kennu

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by kennu 4mo ago
But if I understand it right, auto_ptr assignment didn't actually copy the pointer, but instead moved it to a new variable and quietly made the original variable null? And unique_ptr made this operation require an explicit move() call,
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by kennu 4mo ago
Wasn't unique_ptr added as a migration path away from auto_ptr to provide similar functionality more safely? I've never used them but was just reading the history.
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by kennu 5mo ago
Yes, and like I mentioned in another comment, I consider this a major painpoint and problem with Node.js based applications. I have high hopes that eventually there will be an "evergreen" WebAssembly based Lambda function runtime.
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by kennu 5mo ago
The things that you just described are not automation, but human activities needed to tackle the new situation by following news and creating new automation. Which kind of proves my point that you cannot prepare for every unexpected situati
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by kennu 5mo ago
I'm curious about this trivial automation. Let's say the new OS LTS version no longer includes nginx, because it was replaced by a new product with different config. How does the automation figure out what the new server package i
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by kennu 5mo ago
This is not about how easy or difficult it is to issue TLS certificates, to configure SSH keys or to update the OS. It's about having to actively maintain them yourself in every possible situation until eternity, like when TLS versions
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by kennu 5mo ago
When buying the infrastructure as a managed cloud service, yes, I trust that they've got people handling it better than I could myself. The value proposition is that I don't even see the underlying infrastructure below a certain l
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by kennu 5mo ago
You might be right. I've been mostly using serverless / managed cloud services such as AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB for the past 10+ years. When I've needed to respond, it's been because I myself deployed a bad
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by kennu 5mo ago
Maybe you're right - I've never tried dokploy, but from documentation it sounds like mostly a deployment, monitoring and alerting tool. For me the problem has always been that once you get the alert (or something just stops workin
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by kennu 5mo ago
It means you take responsibility of maintaining the server forever, i.e. dealing with TLS certificates, SSH keys, security updates, OS/package updates, monitoring, reboots when stuck, redeploy when VPS retired, etc. Usually things work
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by kennu 9mo ago
Thanks, will definitely look into it. I first used Pulumi when it was just a cloud platform but seems it is a more general devops tool now.
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by kennu 9mo ago
Sad to see it go. The philosophy of CDK has been to offer a shared ecosystem between IaC, backend code and frontend code, allowing to share configuration, data structures and libraries between all of them. It has made development more unifi
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by kennu 1y ago
I feel the opposite about SQL: It is often being shoehorned into use cases that don't fit the relative/transactional database model at all. My own default database is AWS DynamoDB, because it fits 90% of my own use cases quite wel
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by kennu 1y ago
Scrolling with mouse scroll wheel a few hundred thousand kilometers at a time is so much work that I gave up :-(
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by kennu 1y ago
At minimum, the government gets a "ping" when identified citizens visit adult sites requiring the age check, so they can keep a record. In worse scenarios, maybe some identifier leaks through that can also identify which site they
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by kennu 1y ago
I don't really know what to do with a dumbphone, since I don't get any phone calls or text messages any more. Everything goes through apps, email or web nowadays.
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by kennu 1y ago
I guess there's many cases where you don't really know how complicated or simple the solution will end up to be, and start drawing it while thinking about it.. I must admit that those are usually the most interesting parts of the
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by kennu 1y ago
I understand the sentiment, but I don't get how you could draw more complex software plans by hand. I usually use Draw.io/Diagrams.net, and the drawings get pretty large and need reorganizing dozens of boxes several times while pl
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by kennu 1y ago
My main issue in the EU is that cloud platform services are not very mature compared to AWS, Azure, GCP. They have some of the basic stuff like VMs and storage, but almost nobody has FaaS and the smaller services like SQS, SNS, scalable pay
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by kennu 1y ago
Cursor is not about vibe coding. Vibe coding means you don't care about the AI's code output as long as it works. Cursor is all about efficiently reviewing the AI-proposed changes and hitting Tab only when you approve them. Much o
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by kennu 1y ago
I got my first fixed IP address and always-on Internet connection in 1995 and I don't particularly miss the dial-up times before that. I prefer to have everything connected and online all the time, but also with proper security.
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by kennu 1y ago
It's funny how back in the 1990s the concept of software was different. You might buy an actual shrink wrapped package with an install disc and be happy with it for years. Nowadays it would be unthinkable to use software without gettin
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by kennu 1y ago
I'm really happy with my Bosch washing machine's WiFi. Getting a notification to the phone when the wash cycle is complete is something I wouldn't give up now, since I don't hear the beeping to upstairs. I also wish I&#x
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by kennu 2y ago
I disagree with smaller docs being easier to write. Quite the opposite, it is easy to write longer text, which then requires more effort from the reader to understand it. To write shorter text, you must put in the effort beforehand to compa
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by kennu 2y ago
Maybe not save "us", but possibly the Rohingya during the Myanmar genocide, which was fueled by hate speech and disinformation spread through and promoted by Facebook.
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by kennu 2y ago
My impression is that the current Sonos app becomes unusable when your home Internet connection is unstable. It usually works fine here, but when our 5G starts switching channels due to a snowstorm, the Sonos app becomes erratic. I understa
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by kennu 2y ago
Whenever I have created API keys for a product, this is the #1 feature I want: easy copy-pasteability. Just letters and numbers, no special characters that break double-click-selecting the key.
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by kennu 2y ago
AWS SDKs handle some important stuff though, such as retrying database operations with backoff delays. Without it your app will fail in unexpected situations because the cloud service is designed to be stateless and return specific error co
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by kennu 2y ago
For me, 2024 was the year I finally got completely rid of Windows and switched fully to Ubuntu on all computers. I had kept Windows for playing Steam games, but I realized Proton will play them just fine on Linux when you enable it in the S
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by kennu 2y ago
There are many interesting Web3 apps, like decentralized social media, decentralized web (IPFS), decentralized domain names, decentralized organization management, etc, but they have not seemed to mature enough to become mainstream. They al

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