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by bananapub 1y ago
this is a very dumb take; having an independent browser be at even 4% is great, since it has almost fully stopped the web collapsing down to Webkit/Blink-compatibility fully replacing any actual standards. Mozilla does seem poorly run
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by bananapub 1y ago
apologies for misinterpreting it. that said, I would be very interested if in a couple of years you write a followup post about whether you have found that global ~instantaneous state is workable under the right circumstances or not.
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by bananapub 1y ago
> One of the actual responses was "Htmx isn’t designed to work with JSON APIs at all. It needs HTML back from the server." Uh, yes? They wrote a literal book about why they think this is important: https://hypermedi
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by bananapub 1y ago
it's not ambiguous: > For the Build plan, credits will not rollover but Reload credits will rollover and be valid for 12 months from the date of purchase.
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by bananapub 1y ago
props for not fucking around in the title or first few paragraphs about the consequences, but man was it a bad idea to give people the idea you're a per-month-fee terminal.
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by bananapub 1y ago
it's fair to be very worried about the future of the apps, but this: > Also I paid every upgrade for NOTHING. is ridiculous. you (and I) paid for upgrades for software we liked, and then in exchange for that money got upgrades to s
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by bananapub 1y ago
that already works
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by bananapub 1y ago
some context that's perhaps not obvious to non-networking people: essentially all networking hardware above 1G doesn't have rj45 or fibre ports in it, it has holes that you put modules in, "SFP+" modules for 10G, "S
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by bananapub 1y ago
in case people don't read all the way to the end, the important takeaway is "you simply can't afford to do instant global state distribution" - you can formal method and Rust and test and watchdog yourself as much as you
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by bananapub 1y ago
> Why is the "DNS Planner" and "DNS Enactor" separate? for a large system, it's in practice very nice to split up things like that - you have one bit of software that just reads a bunch of data and then emits a p
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by bananapub 1y ago
this isn't fallout from the AWS Outage, it's fallout from a bunch of idiots at another company designing a product badly and then selling it and not caring how bad it was
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by bananapub 1y ago
those sentences aren't logically connected - the outage this post is about is mostly confined to `us-east-1`, anyone who wanted to build a reliable system on top of AWS would do so across multiple regions, including Amazon itself. `us-
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by bananapub 1y ago
you can't possibly know that? surely you mean: > I find it interesting that AWS services appear to be so tightly integrated that when there's an issue THAT BECOMES VISIBLE TO ME in a region, it affects most or all services. AWS
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by bananapub 1y ago
self-hosting isn't "golden", if you are serious about the reliability of complex systems, you can't afford to have your own outages impede your own engineers from fixing them. if you seriously have no external low dep fa
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by bananapub 1y ago
> zfs can't grow a parity raid array while mdraid can. indeed out of date - that was merged a long time ago and shipped in a stable version earlier this year.
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by bananapub 1y ago
uh the police literally are the rent-a-cops - this entire thing was about him hiring off-duty cops to stand around, getting paid at cop overtime rates, with their guns, at his conference.
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by bananapub 1y ago
go is comically un-distributed in practice: - almost every package is hosted on GitHub and that url is baked in to consumers of those packages - the go proxy: https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/what-the-go-proxy-has-been-
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by bananapub 1y ago
oh that's handy, they can add them to the big pile of disclosed BIG-IP flaws
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by bananapub 1y ago
they have historically had three tiers of cpus: - normal - pro - max pro and max had way more cores and gpus and supported way more ram. today's release is the basic version of the new cpu; if you want more ram you can get the m4pro o
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by bananapub 1y ago
> obviously reasonable, good-faith effort to improve universities in the United States I really find HN to be a truly surreal place at this time.
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by bananapub 1y ago
just one more layer of tooling bro, just one more layer
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by bananapub 1y ago
how did you benchmark this against much less convoluted solutions, like "a text file"? how much better was this to justify all that extra complexity?
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by bananapub 1y ago
if you ask it to, claude code can definitely write tests, then write code, then try to modify one or the other to make them pass in a loop, yes. if you don't ask, it's much more likely to just one shot the whole thing, and may or
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by bananapub 1y ago
> What about the accessibility of software development? Its completely vanishing for people that can not afford to pay for these agents. what do you actually mean by this? it's clearly untrue - anyone get get a laptop and install l
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by bananapub 1y ago
I have thought about this thing Bruce Schneier said in 2009[0] a lot, ever since I first read it: > It’s bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state. 0: https://www.schneier.
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by bananapub 1y ago
people are trying to do the opposite - publish DKIM private keys regularly so everyone knows that old DKIM signatures can be forged, so that they can't be used against you.
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by bananapub 1y ago
large language models don't "care" about anything, but the humans operating openai definitely care a lot about you making them affiliate marketing money
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by bananapub 1y ago
seems fine - they're aligning their prices with their costs. presumably everyone is just aiming or hoping for inference costs to go down so much that they can do a unlimited-with-tos like most home Internet access etc, because this int
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by bananapub 1y ago
... why? the current (heh) situation is that they do these big announcements and then local/state governments around the US get in a bidding war to try to shift costs from the datacenter operator on to their own citizens, in addition
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by bananapub 1y ago
they're making fun of Tesla, which stopped putting radar (ed: I misremembered, thanks to the commenter below) in their cars during the pandemic when it got expensive and instead of saying "we can't afford it", claimed it

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