jcgrillo

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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
"The future" is fiction. It's a blank canvas where you can make a fingerpainting of any fantasy you like. Whenever people tell me about "the future" I know they're talking absolute rubbish. And I also like your
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
Even at recent levels of uptime I think it would be very difficult to build a competing product that could function at the scale of even a small company (10 engineers). How would you implement Actions? Code review comments/history? Pul
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
How many products are actually like that? If I could easily replace github, datadog/sentry/whatever, cloudflare, aws, tailscale that would be great. In my view building and owning is better than buying or renting. Especially when
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
Thank you for the references this is absolutely fascinating stuff.
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
I'm basically ignorant of this entire space--I have mostly worked on SaaS products--so please forgive the question if it's too naive but as (the first?) someone who has just experienced this new and rare way of bringing a design t
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
Is that not true of literally every country on Earth? It's just a question of how they do it.
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
> permanently don't bet on it
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
It will not be the second thing. If you hold up "velocity" you're the problem and that problem will get fixed.
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
> Junior and mid-level engineers will now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted changes, Treadwell added. Lol. Lmao. You have got to be joking. Seniors leaving in droves is how that plays out.
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by jcgrillo 7mo ago
The F-35s train over my house. When the business end of the engine points downward it rattles the windows and sounds like freedom.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
What happened to isolating the build box from the Internet? Do people really just let their build systems make outbound connections willy-nilly? That's fucking insanity. People who behave like this are definitely not reviewing their de
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
It really cannot be both ways--the tech industry cannot both be producing critical infrastructure and be immune from liability. We've tried this experiment before, and millions suffered and died needlessly. We have electrical codes, bu
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
From personal experience caffeine is not enough for 2wk of 18hr days.. you need some pervitin type shit
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
They only have to get it together if the churn impacts their bottom line. If they aren't losing strategic customers the uptime is good enough.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Midterm elections later this year
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
I feel like people used to talk about nines of uptime more. As in more than one. These days we've lost that: https://bsky.app/profile/jkachmar.com/post/3mg4u3e6nak2p I recall a time, maybe around 2013-20
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
The more trustworthy ones have a physical door you can close
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
do not fold the hypergolic blanket!
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
At first I misread this as "hypergolic" and had concerns. The actual thing is much nicer, and the description of how to get the curved seams right was helpful. This is something I've never quite figured out but I'd like
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Fact checking is a vital part of the editorial process and clearly that process failed here. Tech people often have a double standard when it comes to journalism--rules for thee but not for me. However the structure is fairly analogous, in
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
The problem is that reviewing code for correctness is harder than writing correct code. So these things will always slip through review. I'm a little bit divided here whether we can (or should) blame a reviewer too harshly for letting
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Same goes for engineers reviewing vibeslop. If you let that shit through code review, and a customer impacting outage results, that should be instant termination. But it won't be, because as an engineer you are supposed to be held &quo
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
This is historically what we've had consumer protection regulations for. When they put lead, radium, asbestos, arsenic, or other poisons in consumer products the regulators step in and put a stop to it. It should be pretty clear at thi
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
similarly, I can step through a program in the debugger and see how it works--or at least that it works--but the whole point of having a programming language in the first place is that (if I use it right) I can understand the program wi
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
or more recently the times he lied to Congress, all the layoffs, the "metaverse", etc
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
This is a very important window into how the industry, by and large, views users and the concept of privacy. It's not merely authoritarian and predatory, to them users are subhuman.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
It's genuinely uncanny to see good tech journalism.. it's normally so much worse than this
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Oh very cool. Some folks are printing shrouds for dual 40mm fans so I'll probably try that if the stock case fans don't do it
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
i recently decided to get into this ocean boiling game too, the 32GB V100 seems like a pretty good VRAM/$. if i may ask, do you make any special accommodations for cooling? i've never dealt with a passively cooled card before and
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
dope so i can hook it up to my appliances, hvac, etc? maybe it'll do rad things with my smart doorlocks, remote car starter. can it send my self-driving waymobile to pick up my family at the airport too? such wow

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