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by icedchai 1y ago
I feel the same way. I find it the worst part of the HTML / CSS / JS trio.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I've worked at places where the "senior executives" couldn't do any of these things without CEO approval. Even if they claimed to "have budget" for something, it still needed sign off. There's tons of titl
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by icedchai 1y ago
Heh. I had one of those MacBook Pro i9's as a work machine. It was absolutely awful. I remember running an npm / node build and the thing would sound like an airplane was taking off.
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by icedchai 1y ago
At early startups where people are focused on building and you have self motivated, mostly senior+ engineers or hands-on founder types, the 80/20 thing can work. The problems happen when you bring in a lot of other roles, less experien
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by icedchai 1y ago
Same. With so few reports, those "managers" don't have much to do, so they invent nonsense and start aggravating the actual people doing the work. In one case, the guy was totally not receptive to my feedback about the perfor
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by icedchai 1y ago
The domain system needs at least some central control at the top, or it literally won't work. Do you remember the various "alternate root" projects in the 90's? I've stopped following them. The cert situation has va
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by icedchai 1y ago
Certs are free. All you need is a domain name and letsencrypt.
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by icedchai 1y ago
You still had pick the right CPU, memory, and expansion cards. Early ATX motherboards had ISA, PCI, AGP. It did nothing to fix most of the parts issues. I build PCs both with older AT and ATX standards. ATX did fix the "IO card"
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by icedchai 1y ago
I occasionally do freelance work that involves PHP. I won't touch Wordpress with a 10 foot pole. PHP can be fine with a framework like Laravel. Wordpress reminds me of PHP from 2 decades ago.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Not really. I remember the AT to ATX transition in 1995, and it definitely didn't fix the parts issue. Your motherboard and power supply would fit. Anything else could still be a problem.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Hahhh... I did exactly that in 2020 near peak COVID.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Those collapses were great buying opportunities. During the pandemic, I bought energy stocks near the bottom. Remember when the price of oil went negative? I was watching CNBC at the time. I felt either the world was ending and none of this
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by icedchai 1y ago
No, with opt-in the VPC subnet is secure by default. Someone has to explicitly allow access to S3 (or anything else.)
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by icedchai 1y ago
If it were opt-out someone would accidentally leave it on and eventually realize that entire systems had been accidentally "backed up" and exfiltrated to S3.
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by icedchai 1y ago
More like three decades, but I get your point. ;) I remember running Netscape 0.9 something back in 1994.
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by icedchai 1y ago
How do you think we got into this mess in the first place? First it was Netscape, then Microsoft, now Google.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I've read that apps outside of the Mac App Store can use it. I think they have to be signed / notarized.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Apple has "App Sandbox" and an entitlement system on the Mac: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/app-sandb... It's "baked in" and doesn't require containers.
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by icedchai 1y ago
yes! Though IBM / AIX are still strong in a few enterprise circles. There are still some die hard IBM shops out there.
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by icedchai 1y ago
The late 90's and early 2000's were a dark time for browsers. IE was basically the only game in town. Netscape was approaching unusable. I remember it having massive memory leaks and segfaulting every half hour or so on Solaris. F
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by icedchai 1y ago
That must've been an awesome machine. You were a god among Amigans!
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by icedchai 1y ago
I had moved on to Linux / x86 by that point.
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by icedchai 1y ago
That's pretty cool. I know 32 megs was technically possible with the right boards, I just didn't know any normal person that had one. I had an A3000 with 5 megs (4 megs fast, 1 megs chip) and I thought it was bad ass for the tim
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by icedchai 1y ago
Yep. 32 megs of RAM was unheard of on an Amiga.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Many companies I’m familiar with were overstaffed with middle managers. Managers with 3 reports. I even know of one with a single report.
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by icedchai 1y ago
There are also other "lets pretend we have big data" patterns I've seen. Running something like AWS Athena or Hadoop over and over, for less than a couple gigs of data that would fit into memory on a laptop from 15 years ago.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Sad but true. Or they learn "something" about SQL but not about indexes, data types, joins, or even aggregate functions. I've seen some python horror shows that would select * entire tables into lists of dicts, only to do the
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by icedchai 1y ago
Hah. I was being generous! My 386 box was collecting dust by that point. I did hear horror stories about people attempting to upgrade their 386 with 4 megs just to hit the "minimum" Win95 requirements and having their machines swa
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by icedchai 1y ago
True, though Windows 95 kinda ran like crap on the 386. We were well into the Pentium era by then.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Microsoft kind of did though? Windows/386 was released in late 1987. It could run multiple DOS apps using the "virtual 8086" mode. That was pretty revolutionary at the time. I think I knew more people using DESQview back then

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