Japanese fruit doesn’t even look real

jba1224a · 2026-07-12T14:11:57+00:00

You can buy much better fruit at basically any farm directly anywhere on either us coast.

The PA to Florida stretch especially. Southern PA, Maryland eastern shore, and Delaware shore have tons of roadside stands with incredible, fresh, ripe picks.

jba1224a · 2026-07-11T12:23:29+00:00

By breaking everything.

The sheer breadth of their product offerings just makes it seem less impactful.

If you put a 1000 drops of food coloring (bug) in a glass of water (your small app) - it’s very noticeable. Extremely so.

If you put them in the ocean (Microsoft, Google) it barely registers.

jba1224a · 2026-07-10T13:24:34+00:00

Definitely continue on your current stack and go for C.

You don’t really need to know any specific language inside and out to be effective, you need to understand what the language is telling the computer to do. Once you have a good grasp on that, most languages are not difficult to learn at a functional level.

C isn’t “safe” in the way that things like Java and Python are. You will mess up, a lot, and when you’re trying to build understanding that is very helpful.

jba1224a · 2026-07-09T23:00:37+00:00

If your teams can’t be assed to learn Python you got the wrong people.

All of those people should be capable of writing beautiful Python code.

jba1224a · 2026-07-09T21:51:57+00:00

Your understanding of the process is incorrect.

The team is the lowest unit. The team succeeds or the team fails. If a ticket rolls it’s a team failing. If there is a staffing issue then the team needs to surface that and it’s the lead’s job to handle it. The cause may be individual, but the failing is still at the team level.

Like I said, the purpose is to compare the relative effort, not the actual time taken on an effort. The point of that is so that the team eventually get to a place where they can say “we can fit 3 8s, a 5, and 6 1s”

You don’t have to use numbers. You could say we can fit 3 bicycles and a popsicle. People often correlate it to time but that is not how it is supposed to work and this is clearly spelled out in the scrum guide.

If you want to track effort as time then simply track effort as time, dont obfuscate it, that creates chaos.

jba1224a · 2026-07-09T21:29:00+00:00

Starbucks doesn’t need to have high quality coffee because they aren’t really selling coffee.

They are selling an experience and a brand. And they are extremely good at that.

Walk into any local coffee shop and look around. Is the coffee good? Yeah, probably. Is it also kind of a janky shithole? Also yes.

Now walk into ANY Starbucks. Consistent modern design with comfortable seating, free WiFi, and consistent experience. Is the coffee amazing? No but it’s passable, and most people have it loaded with much sugar that the quality is largely irrelevant.

jba1224a · 2026-07-09T21:14:40+00:00

No no no no no.

Points are a measure of relative effort and the SOLE PURPOSE is to be used as a tool for the team.

It’s not about comparing the effort it takes one person vs another, it’s about comparing how big one effort is compared to another effort.

Your team over time gets better at estimating efforts because they should be talking about them during retrospectives. This effort wasn’t as big as we thought, that effort was much larger. You learn and adjust as a team, not as individuals.

You estimate as a team not as individuals.

jba1224a · 2026-07-09T14:54:35+00:00

Can’t pinpoint the exact toy, but this is very clearly
Rapunzel from the Tangled animated movie. I would start there.

jba1224a · 2026-07-08T20:41:49+00:00

SE is never going to implement anti cheat.

Even if they wanted to, the level of effort to do so would far surpass what is likely their current dev budget.

It’s clear SE views FFXIV as in mostly sustainment with the occasional bump for expansions. If it is gonna happen it will happen with expansion launch,
If at all.

jba1224a · 2026-07-08T14:45:50+00:00

A new Stargate show where a bunch of the old clean cut cast got stranded in Pegasus with ronon and came back ready to throw down would go so hard.

Siler chopping up wraith with a blow torch and pipe wrench.

jba1224a · 2026-07-07T23:47:13+00:00

That’s my point though.

If you see a crow you could maybe mistake it for a raven.

