icedchai

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by icedchai 11mo ago
The emojis are not a problem themselves. They're a warning sign: slop is (probably) present, look deeper.
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by icedchai 11mo ago
I have, but these were generally founder types that accidentally became managers. They weren't "career managers." The career managers delegate that work.
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by icedchai 11mo ago
At least they're running the test suite? I'm working with guys who don't even do that! I've also heard "I've fixed the tests" only to discover, yes, the tests pass now, but the behavior is no longer correc
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by icedchai 11mo ago
Yep, the value isn't there. I'm on a very lopsided team, about 5 juniors to 1 senior. Almost all of the senior time is being consumed in "mentorship", mostly slogging through AI slop laden code reviews. There have been i
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by icedchai 11mo ago
There are some definite signs of over reliance on AI. From emojis in comments, to updates completely unrelated to the task at hand, if you ask "why did you make this change?", you'll typically get no answer. I don't mind
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by icedchai 11mo ago
Some people want the projects they're involved with to actually be successful?
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by icedchai 11mo ago
Yep. I once did some contracting work for a place that had servers with 1200+ day uptimes. People were afraid to reboot anything. There was also tons of turnover.
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by icedchai 11mo ago
Browser / JS fingerprinting applies to IPv4, too. And your entire IPv4 home network is likely NAT'd out of an ISP DHCP provided address that rarely changes, so it would be easy to track your household across sites. Do you feel th
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by icedchai 11mo ago
So you have to update every router to actually route the "non-legacy" addresses correctly. How is this different from IPv6?
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by icedchai 11mo ago
I remember working at a startup in the early 2010's that used celery for all of its background job infrastructure. There were several million tasks run daily across dozens of servers. Celery would regularly hang. Queues would pile up.
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by icedchai 11mo ago
Later Mac ROMs were 512KB, same with the later Amiga Kickstarts (3.x) That was a lot of space for the late 80's and early 90's. Interrupts were supported (8, if I recall.) And 68000 machines didn't support virtual memory un
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by icedchai 11mo ago
I worked at a company that was delivering a client-side app in Java launched from IE. I think we had an ActiveX plugin as the "launcher." This predated "Java Web Start." It was hysterically bad. We were targeting 32 meg
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by icedchai 11mo ago
Many specialties were eliminated / absorbed over the past few decades. I started working almost 30 years ago. Today, I rarely see dedicated testers, just like I rarely see dedicated DBAs. Sysadmins went away with the "DevOps"
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by icedchai 11mo ago
Maybe? I run Debian on several VMs and my experience has proven otherwise. Major upgrades go a lot smoother than on Ubuntu.
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by icedchai 11mo ago
Yep, it was this exactly. 40+ year old neighborhood with buried electric, gas, water, telco. They had to dig up yards, do horizontal drilling under some roads, etc.
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by icedchai 11mo ago
When I eventually rebuild things I’ll be going with Debian.
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by icedchai 11mo ago
Yes. These sorts of upgrades were done on my home network, not an actual work-related system.
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by icedchai 11mo ago
I've lost count of how many Ubuntu upgrades resulted in some weird problem (network interfaces renamed, lost default route, systemd timeouts taking 5 minutes, etc.) There is an argument for staying on the latest stable version.
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by icedchai 11mo ago
I had packet loss on my DOCSIS connection for years, on-and-off. The upstream speed would also regularly drop below a megabit. It became a problem for remote work. I complained regularly, and always had "techs" come out. They woul
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by icedchai 11mo ago
The average developer doesn't understand networking at all. DNS is a mystery. TLS certs are scary. Routing is practically beyond comprehension.
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by icedchai 11mo ago
I've hosted stuff at home for almost 30 years, never bothered with a WAF. I have several VMs exposed with public IPs. If you keep your OS updated, it's hardly the end of the world. Sure, if you put up an unpatched OS from 10 years
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by icedchai 11mo ago
Okta is already public and has been for years. They had an exit already. For whatever reason, many large organizations trust them.
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by icedchai 11mo ago
I agree. The real question is why do I need an "VPC endpoint" to save money in the first place?! us-east-1 EC2 isn't actually going over the internet to connect to us-east-1 S3, regardless or whether it's using a NAT g
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by icedchai 11mo ago
The EC2 needs credentials, but not necessarily a role. If someone is able to compromise an EC2 instance that has unrestricted S3 connectivity (no endpoint policies), they could use their own credentials to exfiltrate data to a bucket not as
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by icedchai 11mo ago
PHP also contributed. Perl CGIs were a very popular way to build early web apps.
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by icedchai 11mo ago
I wish I kept my Amiga 500! My parents gave it away. :(
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by icedchai 1y ago
I am essentially in this exact role. The junior developers simply don't have the experience to evaluate the output of the agents. You wind up with a lot of slop in PRs. People can't justify why they did something. I've seen w
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by icedchai 1y ago
Just wait until vi steps into the room. Perhaps we can recreate the Usenet emacs vs vi flame wars. Now, if only '90's me could see the tricked out neovim installs we have these days.
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by icedchai 1y ago
VS Code is plenty fast enough. I switched to Zed a few months back, and it's super snappy. Unless you're running on an incredibly resource constrained machine, it mostly comes down to personal preference.
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by icedchai 1y ago
The JVM DNS cache "security decision to prevent rebinding attacks" bit me once. I had changed an IP address for one of my systems. A "vendor" I was working with claimed one of their servers could no longer reach mine. I

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