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by icedchai 1y ago
Hooking up that first T1 was super exciting! I worked at an early ISP (not a big one) in 1995. They were still on a 56K dedicated line and a very small bank of modems. I still remember when the guy from MCI showed up to test the new T1 we w
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by icedchai 1y ago
There are many paths. Worst case, I've witnessed developers editing Lambda code in the AWS console because they had no way to recreate the environment locally. If you can't run locally, productivity drops like a rock. Each "c
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by icedchai 1y ago
Same, I was hoping for tales of woe and cloud lock-in, of being forced to use Lambda and Dynamo for something that could easily run on a $20/month VPS with sqlite.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Root hints are enough for most use cases. In 30 years of running my own DNS servers, I never once needed to replicate the the root zone. Unless you have a totally crap internet connection you're not going to notice those extra lookups.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I don’t bother with split DNS. My lab.example.com subdomain resolves to unroutable IPs.
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by icedchai 1y ago
A trick some ISPs used in the 90's was a "data over voice" call, which ran at 56K but was charged voice rates instead of data rates. That meant the call was generally free. The improved latency of ISDN made a huge difference
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by icedchai 1y ago
I'm not sure why he didn't use a subdomain of his wildeboer.net domain for his home lab? I put all that stuff under lab.example.com (where example.com is an actual domain that I own, of course.) One nice thing about this is you c
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by icedchai 1y ago
I've been running BIND at home since the mid 90's when I had ISDN. The O'Reilly "DNS and BIND" book was my go-to guide when I got started.
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by icedchai 1y ago
My first experience with a multiuser system was also on VAX/VMS. It felt more complete and cohesive (perhaps not the exactly right terms...) than early Unixes. I still experiment with it in emulators.
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by icedchai 1y ago
From the application perspective, it's not truly async. On a deference, your app may be blocked indefinitely as data is paged into memory. In the early 2000's I worked on systems that made heavy use of mmap. In constrained ("
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by icedchai 1y ago
Anyone who works with computers professionally should be able to answer this question.
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by icedchai 1y ago
What do they say when you ask?
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by icedchai 1y ago
I’ve been experimenting with HTMX and it feels so much simpler.
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by icedchai 1y ago
This really highlights one of the main differences between "product" and "project" centric work. With a project, it's the client's problem ($$$.) Usually they'll balk at the dollars and effort required and
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by icedchai 1y ago
I actually agree with this. I meant you never seen roles with the "system administrator" job title, not that it actually disappeared as a function. DBAs on the other hand, I do think that has mostly been absorbed into other roles
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by icedchai 1y ago
You are expected to work around Lambda limitations because it's the "right way", not because the limitations make things overly complex. /s
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by icedchai 1y ago
I haven't seen a company that hired DBAs in over 15 years. I think the "DevOps" movement sent them packing, along with SysAdmins.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Of course, we can generally work around all these things. The point is it is annoying to do so. It adds friction and further couples you to a proprietary platform. You're better off using ECS / Fargate for application logic.
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by icedchai 1y ago
My UPS was supposedly "self testing" itself periodically and it still happened!
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by icedchai 1y ago
That's fine, except for all of Lambda's weird limitations: request and response sizes, deployment .zip sizes, max execution time, etc. For anything complicated you'll eventually you run into all this stuff. Plus you'll b
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by icedchai 1y ago
UPSes always seem to have strange failure modes. I've had a couple fail after a power failure. The batteries died and they wouldn't come back up automatically when the power came back. They didn't warn me about the dead batte
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by icedchai 1y ago
Exactly that. Generally, engineers want to build and not go to meetings all day. The problem happens with the PMs who are supposed to be doing this work don't do it, or do it poorly. You wind up with miscommunications: missing requirem
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by icedchai 1y ago
Capacitor problem or not, hardware does fail. Power supplies crap out. SSDs die in strange ways. A failure of a supposedly "redundant" SSD might cause your system to freeze up.
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by icedchai 1y ago
It's unlikely, but it happens. In the mid 2000's I had some servers at a colo. They were doing electrical work and took out power to a bunch of racks, including ours. Those environments are not static.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Same here. A PM that actually talked to the customer and the developers, could spec out features, design UI mockups... Incredibly rare.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I often see product and project management combined. Usually it results in mediocre execution on all fronts. The last PM I worked with didn't even understand the product.
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by icedchai 1y ago
My comment was more about the prevalence of IE in general, not flexbox specific. There were tons of IE quirks that had to be dealt with.
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by icedchai 1y ago
This is true, but the dominance of IE and its quirks, especially during the early 2000's, should not be underestimated. The browser situation, especially on Linux, was absolutely abysmal then.
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by icedchai 1y ago
For a long time, from the late 90's until roughly 2012, IE was the most popular browser. You had no choice but to work with it. If it didn't "work on IE", it didn't work.
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by icedchai 1y ago
IMO, the design matters much less than the functionality. This stuff needs to work. It needs to be accessible. I once signed up for a state government health care exchange and basic functionality like resetting your password didn't

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