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You know, those things that no matter how far you dig with “Five Whys” or RCAs that it comes down to something that just shouldn’t be technically possible. Legitimately speculating that the only explanation is random bit flips…

My short story is we had a production Oracle database randomly get its time set back a few hours. We tracked the system logs to its check-in with our internal NTP server saying it was a few hours ahead so it adjusted accordingly. The thing is the NTP server itself was 100% stable with nothing odd in its log and none of the other 300 servers using it were affected. My RCA was since NTP is over UDP there must have been some corruption of the NTP packet on the wire caus

First, thanks so much for this community, I've learned so much already.

I moved to Ohio from Arizona, completely new to this part of the country and LPV. Last month we bought a 2015 house that has LPV on the first floor. Based on the box of spare planks in the basement it is NuCore with a date of 2022. Already a few of the areas of the floor are bouncy and the planks are cracking along the edge. One place pretty badly. I understand this is likely due to poor subfloor prep when the floors were installed. I have no idea if this was put in by a previous owner or a company. The actual quality of the install looks pretty well staggered and the pieces are consistently tight together. It looks pro

I'm a Cloud & Infrastructure Architect at a large global manufacturing organization. I grew up from a Data Center Intern running cables to leading many critical IT initiatives. This sub has a heavy anti-AI sentiment and I want to gently give some alternative viewpoints. Below are practical examples in the last 12mo where I personally used AI (ChatGPT, etc) and it was key to solving or moving forward on an issue. It's not a silver bullet but when I have co-workers watch over my shoulder as I use these AI tools, something clicks for them and it goes from scary or a waste of time, to "wow". Don't shoot the messenger, I hope this at least gets you thinking of ways you could use it.

**Example 1

Beyond evaluations, how are you all assessing or understanding what your users are asking?

We launched a chatbot to 7000 internal users this week and are getting 500+ conversations per day. We have good logs of the users, their questions, the chunks returned, etc.

My dream is some magical visual semantic clustering tool that can map every conversation (or maybe Q+A pairing) onto a 2D plane which would reveal clusters. Clusters would be things like what topics (nouns) are people asking about, what kinds of things are they asking (how to, how many, summarize, etc).

Anyone have any ideas here? I'd love to be able to bring something to our company's leadership to give them an overview of act

https://phoenixchildrens.org/articles-faqs/news-articles/bcbsazcontract2024

Quote:

PHOENIX [February 8, 2024] – Phoenix Children’s announced today it has reached a new, multi-year agreement with BlueCross BlueShield of Arizona, ensuring patient families with BlueCross BlueShield insurance coverage can receive the care they need at in-network benefit levels.

“We recognize this has been a difficult time for families navigating out-of-network coverage options. As with previous contract discussions, Phoenix Children’s has been working diligently on behalf of our patients to ensure agreements with insurance providers serve the needs of our growing community, and we had to get it right,” said R

I think I may be overpaying into social security and am curious if I need to do anything about this, or if I'll get a refund, or if you just pay extra if you switch jobs?

• All of 2023 and my paychecks were larger toward the end of the year once I passed the $168,600 mark. My total YTD social security tax according to my paychecks were ~$9,900 for the last few months of 2023.
• When I left that company in April 2024 my final paycheck in May showed YTD social security tax of ~$7,500. I checked back and it started from $0 in January and steadily increased through April.
• I've been at my new company since May 2024 and my latest paycheck shows a YTD tax of ~$7,900. I checked back and it sta

I was watching the YouTube: AI prompt engineering: A deep dive video and one of the recommendation to get better at prompting was to read a lot of prompts. If you listen in they apparently have Slack rooms where they can share or see each others prompts. This would be a great way for me personally to see creative strategies that could come in handy later.

Does anyone have a good resource or recommendations for people to follow? Maybe influential people in the AI community sharing the prompts they use day-to-day? I'm not looking for resources from content creators like "here's my master prompt for generating XYZ content". I want real world promp

Our AWS environment has this kind of set up for a typical server.

