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by mikeocool 4mo ago
Also worth considering (and probably waiting and seeing) if the current AI progress is a net positive for society on the grand scale.
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
Not saying they didn't have an impact -- just that it's worth debating whether the impact is truly a net positive for society on a grand scale, particularly if we're going to give them a pass on less than stellar behavior. Zu
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
I’m not sure it’s necessarily a given that what Jobs, Gates, and Carmack created are net-positives when talking on a civilizational scale. Though Carmack certainly gets credit for keeping me entertained for a good portion of my youth. And g
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
I apparently use Claude differently the most people who talk about using Claude on the internet. I’ll typically have a bunch of short sessions over the course of a day. Anytime I start a task that isn’t going to very directly benefit from t
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
I don’t think you go lucky — renting from small landlords who live in/near building is the way to avoid this. In my experience, say the word “leak” they’ll be there in 10 minutes. And good tenants have value to them. At two years with
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
Whether or not scrapping publically available websites is unethical is probably up for debate. In some cases at least, courts have found it to be legal, even when the site is throwing up technical barriers or issues cease and desists. What
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
I dunno, I think in the past year “AI” has gone from meaningless buzzword to having a negative connotation amongst the non-tech population. “That’s so AI” is legitimate slang and it does not mean “that’s so cool and automated!”
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
Seriously. Whenever I read the thinking output I get mad and turn down effort to medium or low. Just output the code and we’ll work through it! I feel similarly about having codex review claude’s plans. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it catch
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
Not using beta ingress was probably a non-starter for a lot of people, since it was the only option for 4 years. Then there was an upgrade process that required a fair amount coordination between when you changed your manifests, when you up
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
Even with all its complexity, k8s doesn’t solve every problem — good luck running an FTP server or anything that needs to dynamically allocate a large range ports on k8s. I would absolutely trade flexibility for complexity. Particularly for
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
People think they want infinitely scalable solutions. But I think what they fail realize is that by the time they actually hit a scale where it matter they’re going to have to change so much about their infra that prematurely using the scal
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
I’d take a cronjob running cert-bot and some monitoring to ensure a domain’s cert isn’t about to expire over cert-manager any day. IIRC cert-manager has about three layers of custom resources to conv through when figuring out why a cert isn
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
There was once a time when we could deploy software without spinning up 3 etcd databases, multiple controller processes constantly running event loops, and a virtual networking layer, before you even get off the ground. Perhaps those days a
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
I don’t have an answer I’m in love with today, I basically just want less moving parts. As for EKS, having to monitor and manually scale the built in DNS service or else my queries are just going to stop resolving is not the type of thing I
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
Yeah I’ve always meant to check out nomad and never had an opportunity. Though as I recall, it makes heavy use of consul, which I have used in anger, and makes me a little weary (though that experience is likely very out of date).
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
I made this decision at a startup (albeit when the eng team was ~30 people, and we had a monolith with ~10 supporting services). I wouldn’t do it again, even for the reasons stated in the article. The uniformity is nice, we were moving from
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
Every time I use the Roku AppleTV app I am baffled as to how the designers think the selected state is remotely acceptable. I guess I’ll just randomly press the arrow buttons until I notice which box is getting slightly larger.
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
It’s not atypical when a startup figures out things aren’t going to work while there’s still money in the bank. Early stage startups tend not to have a lot debt to pay off, because there aren’t many places willing to offer them much credit.
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
I am currently making a fair amount of my living helping out CEOs like this. The quick-sand that LLMs let non-engineers build overtime is pretty remarkable. A project usually starts with a list of basic looking cosmetic bugs that the stakeh
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
For most apps, delivery has been some equivalent of “git push heroku main” and setting a DNS record for like 15 years. That’s especially true for most of the apps being vibe coded today. The fact that “cloud engineer” is still a job suggest
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
Doesn’t the Find My stalking tracking work by connecting the the randomized id back to a unique device on Apple’s servers? So yeah, if they subponea/coerce Apple (or Apple signs up willingly) they could track people individually. But a
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
I wonder how much that actually helps. A license plate scanner and a camera can easily identify me in my car. What tracking advantage does “there are three (probably) Apple devices” in the car as well confer. If I’m away from my car later,
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
Isn't it not really possible to uniquely identify most modern bluetooth devices this way? Specifically to prevent things like this. Unless they're hoping my AirPods are in pairing mode all of the time and they're going to tra
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
> This is domain expertise - software engineers are not needed for that. I want to work with the business domain experts you work with. The ones I’ve worked with are experts in their domain, not modeling that domain in software. Left to
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
Kind of interesting that LLMs are basically being sold as having “human-like” reasoning capabilities, but in this case when “obamawhitehouse” asked to have it’s password reset sent to bob12345667@gmail.com the LLM didn’t question it and jus
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
> I've been using Claude and GPT models for years All 3 years?
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
Not an accountant, but I believe that it is. https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/corporates/sectio... > The One Big Beautiful Bill Act introduces Section 174A, which restores immediate deduction of
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
> a flight attendant told passengers over the PA system that they "must turn off Bluetooth immediately," or else the aircraft would have to turn around. So if the person just takes back their bomb threat everything is ok? Or di
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
It sounds like you have tailscale setup in the container with userspace networking — which works smoothly for incoming traffic, but for outgoing traffic to use the container’s tailscale device it has to be routed through a proxy that tailsc
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by mikeocool 4mo ago
SVB didn't get bailed out, their investors and creditors were wiped out. You could argue depositors were bailed out -- as they took the undue risk of keeping more than $250k in a single bank (though as part of a requirement for getting

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