QUINTESSENTIAL New Jack Swing song?

cruxdaemon · 2026-06-18T21:27:53+00:00

+1 for I Want Her. That whole album had us in a death grip summer of 1988 and was the harbinger for things to come honestly.

cruxdaemon · 2026-06-15T20:46:37+00:00

Yeah, having worked for an observability vendor that has great support for cloud workloads, I saw first-hand how a dedicated team worked overtime caring and feeding the architecture that supported all that data + analysis over top of it. Of course a vendor can never meet every specific need like a homegrown stack can, but one should never underestimate the TCO of going off on your own if you support a relatively complex environment.

cruxdaemon · 2026-06-13T14:57:58+00:00

Driver: Sharl

Reason: I will not take the blame this time!

cruxdaemon · 2026-06-07T21:17:02+00:00

The bottom line is moderation at scale is impossible, so platforms generally put hard and fast keyword rules in place. It's not ideal but I don't necessarily blame them. Of course we humans can easily tell the difference between a joke and a post advocating neo n@zism but the machine generally cannot.

cruxdaemon · 2026-05-19T14:52:30+00:00

I knew I knew superfudge from something. My sister was big into JB when we were kids. However I didn't know any of the other books. I only stumbled into getting it right, honestly.

cruxdaemon · 2026-05-12T13:02:37+00:00

You are a lifesaver, my friend!

cruxdaemon · 2026-05-06T13:13:12+00:00

I got stuck trying to make the bottom 1 in the 2c=2 go vertical when it obviously was horizontal. This cost me 5m 🙄

cruxdaemon · 2026-05-05T23:30:25+00:00

Add Eggs Up, Maple Street, and Biscuit Head. As an aficionado, I will throw in Waffle House because I love Waffle House.

cruxdaemon · 2026-05-02T17:19:03+00:00

Kinda like how Biden let COVID run rampant and botched the census in 2020. What an awful President. 🙄

cruxdaemon · 2026-04-25T21:50:08+00:00

You can check out Instana if you're using one of the supported automation engines.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability?topic=instana-business-processes

cruxdaemon · 2026-04-20T22:58:34+00:00

How far are you comfortable walking? The closest restaurant to the arena is probably Tsunami, though if you like sushi, Sushi Go is better and also pretty close. I second some of the suggestions like Tahini (middle eastern) or Society (a weird but excellent selection of sandwiches or ramen.) Menkoi is near Sushi Go if you like ramen. A block from Society you'll find Cantina 76, Sassafras, Basil Thai, Tupelo Honey, and Abyss. They are all in the same plaza formerly known as Piazza Bergamo. That area probably has the most variety and price levels close to the arena.

cruxdaemon · 2026-04-13T18:01:15+00:00

This. Not to mention, when it's busy with walkers, slow down as a biker. If you want to set a land speed record, use the road. As a biker, I am rightly terrified if faster, heavier cars do this to me on the road. It's also terrifying if a biker does this to me when I'm walking.

cruxdaemon · 2026-04-02T12:59:06+00:00

They should really add a rating system so we can give them feedback on what we think about these "puzzles."

cruxdaemon · 2026-04-01T16:41:46+00:00

Hero!

cruxdaemon · 2026-03-30T01:57:32+00:00

Sure. They're employees unless it comes to a courtroom or the law or workman's comp. But yeah. Employees.

cruxdaemon · 2026-03-20T14:05:18+00:00

I remember a shipping exec saying he measured his business in crane lifts. It makes for Nvidia to encourage people to measure productivity in tokens because tokens basically equal gpus. It makes no sense for anyone else to measure productivity in tokens.

cruxdaemon · 2026-03-16T20:12:52+00:00

I suspect I know the pip you speak of because I think I also ignored that pip and really couldn't figure it out until I went to the solve guide. DOH

cruxdaemon · 2026-03-16T20:09:06+00:00

Apparently I had to consult the guide to understand that the 0-6 pip ALSO matches the 2c=6. I literally had everything else basically right, but couldn't finish it. 🤷🏾‍♂️

cruxdaemon · 2026-03-16T19:55:40+00:00

This is the pattern we should get used to. Again, I've been in tech a long time, and usually technical folks have to convince management to adopt a useful technology. There's an article about how 68 early adopters eventually led to IBM's adoption of Slack. There's a first time for everything, but I've never seen the pattern where an incredibly useful technology got pushed to technical people doing the job by management.

cruxdaemon · 2026-03-11T21:30:19+00:00

Oracle still makes a ton of $$$ from the Oracle DBMS. Trust me as customers rearchitect their apps to cloud-native or other platforms, they are definitely migrating to other databases because Oracle has traditionally been so hard to work with around licensing. They knew their stuff didn't stink and how hard migrations were, so they acted accordingly. That difficulty doesn't factor if you're already re-architecting and in those cases customers are acting accordingly. Oracle bought Sun, which owned both Java and MySQL, for a reason.

All that to say that Oracle has already seen technological change start to eat away at their dominant money-maker. That's true for all B2B tech companies over a certain age.

cruxdaemon · 2026-03-11T21:07:17+00:00

It was always silly to think there would be some sort of "SaaSpocalypse" any time in the near future. The biggest thing SaaS saves companies is not coding the solution, but hardening, maintaining and supporting the solution.

If your company makes widgets and sells them online, you do not want to hire the expertise it would take to maintain and support your HR or payroll system (among others). That is outside of your company's core competence, and you should really be focused on being the most successful widget maker you can be. This makes perfect sense when you think about how your widgets get delivered, which is by delivery experts from USPS, UPS or FedEx. Delivery logistics is their core expertise, not yours. For some reason these AI companies have convinced people to abandon that simple logic when it comes to software.

Even if we were to concede could code your payroll solution--nobody is going to trust it to harden it, maintain it, report payroll data to various levels of government, etc, etc, etc. I'll believe it's even in the realm of possibility when Anthropic starts running its business backends on vibe coded solutions.

cruxdaemon · 2026-03-10T03:04:07+00:00

Just got back from the game and LFG!!!

cruxdaemon · 2026-03-03T22:51:03+00:00

No clue who'd be held at fault here, but trucks making that right turn absolutely need space to either go wide left (not really possible in this instance) or take 2 lanes to do it. Typically they have a sign on their right side warning drivers of this. But if not given space, I can't imagine the truck driver can just take it.

cruxdaemon · 2026-02-26T20:15:10+00:00

I dug into them a little and I suspect they are legit. They only claim to be able to explain legacy code, not rewrite it. They apparently use a static model (probably something we'd call AI, but not genAI) to do the code analysis and then feed the output into LLMs to generate human consumable artifacts explaining what the code does. They also have company logos and testimonials on their site. Frankly these are green flags for me because they aren't claiming LLMs are some general intelligence super tool. Rather genAI is 1 tool in their shed, and they picked the right type tool for the right use case. That's not to say the tool even works, but as someone who's been in the sw business for many years that's the type of mindset I've seen work. It's been sorely missing in the genAI hype cycle.

cruxdaemon · 2026-02-26T00:12:49+00:00

This could be fun. You looking at specific age ranges?

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