tetha

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by tetha 6mo ago
The owner rug-pulls, or Broadcom buys the owner and starts squeezing.
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by tetha 6mo ago
Lifetime is the underlying issue. For example, it is possible to create a vault lease for exactly one CI build and tie the lifetime of secrets the CI build needs to the lifetime of this build. Practically, this would mean that e.g. a token,
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by tetha 6mo ago
Yeah that was an interesting discovery in a development meeting. Many people were chasing after the next best model and everything, though for me, Sonnet 4.6 solves many topics in 1-2 rounds. I mainly need some focus on context, instruction
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by tetha 6mo ago
> The real question isn't "do you need a database" but "do you need state" — and often the answer is no. We have a bunch of these applications and they are a joy to work with. Funny enough, even if you have a dat
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by tetha 6mo ago
The main drawback is that you will need to be able to patch quick in the next 3-5 years. We are already seeing this in a few solutions getting attention from various AI-driven security topics and our previous stance of letting fixes "r
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by tetha 6mo ago
Any `return c` for some constant is a valid and correct hash function. It just has a lot of collisions and degenerates hash-maps to terrible performance. That was in fact my first thought when I read "simplest hash functions".
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by tetha 6mo ago
This. Sometimes during hectic times, my bosses need to get the right summary of everything in one phone screen. So I generally try to have mails with a first line summarizing everything in one glance, a short section you can read in an elev
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by tetha 7mo ago
> (We also instituted pairing on production proxy maintenance. I'm not a fan of pair programming but pair maintenance is great.) It's a great opportunity to share knowledge and techniques and I very much recommend doing so. It&
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by tetha 7mo ago
Ah, but then you choose the wrong language or language runtime and distros ship old versions for 10+ years :) (compare: polkit. Both sides have their point, but I've been annoyed by this standoff a few times).
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by tetha 7mo ago
It depends on the complexity and if your LLM-driven changes fight the architecture of the project. Some changes are in the area of "Well no one did that yet because no one needed it or had time for it", or "Well shit, no one
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by tetha 7mo ago
That ship has sailed, but I consider Unicode a good thing, yet I consider it problematic to support Unicode in every domain. I should be able to use Ü as a cursed smiley in text, and many more writing systems supported by Unicode support ev
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by tetha 7mo ago
At $work we're hosting business knowledge databases. Interestingly enough, if you need to revert a day or two of edits, you're better off to do it asap, over postponing and mulling over it. Especially if you can keep a dump or an
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by tetha 7mo ago
I agree. I generally don't ask "Do we need to future proof this?", I rather ask: "Do we paint ourself into a corner?" For example, if you implement a job framework of things calling a REST API to do stuff async, a s
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by tetha 7mo ago
Also, I have been called a bit of a hard-ass for this, but if the junior author of some piece of code is not able to explain to me why it is written that way or how they would extend it in a few reasonable cases, I consider that a problem.
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by tetha 7mo ago
> The higher paid engineers i've worked with are always worth their salary/hourly rate because of the way they approach problems and the solutions they come up with. I'm honestly just happy at the moment, because our two j
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by tetha 7mo ago
> The primary motivating factor by far for these CLI agents always seems to be expedience in completing the task (to a plausible definition of "completed" that justifies ending the turn and returning to the user ASAP). Curiousl
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by tetha 7mo ago
One uncomfortable, but wise truth is: Actual security is bound to the number of minutes until people with big guns arrive. A lot of other measures just exist to bridge time and limit damages until that happens. We learned this during a funn
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by tetha 8mo ago
You paid money to get to the Sematary? I think you may have been scammed by the locals.
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by tetha 8mo ago
Someone once said: Abuse and expectations erode a culture of cooperation. I am currently seeing this in real time at $work. A flagship product has been placed onto the platform we're building, and the entire sales/marketing/p
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by tetha 8mo ago
I've setup my ~/Stuff, ~/CurrentStuff and mkstuff some time ago and it's extremely useful to keep clutter under control for me. I use this as temporary working directories for small stuff that's not a real project y
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by tetha 8mo ago
We are currently extremely blessed on the companies new product, because they have placed a curious and open-minded product manager and a curious and open-minded ux-designer in charge of the administrative interface. Over half a year, those
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by tetha 8mo ago
This looks very useful for our database heavy teams. Getting this information is certainly already possible, but there is a bit of a barrier in front of it. You need to realize the query is slow, then you need to re-run it with the right EX
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by tetha 8mo ago
I find it important to include system information in here as well, so just copy-pasting an invocation from system A to system B does not run. For example, our database restore script has a parameter `--yes-delete-all-data-in` and it needs t
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by tetha 8mo ago
When we designed the (by now largely self-hosted) stack for our production enviroment, we had that discussion. And honestly, on the persistence side, most people agreed that PostgreSQL, S3 and a file system for some special services is plen
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by tetha 8mo ago
> I would wager the main reason for this is the same reason it’s also hard to teach these skills to people: there’s not a lot of high quality training for distributed debugging of complex production issues. Competence comes from years of
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by tetha 8mo ago
Good alert deduplication and dependency rules are worth so much. "Dear alerting, don't start throwing a fit about those 600 systems over there if you can't even reach the firewall all traffic to those systems goes through&quo
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by tetha 8mo ago
Also, an EV is as green as the grid. Hamburgs public transportation is heavily investing into electrical busses, because a bus is expected to function for 10 - 15 years. Meaning, a diesel bus built today will be as polluting in 2035 as it i
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by tetha 9mo ago
Interestingly enough, > For example, Azure Standard_E192ibds_v6 is 96 cores with 1.8 TB of memory and 10 TB of local SSD storage with 3 million IOPS. Is a well-stocked Dell Server going for ~50 - 60K capex without storage before the RAM
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by tetha 9mo ago
Oh absolutely, and it would be my responsibility to build this. In fact, I don't even need details. I just prefer to know about a team members situation and have a plan around it, before clients, internal customers, our boss and HR sta
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by tetha 9mo ago
> When they tell their base managers to crack the whip and force them to give the whole “you are not working hard enough, tighten up. Shorter lunches, clock in 5 minutes early, etc” speech to the base employees, they will absolutely feel

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