dinvlad

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The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers(ivanturkovic.com)
324 points by dinvlad 7mo ago|226 comments
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Microservices is the software industry's most successful confidence scam(twitter.com)
9 points by dinvlad 9mo ago|3 comments
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by dinvlad 10mo ago
This is the best take
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by dinvlad 10mo ago
This is such a deep rabbit hole! Other alternatives include CDN and residential proxies, no VPN required
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by dinvlad 10mo ago
Jeez. Thankfully I carefully avoided almost any and all of that political driven craziness there, as my bubble is just other solopreneurs
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by dinvlad 10mo ago
This. I’m on X myself a lot (because everyone else in my circles is, not because I wanted) and it’s just such a bubble. Sometimes I want to just quit it all and touch grass
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by dinvlad 11mo ago
Not a single VM possible to request on Azure us-east for over a month now though :-(
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by dinvlad 11mo ago
Right now, we can’t request even a single (1) non-beefy non-GPU VM in us-east on Azure. That’s been going on for over a month now, and that’s after being a customer for 2 years :(
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by dinvlad 11mo ago
The cloud is also not fulfilling its end of the promise anymore - capacity on-demand. We’ve been struggling for over a month to get a single (1) non-beefy non-GPU instance on Azure, since they’ve been having just insane capacity issues, whe
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by dinvlad 11mo ago
And now, on cloud it’s the same but much more expensive and worse performance. We’ve been struggling for over a month to get a single (1) non-beefy non-GPU VM allocated on Azure, since they’ve been having insane capacity issues, to the exte
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by dinvlad 1y ago
The whole business model even for OAI/Anthropic is unsustainable.. they are already running it at a huge loss atm, and will do for the foreseeable future. The economics simply doesn't work, unfortunately or not
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by dinvlad 1y ago
Another one bites the dust :-( I hope at least Windsurf stays the same..
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by dinvlad 1y ago
Andras (author of Serverless Horrors) knows what he’s talking about. The amount of brainwashing that big cloud providers have done, is insane.
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by dinvlad 1y ago
Saw this too, but seems a little too good to be true tbh. I don't doubt it helped them, but it's just so hard to make these agents work reliably. And the more "rules" one accumulates, the less reliably they follow all of
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Claude Code uninstalls itself if unsubscribed
2 points by dinvlad 1y ago|0 comments
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by dinvlad 1y ago
> when the "right" format and "right" time are essentially, and maybe even necessarily, undefined, then aren't you still reaching for a "magic" solution? Exactly the problem with all "knowing how t
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by dinvlad 1y ago
> already research allowing LLMs to use millions of different tools Hmm first time hearing about this, could you share any examples please?
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by dinvlad 1y ago
I feel like ppl just keep inventing concepts for the same old things, which come down to dancing with the drums around the fire and screaming shamanic incantations :-)
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by dinvlad 1y ago
Thanks a lot for clarifying in plain language! Makes sense re basically anything paid is NOT used for training, free - does. Off-topic, but I wish this kind of plain language doc existed for Google One vs Google Workspace as well.
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by dinvlad 1y ago
Egress is $25/TB unlike their other stuff. No thanks
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by dinvlad 1y ago
Surprised no one else mentioned "it's always DNS" yet :-)
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by dinvlad 1y ago
Except that AWS, CloudFlare and a bunch others are also down :-O
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by dinvlad 1y ago
#HugOps
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by dinvlad 2y ago
So wholesome :-)
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by dinvlad 2y ago
Just like Tesla "FSD" :-)
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by dinvlad 2y ago
Already do :-)
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by dinvlad 2y ago
Hetzner does have a cloud VPS option, which is still very affordable: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud This is pretty heads-to-heads with EC2, in terms of how it works behind the scenes.
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by dinvlad 2y ago
Yeah, they're all pretty fantastic. Can even upgrade existing servers with more RAM/disk, or store ~250 TB of data for $400/mo etc. Not to mention unlimited free 1 Gbit egress/server
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by dinvlad 2y ago
Yeah, Hetzner has 20 vCPU 64GB RAM i5-13500 servers for $40/mo: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ex/ This is ~10x cheaper than the closest AWS option, and without the extra fees. Also of no
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by dinvlad 2y ago
Exactly, it's the same with autonomous driving or any other activity (even art!) that has always required a human. While it can "look cool" and like it "understands the context" on the surface, when diving deeper it

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