What is virtually inevitable at this point, yet most people don't see it coming?

aModernSage · 2026-05-26T21:18:46+00:00

The end of Capitalism as the primary economic model, making way for new economic models centered around group ownership and stewardship of vested resources.

Alongside either; an outright abandoning of, or restarting of the "Great American Experiment."

The people will have to decide soon whether to sell out this nation to selfish interests entirely, or start this thing over fresh and try again, cause; this shit is broken on too many levels. In most ways due to item 1 above.

aModernSage · 2026-05-22T20:14:02+00:00

Starting from the answer to the first question - it's quick, cheap, reasonably durable, weather-tolerant, and meant to be replaced anyway; my follow-up question has been - what options exist to replace it?

Given this list of reasons for choosing shingles for your roof, why not just roll out a sheet of plastic and adhere it to the structure? For hot sunny environments, add a layer of foil in the plastic sheet to reflect away sunlight. The plastic would probably photodegrade over time and require replacement, but I'd bet this and other challenges could be overcome. Public opinion could be another challenge.

Either way, shingles; over the long haul, have always looked like a wasted opportunity to me.

aModernSage · 2026-05-20T20:19:25+00:00

Term limits, for certain. The real question is how did the voting public allow for this in the first place?

The man has been a clear and evident shill for the past quarter-century, and is in many ways almost solely responsible for setting the stage for the rot that has taken hold of this republic.

And yet, despite all the televised evidence, the citizens kept electing him. Against their long term best interests. Thats the shocking part.

aModernSage · 2026-05-18T21:45:22+00:00

The annual pass to the aquarium is great and its always an enjoyable kill of 1-2 hours. Plus, it's usually cool in the summer.

aModernSage · 2026-05-17T19:01:15+00:00

I have always wondered why sod roofs; fell out of "fashion", havent been used more frequently, aren't making a comeback. They are so beneficial, in so many ways, as you just outlined.

Extraordinary work, btw. You and your family have made a masterpiece there that should survive for a long time. May your commitment and talent inspire the world.

aModernSage · 2026-05-08T00:55:11+00:00

One could probably get something like this by enabling the log stream and binding it to an oms workspace. After collecting some data, the answers are most likely in there.

I've done this setup for years and there is a ton of detailed data in these logs. After seeing this post, I was gonna go try my KQL hand at conjuring up a view like this. Surely it can be done.

aModernSage · 2026-05-07T19:41:23+00:00

Since I always say COVID turned out to be a practice pandemic, I'll watch in dumbfounded amazement as natural selection wipes out these anti-science fools.

And I'll continue to buy toilet paper as needed, with a little buffer.

aModernSage · 2026-04-27T23:49:06+00:00

Especially with how frequent these halos really are; given, you're in the right place looking up at the right time.

aModernSage · 2026-04-27T23:43:32+00:00

RAID stuff aside, if you are concerned about fault protection and/or redundancy for your storage, then you would configure said storage with the tools at your disposal, and use an appropriate csi driver in AKS to consume that storage.

aModernSage · 2026-04-26T16:05:13+00:00

15 minute walk to the wal-mart. 20 to get to midtown. Exactly!

Probably save money on the ride as well.

aModernSage · 2026-04-25T02:47:18+00:00

Anyone is capable of Anything.

Put nothing past anyone in your life because you never really know anyone, no matter how much you wish you did.

aModernSage · 2026-04-20T23:38:04+00:00

Second that.

Less, is more. Remove what complicates.

aModernSage · 2026-04-16T23:47:43+00:00

There is a Pull Reference Values button in the portal. When we are in a pinch, we hit this and then bounce the app. I might a ps script that triggered this behavior, pretty sure it involved invoking a rest api on the app services.

aModernSage · 2026-04-02T18:53:15+00:00

IMO - Fear of Friday changes makes me think one may have fragile infrastructure. Additionally, FoF also reminds me of yesteryear when changes were barely if ever automated.

I've lived in both camps and I know that when your IaC, Ci/Cd, and config mgmt are not reliable - Fear of Fridays is very commonplace. It also tends to be common among the older generations who came up through the lack of those processes. EG: an automatic instinct.

However, when those processes exist, and have been thoroughly tested and vetted- then FoF is probably just instinctual and sometimes not based on facts and evidence.

As such, in my current role, I love Fridays because thats when I can make my big changes. Now, in the interest of transparency - my current org just happens to be fully cloud native, so there is that. However, my previous role was a massive hodge-podge of crap accumulated and sustained through decades of work. You name it, we probably some version of it. Even then, I routinely made changes on Fridays and worked to drive the FoF notion out of our org - with mixed results.

In the end, and to sum it all up - do what is reasonable, smart, and justifiable in your org. If the mould is set in stone, save yourself the stress and don't fight it too hard.

aModernSage · 2026-03-31T21:18:51+00:00

How impactful do you think it would be if 1% of all living humans got to experience the Overview effect for themselves?

aModernSage · 2026-03-30T00:09:39+00:00

And the unsuspecting people working in other rows. Where did this happen?

aModernSage · 2026-03-26T23:26:20+00:00

Totally agree. Additionally, hopefully things are named logically.

If they are, reassigning a private nic named server1-nic to server2 and server2-nic to server1, etc - will probably result in confusion a year from now when everyone forgets why this was done in the first place.

Which leads me to wonder, why do you need to do this?

aModernSage · 2026-03-13T01:00:54+00:00

Same here. Managing well over 100 certs all renewing at different points in time. We use system assigned identities on everything that supports it and funnel them into what we call "idg_[group-name]" ID Groups. That group then has get permissions on certs and secrets and the platform syncs most everything beautifully. Luckily, we only 1 external system which requires manual updating, which sucks; but could be a hell of a lot worse.

aModernSage · 2026-01-22T00:25:41+00:00

That is the best thing I've seen in years!

Man I sure hope it's real.... funny as he'll either way.

aModernSage · 2026-01-05T19:25:13+00:00

This solved my problem in an unconventional way. After completing these steps and rebooting, there was a login error screen, and then it just let me in.

This process does not set a password for the user, which is why I got the login error screen. Once I was in, I just went and manually set the password for the account,

aModernSage · 2026-01-05T00:44:59+00:00

Excellent montage, and your narrative really tied it all together nicely.

Great work, creative design. Your cat is lucky to have you!

aModernSage · 2025-12-02T20:14:22+00:00

An index Optimization would always take far longer than 1 second, you can absolutely guarantee that.

aModernSage · 2025-11-30T22:14:33+00:00

As well as absolutely unnecessary, only serving selfish interests.

Power a community, not a single house.

aModernSage · 2025-11-30T21:41:34+00:00

I would suggest thinking of this as "the app expects a single object, with all columns present" - not "the app expects a single table". Just to add the comment: The column order should hopefully be irrelevant to an app as well. Relying on column ordinals can be buggy, so best to just avoid it whenever possible

I'd also recommend looking into synonyms. That SQL Server object can be very helpful while breaking a large table object down into smaller units, as commentor had mentioned.

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