Perhaps if I ran into more contained AGs

I don’t think I’ve seen one yet

My wife got that in three, ffs. I pride myself on having a pretty good vocabulary, but I've never heard of that before.

morning

In "The Heap™ – Consultancy" chat room, frogs are often a humorous motif and a running inside joke. The community uses frog imagery and references as a playful way to bond and lighten discussions, especially those that might otherwise be quite technical. The frog references contribute to the lighthearted, approachable atmosphere of the chat.

does it know about the frog shortage

@JohnK.N. that should be the room description to throw off folks who think they might just want to pop in for a chat lol

also, I just noticed we now have a frog tag

well done

[tag: 🐸]

Got some odd downvotes last night, weird.

perhaps you should post an angry comment challenging the downvoter to face you like a man

Meh

I don't care enough about virtual internet frog points

I just thought it was odd

I'm really amused by the "finally!" like this is something everyone has been looking forward to / begging for.

We're (finally) tripling our infra costs!

i just crashed out of an interview round for a gig that was moving from cloud back to on-prem. unsure if i'm more disappointed in the loss of the gig or the loss of the opportunity to work on that project

Sorry to hear that, Peter.

Is there any group that hypes and exaggerates more than cloud apologists?

Maybe the AI people currently.

@JoshDarnell As I read it, every point me at the start justifying the move to the cloud is undone by the later text. Let's face it, they want to do this because it's a fun project for the people involved and will look good on their CVs for a while. None of the supposed future benefits will materialise, as it's usual for cloud projects. They will, however, have new problems

@PaulWhite sympathy wasn't the goal. i'm a pro at crashing out of interviews at this point. really i was just amazed there's a major corp hiring people specifically to move a significant portion of their infra back to an on-prem DC

@JoshDarnell yes, as everyone knows you can't have IaC for on-prem assets... :|

@PeterVandivier did you tell them about my reasonable rates?

2 busy telling them about my own r8s, sry

@PeterVandivier Well ok, but it's still a shame you missed that particular project. I suppose as more people are 'in cloud', the number looking to exit will naturally increase. It's hard to know if it's a trend at this point. Probably should be

everyone has an opinion on it. surely at least one of them must be correct

People are quite dumb and often wrong on the whole

And I say that as a person

I wonder if SO will employ AI to help plan their Ascension (cringe)

@PeterVandivier LOL I didn't even notice that part.

@PaulWhite don't talk about me like i'm not here

It's understandable they'd not want to work on maintaining or expanding the mature SO systems. Especially since they fired or otherwise lost so much internal knowledge and experience in recent years

ROBBED of a 3 today

would never have happened in the cloud

> Additionally, our hardware is reaching its end-of-support date and would need to be refreshed. This would be very expensive. Should we spend that money on continuing our old direction or use this as an opportunity to explore something new?

So you decided for a more expensive option that you can't even mark as a tax writeoff?

@SeanGallardy this is corporate speak for "the people who built the old rack left and we're embarrassed to admit we don't understand the documentation they left"

I don't know if anyone proof reads their stuff, but as @PaulWhite stated a few comments ago, everything I read in that post was 180'd later in the post. "It's too expensive to maintain hardware" and then they go to the cloud where it's 3-6x more expensive? These people are really towing the company line on kool-aid.