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by icedchai 4mo ago
> That is less useful when the changes are editing the tests but we don't know if a human has validated the assertions. Yep. I've witnessed this first hand many times. AI-enthusiastic coworker submits a PR. The tests don't
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by icedchai 4mo ago
DR-DOS was an MS-DOS compatible OS and did not run CP/M apps.
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by icedchai 5mo ago
Some FidoNet boards did, actually! The FidoNet boards near me all carried "regional" forums / echoes that were available only within the regional network itself. I was actually way more active on those forums than the global
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by icedchai 5mo ago
Yeah, I'm pretty ancient myself. If we look back ~30 years, we're still getting a good value at even these inflated prices for electronics. Food, housing, transportation has skyrocketed, but TVs and computers are comparatively che
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by icedchai 5mo ago
Pretty insane. I built a Framework Desktop PC back in November. The motherboard (with 128G DDR5 RAM) was $1800. Now it's $2859. Almost 60% increase in 6 months.
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by icedchai 5mo ago
One major thing missing with Reddit is the focus on geographic locality. BBSes had more of a community feel because 99% of the users were local, and this was enforced by financial reality. Few people in the 80's or 90's wanted to
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by icedchai 5mo ago
AdSense wasn't a thing until 2003. Google didn't have much revenue before that. However, they still surpassed their competition in quality of search results long before...
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by icedchai 5mo ago
Yes, I was around the same time and had a moderately popular local BBS. Reddit (and arguably HN) do feel like the closest thing we have to BBSes today.
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by icedchai 5mo ago
There were many search engines around during that time. Yahoo, Excite, Microsoft Live Search, Lycos... I don't recall any of them improving enough to rival early 2000's Google.
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by icedchai 5mo ago
I remember late 90's, early 2000's Google. Search result quality was still better than the competition (mainly Altavista...)
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by icedchai 5mo ago
I loved that era. I was a BBSer from about 1988 through 1994 or so, on several systems with FidoNet and RelayNet / RIME. I also ran my own BBS for a while, eventually it had some Usenet newsgroups and Internet email through UUCP (anyon
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by icedchai 5mo ago
Ok, so you are right, Go and Java (Maven, at least) doesn't have this issue.
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by icedchai 5mo ago
Interesting. How about in a container? What industry is this, just curious?
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by icedchai 5mo ago
Almost all of them.
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by icedchai 5mo ago
Is this one of those places where it takes 6 to 12 weeks to get something new installed on your machine?
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by icedchai 5mo ago
There are a lot of people who are developing an unhealthy obsession with AI, both in their work and personal lives. It may not be a religion (yet?), but they are treating chat bots as nearly infallible, all knowing friends. The term &quo
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by icedchai 5mo ago
Many humans do the same thing. They write tests that mock so much of the actual code, the "test" is not testing much at all, except perhaps the developer's ability to basically turn the code inside out. It's often just
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by icedchai 5mo ago
A couple months back, I had Sonnet build me a browser-based VT-100 terminal emulator. I then had it build me a websocket-to-telnet gateway for connecting some old retro systems to it. Both worked pretty well. Could I have done it on my own?
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by icedchai 5mo ago
Same. The format was a big turn off.
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by icedchai 5mo ago
"This time it's different", right?
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by icedchai 5mo ago
With open models, perhaps. But $100/week isn't going to get you 24/7 use of Claude Sonnet.
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by icedchai 5mo ago
I agree. $100/week is absurdly low if you want to allow for any real experimentation and productive use of these tools.
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by icedchai 5mo ago
I know people at medium size companies where they are tracking AI costs very carefully. They are pulling back to levels under $100/week in AI spend per engineer, encouraging use of lower quality, lower cost models, etc.
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by icedchai 5mo ago
I would've ended the interview. "I don't want to waste any more of your time. It's clear to me I won't be a good fit here. Thank you for the consideration." <end call>
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by icedchai 5mo ago
You can't guarantee one of your customers isn't going to do that dissemination though, right? No spammer is going to sign up saying "I'm a spammer that just got banned from <other service>! Can you guys help?"
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by icedchai 5mo ago
Probably? FreeBSD has had a large increase in security advisories the past couple months. More in the last two months than all of 2025 combined.
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by icedchai 5mo ago
I agree. Inexperienced people (not necessarily "dumb") are likely to accept everything at face value, not apply critical thinking skills, and not even check the AI generated output.
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by icedchai 5mo ago
Yep! It took a month of back-and-forth to do what should have taken less than a day in an environment with less friction. I'm totally frustrated by the project at this point.
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by icedchai 5mo ago
I've been working with an organization that apparently won't give its developers reasonable access to dev cloud environments "because of SOC2." At least, that is the excuse they tell me. Example: "I need access to E
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by icedchai 5mo ago
Avoid it for as long as you can. I worked at a startup that sold to enterprises. We had 6 employees. The CEO / sales was able to work around the SOC2 requirement every time.

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