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by icedchai 1mo ago
Agreed, a ton of white-collar job activity is useless: writing reports nobody wants to write for people who don't actually want to read them anyway. Mass AI-induced unemployment is a real possibility within 5 to 10 years, maybe sooner.
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by icedchai 1mo ago
I miss the early days. I made my first "telnet" connection in either 1990 or 1991. I remember exploring gopher, FTP, early web sites, the transition from BBSes to early ISPs. It was all so exciting and new. The Internet of today i
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by icedchai 1mo ago
Hah. "Depression" fits well for a few reasons.
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by icedchai 1mo ago
It's happening everywhere. We have people using AI to generate documents, then using the same AI to read/summarize them. What is the point? The writing itself, especially with recent Claude models, is often incredibly awkward.
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by icedchai 1mo ago
It would fail the Turing test because of its writing style!
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by icedchai 1mo ago
This may work for your use case, but sounds abysmally slow for any complex coding task.
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by icedchai 1mo ago
Time to completion also must be considered. If I have to wait around for hours for a prompt to complete locally and I’ll need to iterate quickly, I’m better off hosted than local. If it’s “free” and slow it may just not be worth it.
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by icedchai 1mo ago
Yes. One of the better startups I worked for did it that way. There was a single, mono-repo style code base with multiple services. Some were more micro than others. They shared common code like model definitions. Everything was built/
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by icedchai 1mo ago
Yes, I remember the PIX! After my time at a few early ISPs, I briefly had a corporate networking job and a PIX was one of the first hardware firewalls I deployed.
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by icedchai 1mo ago
Generally, firewalls aren't going to save you from an internal compromise either. Are you giving each device its own VLAN, subnet, etc?
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by icedchai 1mo ago
There are really two things here: 1) The typical "NAT" is a "PAT", which requires state for mapping traffic flow. An implementation is going to look very similar to a stateful firewall, by necessity, not accident. 2) The
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by icedchai 1mo ago
Windows wasn't secure enough. I ran Linux, *BSD, and Solaris systems for years without any firewalls, host or otherwise.
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by icedchai 1mo ago
The typical NAT implementation ("PAT", single public IP, RFC-1918 network) gives you an implicit stateful firewall denying unsoliticed inbound traffic. Most people don't need anything else.
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by icedchai 1mo ago
Perhaps a play on words? pubic cloud... public cloud...
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by icedchai 1mo ago
Neat. At some early startups, we used AIM similar to how Slack is used today.
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by icedchai 1mo ago
Many “IT” people disable ipv6 because they still don’t understand it after 2 decades. It works fine.
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by icedchai 1mo ago
I found "Systems Manager Session Manager" (terrible name!) useful a few times for getting around network restrictions. You set up a EC2 VM, which doesn't have to be in a public subnet, then use "session manager" to
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by icedchai 1mo ago
Unfortunately, in many smaller companies, QA is no longer even a separate entity. It is foisted upon developers (and sometimes PMs.) It went the way of agile, similar to sysadmins and DBAs.
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by icedchai 1mo ago
I find GCP's developer experience to be superior to AWS. Maybe it's just me, but I found Cloud Run to be super simple to use compared to ECS/Fargate. The "gcloud" command structure also makes more sense to me.
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by icedchai 1mo ago
I caution against using DynamoDB when just starting out. It’s too easy to paint yourself into a corner.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
Good thing there weren't billions of pages in the 90's.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
The memory bandwidth on the Spark and Strix Halo is a fraction of the M5 Ultra. "Perform better" is probably a huge understatement.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
When you get that credit card bill for the 80 core, 512 gig, 16 TB storage box, you might stagger a bit.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
I'm sure there are some die hard users out there. Speak up!
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by icedchai 2mo ago
In almost 20 years of using Mac OS I can count on one hand the time I've used the "Services" menu, and that was mostly by accident...
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by icedchai 2mo ago
I always forget K&R syntax is still in there. I taught myself C in 1988, during the K&R -> ANSI transition. All my early Amiga C programs were K&R style.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
To be fair, almost all applications in the mid 1980's were real mode, so adding a feature that would allow virtualization of the vast majority of apps makes total sense. Remember, almost no software used the 286's "protected
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by icedchai 2mo ago
Yep! These unis were smart enough to block telnet from the terminal servers to outside of their local network.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
"Finger" is how my teenage self got into hacking. I'd dial into local universities, which all had open terminal servers. No authentication needed for the terminal servers. That didn't give me host access though, but I co
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by icedchai 2mo ago
I'm convinced it's not worth the hassle!

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