jamesfinlayson

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by jamesfinlayson 10d ago
Yeah same with AWS - they say they can't see my custom KMS key but... this stuff all lives on their servers, not on my servers. AWS definitely have the ability to see my KMS keys and decrypt my data but I assume that they won't un
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by jamesfinlayson 10d ago
Yeah agreed - any ephemeral stuff I need is generally in DynamoDB - S3 (and database) are for permanent storage.
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by jamesfinlayson 10d ago
> I remember Cisco before iOS used to have hundreds of branches for their router, one branch for each major customer that was demanding specific features. It was unmanageable Ouch. I heard of a company in my home town (small B2B service
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by jamesfinlayson 11d ago
I know someone who worked there maybe 10 years ago in an embassy, and it was wild in a very bad way. - they had a meeting with some locals and the locals discussed the need for retaliation for something, and their plan was to rape someone&#
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by jamesfinlayson 17d ago
And on the flip-side, if it's an exec at another company getting tarred and feathered by the media for their incompetence, it means they probably won't end up at my company in six months' time and do the same thing.
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by jamesfinlayson 17d ago
> My bank does not charge for deposits or change; this would be insane and I've never encountered this in the US. Some smaller banks in Australia do but the big ones all have cash and coin ATMs which are free for account holders.
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by jamesfinlayson 17d ago
On a Mac I have no idea what, if anything F5 does in Chrome. Refresh is the much more annoying Cmd+r.
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by jamesfinlayson 17d ago
CGNAT'ed IP address? I get occasional CloudFlare blocks at home from some hobby-related websites I visit maybe once a week, and I know that no one else in my house is doing anything to hit rate limits.
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by jamesfinlayson 18d ago
Yeah a few years ago I got a bug report from someone in the business about getting a weird error when trying to update some text. Turns out they were trying to add (*) as a disclaimer at the end of something and Akamai was just giving a bla
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by jamesfinlayson 18d ago
Not sure - Akamai seem to roll out defenses against most new attacks, and Akamai isn't a new company so presumably they've been doing it for a while? Never dug too deeply into the WAF settings so maybe it's possible to turn t
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by jamesfinlayson 25d ago
Yeah it was a Texas Instruments calculator for me too.
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by jamesfinlayson 26d ago
This was all on-prem stuff. But it was taken to ridiculous extremes. I've worked on something that was a knot of message queues but there was one email service.
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by jamesfinlayson 27d ago
Been there before - I worked at a company where some geniuses thought that microservices would solve all of our scaling issues. We ended up with four microservices just to send an email (one to template, one to send, one to persist to datab
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by jamesfinlayson 27d ago
Maybe from a decommissioned content server? Some of this stuff was publicly available up until 2013 (people were frantically downloading old builds of stuff in the lead-up to the Steam2 shutdown in 2013).
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by jamesfinlayson 27d ago
Yeah I read elsewhere that there was some unseen stuff in other pre-release builds of games in this dump, but no Episode Three itself.
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by jamesfinlayson 1mo ago
Yes I remember a friend doing university marking for a beginners programming course years ago and some student had managed to swap True and False making their assignment very wonky.
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by jamesfinlayson 1mo ago
Yeah I switched to Windows 11 recently and was a little annoyed by that - Notepad was always a place to paste formatted junk to get the plaintext - I don't need anything persisted.
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by jamesfinlayson 1mo ago
Ugh, this. Had a workmate recently churn out 4,000 lines of code using Claude and I'm sure half of it was just comments.
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by jamesfinlayson 1mo ago
Yeah at least all the big companies in my town seem to use LinkedIn as a place to get views for job postings, and then they funnel them to their internal system.
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by jamesfinlayson 1mo ago
I have seen improvements for myself but overall it's made thing worse. While it is a HR problem (lazy employees will always be lazy, clueless manager will never deal with issues), AI has really amplified the problems. Previously, lazy
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by jamesfinlayson 1mo ago
As a software engineer I don't think my quality of life has been improved - I now get gigantic patches to review (and I know the people writing them haven't reviewed or tested their own patches so even worse) and my tester is now
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by jamesfinlayson 1mo ago
I think I still get a human (working for big enterprise company) but it's almost guaranteed that the first response will be useless.
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by jamesfinlayson 1mo ago
> There are no '0 search results' anywhere.. each search yields thousands of results. Urgh... kills me. I have some ebay alerts for items for one of my hobbies (nothing at all to do with cars). Sometimes if ebay has nothing tha
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by jamesfinlayson 1mo ago
> Managers can cause far more damage to teams than an IC on the team can cause. Yep, and a bad manager tends to last a lot longer than a bad individual contributor.
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by jamesfinlayson 1mo ago
I have had a terrible manager - he was a so-so developer that got the job because his old manager wanted to be rid of him and gave him a glowing recommendation.
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by jamesfinlayson 1mo ago
Yeah I got MacOS freezes sometimes - never checked Activity Monitor to see why though. On Windows it's usually the hard drive being over-used that makes things drag for me.
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by jamesfinlayson 1mo ago
I remember! I think they changed that like 10 years ago? I thought BitBucket had done something not long before and assumed GitHub was just keeping up with a competitor.
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by jamesfinlayson 1mo ago
I think most (all?) Steam games link steam_api.dll (or something like that) which somehow figures out the running Steam process and thus the Steam ID, and then does a HTTP API request to check that you own the title. Like 15 years ago Steam
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by jamesfinlayson 1mo ago
Not sure about the early days - I got a Quake II CD in the early 2000s that didn't need a CD key. Doom 3 and Quake 4 required CDs, at least at release, but after a little while no CD patches were released.
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N64 Goldeneye 007 Decompilation(github.com)
3 points by jamesfinlayson 1mo ago|1 comments

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