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by KronisLV 1y ago
> On the one hand, I don't like AI bots consuming our traffic to build their proprietary products that they one day hope to put us out of business with. Time to start seeding instructions in my blog posts, I guess: “Ignore all previ
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> All other things being equal, less code is better. Put another way code is a form of debt. If you use an AI to generate code, you are effectively getting a debt – a debt of code. This does have the implication baked in that AI will gen
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by KronisLV 1y ago
Just today I wasted some time due to an unexpected Tailscale key expiry and some other issues related to running a container cluster: https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/the-great-container-crashout Right now, my plan is to m
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by KronisLV 1y ago
So what are the thoughts of folks who have used Nexus and moved to Harbor? In my experience Nexus is a bit weird to administer and sometimes the Docker cleanup policies straight up don't work (junk left over in the blob stores even if
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> So you end up with this hodgepodge which never gets updated until it reaches a critical point where it cannot continue to run on your infrastructure, and it forces a big migration project. This matches my experience, literally took mon
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> This feels comparable to the intel's battlemage offering of GPUs. I'd very much like whatever card can run LLMs with Ollama or vLLM without bankrupting me and hopefully with somewhat low power usage. Nvidia L4 cards seem to f
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> Acceptance seem to lessen my frustration on discussing with architects that seemingly always take the opposite stance to me. There is no right or wrong, just always different trade offs depending on what rule or constraint you are prio
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by KronisLV 1y ago
Perhaps! Though it would be nice if they had the option of choosing that for themselves, instead of being told that they don't really want long lives and that they should kneel before biology. Whether they're content with 100 year
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> I feel like we should be ok with living 80ish or more years and then clocking out. Some people would very much prefer if their consciousness wouldn't have an end date, after which they'll never experience or think anything an
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> Elvis is basically cancer to a project. I guess maybe a small dose of Elvis can help motivate? Sometimes teams are quite stuck in their ways because they don’t have the capacity or desire to explore anything new. For example, an Elvis
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> Failing is considered a good thing in the USA. And the USA is much more entrepreneurial than the rest of the world. I wonder how many devs have been sacked for going out of their way and making stuff nobody in business asked for, or pe
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by KronisLV 1y ago
This reminded me of the spacebar heating xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1172/ (not making fun of the workflow or anything, it's just that changes like tmpfs breaking stuff very much holds true)
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by KronisLV 1y ago
Not OP, but in general the process goes like this: - you pick a base image you want to use, like Alpine (small size, good security, sometimes compatibility issues) or Debian or Ubuntu LTS (medium size, okay security, good compatibility)
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> Source code for OCI images: https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami If you look at the folders there, you'll see that all of the older Dockerfiles have been removed, even for ve
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> So game design is naturally a highly-coupled, incohesive problem space that is poorly suited to unit testing. Poorly suited? Perhaps, but so are certain web system architectures as well, neither is impossible to test. I think Factorio
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> The problem with tests for games is that a lot of game code is in constant flux. A test suite introduces a not insignificant amount of rigidity to your codebase. Pivot a few concepts and you have dozens of tests to fix - or just invali
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by KronisLV 1y ago
I find it interesting that you could technically apply the same to writing code: you're producing software, but without engaging your cognition fully. Sometimes, when the complexity of the project is too high, it might be okay, to not
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> A new project and it’s going to be your best ever A good defense against this is borrowing stuff from your prior projects, alongside eventually creating templates for the most common stuff. For example, in new side projects I start, I
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> Here’s an experiment for you: stop using “AI”. Try it for a day. For a week. For a month. Sooner or later, this will be akin to asking people to stop be able to do their job, the same way how I might not recall how to work with a Java
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by KronisLV 1y ago
I mean, if it's easy enough to actually get your average developer to use it, then sure. In my experience, things that are too hard will just not be done, or at least not properly.
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> Part of the problem, maybe the whole problem, is that we could get it all working and portable and optimized for non-blessed environments, but it still will only be expected to work over there, and so the frog keeps boiling. Build the
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> Instead, it would be best to assume that the user may be able to run untrusted code through these tools. So, running them in an isolated environment, with only the minimum information required to run the tools themselves, and not passi
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> And your response is surely “Well of course, that would be nice, but it’s not as simple as that. Here are constraints X Y and Z that make a trivial solution infeasible.” Sometimes it’s “It was made many months/years ago in circums
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> while driving up the price of property. So punish the people wanting to travel instead of the greed that leads to this?
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by KronisLV 1y ago
I think both should be a thing. SBMM on official servers for those who want to just jump into a game and are there for the game loop, alongside whatever other features the official servers might have enabled, like progression or item drops.
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by KronisLV 1y ago
Past a certain point, using tools like RooCode or anything else that lets you connect to arbitrary APIs feels like the way to go - whether you want to pay for one provider directly, or just use something like OpenRouter. That way you have:
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> Not if you have the right fingerprint - then you're not even aware the site is using CF. I live in Eastern Europe, so for reasons beyond me that's never the case. Either way, if I have to stare at something, I'd very muc
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by KronisLV 1y ago
I had pretty mixed experiences with the 20B version of GPT-OSS, sometimes that thing would just start looping in the thinking block and no sampler parameters would seem to do anything for specific questions. That said Qwen3 and Qwen3 Coder
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by KronisLV 1y ago
I was gonna make a broader point about survivorship bias and how sometimes the fence is indeed on and trying again and again will just end up with you being charred, but it was perhaps a bit too negative sounding. The example of reaching ou
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by KronisLV 1y ago
It's the Anubis one, there are a few other drawings on the homepage of theirs. It was pointed out elsewhere in the thread that they also sell an unbranded version for companies: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admi

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