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by icedchai 1y ago
At one startup, all I did was increase the innodb buffer pool size. They were using default settings.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I believe it! For a few years, I worked on fairly large system deployed to an AIX environment. The hardware and software were both rock solid. While I haven't used it, the performance of the newer POWER stuff looks incredible.
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by icedchai 1y ago
It was amazing how fast that happened. I remember one startup mainly supported Sun, late 90's, early 2000's. This was for a so called "enterprise" app that would run on-prem. They wanted me to move the app to Linux (Red
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by icedchai 1y ago
If Sun had been more liberal with Solaris licensing on x86 in the early years (before, say, 2000), we might all be running Solaris servers today. Sun / Solaris was the Unix for most of the 90's through the dot-com crash. Almost
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by icedchai 1y ago
As for RISC/Unix, in the enterprise, IBM's POWER/AIX is still around. I know some die hard IBM shops still using it. I guess Oracle / Sun sparc is also still hanging on. I haven't seen a Sun shop since the early 200
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by icedchai 1y ago
Yeah, it was around 2010 - 2011. It was a very nice building!
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by icedchai 1y ago
Yes, that sounds right. There were roughly 400 to 500 people near the end, if I remember, so $5M monthly burn is in the right ball park. This was over 15 years ago when salaries were much less. Usually waste in one area, like office space,
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by icedchai 1y ago
HP was also one of the few companies to actually sell Itanium systems! They were also the last to stop selling them. They ported both OpenVMS and HP-UX to Itanium.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Yes, except this was real, not fiction. I witnessed it more than once. During the dotcom days, a company I worked for raised 8 mil... then blew 25% on renovations. I still remember getting a tour of the "space", where the new logo
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by icedchai 1y ago
I'd argue it was Linux (on x86) and the dot-com crash that destroyed the workstation market, not Itanium. The early 2000s was awash in used workstation gear, especially Sun. I've never seen anyone with an Itanium box.
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by icedchai 1y ago
This happens more often than not anyway. Overpriced office space, expensive furniture, extra layers of management because we're "structuring to scale the organization", fancy and expensive titles for people who barely do anyt
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by icedchai 1y ago
Mine was leaked several times. At least once by the government itself. See https://iapp.org/news/a/21-5-million-breached-in-second-opm-... for example.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I felt 2012 - 2015 Intel Macs were pretty decent: the first Retina MacBook Pro, the iMac 5K, for example. It definitely went down hill with the Touch Bar and the MacBook Pros with the Core i9 chips. Those seemed like they were constantly th
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by icedchai 1y ago
HTMX also has a SSE extension. I’m working on a multiplayer game as a hobby project and am not too far along.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Technically, yes. But the reality is almost nobody uses "just" React. There's typically tons and tons of other dependencies.
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by icedchai 1y ago
HTMX does have web socket support! I've been experimenting with it...
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by icedchai 1y ago
I remember SGIs having incredibly poor security, at least with IRIX 5.x. Authentication for X11 was totally non-existent in the default configuration. If someone was logged in from the console, you could pop windows up on their screen (and
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by icedchai 1y ago
Throwing shit at the wall, mostly. "Here's a S3 bucket of line separated .json blobs that have a consistent format sometimes! Good luck!"
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by icedchai 1y ago
Yes, if you can avoid the traps of life style inflation. That's easier said than done.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Most people don't have the temperament for FIRE. You have to live below your means, save a double digit percentage consistently, and invest. And you have to do it for decades. You need to be able to tough it out through the worst of ti
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by icedchai 1y ago
That narrative is outdated. There is clearly not a shortage right now. Any decent job on LinkedIn shows 100's of applicants within a couple of days.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Yeah, I won't argue that it doesn't make sense security wise. It does.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Same. I don't store my 2FA with my passwords. I also use Authy, I'd like to move to something else but as long as it's working. I was annoyed they got rid of the Mac app.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I'm terrible at CSS and have been generating HTML/CSS prototypes with Claude. It really knows how to push out tailwind.
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by icedchai 1y ago
The early touch bar models were terrible. I still remember the day I traded that thing in for an M1.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Yep, Mac Pros really don't seem very space efficient. Unless you populate it with cards (unnecessary for this use case) it's mostly an empty box. You could put dozens of Mac Minis in that space.
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by icedchai 1y ago
In the past, I've used views to add "virtual columns" where I didn't want to hard code them into the application.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Same! I grew up with small phones.... maybe it's us. hah
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by icedchai 1y ago
I prefer a smaller phone, something that fits in your pocket easily with glasses, and am still rocking an iPhone Mini 13.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I got a provider independent /24 block back in the 90's, when I was barely out of high school. I'm still using it to this day! I remember those early days. No firewalls. No proxies. I had that /24 on my home network, tot

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