stingraycharles

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by stingraycharles 3d ago
Eh, SREs are generally considered harder to get into with more responsibility than regular development roles, unless I misunderstood what you meant with “reliability”.
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by stingraycharles 3d ago
That article seems to arrive to the same conclusion as I did (“we need IP KVM”) without offering any solid choices? Which solutions perform well?
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by stingraycharles 3d ago
What’s a decent quality IP KVM solution that’s not too expensive? We’re looking to put a dozen of mac minis in a collocation, and currently investigating solutions for remote access.
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by stingraycharles 3d ago
What KVM were you thinking of, the virtualization?
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by stingraycharles 5d ago
Yeah, the usual approach here is to offer a free VPN service, and then piggyback traffic over the user’s internet provider. Much, much more scalable and cheaper than offering to put GPUs at a user’s home.
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by stingraycharles 5d ago
Yes but “Amazon-scale infra” as the grandparent mentions should absolutely include AWS, and Shopify is nowhere near that size.
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by stingraycharles 5d ago
Yeah I don’t think Anthropic is particularly interested in tracking individuals in the same way that companies like Facebook and Google are.
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by stingraycharles 5d ago
I think Amazon is very much on another level in terms of scale. Not trying to be negative about Shopify — they have a very large system to maintain - but Amazon is just on another level.
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by stingraycharles 6d ago
I don’t think that AI would have made this confusion (it’s much less likely to overlook things like these), and I’m also not of the opinion that these comments confuse the two companies, it’s rather than Spotify is used by the grandparent a
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by stingraycharles 6d ago
He’s quite well known on HN.
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by stingraycharles 6d ago
Fairly certain OP lives in The Netherlands.
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by stingraycharles 6d ago
It was at this moment I realized that people are talking about liking the non-classic-look XP. I always immediately put things in classic look, no grouped windows, etc.
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by stingraycharles 7d ago
I want to know how it compared to what I currently have.
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by stingraycharles 9d ago
Wasn’t it actually not as successful as it could have been? I recall something about it spreading to more machines than it should have, which caused it to be detected earlier than it should have.
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by stingraycharles 9d ago
That’s one, very narrow use case of skills.
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by stingraycharles 9d ago
It’s a similar type of art like pottery can be. Edit: I see you changed your comment and now introduced it being a craft, which changes the comment entirely.
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by stingraycharles 10d ago
People always say this about the evals, but I find it hard to have a practical implementation of such a thing where you won’t end up spending 100x the amount of time on the evals than building the skill itself. Like, ok, I have a debugging
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by stingraycharles 10d ago
Yeah the amount of Python code that would work here is probably not a lot more than this specific FizzBuzz example. Lots of shortcuts taken, which I guess is understandable.
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by stingraycharles 11d ago
I’m not saying that it’s not useful, I’m saying that it’s not useful in a “human in the loop” situation. This type of AI-to-AI review should be done agent-to-agent, not through Github PRs with tools like Devin. In a manual review, I then ex
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by stingraycharles 11d ago
Yeah I personally don’t understand the point of AI code review tools all that much, as AI is already generating the code as well. All of these AI code review tools create so much noise, yet don’t catch the really important things.
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by stingraycharles 12d ago
“On March 8th, 2026 - I launched the first-ever agent swarm where agents communicated with each other by reading and writing from a public message board, in order to collaborate with each other. ” Seems like you’re being a bit too self-cong
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by stingraycharles 12d ago
Conspiracy and incompetence are very different.
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by stingraycharles 12d ago
I’ve asked Claude to read this article for me and explain it to me. Somehow that makes it better, as then at least I know I’m talking to an AI: “The fix closed two chained flaws in RouterOS’s shared crypto and login libraries: a lax PKCS#1
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by stingraycharles 13d ago
Is that the case with enterprise contracts as well? Can’t imagine any decent procurement / legal team accepting this.
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by stingraycharles 17d ago
I think what changed is that coding agents adopted some of the features from Openclaw, eg the ability to access it remotely and for one Claude Code instance to “talk” to another, etc.
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by stingraycharles 19d ago
Yeah this should be benchmarked against other systems that have flush() disabled. mmap is nice but it doesn’t support durable semantics in the way that we usually mean with databases. if a write is acknowledged it should not be forgotten, w
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by stingraycharles 21d ago
Google Maps is also an acquisition from more than 2 decades ago, by the way.
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by stingraycharles 21d ago
Google has such a much better reputation when it comes to contributing to and understanding open source. It’s unfair to Google to put Amazon above them. Heck AWS is the sole reason all these projects needed to go through these license chang
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by stingraycharles 21d ago
Interesting to see how they will update their About page. Currently it says “Today, DuckLabs remains independent and fully owned by the original creators. We've deliberately chosen not to take venture capital, so we can focus on sustai
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by stingraycharles 21d ago
But they’re not at all a new player.

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