icedchai

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by icedchai 9mo ago
I didn't say don't use AI at all, I said give it the boilerplate, rote work. Developers can still work on more interesting things. Maybe not all the interesting things.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
That remains to be seen. As long as the work gets done... Don't ask, don't tell.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
There's room for both. Give AI the boilerplate, save the exciting stuff for you.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
I agree with the quality comments. The problem with AI coding isn't so much the slop, it's the developers not realizing its slop and trying to pass it off as a working product in code reviews. Some of the stuff I've reviewed
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by icedchai 9mo ago
You're not wrong about the sustainability, but we don't know if it's their only business. I'm not sure how many BGP / multihome hobbyists there are out there, but I'm guessing it's not a huge number. My g
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by icedchai 9mo ago
You may have been looking in the wrong spot? You can see plenty of prefixes in 192.160.0.0/16 currently announced. Check out https://stat.ripe.net/widget/routing-history When ARIN contacts you, it's through e
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Ok, for reference, I'm paying my LIR about 150 EU/year. That includes the ASN, IPv6 /44 block, and a BGP VPS. I have a legacy IPv4 /24 block that doesn't cost me anything. I do miss out on RPKI for it because of th
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by icedchai 9mo ago
This is great. You still "own" it, as it still exists in "whois" and ARIN records! The problem is it is assigned to an email address you no longer have access to. You might need to contact ARIN to get back control of it.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
I remember those days. Anyone could get a /24 if they filled out the form and emailed it to Internic. I'm still holding my early 90's "class C" and have it routed to my home network. It is legacy space, I never sign
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by icedchai 9mo ago
For a hobbyist it’s perfectly fine, I think? I’ve been doing this for years. If I was a major corporation I might be more concerned.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
You can get better deals with the right LIR. As a hobbyist it was cheaper for me to go with a RIPE LIR over ARIN. See: https://lagrange.cloud/products/lir
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by icedchai 9mo ago
The reality is you can build Linux with gcc and clang. And that’s it. Years ago you could use Intel’s icc compiler, but that stopped being supported. Let’s stop pretending it’s an undergrad project.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Ok. I don’t think hosting a capable open model is seriously a realistic option for the vast majority of consumers.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Many AI generated web sites have a “look” and it’s not just all the emojis.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
These are toy compilers missing many edge cases. You’ll be lucky if they support anything other than integer types, nevermind complex pointer-to-pointer-to-struct-with-pointers type definitions. They certainly won’t support GNU extensions.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Most humans aren't making new scientific discoveries either, are they? Does that mean they don't have AGI? Intelligence is mostly about pattern recognition. All those model weights represent patterns, compressed and encoded. If
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by icedchai 9mo ago
I see junior PM types glowing about being able to lead teams of agents, doing their bidding without putting up a fuss or argument. Short term, developers are in for a world of hurt. Long term, we're going to need a lot more to clean th
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by icedchai 9mo ago
My comparison was today's local AI to today's SOTA commercial AI. Both have improved, no argument. It's more cost effective for someone to pay $20 to $100 month for a Claude subscription compared to buying a 512 gig Mac Studi
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Yes. The problem is there is a huge invisible gap between "looks like it works" and "actually works", and everything that entails, like security and scaling beyond a couple users. Non-programmers and inexperienced ones
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by icedchai 9mo ago
I think there is room for a hybrid approach. You can delegate most of the "drudgery" to AI, but keep the parts that require creative solutions for yourself. There is undoubtedly a lot of crappy work we have to do as engineers. Thi
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Oracle Solaris and IBM AIX are still going. Outside of enterprises that are die hard Sun/Oracle or IBM shops, I haven't seen a job requiring either in decades. I used to work with both and don't miss them in the least.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
The quality of local models is still abysmal compared to commercial SOTA models. You're not going to run something like Gemini or Claude locally. I have some "serious" hardware with 128G of VRAM and the results are still lau
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by icedchai 9mo ago
I grew up on 80's and 90's BBSes. The transition from BBSes to Usenet and the early Internet was a magical period, a time I still look back upon fondly and will never forget. Some of my best friends IRL today were people I first m
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Many early file systems like the original FAT, RSX-11, VMS ODS-2 ... Probably not a concern for anything in the past 30 years.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
That's neat. I'm going to base my ruleset off of yours. I've been messing around with claude more and more lately and I need to do something.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Building a microkernel based OS feels feasible because it’s actually quite open ended. An “OS” could be anything from single user DOS to a full blown Unix implementation, with plenty in between. Amiga OS is basically a microkernel and that
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Don't forget about password reset policies. At one place with a dedicated "security theater" team, I have to change my password every 90 days, so I just add the year and month to a base password. Password!2602 it is!
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by icedchai 9mo ago
mmap/msync is behavior is also very platform specific. On some systems (like AIX, at least older versions), even without msync, memory mapped data is synced back to disk periodically. I worked on a code base that was portable between L
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by icedchai 9mo ago
I took a compilers course 30 years ago. I have near zero confidence anyone (including myself) could do it. The final project was some sort of toy language for programming robots with an API we were given. Lots of yacc, bison, etc. Lots of s
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Developers are often treated as cogs. Anyone should be able to step in a pick things up instantly. It’s just typing, right? /s

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