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by eddythompson80 4mo ago
That’s a really over simplification of the issue. Plenty of Netflix edge CDNs are (and always were) ISP hosted. It’s a win-win for both and a complete no-brainer. The ISP v. Netflix argument was always about contract and margin negotiations
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by eddythompson80 4mo ago
> It happened enough times that I'm suspicious the ISP had some way to detect if you run a speedtest, and then prioritized traffic to that customer. ISPs definitely know when you run a speedtest.net test. 90% of the time, the data f
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by eddythompson80 4mo ago
Of course they are not complex. They do have a network effect though. If you go to your local ISP and say “hey, my 500mbps plan is only doing 100mbps on Speedtest.net”, they’ll “fix it” (usually by working with Ookla to put an edge endpoint
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by eddythompson80 4mo ago
I don’t follow. It’s the other way around. Would you rather run an arbitrary binary blob (aka: a random cli) or `curl`? Edit: Maybe to clarify, I’m talking about remote MCP. Local MCP is obviously nonsensical. Remote MCP is very much thrivi
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by eddythompson80 4mo ago
Not a fan of MCPs for my personal use, but I still think the value for companies is obvious. The first value for their downstream (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc) is REST call vs arbitrary code execution. You only need to "trust" the MCP
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by eddythompson80 4mo ago
False analogy isn’t a deflection, it’s a logical fallacy.
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by eddythompson80 4mo ago
ahh, the false analogy comment.
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
I’m sorry you were victimized.
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
well you know it kept improving. It got pretty good, though everyone moved to full "agentic" changes over autocomplete.
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
I'm 90% those features were among the top issues on github/github repo back when it used to be there. The joke was always about how barebones github issues were was a common thing troughout the 2010s. Once they added that whole &q
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
yes, of course. I meant "it doesn't really matter" in the sense that businesses have been dealing with this since the beginning of software. Strong ownership and passion was one of the selling points of OSS, but that style of
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
Pretty normal in many corporate cultures especially ones with high turnover. You get assigned to a team that's "maintaining" a 10 year old code base with few million LoC. The most senior person on the team has been there for
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
really? I mean these are internal repos. Probably most of them are random one-off experiments or a place to park code. Google has 2,900 "public" repos on github. Microsoft has ~8k "public" on github too. Can't even
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
Man, its been so long since I saw Azure DevOps/TFS interface and all these years later it still doesn't make any sense. Why does the navigation hierarchy go {OrgName}/{ProjectName}/Repos/Files/{RepoName}
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
API Keys will never die. Every time you would think you have killed them, some startup is gonna come and say "look how complicated it's to setup an OAuth flow just to get X from the other companies. Here is our setup" and it&
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
Yes, you can’t blame AI for it. But it was a self limiting system. You couldn’t just go to a fresh college hire and ask them to do deep surgery on the entire stack. You would go to your very senior engineers for that. Those senior engineers
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
> Maybe this is what will turn software engineering into an Engineering field I think it’ll be the opposite. Maybe it’ll be what will eventually cement the field as “talent” based field. Just like it was difficult to quantify what makes
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
Yes that’s very correct. The way I think of it, MTTR is easier to measure and manage as a manager. MTTR is all about “operational excellence”. Basically, when shit hits the fan, how good are we at figuring out what caused it and how to fix
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
To give a timely example, think GitHub and what its leadership is thinking/optimizing for. Do you care if you’re down once or twice a week vs how long those down times are? What’s the KPI you’re managing GitHub with? Current (and by cu
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
Now imagine if you’re one step removed. You don’t see the cigarettes, smell the gasoline, nor see the fire extinguisher gauge. You only see the servers running business-as-usual. Those “engineering” guys are always drama queens, you think.
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
The creator has a patreon[1]. I did a one-time payment too because early on it really changed how I used my 3D printer and thought it deserved some support. [1] https://octoprint.org/support-octoprint/
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
Even with an Ender3 many, including myself, would connect it to a raspberryPi with octoprint to be able to send prints over the network. The SD card flow gets very tedious very quickly.
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
Tor does it by being so painfully slow an unreliable that the only way you would use it is if there is a cocaine-style reward at the end of it.
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
That's not true of course. There are hundreds of such cases with varying outcomes [0][1][2] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Inc._v._Power_Ventur... . [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
The camera isn't the part doing that verification. The google service serving that "reCAPTCHA" is what's doing that validation. Unless you're using a custom browser that is reporting a different domain to google tha
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
Don't you wanna level up your career to become an architect? You can draw a box, call it "User Management" and slap "Clerk" or some other SaaS on it, and assume it's managed for you. This allows you to shove wh
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
But think of how comfortable and productive the monkey will feel. It might not be that hard to just build temp housing for it while you have monkey business to do.
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
The cope of some people is insane. Why even have UID:GID? All you need is 0:0. I always tell people to run everything as root because there is literally no point.
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
6 minutes later an HN submission "GitHub blocks your account if you mention X in the README" with a top comment "This is absurd, are they just doing regex matching to check for malware?"
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by eddythompson80 5mo ago
Yeah, and ultimately no body cares. Everyone assumes it’s just some process miss, and we need to add another step to the process and move on. Fuck ups that would have killed the credibility of projects 10 years ago are now treated as “eeh w

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