icedchai

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by icedchai 9mo ago
Yep. I’ve seen people copy 100’s of lines instead of adding a if statement.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
I’m not. I’ve been working with C on and off for 30 years. Linux requires GNU extensions beyond standard C. Once you get the basics done, there’s still a lot more work to do. Compiling a trivial program might work. But you’ll hit an edge ca
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by icedchai 9mo ago
I’ll be shocked if they are able to do it in 4 months, never mind 4 weeks.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Yep. Building a working C compiler that compiles Linux is an impossible task for all but the top 1% of developers. And the ones that could do it have better things to do, plus they’d want a lot more than 20K for the trouble.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Is it a real problem? My internal hostnames resolve to RFC-1918 addresses and I have a firewall. If I wasn't so lazy, I'd use split DNS.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Same. I messed around with a bunch of local models on a box with 128GB of VRAM and the code quality was always meh. Local AI is a fun hobby though. But if you want to just get stuff done it’s not the way to go.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Of course it has, but it's more likely to happen when nobody is paying attention.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Yep. Wait until they realize one of their vibe coded apps validates everything client side and their entire DB is open to the world.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
To add further confusion, 57600 was actually a serial port speed, from the computer to the modem, which was higher than the maximum physical line (modem) speed. Many people ran higher serial port speeds to take advantage of compression
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by icedchai 9mo ago
We love to hate on Microsoft here, but the fact is they are one of the most diversified tech companies out there. I would say they are probably the most diversified, actually. Operating systems, dev tools, business applications, cloud, con
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Very true. SunOS 4.x is still my favorite 90's Unix. I had a Sun 3 box for a while, then got a low end Sparc Station at home! Eventually in the late 90's I gave in and installed Solaris. 2.4 and earlier was kinda rough, but it was
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by icedchai 9mo ago
A lot of 90's stuff ran great on SunOS 4.x!
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by icedchai 9mo ago
"Commodore" is, but "Amiga" isn't. There was a split many decades ago. I lost track of all the drama.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Yep. We've had to throw PRs away and ask them to start over with a smaller set of changes since it became impossible to manage. Reviews went on for weeks. The individual couldn't justify why things were done (and apparently their
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Probably. Most of AmigaOS (Workbench and Kickstart) got "released" on github about 10 years ago.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Frequently the boss is encouraging use of AI for efficiency without understanding the implications. And we'll just have the AI write the postmortem, so no big deal there. ;)
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by icedchai 9mo ago
I work with individuals who attempt to use LLMs to write tests. More than once, it's added nonsensical, useless test cases. Admittedly, humans do this, too, to a lesser extent. Additionally, if their code has broken existing tests, it
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Yep, I've seen a couple of folks pretending to be junior PMs, thinking they can replace developers entirely. The problem is, they can't write a spec. They can define a feature at a very high level, on a good day. They resort to as
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Same. For small projects, I always recommend Vultr or Digital Ocean. Vultr has some neat network features, like BGP support.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
In my experience, many heavy LLM users do not review their own code. They'll blindly open PRs full of slop, making it the reviewer's problem.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Okay! I didn't say it was absolutely secure. A firewall is obviously preferred. I'm just saying it's shades of gray... non-routeable addresses provides a level of security.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
The real problem is software teams being given deadlines without being consulted about any sort of estimates. "This needs to be done in 60 days." Then we begin trading features for time and the customer winds up getting a barely f
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Do you admit using RFC-1918 + NAT provides some security even with no firewall for the majority of residential users?
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Do you blog about any of this? Extending SunOS libc sounds pretty cool! I did install OpenBSD on the Sparc (Ultra 5) at one point, before going back to an older Solaris. Maybe I'll try NetBSD next!
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Oh yeah. I should've gone for a M4 Max w/128 gigs.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
The certification test suites are clearly a superset of what most "Unix" applications require. I haven't used UUCP since the 90's, have you? I ran a UUCP node for about 5 years. Fun times, but not exactly useful today.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
So Unix has to feel like dealing with old cruft to you? ;) I remember the SunOS 4 days and the annoying setup process for DNS. Those were the first Unix systems I worked with in a professional capacity. I have a Sparc in my collection but i
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by icedchai 9mo ago
I've experimented with all those platforms, and macOS feels to me like "Unix" as much as a Sun SparcStation or SGI Indy from 30 years ago. What is "Unix" to you? To me, it's the common shell commands / uti
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by icedchai 9mo ago
Because that is the most common NAT configuration for 99.99% of residential users. Anything else is academic discussion.
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by icedchai 9mo ago
No, the router doesn't forward it because it doesn't get there in the first place. Your 192.168.1.0/24 private network is not going to be routed across the internet.

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