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It seems particularly crazy for Ubuntu given that Debian released their fix something like a couple weeks ago.

Given that Github seems to persistently have these scaling challenges, IMO either one of these two things must be true: 1) either they are less competent at running large scale infra vs other large tech companies 2) or git itself adds unique challenges, that make this more difficult to scale

I think 2) is much more likely than 1).

So why stick with git? Is it feasible to make a new VCS that scales better if you start from scratch?

Obviously getting adoption of something else would be a challenge. But Github has enough market-share that they could plausibly pull this off. Particularly using costs or reliability to incentivize migration.

(Not saying that this would necessarily be good for the community in general but I think good for Github.)

I think this is exactly it. And IMO - there's nothing wrong with enjoying that part of it. But it may not be a high paying career like it was previously.

Some people though society was paying them lots of money to type code into an editor. But that was never true - people and businesses were paying them to solve problems.

Posting YouTube videos can just be a hobby - it was in the beginning, and that was fine. It's OK if posting a video isn't a profitable career path. Enthusiasts > "creators".

And in-video ads like these are even less defensible given that they still show up when people are paying YouTube (and creators by extension) to not display ads.

The photos are really cool, and I do like trains and infrastructure in general.

But came here to say the same thing. There is an advertising campaign in SF right now to encourage people to vote to give Muni more money (again) in November, because they can't cover their essential costs. This...looks pretty non-essential to their core mission to me.

They should have done everything they can inside their org to cut costs, before going to ask residents to give them more money.

Now I hope - maybe this is primarily funded by donations / grants or volunteer work, and SFMTA contributes very little to this. If so great - but it would have been wise for them be very clear about that.

That sounds pretty plausible. But you still have to have enough internal competency to oversee a contractor, and ask the right questions/build proper requirements and verify they are meeting them.

Building multiple diverse paths and monitoring for fiber cuts is not hard. Having 2 fiber paths is insufficient for even only moderately important workloads at a tech company. Overlapping fiber cuts happen. For something with significant economic and safety impact this is just crazy.

Sometimes the level of incompetence / lack of care in organizations like this astounds me. I understand issues like this can be complicated and systemic but it honestly makes me think very poorly of the technologists building these systems in government.

You certainly don’t need to run this over public Internet to get resiliency over multiple paths.

That seems more than merely plausible given current tensions and the location/timing connection with NYC and UN.

I assume it was sarcasm, Rufus is an Amazon AI product.

If they don't have the problems that other people are having...maybe they don't need that complexity. Different use cases can use different solutions.

An Army unit crossing rocky and muddy terrain might want tracked vehicles and tanks. I don't need that in a vehicle I drive 10 minutes to the office in the city.

I wasn't directly involved, but working in a couple of shops that used GH, I think they really steered people away from GHE, my impression was it's a product they don't really want to support - I vaguely recall hearing that upgrades were very painful on GHE, and the scaling / failover story was not great. Can anyone else confirm?

Ah sounds like you actually might have been there. I'm sure you must have some interesting stories from that time

I'm not sure if it was entirely true, but there are stories that after Microsoft bought Hotmail in the mid-90's, they quickly attempted to move them from FreeBSD (?) to Windows NT. But it failed miserably, and they went back to the original stack for another ~decade.

If you can't trust them to follow the very easy directions of "throw away the single use syringe", how likely is it that they are going to follow the much more complicated process of properly sanitizing the glass syringe?