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meh, I dunno. Using bare-metal requires competent Unix admins, and Actions team is full of javascript clowns (see: decision to use dashes in environment variab
by theamk 11mo ago
meh, I dunno.
Using bare-metal requires competent Unix admins, and Actions team is full of javascript clowns (see: decision to use dashes in environment variable; lack of any sort of shell quoting support in templates; keeping logs next to binaries in self-hosted runners). Perhaps they would be better off using infra someone else maintains.
- dijit 11mo ago> Using bare-metal requires competent Unix admins So does running VMs in a cloud provider. Except now we call them "DevOps" or "SRE" and pay them 1.5-2x. (as a former SRE myself, I'm not complaining).
- godelski 11mo ago> requires competent Unix admins Who knows where a $3.7T company is ever going to find competent Unix admins... > Perhaps they would be better off using infra someone else maintains. They're handing it from themselves to themselves. We're talking about Microsoft, not some startup.