icedchai

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by icedchai 2mo ago
I've been clicking apply myself, but only have had a few interviews. It's bad out there. I've been working since the late 90's and this is the worst job market I've seen in decades.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
I do agree with more frequent upgrades, but it has to be part of the culture. The longer you wait, the harder it gets. Unfortunately, I have worked in some heavily tech-debt-laden environments where upgrading anything required an act of god
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by icedchai 2mo ago
It makes me think about The Terminator.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
I would've liked to see a setup like that. The companies I worked for didn't get much beyond 2x bonded T1s.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
LLMs have brought it to a new level. I have multiple people in my feed posting several page dissertations on a daily basis. More often than not, these posts are about the benefits of AI...
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by icedchai 2mo ago
Same. I'm being forced into a position where I'm supposed to do everything with AI agents, not write any manual code, and only act as a reviewer. It sounds like you know the drill. It may push me into early retirement.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
Yes, it was normal, for sure. I had an Amiga and it was also bad. Visits to the Guru ("Guru Meditation Error", equivalent of Windows UAEs) were common. Around 1994, I moved to Linux and later Solaris, where crashes were rare.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
This might cause other problems, problems of the "if it's not broken, don't fix it" variety. Upgrading everything only to break something else, in a previously stable configuration, isn't worth it.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
It doesn't apply to Verizon (FIOS) either, despite their history of DSL.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
I worked at an early ISP with a web development department. A couple of the guys had Macs with System 7.x. The things would lock up or crash on a daily basis and require near daily reboots. Some of that early software, especially Netscape N
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by icedchai 2mo ago
Mostly, I didn’t have all the cash to invest at once. There is also a psychological component: I feel better investing on down days.
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by icedchai 2mo ago
Almost 30 years ago, I worked on a corporate campus with several different buildings spread out over about 5 miles. There was a SONET ring linking them. I remember a coworker showing me this add-drop multiplexer thing so he could provision
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by icedchai 2mo ago
I use Wireguard for several site-to-site VPNs. It just works. I never have to worry about it, and there are very few configuration settings to mess up (unlike, say, IPsec, which is a nightmare.)
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by icedchai 2mo ago
I've been averaging into IGV (Software / SaaS ETF) over the past few months. Before that, I was averaging into CIBR (Cybersecurity ETF.) CIBR has bounced back big time, while IGV is only up a bit.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
I recently got an M5 Air as a second machine. I question if I'll even need a Pro machine in the future, as long as I can get enough RAM with the base chip (which seems unlikely, but...)
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by icedchai 3mo ago
You're absolutely right!
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by icedchai 3mo ago
I still remember the day I got Shadow of the Beast, as a young teen. Both the visuals and audio were amazing.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
Also consider many of them had their education destroyed by "remote learning" during covid.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
This happens all the time. I looked at a PR, many tests were broken, told the guy he needed to at least fix the previously working tests, got tons of slop like changing assert 200 to 500.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
Both can be true. AI is very, very polarizing. The entire Internet is also filling up with AI generated content, some slop, some okay. There is also a very pro-AI managerial class that wants to replace everyone and everything with a Claude
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by icedchai 3mo ago
I've had it happen in an interview, many years ago. I told him we'd have to agree to disagree. After I was hired, he admitted he looked it up and I was correct (some weird SQL question he asked.)
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by icedchai 3mo ago
You sure? There is one described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-through_switching (Kalpana switch from the early 90's)
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by icedchai 3mo ago
Floppy based Amigas were incredibly clunky. Each file shown in the Workbench GUI has its own icon file (".info" file) which is loaded separately, resulting in additional time for each file in a "drawer" (Amiga folder.)
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by icedchai 3mo ago
So he didn't want to google it?
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by icedchai 3mo ago
Don't forget ZScaler and other corporate spyware.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
Ask a typical person the difference between a minus, dash, hyphen, en dash, and em dash and you'll have your answer.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
I had an A3000 as my last Amiga. It was my favorite machine growing up as a teen and I still regret selling it.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
I agree they are inappropriate to use in formal writing. For stuff like blogs and chatting online though, they're fine. As a reader, I dislike seeing em dashes almost everywhere.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
Troglodyte here... I never use em dashes, never use semicolons, overuse ellipses and commas.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
It was obsolete as soon as the 486 was released, pushing 386 (especially 386SX) systems with SVGA into a lower price tier. Commodore's answer, the Amiga 1200, was released too late with too little (late 1992 with AGA graphics and no ch

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