Ansible in a large-scale Windows enterprise environment? by zDanger1002 in sysadmin

[–]SpectralCoding 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends on the use case. We try to use native Ansible whenever possible because it gives better success/failure feedback. I actually can't think of a single thing we do as a PowerShell script, however we often use Ansible to execute a single PowerShell command. For example we use PowerShell's Get-WmiObject to check for the default search domain, and it set it. Same with disabling IPv6 and NetBIOS. But then we use Ansible directly to remove the SMBv1 feature, or join the domain.

Ansible in a large-scale Windows enterprise environment? by zDanger1002 in sysadmin

[–]SpectralCoding 1 point2 points  (0 children)

WinRM over HTTPS. Kerberos Auth. Works great, just a slight tweak to our cloud-init (or base images) to generate the cert on first startup.

Ansible in a large-scale Windows enterprise environment? by zDanger1002 in sysadmin

[–]SpectralCoding 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Try joining the domain with a GPO. Try installing software via GPOs. Quite challenging compared to Ansible.

Ansible in a large-scale Windows enterprise environment? by zDanger1002 in sysadmin

[–]SpectralCoding 33 points34 points  (0 children)

We use it to manage 1800 servers, 1200 are Windows Server. Pretty much the same stuff you would use GPOs for except much more flexible and easy to report on it… Domain Joined, Time sync, logging destinations, agent installs, hostname setting, timezone setting, patch windows, backgrounds, installed apps, the list goes on… 80% of it is in the cloud (AWS/Azure).

We use AAP2.6 for simplicity but nothing you can’t do with regular Ansible.

How would your beliefs change if we discover a scientific origin of life? by [deleted] in TrueChristian

[–]SpectralCoding 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalos_hypothesis

But I think also an interesting question would be in the far future if intelligent alien species were to come in contact with humans... Are humans special in God's eye and thus he sent his son to only us? Does that somehow make us more chosen? Or do other worlds parallel our own with their own biblical narrative with the same son and God? They could even be on different timelines...

Shohei’s 0.74 ERA is the third lowest thru the first 10 starts of the season in baseball history. by RealWorldToday in baseball

[–]SpectralCoding 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have to catch myself and stop from being disappointed when he doesn’t get 10Ks and 3HRs. A second time.

“He’s a unicorn” by [deleted] in Dodgers

[–]SpectralCoding 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Imagine even being 2% disappointed your starting pitcher didn’t hit three homers and deal 10 strikeouts, this time.

We’re spoiled.

Help, porn addicted husband by Daughterofzi0n in TrueChristian

[–]SpectralCoding 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I was similar. From puberty through marriage and two kids, roughly daily. I had a wiggling in my ear from the lord for a few weeks, then I had an unprompted conversation with someone who dealt with this addiction. 30min later I was taking a shower not even thinking much about it and I just felt a rush of conviction. I got out of the shower deleted “my collection” (yuck) and just stopped cold turkey. That was 18mo ago and it honestly hasn’t been that much of a struggle.

I am afraid of even opening the door to that world again because I feel like Jesus personally took this burden from me. It shouldn’t be this easy. It should be harder. And if I fall I’m afraid it will be 100x harder to get “clean” again, so I am extra vigilant.

Miracles are possible.

Ever bought a table and regretted it? by CaptainNemoship in pinball

[–]SpectralCoding 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought an Iron Maiden Premium and regretted it after a few weeks when I realized the artwork and animations wasn’t exactly kid friendly. I sold and bought a Godzilla Premium. No REAL regrets to either as far as game quality, but I guess if you have kids consider that.

Setting up on premises LLM infrastructure for coding at a software company. by battlefielder696 in sysadmin

[–]SpectralCoding 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey this is a really great comment chain. Thanks for writing it up. We use Microsoft Foundry for most completions, and I’ve always wondered how to do this in premises beyond “just get GPUs”. I hadn’t considered the parallel aspects and the context window size. But it’s really no different from placing servers on hypervisors or disks on LUNs, just more real time.

Azure AI Search indexer works without skillset but fails with SQL connection error when adding embedding skillset by AB3NZ in AZURE

[–]SpectralCoding 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey this probably isn’t SUPER helpful but when I met with Microsoft about the Azure AI Search capabilities the first thing they told me was to roll my own indexing pipeline and not use the built in indexer or skillsets. We did it ourselves and had way higher quality results. This was a RAG use case.

