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Wordle 650 4/6*
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Wordle 650 5/6
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Wordle 650 3/6
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It was opposite for me - after 2, the pattern I was looking for lead me to only one word (took time to think over!) which was the answer.
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Watch how CoPilot does this: GitHub CoPilot X in Visual Studio - YouTube[^] ... Now, if only users would pay...
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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I've been retired for a few years now, but I've recently been contacted by an organization that wants me to consider going back to work for a while. They run a large facility using diesel generators and, as you can imagine, it's not cheap. They want to expand into solar with storage and integrate it with the existing system going forward. There is also a likelihood of expanding to take on a few small towns, as well. It's been suggested that I would be the right candidate for managing the effort. This is very preliminary, but I'm doing a bit of research anyway.
Years ago I tried using several project management software packages, all of them pricey, and for the most part, more work to maintain than they were worth. Pencils and butcher paper on the wall were far more efficient. I've tried several times over the years to use, especially, MS Project, but it is among the worst I've seen and now it's outrageously priced, as well. Has anything been developed in the past dozen years or so that can handle a relatively large project and a reasonable price? And suggestions would be welcome. Mind you, this is not a (primarily) software project, though there will be a systems/ SCADA component in the solution. Thank for anything you can suggest!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Good question, and an important distinction! This would be a division manager position, probably with multiple distinct projects, defining and prioritizing tasks, assigning resources, and tracking critical path progress. I'd love to ditch the personnel management side, but that's probably going to be unavoidable. That can be handled with other software... Think $100 million+ capital project range, with multiyear scheduling and tracking.
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Sounds like you need to find out what they're already using for this type of work.
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I have much yet to learn about the position, but I will be surprised to find that they're using anything more capable than Excel, and that badly. We shall see.
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That's an interesting, and affordable product! A lot of it is targeted at software development - KANBAN, AGILE, and SCRUM would be functionally useless for a utility scale power generation facility, but a lot of its other capabilities looks great. Thanks for the suggestion!
Will Rogers never met me.
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I've used MS Project and some others. I got it / them all to do what I wanted (plant scheduling; software; capital budgeting; pipelines). They all do it a bit different; you improvise; a resource is a resource. There are legitimate sources of discounted licenses for MS Project; and it's a business expense.
If you program, it also means you can access its object model (MS Project); export / import Excel, Access; etc.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I gave up trying to use it around 2008 - more time spent maintaining it than doing actual work. But for a top level tool, it just might work, especially if MS has made any actual effort to make it useful. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Cool product, raddevus, but it's really directed at software/CRM type stuff. I don't see a way to manage tasks like, allocate budget and track RFPs for 200 MVA solar panel acquisition, order and install N x 100MVAh LiPFe battery banks and charge controllers, Develop and submit Environmental Impact Statements and schedule Cultural and Archeological surveys, design/build 80 miles of 230kV transmission lines, conduct System Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and provide 20 year spares stock to support future maintenance, and a few other small tasks. Once upon a time (1988), a company called Harvard Graphics made a product called Project Manager 3.0, IIRC, that could do all of this. No one since has been able to come close, so far as I know. If you'd like to tackle the project to replicate those capabilities on modern platforms, I think I can guarantee you a comfy retirement. No one else is doing it, and I'm not a very good programmer. Go for it!
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#Worldle #433 1/6 (100%)
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easy one
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Hi all,
I have a question based on the below hypothetical scenario.
I have an Azure based system comprised of:
Web app (Blazor)
Multiple Azure functions
A set of C# library NuGets written to support shared code
Azure SQL
Internal-only APIM
External APIM (for mobile apps and third Party subscriptions)
Azure Front Door
Various Azure services, like Key Vault, Azure Storage, etc.
ADO DevOps (incl. ADO Git repos, not GitHub, pipelines, artifacts, testing, etc.)
ADO Boards for case management
Developers use VS 2022 with access
Secure information that apps use like keys, usernames/passwords, etc. are stored in a key vault.
Now, for the question. What process do you recommend for the apps (not directly publicly accessible other than port 80 HTTP for the web UI) to access the key vault without leaving any keys in config files that could be compromised?
I know what I think, but if I knew everything 100% correctly, I probably wouldnβt be here. π
Thanks in advance.
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In a domain? Doesn't Azure use SQL Server?
We have some data encrypted in SQL Server, with keys and certificates, etc.
Only a user authenticated on the domain with access to the SQL Server database with access to the keys and certificates can decrypt the encrypted values.
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That is certainly a common practice.
Where is the username and password stored for the user you mentioned?
If the app uses that type of user login, doesnβt it have to get the username and password from somewhere outside the DB?
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The domain performs authentication for the user.
The user provides the username and password to the domain.
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And the user can share their password, have it hacked, etc. Still not secure.
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As has always been the case. The user has to know his/her password and might write it on a sticky note or something. That can never be fully secure.
Consider a building with many doors and the janitor has copies of all the keys, locked in a box. But the key for that box can't be in the box, it has to be somewhere else, usually in the janitor's pocket. If that one key gets stolen, the thief has access to all of the other keys.
The janitor can lock the lockbox key in another box, but then the key to that box might get stolen.
It's never-ending. There will always be some nth item which might get stolen and may then provide access to all of the other items like dominos.
I have no idea how someone can possibly think that anything can be fully 100% secure. The concept is a fallacy.
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