alienchow

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by alienchow 8d ago
All instructions to LLMs are merely suggestions to nudge it in the right behaviour. Unless you have a deterministic guardrail that guards against a single specific action, everything else is a slot machine that's biased strongly in you
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by alienchow 2mo ago
It would depend on whether the computers back then could handle that (along with all the crypto algorithms in their infancy) when A:\ and B:\ weren't even a thing.
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by alienchow 4mo ago
The infrastructure layer would have to create the interface for a custom operator to reconcile with. There are a fair bit of bridges out there to enable this. There's now Kubevirt for VM management and Metal3 for baremetal configurati
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Source Hydrated Infrastructure Models(medium.com)
3 points by alienchow 4mo ago|2 comments
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by alienchow 4mo ago
This is the way. But the downside is that you do get the Cider team constantly messaging and asking for reasons you won't switch. I gave feedback that their Vim bindings were broken (it would sometimes fail on holding down directional
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by alienchow 4mo ago
Spin up one in the US central region instead of an instance near your satellite office. The bottleneck is usually not your shell connection to the instance but the connections from the instance to all the infrastructure that's mainly b
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by alienchow 6mo ago
I'm not familiar with the jargon either, but based on some reading it comes down to how the latest kernel treats process preempts. Postgres uses spinlocks to hold shared memory for very critical processes. Spinlocks are an infinite loo
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AI Hot Takes from a Platform Engineer / SRE(alienchow.dev)
4 points by alienchow 6mo ago|0 comments
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by alienchow 6mo ago
What I don't understand is that, if coding agents are making coding obsolete, why do these vibe coders not choose a language that doesn't set their users' compute resources on fire? Just vibe rust or golang for their cli tool
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by alienchow 6mo ago
If this is a skill issue, feel free to let me know. In general Claude Code is decent for tooling. Onduty fullstack tooling features that used to sit ignored in the on-caller ticket queue for months can now be easily built in 20 minutes with
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by alienchow 8mo ago
Thanks HN folks for all the comments. To clarify a bit, the cables are pulled through PVC conduits under the flooring before being buried in cement. Currently the hypotheses for why the cable disintegrated so quickly is hydrolysis and paint
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by alienchow 8mo ago
Should be solvent based.
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by alienchow 8mo ago
Thanks, I really appreciate the SMEs commenting here. I'm learning a lot. Definitely learnt it the hard way this time. You're right that buried cables should be exact in length and fastened to a patch panel. I'll probably loo
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by alienchow 8mo ago
Hey actually I didn't know! It's my very first time dealing with fibre networking so I just maxed out the supposed durability specs. I figured I'd rather go overkill than regret not having done so. Ironic I know. Unfortunatel
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by alienchow 8mo ago
I do have PVC conduits under the flooring. You can see the photos here: https://alienchow.dev/post/homelab1/ In theory I can pull a new cable through. But practically it might be tough due to the number of bends (
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by alienchow 8mo ago
It's one of those "just because" moments. The idea was to future proof my home infra for a 25G NAS connection. Most ethernet connections tap out at 10G. While theoretically speaking Cat 8 cables can do 40G, hardware support f
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by alienchow 8mo ago
... Shucks. I should really have scrutinised the materials.
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by alienchow 8mo ago
The electricians mentioned that in order to curve the cables along underneath the floor tiling they couldn't use metal trunking which would cause sharp angles, so they used PVC pipes to do curvy trunking for the fibre cables. I could t
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by alienchow 8mo ago
I'm not sure either. It's not an air tight bomb shelter and it's used like an average storeroom, storing stuff like winter jackets, suitcases and paint. I do use small amounts of Calcium Chloride based dessicants to keep the
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My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated(alienchow.dev)
269 points by alienchow 8mo ago|230 comments
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by alienchow 1y ago
The OG container.
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by alienchow 1y ago
As someone who had to learn German, I actually really appreciated the language being formatted quite like closure functions."I have 'noun' upon which 'verb'" with the pronoun and verb being the parentheses wher
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by alienchow 1y ago
You forgot about drinking chia fresca before and after every run.
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by alienchow 2y ago
COVID. People in semi house arrest mode deprived of social interaction forgot how to be decent human beings. Shortly after I left the US, I vividly recall reading the news about a 6yo shot dead in his mum's car by a road rager on the f
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by alienchow 2y ago
When I can't convince someone in a technical discussion of my viewpoint because they have their heels dug into a random viewpoint on a blog post penned by a random nobody, I write a blog post and link it back without mentioning the aut
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by alienchow 2y ago
It would be part of your architecture design trade off. Disregarding whatever AWS peddles, you can have a cellular infrastructure (like Google), but have non-cellular systems architecture built on top of it (still deployed across different
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by alienchow 2y ago
Microsoft had been badgering me to upgrade my Windows 10, only it doesn't allow me to do so when I click on the link given. Then I recalled that I only needed Windows all this time to run a single application. Installed Ubuntu with Win
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by alienchow 2y ago
The testing practice I've seen is to have a testdata/ directory with a bunch of textprotos for different test cases. If you're using Bazel, just include the entire directory glob as data dependency for the unit tests. The tes
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by alienchow 2y ago
Vim is this editor that a senior backend engineer told me to go try for a week, when I was still relatively junior. Like really try to remember all the shortcuts, not some half-assed attempt then laugh about not being able to remember <e
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by alienchow 2y ago
How do you scale mTLS ops when the CISO comes knocking?

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