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841.
by icedchai 1y ago
68040’s weren’t really available in quantity when the IIfx was released. NextStations were closer to the end of 1990. Plus their 68040 Unix workstations felt DOA because all of NeXT’s competitors had moved to RISC. Sun had Sparc, DEC and
842.
by icedchai 1y ago
680x0 systems weren't "DOA" in the consumer space yet. I would be another ~4 years until the Mac PowerPC transition.
843.
by icedchai 1y ago
I remember hearing this rumor back in the day (early 1990's.) I also owned an A3000 at the time. It never seemed believable since Sun already had 680x0 systems and they were clearly moving to Sparc. 680x0 was long in the tooth by the e
844.
by icedchai 1y ago
Probably more. Folks that do IAC / Terraform are more expensive than old school sysadmins that would write shell scripts.
845.
by icedchai 1y ago
When you code your entire app to proprietary APIs like Lambda or DynamoDB, it becomes complex to migrate.
846.
by icedchai 1y ago
During good times, many companies simply don't care about which services or how much. I've worked at several startups where they got a large funding round and the word was "we don't care about cloud costs, just get it d
847.
by icedchai 1y ago
Is this production only? Based on my personal experience, many orgs could save a decent chunk just be cleaning up or spinning down dev environments.
848.
by icedchai 1y ago
Perhaps he's talented at interviewing? Turns out this is the only skill you really need...
849.
by icedchai 1y ago
I have seen that in employment paperwork at a few companies. Generally, you just mention you have side jobs and they okay it. Or you ignore it entirely and nobody notices.
850.
by icedchai 1y ago
Yes, I've definitely noticed this. I felt it got worse during covid times and never recovered. I can still read for medium-ish time periods (an hour or so say), but I have to feel very engaged. There's a high chance I'll get
851.
by icedchai 1y ago
Ahh... memories. I first learned C on an Amiga with Lattice C (which turned into SAS C.) My A500 was souped up with a HD and extra memory.
852.
by icedchai 1y ago
Those look like binaries, not source code?
853.
by icedchai 1y ago
Everything is a "security bug" in the right (wrong?) context, I suppose.
854.
by icedchai 1y ago
lol. Yes, I've done the same thing. haha. I couldn't do that at a previous company cause they were pretty anal about mass updates to poetry.lock
855.
by icedchai 1y ago
I've had poetry sit there for minutes resolving dependencies at a previous company. I thought something was broken... it probably was... but it did eventually complete.
856.
by icedchai 1y ago
Same! I recently set up some dev environments with mise. My old ones are still using poetry, the new ones have uv. uv is incredibly snappy. It's like night and day!
857.
by icedchai 1y ago
Yes. I don't "touch type" in the traditional way. I have my own technique I developed when I was a teenager. I don't look at the keyboard and I don't "hunt and peck". I basically use index/middle&#x2F
858.
by icedchai 1y ago
The early x86 Macs (Core Solo, Core Duo CPU, etc) were pretty bad. I have one of the x86 Mac Minis from 2006 around somewhere.
859.
by icedchai 1y ago
It's the age old problem: hardware giveth performance, software taketh away.
860.
by icedchai 1y ago
Paradoxically, the simplicity itself can be part of the confusion: the anemic "for loop" syntax, crazy conditional expressions to work around that lack of "if" statements, combine this with "count" and you can
861.
by icedchai 1y ago
That RFC glosses over a LOT of details. I'm skeptical the effort would be a bit smaller, once you consider what is required for routing and the "translation service." That's totally glossed over in the RFC, by the way. U
862.
by icedchai 1y ago
hah! If I wasn't actively using it, I'd consider renting it out. I bet you could find some early Internet dude that has a /24 they're not using
863.
by icedchai 1y ago
If you read page 9, phase 1 mentions "update all backbone routers and border routers." This is the same problem as IPv6.
864.
by icedchai 1y ago
Technically, you are correct. Practically speaking, NAT is an inherent part of using IPv4 for 99.99% of end users. I haven't seen an end user or business with a public IP on the desktop in nearly 25 years. You can NAT IPv6 but it is
865.
by icedchai 1y ago
That standard was IPv4 with NAT ;) Unfortunately, it doesn't allow for end-to-end connectivity.
866.
by icedchai 1y ago
IPv6 is often simpler to administer than IPv4. Subnetting is simpler for the common cases. SLAAC eliminates the need for DHCP on many local networks. There's no NAT to deal with (a good thing!) Prefix delegation can be annoying if the
867.
by icedchai 1y ago
I'm doing exactly this. I got my netblock for free in 1993, back in the Internic days before ARIN existed. I have a couple of VPSes running BGP and tunnel traffic back to my home over wireguard.
868.
by icedchai 1y ago
It "tells you about it" with code. You can still learn from the code AI has produced. It may be suboptimal or messy... but so is code produced by many of our fellow humans.
869.
by icedchai 1y ago
My standards are low. I wouldn't even expect a car rental company to handle this sort of thing properly.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I never ran into this. I've never switched to to their streaming service and still use the iTunes app on my phone, which lets you download.

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