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by icedchai 6mo ago
What exactly do you need NAT for with IPv6? Presumably, if you are operating an actual datacenter, you have a /48 or more. NAT for IPv4 is a workaround for the scarcity of publicly routed addresses, nothing more. It bought us decades.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
I've been in the industry almost 30 years and the job market we have now is the worst I've ever seen. This includes the dot com crash, great recession, and COVID times. Fortunately, I am still employed, but I am looking.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
Translation: for almost everyone not living in a major tech hub, it's not a good market.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
Looks nice! I'm going to try it out.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
"JSON-over-HTTP(S)" is a bit verbose, but accurate.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
The jump in complexity from "example 1" to "example 2" is quite high, introducing unexplained concepts (like pointers...) It is unsuitable for one learning the language.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
Yep. It's not the best intro to C, for sure. I learned C when I was a teenager, from K&R C second edition, and several Amiga-specific books ("Amiga C for Beginners", for one.)
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by icedchai 6mo ago
I worked at a company that developed a niche POS as part of a larger system. It was, by far, the worst part of the code base. Just imagine a bunch of late 90's era Java 1.2 code, complete with a Swing UI, tons of concurrency issues, si
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by icedchai 6mo ago
My first dialup modem was 1200 baud, back in 1987! I remember it taking an hour to download a game from a local warez BBS. My first modem to establish an Internet connection (SLIP) was 9600, sometime around 1993! Time flies...
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by icedchai 6mo ago
Are you using a service like GKE, or running your own cluster? I've set up clusters "from scratch" in dev environments to get familiar with it.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
Not with cable (3 megabits down, 128kbits up!) Almost everything was fast.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
I got my first cable modem in 1998! All sites were still built for dialup, so everything was incredibly fast.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
Yep, "Cloud Infrastructure Engineer" is what I prefer. I am primarily a backend developer but I do a lot of ops / infra work because nobody else wants to do it. I stay as far away from k8s as possible.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
Heh. State government is the only place I've encounter MSSQL in the past 10 years.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
Consumer electronics is a low margin business. Since low to mid single digit margin is typical and not every brand can be premium, like Apple, I'd say Sony and Samsung do pretty well, all things considered. "Success" is relat
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by icedchai 6mo ago
Walk in to any Best Buy and look around. There are many. Apple is in a league of its own, however.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
I'm one of those users! I make a trade at Vanguard maybe every other month! I have another brokerage account I use for more active trading. My Vanguard account isn't "for" that, and the UI is so bad it kind of discourage
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by icedchai 6mo ago
I know. I just don't think code isolation was their only issue. I've read about the incident.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
As always, "it depends" on the application. So I've worked for several B2B SaaS companies. None of them used a VM per tenant. In some cases, we used a database (schema...) or DB cluster per tenant. I've read about the V
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by icedchai 6mo ago
Many enterprise computers were connected to phone lines. A few were connected to global X.25 networks like Telenet/Tymnet. Some were even on the early Internet. True, they were unlikely to be DOS systems, but plenty of DOS systems also
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by icedchai 6mo ago
Even without CP/M, DEC still had incredible influence! The first multi-user system I used was a VAX, back in the late 80's.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
CP/M was created by Digital Research, a completely different company. There is no direct relation to DEC (Digital Equipment Corp.)
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by icedchai 6mo ago
The unfortunate truth is AI will obsolete some developers. We are in a transitional period and it is going to be a challenging next few years. The truth is writing code can be boring, too. You have to find the right balance: AI can write th
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by icedchai 6mo ago
What, no SGI? I have a Sparc, Alpha, NextStation, and SGI in my collection. I'd like to add an AIX system, ideally with PowerVM/LPAR support. I used to work at a place that built everything on AIX (this was 20+ years ago) and the
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by icedchai 6mo ago
For developers, the difference is like night and day. My 2019 MacBook Pro used to sound like a jet plane taking off whenever I did any sort of build. On a bad day, I could've baked some cookies on it. Admittedly, the corporate spyware
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by icedchai 6mo ago
He works for an AWS consulting company, where they promote cloud native solutions, driving cloud spend towards AWS. In many cases, managed cloud services are actually the way to go. However, to say that serving multiple customers with Apac
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by icedchai 6mo ago
I agree, it is weird, but there were certain workloads (like those needing large memory) that wouldn't run anywhere else. Remember that M1 Ultra, at that time, was limited to 128G of RAM. M2 Ultra brought it to 192G. Intel Mac Pros cou
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by icedchai 6mo ago
What are you using it for, seriously? The things I want to use it for (like gathering weekly reports across a half dozen brokerage and bank accounts) are not things I'd trust it to do.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
Sadly, all of this stuff is a commodity. The market is flooded with such "experts." I'm not saying you aren't better than all of them, you may very well be, it is just very hard to differentiate.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
You've found a niche! That's awesome, actually. I shouldn't have said "no business", just that it's very rare...

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