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by icedchai 4mo ago
1. I'd say "no", but if it involves opening a port, I could see the ISP argument even if I disagree with it. 2. I agree. The Internet was supposed to offer end-to-end connectivity. That went out the door with NAT...
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by icedchai 4mo ago
You are right, but ISPs will tell you that you're not allowed to host servers anyway. Most have it in the AUP.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
Yep. My job was code review heavy before AI. Now it's even worse because I can't even trust that the developer understood what they were "developing", so I have to be even more vigilant. I may have to institute a "p
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by icedchai 4mo ago
So true. The last time I worked with a person with an actual "system administrator" title was 2009!
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by icedchai 4mo ago
Do you remember the early days of SSL certificates? It took an act of god just to get a certificate: verification rituals like faxing corporate paper work, phone calls, manually reissuing certs because someone forgot the "www", fo
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by icedchai 4mo ago
I use Claude Code. I bet that doesn’t help you much. Also, that was not the main point of my comment, which is why it didn't have much detail.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
Yep. Someone will copy-and-paste a Jira ticket into AI and blindly accept the output without thinking about the actual intent and context behind the request. It's frustrating. I use AI sparingly, mostly on personal projects where I am
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by icedchai 4mo ago
Yep, I feel stuck. Almost everyone I talk to is unhappy.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
Same. I'm still employed, but am looking. I've had a few interviews but they're all for jobs I wouldn't really want. I know talented people who were laid off and have been looking for 6 to 9 months+. It's very rough
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by icedchai 4mo ago
These sorts of odd projects are relatively common. A few years ago I was brought on near the end of a data engineering project where somebody had decided they needed multiple databases, a crap load of JSON exports, and dozens of python, R,
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by icedchai 4mo ago
What was the point of creating the "canonical form" if you already had reports being generated in-app? Was it just someone's pet project, or were there supposed to be other benefits?
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by icedchai 4mo ago
Without understanding differences between the "source" and "canonical" forms, it is tough to say. Also how much data are we actually talking about? The pipeline you describe may be entirely reasonable, or it may be an ov
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by icedchai 4mo ago
I registered this one back in the early 90's, predating the existence of ARIN. No fees only on legacy ones, assuming one has not signed a registration agreement. I assume, at some point, I will be forced into signing an agreement, but
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by icedchai 4mo ago
Google's Cloud Run is also pretty simple.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
I'm tempted to try this on my Ultra 10! Looks like I need to upgrade the RAM first...
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by icedchai 4mo ago
I've been running my own AS for years. You can get an ASN and IPv6 from a RIPE LIR for $200/year or less. Then you need a couple of VPSes that are BGP capable. You can get those for $20 month. Then you can tunnel traffic back to y
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by icedchai 4mo ago
If you're lucky, the managers are clueless and you can easily pad your estimates by 2 to 3x and still appear incredibly productive. The trick is pacing yourself.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
These elements weren't "abused." It was the only alternative before CSS was around! Then CSS took years (decades?) to catch up to the simplicity of table-based layouts.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
If you remember earlier versions of HTML, with all the tables and font tag soup, it was not always the case. Sadly, it was easier building layouts with tables instead of CSS for a very, very long time.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
"Annual reviews" are another joke. They're, more often than not, a huge time waster for everyone involved. I've seen performance evaluation forms with such convoluted questions, they were obviously the result of insanely
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by icedchai 4mo ago
If I had not witnessed something similar myself, I wouldn't believe it either. How many "sync" meetings do you possibly need? How does anyone get any actual work done with all this going on?
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by icedchai 4mo ago
I will agree 1:1's can potentially be useful, however , having them on a weekly basis often is way too frequent. I can count on one hand the number of useful 1:1's I've had over the past 10 years.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
I worked at a place where the manager had, at the height of the organization's growth, five reports. He couldn't handle that many 1:1's so, at one point, he made them into a "group" 1:1. Of course, that made no sens
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by icedchai 4mo ago
In my experience, AI raises the ceiling but also lowers the floor. It can make experienced people more productive: they can vet the output. The juniors? Not so much. I've worked with guys who write prompts that are literally "fix
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by icedchai 4mo ago
My first Linux box was a 386SX with 3 megs of RAM (1 meg on the motherboard plus a 2 meg expansion.) It was a tight fit (SLS Linux, I think?) This would've been around 1992 or 93.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
A lobotomy? I've witnessed several individuals who were entirely dependent on Claude for any technical issue.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
CSS was the worst part of the HTML/CSS/JS combo. It was easier to build layouts with tables , 1995 style, for a very long time.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
It was. I learned so much by reading books and computer magazines. Now we have layers of layers of cruft to wade through.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
Apple also did this with Apple II DOS and ProDOS. There was "cat", "catalog", "rename, "delete", etc. available from the BASIC prompt.
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by icedchai 4mo ago
Yep. It's bad enough as it is! I've had several tech illiterate managers that could not review a PR to save their life. They have zero understanding of the work product. Manager first, engineering second.

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