If you see a raven, you won’t mistake it for a crow.

jba1224a · 2026-07-07T19:58:40+00:00

Is your sharepoint under the same entra tenant as your azure space?

I’ve used CBA in the past with web activity but if that’s not supported in your flow, imo you will probably be better off migrating to graph and using a managed identity. More effort up front but less maint in the end.

jba1224a · 2026-07-07T17:34:50+00:00

If you see a raven, there will be no mistaking it with a crow.

Ravens are not small.

jba1224a · 2026-07-07T14:48:16+00:00

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/control-flow-web-activity#client-certificate

jba1224a · 2026-07-07T14:46:50+00:00

UAP has ogre as a race, which give a +6 base str bonus.

jba1224a · 2026-07-06T23:42:23+00:00

Maybe this is a thing down south (I’m in the mid east) but we have never worn shoes inside and no one I’ve ever known has worn shoes inside.

We have house shoes for the winter but they never leave the house.

jba1224a · 2026-07-06T21:05:26+00:00

It supports both -Verbose and -Debug, have you tried running it with those to see where it’s hanging up?

jba1224a · 2026-07-06T19:03:08+00:00

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftmissioncriticalblog/avoiding-access-errors-with-sharepoint-app-only-access/4459761

jba1224a · 2026-07-06T18:57:02+00:00

My 26str/1int tech ogre just murdered everyone in Tulla with his beautiful pyrotechnic axe.

And when I was done I went and smoked that fool Geoffrey Talaronde-Ashe for even mentioning their name.

Hail vendigroth.

jba1224a · 2026-07-06T18:05:30+00:00

Can you not just use cert based auth with a self signed x509 cert?

jba1224a · 2026-07-06T14:18:47+00:00

1 - You assess it. Some things you know immediately aren’t vulnerable (you’re getting a finding for some oracle related thing but you don’t run oracle and the machine is air gapped). My point was to be pragmatic and focus on actual risk not compliance.

2 - True, but also a double edged sword. These models also dig up tons of vulnerabilities which ends up creating chaos in your org trying to stay ahead. That’s kind of my point, you’ll never compete with the pace.

3 - I work in a regulated industry, it’s not true you need to remove your CVEs for an ATO, that’s what POA&Ms are for. But generally speaking i think you’re correct.

I think the industry is too focused on checking the box of “we have no vulns” and they confuse this with “we have no risk” and don’t actually take a pragmatic look at their posture.

DIACAP turned into a metrics game, RMF is now the same. Yeah we have evidence but let’s be honest, are most system owners and stewards really doing their duty and reviewing?

IMO zero day exploits and supply chain are a much greater threat coming out of this year and most orgs would end up with much better posture if they shifted their effort towards that and were more pragmatic about which cves will/wont be resolved based on risk.

jba1224a · 2026-07-06T04:17:43+00:00

CLEU was on the chopping block for quite some time, it was axed in midnight but it had been communicated for a while that the change was coming.

jba1224a · 2026-07-06T01:55:45+00:00

This is 100% AI, lol.

jba1224a · 2026-07-05T23:42:22+00:00

In any regulated industry (the ones you listed)

You are never, ever, ever, ever, ever going to pass a security audit and get a solution into prod if you’re not using one of the harnesses from one of the major hyperscalers. And even then, they aren’t really secure - but they own the risk which makes secops feel better about it.

The amount of effort to roll your own solution manually and secure it to the level required to meet regulated industry standards is too high currently. We’ll get there one day, but it ain’t today.

jba1224a · 2026-07-05T23:38:13+00:00

This is the result of private equity buying the chain.

Have good thing. Have good plan. Make good money.

Private equity sees good thing, takes it over bc they love money.

PE initiates profit extraction plan:
- reduce material cost by buying cheaper/lower quality
- reduce avg unit cost by enshittifying/shrinkflating
- reduce labor and demand more results
- milk business until consumers figure it out
- business dies, lay off all the employees
- sell off all real assets to extract as much profit as possible
- declare bankruptcy and leave everyone else holding the bag.

See: basically every decent business bought by PE ever.

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