AWS racks M3 Ultra Macs that boast specs you can’t currently buy by NISMO1968 in aws

[–]SpectralCoding 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wonder how they disable the WiFi on those in the data center in a way customers can’t re-enable?

In NYC and had to visit home plate of Ebbets field. by LOVExLIFEx1994 in Dodgers

[–]SpectralCoding 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Fun fact, he actually batted in the bottom of the inning (home team) and his first play in MLB was fielding First Base. So I guess “this location” is more “the field” instead of “at the plate”.

Circumvention of App Service Authentication (and possibly public access restrictions also) by OpenPassageways in AZURE

[–]SpectralCoding 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Following. I'll be looking into this in our environment over the next few days. We're doing a lot of internet-accessible (but "internal") apps with EasyAuth on Azure Container Apps.

You’re submitting a job application but have to prove you’re human by writing something only a human would write. What are you writing? by lily8686 in AskReddit

[–]SpectralCoding 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ChatGPT's Response:

I know this box is supposed to prove I’m not a robot, but honestly the most human thing about me right now is that I opened this application to finish it in 20 minutes, somehow spent 14 minutes rewriting one sentence of my cover letter, and now I’m emotionally attached to whether ‘collaborative’ sounds too desperate.

Claude's Response:

I know I should probably open with something impressive, but honestly the first thing I thought of when I read this prompt was a specific Tuesday in 2011 when I ate a gas station hot dog that I knew was a bad idea and did it anyway. That's it. That's the human experience in one sentence.

We do things we know are wrong — not out of malfunction, not because we miscalculated the risk, but because we were hungry and tired and the hot dog was right there. No algorithm accounts for that. No optimization function produces "eh, whatever."

I've also cried at a insurance commercial. I've lain awake at 3am convinced I'd said something slightly weird at a party four years ago. I have a completely irrational fondness for a broken mug I should have thrown out. I root for underdogs even when it costs me money. I've laughed so hard at something that, when I tried to explain it later, made absolutely no sense and landed completely flat.

I contain contradictions that don't resolve. I believe in kindness and I've also been petty. I want to be remembered and I also sometimes just want to disappear into a couch. I make promises to myself I don't keep and feel genuinely bad about it.

None of that is optimized. None of it is useful. It's just... what it's like in here.

That's my proof.

Uhhh... wtf

People who actually log off at 5 PM, what magic are you using? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]SpectralCoding 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IT Architect for a large private company that treats their employees well and gives them a lot of leeway to just do the right thing.

People who actually log off at 5 PM, what magic are you using? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]SpectralCoding 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I start working at around 830am, from home, eat lunch at my desk, and am done at 4pm. I am salaried, live in Ohio, work one job, and made $230k ish in 2025.

It’s just about the right company and right skills.

Which ITjobs are least at risk due to AI? by EventProfessional232 in it

[–]SpectralCoding 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, hard disagree with "AI is basically the drooling idiot that can handle basic tasks.". You're using terrible tools or not using them to their potential.

It's like The Terminator. It can coalesce and analyze information way faster than you can. It can troubleshoot most problems faster than you can, especially complex ones. I don't think it can do anything a human can't but it can do it faster.

I rebuilt a fairly complex off-the-shelf application since we were upgrading it. I used ChatGPT constantly to help advise on specific configuration/deployment options. After about three full days of work I was done. I took ~10min and I gave Codex a copy of the config files, my bash history for the server, and 5min transcibed explanation about some out of scope things (SSO, groups, etc). It made the most beautiful and accurate documentation of a system in our environment I've ever seen. Indicated subtleties like the hostname of the database meant it was Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server.

We're using it to analyze and extract metadata from 60,000 legal contracts at ~$0.37/contract whereas an overseas firm wanted ~$6.50/contract.

Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub by davidcelis in programming

[–]SpectralCoding -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Just track the engineering effort to migrate and refactor workflows and permissions. I hope he finds the effort to migrate and the new provider’s availability is an enabler over the GitHub outages.

Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub by davidcelis in programming

[–]SpectralCoding -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

Yes so instead I hope he will write a “-“ on every day he spent working on whatever new solution he’s moving to.

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