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by icedchai 1y ago
Two of my best managers would tell me "I'm having weekly 1:1's because I've been told I need to have them!" I'm sure if you went up the chain, you'd get the same answer...
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by icedchai 1y ago
This may be controversial, but in the decade or so since weekly 1:1's became the latest managerial fad, I could count the useful ones on one hand.
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by icedchai 1y ago
If you go far up enough the pyramid, there is always a single point of failure. Also, it's unlikely that 1) all regions have the same power company, 2) all of them are on the same payment schedule, 3) all of them would actually shut of
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by icedchai 1y ago
"3 nines" is around 8 hours of downtime a year. If you can get that without a UPS or generator, you already have a stable power grid.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Right, because cloud providers take care of it all. /s Cloud engineers are more expensive than traditional sysadmins.
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by icedchai 1y ago
For anything "serious", you'll want a load balancer for high availability, even if there's no performance need. What happens when your large server needs an OS upgrade or the power supply melts down?
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by icedchai 1y ago
Yep. I know folks running their own clusters on AWS EC2 instead of RDS. They're still on 3 or 4 versions back because upgrading Postgres is a PITA.
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by icedchai 1y ago
If you can self host postgres, you'll find "managing" RDS to be a walk in the park.
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by icedchai 1y ago
If you couldn’t share memory between threads, they’d be called something else. Many languages have threading without a GIL.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Different times, but software is exponentially more bloated now. Hardware giveth, software taketh away. You have a good point. My guess is they'd rather you'd buy both. You can get an older M1 or M2 MacBook Air for cheaper than an
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by icedchai 1y ago
Modern software is absurdly bloated, no matter how you look at it. I started programming on an Apple II, but the first computer I ran anything approaching an "IDE" on was an Amiga 500 with 3 megs of RAM. (Lattice C!) The only reas
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by icedchai 1y ago
I'll probably wait for 26.1 then!
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by icedchai 1y ago
I have an iPhone 13 and haven't upgraded yet. Sounds like I should hold off.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Almost everyone is "labor" to some extent. There is always a huge customer or major investor that you are beholden to. If you are independently wealthy then you are the exception.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Let me guess: database tables with no indexes, full scans everywhere?
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by icedchai 1y ago
I agree that building your backend on Lambda is terrible for many reasons: slow starts, request / response size restrictions, limitations in "layer" sizes, etc. RDS, however, I have found to be rock solid. What have you run i
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by icedchai 1y ago
Apple's "App Sandbox" stuff helps quite a bit with this sort of thing. I realize that doesn't solve the Linux / generic Unix case. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/app-san
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by icedchai 1y ago
This ISP was a bit earlier. They did move to T1 PRI eventually, but before that we had stacks of modems attached to Livingston Portmasters (I think?) There was basically an octopus of cables coming out of the wall, dozens of individual phon
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by icedchai 1y ago
It only protected the first page. It was not a general solution.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I loved the Amiga, but it was basically dead by 1995. Commodore had gone bankrupt, the hardware had stagnated for years, and it was impossible to add modern features like memory protection to the OS.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Yes! This was still much easier than talking someone through downloading a Trumpet Winsock Zip with a comm program.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Windows 95 was a game changer, especially for Internet connectivity. The built-in "dial up networking" / PPP was huge. I was working at an ISP at the time, and remember how difficult it was to get customers to download Trump
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by icedchai 1y ago
Many of the people hiring the "consultants" simply don't know any better. They are easily persuaded by stuffed shirts with AI generated slide decks yapping about cost savings, scale, and deep domain knowledge. Also, they want
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by icedchai 1y ago
My friend is working with a $WITCH (from the customer side, not $WITCH side) and quality / skill is nowhere to be found.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Yes. Whenever someone says they "had an acquisition", I take it with a grain of salt. The majority of the time it's an acqui-hire or fire sale with a neutral or negative outcome.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I like the retro look-and-feel, I just don't find it especially readable.
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by icedchai 1y ago
yes! I set up a new project with mise. It makes it so much easier for new people to get started without having to do a bunch of manual steps. Awesome tool.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Why write one when there are tools like “restic”?
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by icedchai 1y ago
The issue was probably database migration time. I was once at a startup that had close over 1 billion+ rows in MySQL. We were approaching the `int` limit in another year or so. Many tables would need to be migrated due to foreign key constr
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by icedchai 1y ago
$500K ARR often sounds more impressive than it is. How much of that is profit? Probably not much. Every SaaS startup I've worked for was bleeding money on cloud costs and employees. Even after all the layoffs and cost-cutting one of th

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