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by icedchai 6mo ago
Because it costs them money to maintain it, and they'll make more money when people upgrade to M series? In all seriousness, it's a little lame. Consider that the Intel Mac Pro (2019 model) was still selling in 2023! That's n
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by icedchai 6mo ago
I have a VMS system running under simh! I also have an actual AlphaServer (DS10) running OpenVMS but it's very loud so I don't turn it on often.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
Yep, with staff aug the developers are treated like cogs. Nobody good sticks around in that environment.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
This is a real issue we'll face soon enough. It's less of a problem for senior+ developers that have experience and muscle memory. For people just starting in the industry, they won't develop the ability to research problems
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by icedchai 6mo ago
I can see it both ways. I remember the Amiga always being compared to other "16-bit" machines, like the Apple IIgs, Atari ST, and early Macs. I also remember the 68000 being referred to as 16/32-bit. Still, from a programmer
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by icedchai 6mo ago
"Directly addressable endpoints" is how the Internet is supposed to work. It's how it did work for anyone who grew up with the 90's Internet. NAT is a hack that let us get 30+ more years out of IPv4, nothing more. Sadly,
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by icedchai 6mo ago
Okay, so you configure a firewall. NAT is not required.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
The real problem is many "enterprises" have people who don't understand networking. NAT was a solution to IP address depletion. This is not a problem we have with IPv6. If security is taken seriously, I'm sure they can s
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by icedchai 6mo ago
Yep. I'm pretty sure the people who negotiated this "deal" did it for their own self interest, since they later went to work for the contractor directly. Too bad. We could've hired some solid independent developers.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
It is a hack, no argument. It seems fine for web traffic... You'd have to do some scripting to handle the dynamic prefixes. My own dynamic v6 prefix hasn't changed in years. If you want "real" failover, get an ASN, your
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by icedchai 6mo ago
The actual solution is network prefix translation. You effectively NAT the primary network when failed over to the secondary. See https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/multiwan-... for an e
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by icedchai 6mo ago
Same! I even had my home network on a public /24.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
I work with a company that outsources to a foreign IT firm. They are slow, expensive, and the quality of work is poor. They often hire subcontractors that are kids just out of school, now doing everything with AI. I've seen their promp
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by icedchai 6mo ago
Well, the tests passed, right?
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by icedchai 6mo ago
The NSF "rules" stopped applying when the NSFnet was shutdown in 1995. Actually, earlier, since commercial providers (upstream ISPs like UUnet, Sprint, MCI, PSI) were not dependent on the NSFnet and did not have to abide by the AU
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by icedchai 6mo ago
I've seen LLMs implement "creative" workarounds. Example: Sonnet 4.5 couldn't figure out how to authenticate a web socket request using whatever framework I was experimenting with, so it decided to just not bother. Inste
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by icedchai 6mo ago
It may be "not what they mean", but they're wrong. No business that actually adds value is ever truly passive.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
In general, you are right, but many people on this site do earn enough. Engineers have some of the highest paying "normal person" jobs out there. If we can't save and invest for the future, who can?
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by icedchai 6mo ago
I have a bunch of REITs in my "dividend" portfolio. This is true, most of the dividends are not qualified.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
The key is living below your means by ~30%. You make 150k? Live like you make 100k. Every time you get a raise, 30% goes towards investing. For most engineers this is achievable.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
I’d argue that unless you’re using a property manager, rental property isn’t really passive, either. Do you want that call at 3 am to fix a flood?
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by icedchai 6mo ago
The way to escape is through consistent, long term investing in the stock market. You get a regular job and live below your means, investing the difference. Buy and hold. Invest regularly. Not day trading, long term. The problem is most pe
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by icedchai 6mo ago
You can get that going pretty cheap through various RIPE LIRs!
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by icedchai 6mo ago
Yes, I've already done that. I have the /24 tunneled to my home network.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
You don't think these errors compound? Generated code has 100's of little decisions. Yes, it "usually" works.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
You could've recovered it and sold it for $7K, or rented it out for $500/month.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
Yes, over 32 years ago. It was before ARIN and is considered a legacy block.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
The IPv6 prefix changes are disruptive, I agree. My prefix has been stable for a couple years, but on another ISP it would change every few months and was certainly annoying.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
Ok, so most of the time you are trackable by your public IPv4. The situation is not much better.
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by icedchai 6mo ago
I know, I'm just agreeing there's a ton of IP waste in the US. Early adopters were perhaps unjustly rewarded. InterNIC (before ARIN) would just about hand out IPs to anyone who could send an email.

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