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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Devil’s advocate: you should still have a reason to do the bad thing in the first place. I’m not a good enough politician to understand how this benefits anyone’s interests (don’t get me wrong, I do suspect Russia to be behind this, but sti
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
That is definitely a problem, but I would say it’s a problem of hiring and the billion-dollars worth of potential market cap resting on performative bullshit that encourages companies to not hire juniors to send a signal to capture some of
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Python is an absolute disaster when it comes to packaging runnable artifacts. I love the language for server-side stuff where I control the environment (the final deliverable is a container image) but there’s no way I’d use it for anything
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Writing reusable code is of no use if the next iteration doesn’t know where it is and rewrites the same (reusable) code again.
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
I’ll believe it when coding agents can actually make concise & reusable code instead of reimplementing 10 slightly-different versions of the same basic thing on every run (this is not a rant, I would love for agents to stop doing that
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Until they can magically increase context length to such a size that can conveniently fit the whole codebase, we're safe. It seems like the billions so far mostly go to talk of LLMs replacing every office worker, rather than any actio
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
You won't be prompting AI for the fun stuff (unless laying out boring boilerplate is what you consider "fun"). You'll still be writing the fun part - but you will be able to prompt beforehand to get all the boilerplate i
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
LLMs are only a threat if you see your job as a code monkey. In that case you're likely already obsoleted by outsourced staff who can do your job much cheaper. If you see your job as a "thinking about what code to write (or not)
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
A jack of all trades is preferable as a solutions engineer.
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
NVME only provides block IO. An interruption of the connection is equivalent to forcibly unplugging a hard drive. If the filesystem you put on top supports that and is able to recover from that, you're fine. But most filesystems do not
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Easy solution is to sell a plan that explicitly allows third-party tool usage. Then they get the money and the users get the tooling LinkedIn is incapable of building themselves. (except they won't, because they're not after mon
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Their own tools suck, that’s the issue.
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Storage target mode is block-level, not filesystem-level, meaning it won't support concurrent access and any network hiccup or dropped connection will leave the filesystem in an unclean state.
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
The difference is that car theft is still prosecuted by police, where as cybercrime is not (unless you embarrass a huge corporation). So the garage can have lower security because even potential thieves do a risk/reward calculation and
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
It is much, way too much. I wouldn’t mind this penalty if other obnoxious behaviour is equally investigated and punished, but I can think of plenty of way more obnoxious things to do that would never trigger even a reaction from law enfor
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
I think the real reason is that computers and technology shifted from being a tool (which would work symbiotically with the user’s tech literacy) to an advertising and scam delivery device (where tech literacy is seen as a problem as you’
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
1Password lost my respect when they took on VC money and became yet another engineering playground and jobs program for (mostly JavaScript) developers. I am not surprised to see them engage in this kind of LLM-powered content marketing.
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
> At a major semiconductor manufacturer, agents reduced chip optimization work from six weeks to one day. I call BS right there. If you can actually do that, you’d spin up a “chip optimization” consultancy and pocket the massive efficien
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
32 vCPU , meaning an undetermined slice of a CPU that varies depending on what else is running on the box (and the provider has an incentive to run as many VMs on the box as possible). It’s likely an actual CPU would’ve handled this load
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Isn't cable lacing just inferior? Let's say you need to replace a chaffed/damaged conductor. With cable ties you cut the ones around damaged area, splice in a replacement, and slap new ties on there. With cable lacing, cuttin
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Back when computers were actually expensive and wireless networking technology wasn’t as good/common, they would take your card to the back office and run it on the single , hardwired card terminal. Nowadays it’s less of an issue as t
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
> usually mandate a minimum of 2 litres Out of curiosity how does that work (never been in a situation where I have to worry about minimal fuel purchases) - does the pump simply round up the price to the minimum when done, or did you a
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Did you miss the satire?
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
> Voting for a traitorous convicted felon The Epstein revelations show that pretty much everyone that could make it to the ballot list has skeletons in their closet. The only difference is that some of them manage to hide it better than
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Cloud gaming requires a rock-solid network connection, both LAN and WAN. Ironically in this case the LAN segment is going to be the problem. You need either Ethernet or good enterprise-grade AP(s). It's unlikely a mesh system will wo
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
> WHY they use Apple hardware Because Windows' UX is trash? Anyone with leverage over their employer can and should request a Mac. And in a hot market, developers/designers did have that leverage (maybe they still do) and so
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
S3 sleep was a solved problem until Microsoft decided that your laptop must download ads^Wsuggestions in the background and deprecated it. On firmwares still supporting S3, it works perfectly.
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
To be fair, the problems it's trying to solve are also from "yesteryear" and do not require some groundbreaking new tech. But out of interest what would you pick instead?
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Thanks. Looking at that document, this regulation is dead on arrival. Enforcement is contingent on the aggregator noticing the price discrepancy, giving the seller many opportunities to rectify the situation without a penalty (if we assume

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