nemothekid

4 ms·

31.
by nemothekid 3mo ago
`Cargo.lock` is a lockfile machine generated by Cargo. It's similar to package-lock.json. In any case, its machine generated the old fashioned way.
32.
by nemothekid 3mo ago
> There's a dichotomy being presented here where you have to either choose a "style guide" or a programming language feature in order to avoid bugs. The sleight of hand misdirects the reader away from the main way bugs are
33.
by nemothekid 3mo ago
> What's the problem if a site is vibecoded? Typically if a site is well designed, that used to be a signal that a lot of resources had been invested into the project. Now that signal is rather noisy. Here, is particularly bad, as
34.
by nemothekid 4mo ago
Off topic: Is there anyone doing any research on how to use Claude/Agents to design websites that don't look so, "Claude"?
35.
by nemothekid 4mo ago
> People reach for the things you mentioned wayyyyyy before they should. Most orgs are probably due for a technical reassessment. Scale that I believe would have melted postgres in the past now just runs fine. CPUs got a ton faster and
36.
by nemothekid 4mo ago
They are already a public company.
37.
by nemothekid 4mo ago
> My clients will have outgoing connections to whichever co-ordination server I choose. Then it's no longer p2p? If I wanted to avoid paying cloud egress costs, then I would need a p2p solution. > Tailscale is great for bringing
38.
by nemothekid 4mo ago
This isn't the same functionality - if I'm shipping a video conferencing application, tsnet would require all my customers be in my tailnet.
39.
by nemothekid 4mo ago
> The reach of this bug is what makes it serious. Any deployment that points FFmpeg at an attacker-influenced RTSP URL is exposed: media ingest pipelines fetching user-supplied stream URLs, surveillance and CCTV systems pulling RTSP feed
40.
by nemothekid 4mo ago
Given that they had originally selected OpenAI for Siri, and that deal fell through, I would guess something about their relationship with OpenAI fell through. Maybe OpenAI wouldn't let Apple run their model on Apple's servers.
41.
by nemothekid 4mo ago
> Everyone is now dopamine maxxing on smartphones and internet Childbirth has been collapsing for decades before Mark had launched "thefacebook.com". Japan's TFR cratered in 1960 and never recovered. Did Japan have smartp
42.
by nemothekid 4mo ago
> The first page of RFC 882 explains outright that the DNS came about in the first place because the mechanisms for updating a HOSTS.TXT file and publishing it to loads of places did not scale. Great piece of history. The RFC is a bit o
43.
by nemothekid 4mo ago
> Fortunately, we still have /etc/hosts, which we can easily provision This is the kind of thing you read in a post-mortem and wonder how they designed something so fiendishly wonderful. At 2:00am our MySQL master failed and
44.
by nemothekid 4mo ago
What does E2EE mean here? If I send an email to someone using rootshell from gmail, doesn't rootshell get the email in plaintext?
45.
by nemothekid 4mo ago
One funny thing I've discovered as a result of certificate transparency logs is that the second your host gets given an SSL cert, you are immediately blasted with ai crawlers. I put a project online - it was online for a month, and the
46.
by nemothekid 4mo ago
While I have had my time fighting the OOM killer, I believe overcommit would have always won. To torture the metaphor a bit more, airlines have OOF mechanism - they just eject the overcommitted passengers before the plane takes off. A passe
47.
by nemothekid 5mo ago
1. If postgres shutsdowns uncleanly, your entire table is truncated; you lose everything. 2. You should check if your backup method backs up unlogged tables. For example, RDS Snapshots on AWS do not backup unlogged tables. These 2 are a dou
48.
by nemothekid 5mo ago
There are so many unfortunate footguns with unlogged tables, that I'd argue that the goroutine route is preferable.
49.
by nemothekid 5mo ago
add [skip ci] to your commit message
50.
by nemothekid 5mo ago
Your question just kicks the can down the road. The problem with the article, to me, is the author doesn't want to accept a certain amount of complexity and has erected arbitrary road blocks. To you, a "whole damn event loop syste
51.
by nemothekid 5mo ago
That only applies to Javascript, which, is mostly only red functions anyways (there are no blocking apis in javascript). Javascript doesn't have the coloring problem in the way Python or Rust has it. In Python, you can wrap the call wi
52.
by nemothekid 5mo ago
Java's checked exceptions fit the 5 criteria: 1. It either `throws` or it doesn't 2. If the function `throws` you have to wrap it in try/catch, or make your function `throws` 3. Your function is `red` if it `throws` the same
53.
by nemothekid 5mo ago
Am I reading this right? SpaceX TAM - "Enterprise AI Applications" is 6T. The other 22T enterprise AI. This is a rocket company pretending it's a frontier AI lab.
54.
by nemothekid 5mo ago
> On the other hand i can’t remember when there was a serious outage on GCP They had a really bad global outage a year ago. At least with AWS outages are contained to a single region.
55.
by nemothekid 5mo ago
Yeah, I clearly prefer non-hamfisted regulation under the guise of "protect the children". Half-assed attempts like this are worse than useless. Just like with GDPR, the tech giants will put their foot on the scale and continue to
56.
by nemothekid 5mo ago
I think you are just reflexively trying to argue your point without even thinking about it. 30 million tiktoks are posted by day. What do you mean your are going to allow "users to filter". This "regulation" will be tri
57.
by nemothekid 5mo ago
> I don't for a second believe that tiktok (or facebook or any of the others) employs a primitive algorithm Is your contention that whatever future law have some mechanism to decide the complexity of the algorithm? How would you de
58.
by nemothekid 5mo ago
> I don't know of anyone saying you should buy an F1 car for your family, do you? It's a metaphor. Your clients telling you they need you to deploy on AWS are the kind of people I believe are telling you to buy an F1 car to da
59.
by nemothekid 5mo ago
AWS is being pushed on everyone the same way Hadoop was pushed on everyone in the 2010s and IBM in the 90s. Everyone sees themselves as webscale, when their data can reasonable fit in Excel. If the only product on AWS you are using in EC2 a
60.
by nemothekid 5mo ago
Respectfully, I think this is more of a use case where you aren't the target audience for a service like AWS. I've been working with AWS for nearly 10 years. Many people I know, both small and large, just don't even use the c

More ›