icedchai

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by icedchai 3mo ago
Yep, the only reason I bought mine (in late 2025, before hardware prices went totally crazy) was because it was half the price of a Spark. I spent a while fiddling around with the right Linux kernel, kernel firmware, ROCm installs, etc.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
I never saw Win 2K on Alpha... I worked at a mostly DEC shop for a while. They had transitioned their main product from VAX to Alpha. Most of the systems ran Digital Unix and VMS, but there was an AlphaServer with NT 4.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
I've been running my own ASN for a while. I route both IPv6 and v4 back to my home network over wireguard. I use Vultr for one of my providers. They have no additional charge for BYOIP and you can use their private ASN if you don'
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by icedchai 3mo ago
Yep. I've worked with a couple of juniors that were acting as poorly working proxies for AI. If I have to review the output anyway, it is easier to eliminate the middleman.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
I'm being told by the corporate leadership that the future of software is basically babysitting agents. "You won't write code anymore, everything will be done through agents. Your job is to direct and review." It is deep
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by icedchai 3mo ago
They simply ask Claude or ChatGPT. I've had a few interviews with individuals who were definitely cheating. Strange pauses. Obviously typing and then reading from the screen, giving incredibly verbose answers...
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by icedchai 3mo ago
Yep. I've worked at a couple startups where engineering built a thing, sales was able to sell it but had to give a huge discount. The resulting economics just didn't work. But, each sale was seen on its own as a success even thoug
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by icedchai 3mo ago
Haven't you heard? Every company is an "AI company" now.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
I see the same thing. The majority of their posts are, of course, AI-generated and incredibly verbose.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
Have you compared models across providers? The quality, for the same task, varies tremendously. If you don't prioritize quality you're wasting your own time when you inevitably have to re-do the code...
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by icedchai 4mo ago
Yes. The very thing that made the Internet sustainable, commercialization, also destroyed parts of it.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
This is the right attitude, but others often refuse to press the issue. The only way this crap gets fixed is for it to cost the company enough lost productivity (and money) to make it worth fixing. If the intent is to "be secure",
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by icedchai 4mo ago
I agree with you, but other developers will tell me they can't meet a deadline if they do that, and have no choice. In today's shaky job market, they don't want to rock the boat too much, which I can understand.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
I know several developers that have been plagued by ZScaler and similar security tools. It takes weeks to get these issues resolved. Absolutely insane. Inevitably they wind up doing work from their personal laptops... One guy I was working
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by icedchai 4mo ago
I'm roughly the same age. I miss the 90's Internet and remember getting online in mid 1991, learning about Gopher, FTP, Telnet, Usenet, IRC, etc. It was an amazing new world to explore.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
With Apple, it’s nearly the same software and CPU architecture, so yes, it is relevant. I don’t know anyone who turns their iPhone or Mac Book off.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
Sure. Do you shut off your phone every time you put it in your pocket?
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by icedchai 4mo ago
Same. Local LLMs are fun to experiment with, but when I want generated code of a sufficient quality, I use a cloud LLM.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
Hopefully they're ramping up on the M5 variants.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
Performance with Strix Halo isn't there, either. At least I got mine relatively cheap in 2025, before the run up in prices...
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by icedchai 4mo ago
Every "jump host" I've seen in the past 25+ years has used SSH externally.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
And the days of hubs, not switches, telnet and rlogin, not SSH. A hacked host could potentially compromise your whole LAN.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
Sounds like the 90’s early ISP experience scaled up. No firewalls, everything on public IPs, text files with global credentials in clear text…
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by icedchai 4mo ago
Same. I’ve been running my own caching DNS servers since my earliest home network, dating back almost 30 years.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
ECS/Fargate is annoyingly complex but you can have Claude or whatever you prefer crap out some terraform to set most of it up in a few minutes. We did that for a recent project and it worked well enough that nobody complained... much.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
Cooling, power, physical security, Internet bandwidth (and to a lesser extent, latency) are all issues if you are actually using those GPUs for a customer.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
You mean the Mac Pro that was still on the M2 and hadn't been updated for 3+ years?
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by icedchai 4mo ago
People do contract / temporary / 1099 work all the time. It's very simple.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
Yep. There's a lot of room for error when you start by asking the wrong thing, then don't understand the output. I've seen prompts that were literally "fix it", then the LLM goes and changes assert status == 200 to
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by icedchai 4mo ago
I switched from 2000 to 5000iu about 8 years ago. My levels went up similar to yours, but I don't feel much different!

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