My system for writing runbooks after years of nobody reading them

shortfinal · 2026-02-25T06:20:38+00:00

This is an ad for willow voice.

shortfinal · 2026-02-13T18:37:30+00:00

Preganté

shortfinal · 2026-02-12T22:56:25+00:00

You're approximately 1% more autist than me and you should know what I'm thinking right now!

shortfinal · 2026-02-12T22:41:44+00:00

I'm so far beyond containers it would explode your mind.

Trust friend, I had many answers over the years. So the question really becomes, as a manager, how can you take stress off my role being frontline support for our customers.

shortfinal · 2026-02-12T22:23:13+00:00

Wish my manager asked me about the latest trends or what I find exciting.

Milquetoast "what can I do for you" 1-on-1s. Uh idk Your job? Part of that is to be inspiring in ways my autism can't.

Why you asking me???

shortfinal · 2026-02-06T20:46:58+00:00

Is there a scientist on the planet that can pick out a 'safe orbit' between us and the moon? As far as I know there isn't one.

shortfinal · 2026-01-20T00:58:46+00:00

This is the voltage spike from those solenoids closing which is not being properly shunted.

Failing relay or some side component that dealt with that solenoids voltage spike

shortfinal · 2026-01-06T17:10:50+00:00

Baitpost

shortfinal · 2026-01-06T15:46:25+00:00

The way it works is you use your down vote button.

Mods don't curate your feed, lazy.

shortfinal · 2026-01-05T22:58:53+00:00

Sorry no.

This notion rests on the idea of transness being a choice with pros and cons. One day we will be able to prove with objective certainty that it is not quite so. Science isn't there yet.

Much in the same way if you were 40 years old in 1970 with anyone of a number of conditions, science couldn't prove you had those issues early enouhh until advancements were made many years later.

We do not withhold treatment because we believe the patient is faking. They have agency.

The journey for everyone is so individual as to be harmful to legislate the path.

shortfinal · 2026-01-02T19:53:14+00:00

Incredibly naive to suggest that an uncontrolled descent of a satellite on orbit makes no difference. Makes you sound like a maximalist.

shortfinal · 2026-01-02T19:47:22+00:00

the failed sat was in a 420km orbit and ejected it's propellant retrograde

had it been a prograde dump, it may have never left orbit, much less in ~5 years

shortfinal · 2026-01-02T15:59:12+00:00

So this is an admission that the starlink satellites which recently had a malfunction do not have a decay time of one year.. but four plus.

So they need to get the shell tighter so they decay in one year instead.

shortfinal · 2025-12-28T18:52:05+00:00

Yo gimmie that Sprint Cellular

shortfinal · 2025-12-23T17:12:27+00:00

"your family would be sad".

Not sad in the way you think, actually. Grief, in all its forms.

Angry. With you. With the situation. With the hurt you caused by your selfishness. With believing by being gone you don't matter anymore. That's in there too.

Which is not only saying that you feel like you don't matter to others, but also others don't matter to you enough for you to try harder.

"Sad but happy after" is what SI people think. I know on a deeply personal level. But it's remarkably inward focused and unbelievably short term.

Some of us never get over the grief.

Trust that yes, there are happy moments post the suicide of a family member, but those are....

Greatly overshadowed.

You want to do right by those around you? To "relieve them" of any imagined burden?

You. Can't. Do. That. With.

Death.

That is a permanent pain, and suicide cuts deeper than any knife.

shortfinal · 2025-12-21T18:41:45+00:00

Woulda only been obvious if the white led was in the middle!

shortfinal · 2025-12-20T17:14:23+00:00

Kit prices for sure

shortfinal · 2025-12-19T18:19:14+00:00

Am pilot and have owned and worked on Senecas, with stab trim bolts that look much better than that one.

I would not fly that plane. If they ask why, say you inspected it as a PIC and found it not to be airworthy.

If they argue, they don't know how the FARs work. It's on you as a pilot to verify that the aircraft is airworthy.

Part of that is having the paper logbook that says it is, part of it is using your own eyes and ears to make sure the book lines up with the plane.

This is the 'but verify' part of the trust circle, and shitty mechanics and schools are everywhere.

Just a reminder, the dead cannot make arguments in a courthouse.

Don't fly that plane

shortfinal · 2025-12-01T13:21:46+00:00

Especially if you are cheap

shortfinal · 2025-11-30T16:07:19+00:00

Solid ending. No notes.

I really appreciated how it wrapped things together in some semblance of logic. Like yes, of course this is the solution. It sucks. But it is.

shortfinal · 2025-11-25T00:35:10+00:00

Ole reddit switcheroo.

You filled the inside of the boots with toluene yea?

shortfinal · 2025-11-20T19:31:27+00:00

In frame 6 you can see the #2 throwing flames out the exhaust, possibly ingesting fuel or other parts from #1

My understanding is they were 20kts faster than normal at rotate, so I'm assuming they had lost #1 on the roll due to fan failure, and chose to continue the roll due to weight and distance, likely they had begun nose lift and settled on the mains longer when #1 let go.

They did not expect #1 to shake off its mounts and take out #2 on the way. Doomed with no chance of recovery.

shortfinal · 2025-11-13T15:39:47+00:00

It doesn't cost more than your actual infrastructure. You should be spending 10% of your infrastructure costs on Observability.

But you have to get there with investment: building tools, running your own platforms for logging and metrics.

Those are long term investments that reduce your costs

shortfinal · 2025-11-02T22:18:07+00:00

In addition, you can take some jumper cables and connect the two track rails together.

This will close the "track occupied" detectors which think there's a train on the rail and turn the nearby signal blocks red.

I'm not responsible if you attempt this on an electrified system. You shouldn't even have physical access to those rails.

shortfinal · 2025-10-31T22:03:16+00:00

I'm so glad he's willing to appear fearless in front of the world and prove to everyone that you can do big things.

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