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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
AutoLISP programming is the only LISP programming I’ve ever done. Memories.
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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
I stopped deploying to a single region for production years ago, so I don’t really have a horse in this region comparison race. That said, I’ve seen network level issues in every region I use — nothing like the big outage, but issues that m
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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
Isn’t that exactly the same? People hiring someone (or using something) to make themselves better understood, more professional looking, or falsely authoritative?
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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
I see your point but that’s not mine at all. People use these tools for a variety of reasons (as diverse as people’s experiences). One can use an LLM to help express a perspective or develop and opinion (very important for those who struggl
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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
That’s a great distinction — the non-determinism is a huge difference.
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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
Explain?
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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
But not the appearance. It’s not the same, but it rhymes. Edit: to clarify, people were judged by the clarity of their handwriting in the past and these tools made that impossible. Similarly, LLMs spackle over higher level language issues.
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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
Is writing with LLM assistance that different than writing with a typewriter 100+ years ago? Than using a computer and printer 30 years ago? Each can be seen as using a tool to add false legitimacy. But ultimately they are just tools.
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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
Not often, and not recommended, but I have coded on the cockpit table while single-handing a sailboat. Interrupting a conference call with “sorry, one moment, I have to tack out of the fleet” is its own special joy.
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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
So at least a good chunk of the Internet does indeed operate on a spreadsheet. Good to know.
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Show HN: Proxylity – serverless UDP services on AWS (one year in production)(proxylity.com)
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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
So now we call the refresh button CPR?
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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
Nice. JSON over UDP is convenient, but has some drawbacks. But first your questions: The answer to a) depends: If the payload is larger than can fit in a single datagram (the exact number can vary a bit) it has to be split. Each packet has
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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
I imagine a world sometimes where punitive measures reflect the scope of crimes. If steal from a person is 1 year, then stealing from 1000 is 10 years and from a million is a lifetime. That’d put the end to political shenanigans, in my imag
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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
To put it on your level, the mechanic works for you not us. Working for us involves a higher bar (or should). Edit: typos
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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
Unregulated casinos?
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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
> As for writing, well, I have been working on this little blog post, on and off, no joke, for six years. This was the reward for reading through.
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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
Speed is the rationale. I have zero hesitation to deploy and am extremely well practiced at decomposing changes into a series of small safe changes at this point. So maybe it's a single spelling correction, or perhaps it's the bac
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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
But download all of them? There is a line here where it becomes absurd to me.
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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
Agreed. It sounds like they never made it to the distributed architecture they would have benefited from. That said, if the team thrives on a monolithic one they made the right choice.
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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
Wow. Their experience could not be more different than mine. As I’m contemplating the first year of my startup I’ve tallied 6000 deployments and 99.997 percent uptime and a low single digit rollback percentage (MTTR in low single digit minu
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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
They may not need to go so far as this to protect their service, but I would accept that any access required occasional authentication. Unfettered, unlimited anonymous access seems dubious in this “I’m taking all your content” AI training w
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Reliability or Idempotency(proxylity.com)
2 points by mlhpdx 10mo ago|2 comments
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Binary Range Expressions(proxylity.com)
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Reliability and Idempotency(proxylity.com)
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by mlhpdx 10mo ago
If software actually is 90% cheaper to build in 2026 there will be 10x the simple apps and abandonware to follow. Throwaway software like throwaway phones. It’ll be weird.
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by mlhpdx 11mo ago
Oh, i’m quite sure it does. In fact, it’s a central thing in so much of psychology. The only difference is how you get there. Some people can just ignore and others take more effort.
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by mlhpdx 11mo ago
Bad business people have been blaming outside forces for their failings forever. Taxes! Regulations! China! The Algorithm! It’s a symphony out there.
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by mlhpdx 11mo ago
But privacy in public in general isn’t a thing, right?
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by mlhpdx 11mo ago
I don’t care how this makes the world a better place, because it just does.

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