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by dgxyz 9mo ago
The one that always gets me is security and privacy paranoid and lecture me on the Stasi and using Apple phones and how they aren't repairable but then goes and uses unpatched rotten old Android they can't fix anyway and sticks fi
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
I was doing that until Adobe decided to start using an API which is not present in 2021 LTSC. So I moved to macOS. Tahoe has its problems but it and the hardware makes a mockery of Windows 11 and PCs generally.
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
All products seem to decline the moment the revenue model switches to monthly recurring. This is always contrary to the promise that they won't and that money will be invested in product improvements. If you think it's bad now wai
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
Reality: LLMs allow you to assemble shitty frustrating stacks quickly. That's creating a new inefficient, socially destructive, environmentally damaging hammer because solving the real problem doesn't sell well. I'll be happy
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
I suggest you read my comment here, which I'd rather not repeat as it's quite a long one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46676676
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
About 25 years here and 10 years embedded / EE before that. The problem is that containers are made of images and those and kubernetes are incredibly stateful. They need to be stored. They need to be reachable. They need maintenance. A
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
Time to market and operational costs are much higher on kubernetes and containers from many years of actual experience. This is both in production and in development. It’s usually a bad engineering decision. If you’re doing a lift and shift
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
Or your CNI implementation is made of rolled up turds and you lose a node or two from the cluster control plane every day. (Large EKS cluster)
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
Yeah this. As I explain many times to people, processes are the only virtualisation you need if you aren’t running a fucked up pile of shit. The problem we have is fucked up piles of shit not that we don’t have kubernetes and don’t have con
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
Our lot burns a fortune on snowflake every month but no one is using it. Not enough data is being piped into it and the shitty old reports we have which just run some SQL work fine. It looked good on someone’s resume and that was it. They a
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
There's plenty of riff raff here. Like me :)
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
Urgh hyperoptic is dog shit as well. CGNAT or pay extra on top of already insulting prices.
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
Which generation is that T14s? I am in the market for a new one.
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
There are also some absolute morons out there. Couple of local things around me... First I went to one of the local town planning meetings in my area when they were rolling out FTTC. This one was due to a rather old person objecting to the
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
That always hurts. I live in a particularly nice bit of London and there is virtually no mobile phone service other than voice and can only get 80 meg ADSL. Yet the mole people get better service. Grr.
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
I went from a T490 to a T14 gen 3 (Intel). Was a nice upgrade. The GPU sucks, which I don't need or care about, but the rest is fine. I got a NOS one for a reasonable amount of money. The X1 looks nice but colleagues had thermal issues
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
I rather liked the T-series (had quite a few!). But Lenovo are really running out of good will as far as I am concerned. They're riding the brand to destruction. Had some serious problems recently including one brick and one out of war
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
Yeah everyone suffered that side of things for sure. I'd rather have location recorded but not leaked out to whoever sold me the phone personally. I don't sync any files to the cloud already.
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
Yeah that. Some ethics and management training programmes leveraged it because they thought it was popular. I still have a dilbert ethics training certificate somewhere as a reminder of how fucked up corp culture is. American corp in Europe
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
It’s still a thing in some areas from direct experience recently. Hell it’s still a thing with former East Germans I know in the UK. And it’s not about interchange fees - it’s about purchase surveillance. My ex partner wouldn’t even allow l
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
The battle I am fighting at the moment is that our glorious engineering team, who are the lowest bidding external outsourcer, make the LLM spew look pretty good. The reality of course is they are both terrible, but no one wants to hear that
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
Not really. I've been around a while. Git for about 15 years. Subversion before that. Perforce before that. rcs before that (back down to sun3 machines). Mostly Fossil now for personal things. What I am saying is that people learn as m
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
Not a chance. I think you need to spend some time in low ball corporate IT. It's just monkeys throwing faeces at the wall. We only just levered them off subversion... (I use Fossil 100% offline for personal projects for ref)
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
Yep that much. 64Gb DDR5 ECC sticks (128Gb don't exist at the moment apparently). They declined the PO 6 months ago. That'll teach 'em. I was pissed that there weren't any sticks heading to the recycling out of the nodes
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
Virtually no one knows how to do anything with it outside of github.
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
Having just had to buy 4TB of RAM, I appreciate this.
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
Fair. That's what they invented planes for :)
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
No I'm saying we have a social problem with alcohol in this country and brush it under the table as a cultural identity thing.
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
Having watched two alcoholic family members die horribly, spurred on by functioning alcoholic friends whos only social interaction is at the pub through habit only, fuck 'em. Let them die. We need better social spaces which do not have
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
Based on recent events, I wouldn't suggest a constitution makes much of a difference to an adversarial government.

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