icedchai

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by icedchai 2mo ago
Correct! Basically, I excluded the bad range so Linux doesn't touch it. It's been stable for weeks now. I should send the DIMM back under warranty.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
I see it ruining interactions at work. There's a lot of meat-proxy-ism going on, where people copy-and-paste back and forth between AI. It's filling the Internet with trash. Look around anywhere: Reddit, YouTube, individual blogs,
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by icedchai 2mo ago
"You're absolutely right!" Seriously, I couldn't have said it better myself.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
I recently had part of a 32 gig DIMM go bad on a 128 gig system. One of the larger VMs was spontaneously rebooting for no apparent reason. I was able to find the addresses with MemTest86 and map out 512 megs of the affected DIMM with the Li
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by icedchai 2mo ago
I haven’t seen anyone with a “sysadmin” job title in years.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
It has the look: fonts, style, layout, too many em-dashes, and weird phrasing like "Every surface reaches the same optimizer and execution core."
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by icedchai 2mo ago
You can edit the boot script (s:startup-sequence, I think... it's been a while.) so it doesn't start Workbench. However, you can't really disable the windowing system.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
Same! AmigaDOS (based on TRIPOS) was the first OS with a "real" command line that I used. It was also where I learned C.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
All SSL/TLS interception has the shortcoming. In other contexts, that’s a good thing, when certificate pinning works, I mean.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
You must grossly underestimate how much C code is out there. It will be alive (though not necessarily well) after everyone here is gone.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
Considering every other line of Go is `if err != nil`, this makes sense. I do prefer Go's simplicity, personally.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
Isn't it that way with most software? "It works", except when it doesn't.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
Yes, I've worked with people who have run into issues with "security" solutions like ZScaler. I have tried it with some APIs (like GitHub) and it does work. Not to say it will work in your case.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
The docs mention it can be bypassed for configured domains.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
There is a transparent proxy installed (along with the necessary certificates on the VM.) For an example, see https://docs.microsandbox.dev/networking/tls
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by icedchai 2mo ago
There's also microsandbox which has similar features: https://github.com/superradcompany/microsandbox (Not affiliated with them, just tried it out last week.)
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by icedchai 2mo ago
It depends how much spam or other abuse occurred from it.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
It probably would. LPDDR5 memory bandwidth on M-series Macs is several multiples of the memory bandwidth available on DDR3 (depending on the exact chip, Pro, Max, etc... 4x to beyond 10x.) The whole system would be much, much slower.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
You'd be surprised. I met a guy last week who was proud to tell me he had vibe coded an almost 2 million line code base. The app did not sound that complicated, so I'm assuming it's full of copy-pasta flavored slop.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
That "cost" includes all the overhead provided by the company: benefits, rent for offices, utilities, equipment, etc. The average SWE is not taking home anything close to that, outside of Silicon Valley and a few other limited are
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by icedchai 2mo ago
Whenever I encounter a "data lake" it's just a bunch of random CSV and JSON files on S3, and a bunch of half baked Python scripts to query it. And usually somebody tells me it's "big data", and that's why
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by icedchai 2mo ago
Same. I'm still not sure it isn't.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
Having worked on some systems where the previous developers drank the AWS kool-aid, this rings true.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
Personally, I'd rent a small server first. About 20 years ago I had a small web hosting operation with my own racked servers. It's a pain to deal with when something goes wrong. Eventually we transitioned to renting dedicated serv
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by icedchai 2mo ago
I probably wouldn't start with buying a big server if I was just starting out. I would consider renting one from Hetzner, OVH, or many others. There are also many other alternatives. Example: VPS providers like Vultr which have exp
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by icedchai 2mo ago
There are also many shades of gray between "big cloud" AWS/Azure/GCP and "my own rack" bare metal hosting.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
I like the smol philosophy. I've been wondering how much of this stuff is closer to meaningless incantations, voodoo with no real benefit.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
Itanium was effectively dead once Intel adopted AMD's x86-64. It just remained a zombie for another 15+ years.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
I have an AlphaServer in my collection (DS10.) For a 25+ year old system, it still feels pretty snappy!
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by icedchai 2mo ago
Same. I was very active in BBSing in the late 80's through the mid 90's. Kermit was the protocol of last resort.

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