icedchai

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   by icedchai 8mo ago

   Same. I grew up in the 80's and we always had at least 2 TVs for a family of four. My sister and I both had small TVs in our bedroom once we were teens, so that was one TV per person at that point! To be fair, they were mostly used for
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   by icedchai 8mo ago

   In my experience, having worked with a large system that used almost exclusively mmap for I/O, you don’t. The process segfaults and is restarted. In practice it almost never happened.
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   by icedchai 8mo ago

   I have (through openrouter.) It didn't change my opinion.
4. 454.▲
   by icedchai 8mo ago

   Here I was hoping for something about Amiga OCS, ECS, and AGA. ;)
5. 455.▲
   by icedchai 8mo ago

   The output quality of open models still has a long way to go... I've experimented with many of them, through services like openrouter and on my own hardware.
6. 456.▲
   by icedchai 8mo ago

   The TI99/4A was my first computer when I was 7 or 8. Unfortunately, no cassette drive. As soon as I shut it off, my basic program was gone!
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   by icedchai 8mo ago

   It certainly was! I remember connecting to Tymnet and Sprintnet/Telenet as a teenager, probably around 1990 or 91. Someone on a local BBS gave me a username that let me connect to QSD and another European chat system. Someone on there
8. 458.▲
   by icedchai 8mo ago

   I've witnessed developers editing Lambda code live in the AWS console. It is extremely painful to watch.
9. 459.▲
   by icedchai 8mo ago

   Cloud Run is one service where GCP really shines. It is very flexible: handles services and long running background jobs, less annoying run time limitations like you find in Lambda.
10. 460.▲
    by icedchai 8mo ago

    I get it. I still experiment with local AI as a hobby, but the quality just isn't there.
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    by icedchai 8mo ago

    Have you tried Claude Code with Opus or Sonnet 4.5? I've played around with a ton of open models and they just don't compare in terms of quality.
12. 462.▲
    by icedchai 8mo ago

    I think we (developers) need to get over that. Code was always the means to an end, which is providing a product to solve a problem, not the end itself.
13. 463.▲
    by icedchai 8mo ago

    From a user perspective, yes. The product is what it does, not how it does it.
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    by icedchai 8mo ago

    I'd prefer Windows 2000, myself. Relatively light weight, no bling or junk in the UI. Windows XP was okay, but the default UI looked like a toy. I know you can turn it off, but most people didn't. We won't mention Vista...
15. 465.▲
    by icedchai 8mo ago

    I use "openssl rand" : openssl rand --base64 18
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    by icedchai 8mo ago

    S2 was super fun though. The BBS period brought back nostalgia.
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    by icedchai 8mo ago

    I watched this show when it first came out in the 2010's. Very enjoyable, having lived through the BBS and early Internet age, worked for early ISPs that reminded me a bit of "Mutiny."
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    by icedchai 8mo ago

    I totally agree here. AI coding is raising the ceiling in terms of code quantity, but it also lowers the floor on quality, right into the sewer. Fortunately experienced developers are in the best position to use these tools properly, evalua
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    by icedchai 8mo ago

    This rings true for me. Up until the end of 2025 I had my doubts. I haven't fully adopted AI, but I am using it for several side projects where I normally would not have made much progress. The output w/Claude Code is solid.
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    by icedchai 8mo ago

    The best developers are probably wading through slop filled code reviews.
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    by icedchai 8mo ago

    Even people in category #1 should be concerned. Even if their income is not directly affected, the potential for disruption is clearly brewing: mass unemployment, social and civil unrest. I know smart and capable people that have been unemp
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    by icedchai 8mo ago

    I really enjoyed that book. I didn't think we'd get there so quickly, but I guess we'll find out soon enough...
23. 473.▲
    by icedchai 9mo ago

    Same. I would’ve stayed on 18.x if they provided updates.
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    by icedchai 9mo ago

    Yes, if it can't answer this common sense question correctly, what else has it screwed up and buried among all that slop? Claude Opus 4.6 failed at first, even in "extended thinking" mode. I had to give it a pretty big hint f
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    by icedchai 9mo ago

    True, it is colored by my own personal experienced. I remember CPAN, perl, and installing modules with tests. I also remember my day job: a 500,000 line C and C++ code base with literally 5 automated tests that nobody ever ran!
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    by icedchai 9mo ago

    It's usable. It is also noticeably slower on my iPhone 13, even after turning on "reduce transparency."
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    by icedchai 9mo ago

    It was 1996 for me. I forget where the original SSH (SSH1 protocol) came from, but I do remember compiling it on a Slackware box around that time.
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    by icedchai 9mo ago

    Most 90’s era software had zero tests. Nobody gave it a second thought.
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    by icedchai 9mo ago

    I don't like it, either. I hear people ranting about doing "everything with AI" on one meeting, and what a productivity boost it is, then I get tagged on a dumpster fire PR full of slop and emoji filled log statements. Like d
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    by icedchai 9mo ago

    I get your point, but I think smart people will figure out a balance. That 2 hours of output could take a week to debug and test.