• Generic-Windows-Security-Group
  • Allow 3389 (RDP) from [all internal addresses]
  • Allow 5986 (WinRM HTTPS) from [management server]
  • Allow ALL TRAFFIC from [internal scanner address]
  • ... and a few others
• EC2-SERVERNAME1
  • Allow 80, 443 (HTTP, HTTPS) from [all internal addresses]
  • Allow [other app ports] from [other internal addresses]

So the Generic-Windows-Security-Group would be managed centrally and re-used across basically every Windows device in the VPC, then we would create workload-specific SGs for each server. This gave us the combined benefit of being able to centrally add a new

Community contributors have helped a ton to release a cloud-specific feature for the tool updating the Usable IPs and enforcing a smallest subnet limitation for both Azure and AWS. Check it out under the Tools menu.

Original release announcement below...

https://visualsubnetcalc.com/

• [Example Sharable Design Link - 10.0.0.0/20](https://visualsubnetcalc.com/index.html?c=1N4IgbiBcIIwgNCAzlUMAMA6LOD0AmdVWHbbAuSNUvffYjM2gZgZvPwBZiB9AOyggAIgEMALiIAEAYQCmfMbIBOkgLSSAagEslYgK4iANpIDKysMpSIeAY0EBiAJwAjAGYA2V65ABfRIywYDm4qEH5BUQkZeUUVdW1dA2MzJQslKzC7aCc3T28fPxIyfA5WUIDMEvQCENBw6EipOQVlNU0dfSNTc0sETIcXDy9ff1JmYN4BBvEmmNb1AAUACwBPJC0bLpS0jNsHEXQbTmGCworODnpy0gvq-DK

Community contributors have helped a ton to release a cloud-specific feature for the tool updating the Usable IPs and enforcing a smallest subnet limitation for both AWS and Azure. Check it out under the Tools menu.

Original release announcement below...

https://visualsubnetcalc.com/

• [Example Sharable Design Link - 10.0.0.0/20](https://visualsubnetcalc.com/index.html?c=1N4IgbiBcIIwgNCAzlUMAMA6LOD0AmdVWHbbAuSNUvffYjM2gZgZvPwBZiB9AOyggAIgEMALiIAEAYQCmfMbIBOkgLSSAagEslYgK4iANpIDKysMpSIeAY0EBiAJwAjAGYA2V65ABfRIywYDm4qEH5BUQkZeUUVdW1dA2MzJQslKzC7aCc3T28fPxIyfA5WUIDMEvQCENBw6EipOQVlNU0dfSNTc0sETIcXDy9ff1JmYN4BBvEmmNb1AAUACwBPJC0bLpS0jNsHEXQbTmGCworODnpy0gvq-DK

Community contributors have helped a ton to release a cloud-specific feature for the tool updating the Usable IPs and enforcing a smallest subnet limitation for both AWS and Azure. Check it out under the Tools menu.

Original release announcement below...

https://visualsubnetcalc.com/

• [Example Sharable Design Link - 10.0.0.0/20](https://visualsubnetcalc.com/index.html?c=1N4IgbiBcIIwgNCAzlUMAMA6LOD0AmdVWHbbAuSNUvffYjM2gZgZvPwBZiB9AOyggAIgEMALiIAEAYQCmfMbIBOkgLSSAagEslYgK4iANpIDKysMpSIeAY0EBiAJwAjAGYA2V65ABfRIywYDm4qEH5BUQkZeUUVdW1dA2MzJQslKzC7aCc3T28fPxIyfA5WUIDMEvQCENBw6EipOQVlNU0dfSNTc0sETIcXDy9ff1JmYN4BBvEmmNb1AAUACwBPJC0bLpS0jNsHEXQbTmGCworODnpy0gvq-DK

I come from the AWS world where I have VERY deep networking expertise. We build large subnets, AWS services (IaaS, PaaS, endpoints, etc) deploy network adapters into those subnets, we attach firewall rules and are on our way. In AWS it is very common to have a PaaS database (RDS), PaaS load balancer (ALB/NLB), IaaS virtual machines (EC2), and more all part of the same app and in the same subnet. It makes things very clean for IaC, creating networks/accounts per application, etc.

From what I can tell any time Azure wants to deploy managed resources into a VNET (Azure Database, Azure Application Gateway, etc) they want a dedicated subnet for that service. So if one wanted an Azure Database fo