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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
That’s no better than Windows (without a lot of effort and a constant game of cat and mouse only achievable by technical users). At least Google’s cloud services tend to actually be good , if you made peace with the tracking and privacy co
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
> what is the first video you show them Whatever is latest posted across their followings/subscriptions?
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
If you can get that 5k/month down to let's say 1k, that's a saving of 48k over the course of a year. You can get a consultant/freelancer for half that sum that'll happily do it for you.
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
Then you'd have people run extension cords across the border and selling their cheap electricity at inflated prices to their freezing neighbor.
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
The parent's experience which mirrors my own - on a clean residential IP that hasn't sent any traffic I hit that "rate-limit" on my first request to the commits list view. So there is no rate-limit, it's a default
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
Yeah this is just typical techbro gaslighting. There is no rate-limit and hasn't been for years (it's just default deny), but they refuse to change the wording to reflect.
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
But unless you're on a PaaS, you have "infrastructure engineers" already. So why not at least let them make back their salary by making them built a cost-efficient infrastructure?
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
> they said they must show they are on Hyperscaling cloud. This is the main reason; and it applies to developers (they need cloud buzzwords on their resume), it applies to managers (who in turn hire only those with said buzzwords) and it
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
Unless we're talking actual PaaS (Heroku, Render, Railway, etc), the cloud also needs a dedicated skillset, so "cloud" doesn't remove the need from a sysadmin. If you can get (and trust they do it right) developers to
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
You can also put these lambdas on a shared hosting provider as CGIs and get the exact same experience.
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
There's a multibillion dollar industry that lives only because they managed to successfully convince an entire generation of "engineers" to become helpless and not be able to serve an HTTP response using their own hardware ev
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
Here's a low-tech approach: an SMS/WhatsApp/Telegram bot. You can just text it the info and even the location. This means all the logic is server-side and nothing on the client.
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
A shared AirTag could probably take care of the location issue easily. I assume that in this scenario with exclusively trusted users, trading off privacy for the convenience might be worthwhile.
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
That cuts both ways though. Nobody is coming after you unless it is worth their legal department's time (which cost much more than your own lawyer).
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
LLM slop.
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
Wouldn't using a coding agent to build a screenscraper be better?
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
Don't pawn shops already solve this problem? Make your way there, dump your stuff, get peanuts for it in exchange (but might still be worth it if you truly don't need said stuff).
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
Same as for all those "get rich quick" and "double your money" scams: if it was any good you'd use it to trade yourself instead of giving it away.
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
Do you know how to break into such fields, for someone having experience operating on-prem infra at a smaller scale?
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
Lie and ChatGPT your resume to hell. Use those interview cheating tools to pass the bullshit interviews that will be thrown at you. Your competition is doing it, there is no reason for you not to.
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
To be clear, this was developing software running on *nix environments, and they were all using Mac (or WSL) and the usual open-source *nix dev tools. This is not a case of developers purely targeting Microsoft environments (indeed it would
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
They know that it's a magic box into which you paste whatever incantation is in the README.md or spoonfed to you by an LLM, but otherwise have no mental model of how it works. Hell, they didn't even have the reflex of pressing &qu
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
> get a job that relocates you to London This is terrible advice. Source: been there, done that (worked my ass off to waste half my TC on taxes and the other half on cost of living). I ended up moving to a low-tax Eastern European countr
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
> Why not just admit that you don't want to pay equivalent wages for accessing the western european market? Is it his responsibility? If some countries have a better tax policy, why should he not take advantage of it, and ultimate
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
A company can operate aimlessly for a long time and carry along due to inertia and/or monopoly position. So chances are nobody (competent) is reviewing it.
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
It's primarily a discovery problem, on both sides of the market. Candidate-wise, everyone is slinging ChatGPT'd resumes left and right, which just leads to an arms race where the other side has to use LLMs to filter them, which
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
The issue is that indeed, nobody is going to enforce that.
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
Just like they'll send you an LLM'd resume, they will send you LLM'd code.
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
Leetcode is fine for large companies where software engineering is essentially a factory worker position - you take ticket in, produce code out. Engineers have very little say in the product or business. In this situation, things like soft
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by noprocrasted 5mo ago
I dealt with that recently. Despite getting 6 figures off them fixing their vibe-coded mess and trying to implement sane engineering practices they still keep vibe-coding and boasting about the virtues of AI. Oh well, it pays my bills.

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