selkin

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by selkin 5mo ago
What bothers me ain't the subscription, but the lack of transparency. I'm asked to pay for future updates and support here, but I don't know what that would be. Some visibility into the roadmap and operations (an anonymous LL
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by selkin 5mo ago
s/Before/Between/
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by selkin 6mo ago
Holding the title of engineer does not make one a good or capable engineer.
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by selkin 6mo ago
The FCC ain’t doing nothing about it. If anyone thinks they are, then I have an amazing US made router to sell them.
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by selkin 6mo ago
It’s true, and briefly made the news at the time[1]. The CSRB was also decimiated, and the current DHS deputy secretary, in his confirmation hearing, called for wrecking the agency, as he disagrees with their efforts to maintain election se
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by selkin 6mo ago
Many wouldn't, but some people share his values, and given the compensation, it makes saying "no" much harder. Money may not be the most important thing in life, but it does make them extremely easier to live.
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by selkin 7mo ago
I stopped reading once Evans emphasized consumer product. That was never a good strategy to sell SaaS, and I don't see how that changes.
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by selkin 7mo ago
X has only brand recognition right now, and an extremely toxic one. Big customers may buy but won't give them logos, people who are offended by Musk's worldview won't pay them either. You don't do well with a toxic brand
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by selkin 7mo ago
Why is it a good thing? Manufacturing jobs are horrible, ask anyone who had one. The US built a high margins service economy. This is two steps backwards, no step forwards sort of a deal.
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by selkin 7mo ago
Every statement in the above comment is wrong: People born in the 90s wouldn’t have a chance to be old enough to belong to any group other than a preschool before the collapse of the Soviet and Soviet aligned regimes. For those who were adu
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by selkin 7mo ago
macOS is a certified UNIX[0], but iOS isn’t. — [0] https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
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by selkin 7mo ago
otoh: the non regulated should cost more. It’s kinda like “qualified investors” - you want to make sure people who are wiling to do something extremely stupid can afford it and acknowledge their stupidity. We don’t need regulation to protec
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by selkin 7mo ago
By default, Claude code keeps session history (as jsonl files in ~/.claude). It’s wasteful not to save and learn from those.
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by selkin 7mo ago
And multiple years from the boardroom making a decision to build a data center to breaking ground.
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by selkin 8mo ago
We want to protect against the unknown, not the known. The less surface area, the better, and containers have much wider surface area than VMs. Both had their faults, of course.
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by selkin 8mo ago
Not sure if it's intended, but Apple Container is a microvm, providing mich better isolation than containers (while retaining the familiar interface)
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by selkin 8mo ago
Walmart famously refuse to pay the extra couple of basis points that are charged by the various payment-rails-involved-entities when doing NFC payments instead of physical card.
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by selkin 8mo ago
One of the issues. The idea that space is the place (for data centers) is more of a desperate marketing than serious engineering.
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by selkin 8mo ago
If you want people to interview better, you have to both allocate resources to it, and make it count on perf. It’s not laziness, it’s ROI.
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by selkin 8mo ago
No one might be Job-level ahole, but I'm certain Cook ain't less ruthless. It's a matter of priorities, not attitude.
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by selkin 9mo ago
Java bytecode is always dynamically linked.
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by selkin 9mo ago
> But what happens if there was a cosmic bit flip in a dynamic library? You'd need multiple of those, because you have ECC. Not impossible, but getting all those dice rolled the same way requires even bigger scale than Google's
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by selkin 9mo ago
If he himself believes he can achieve his off-the-cuff deadlines or not doesn't matter for the rest of us: he already proven himself to be a fabulist, and after so many failed predictions, should know better than to air them in public,
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by selkin 9mo ago
Less LOC also doesn't imply simplicity: just look at the demoscene, which often has the former but not the latter.
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by selkin 9mo ago
idk, the OP is all about the author misunderstanding what they bought. Hence a comment about bikes not understanding bikes deserves just as much scrutiny. My own life tip: there are plenty of good analogies, so no need to choose use an exam
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by selkin 9mo ago
Your analogy won’t hold scrutiny with a competitive cyclist: newer bikes are also faster given the same rider, even if not as meaningfully as a new CPU. And modern bikes do make with the need for cable replacement or breakage (hydro lines a
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by selkin 9mo ago
If your threat model is AWS deciding you break their AUP, the issue is with you doing AUP breaking stuff. This ain’t your personal Google Play account.
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by selkin 9mo ago
Even if you do SaaS. Some customers would ask you about known vulnerabilities in your images, and making it easy to show quick remediation schedule can make deals easier to close.
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by selkin 9mo ago
I don't think Forgejo is competitive in the markets GitHub makes most of their money from, nor does it seem Forgejo developers want it to be.
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by selkin 9mo ago
He plead to a crime, which must’ve cut him off from most government work. He seems to be on a PR tour now, I guess to try and get other work. Some people blast every connection on LinkedIn, he seems to take a different approach and guest on

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