wulfstan

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by wulfstan 5mo ago
I’ve just started a new job and my first month has been coming to terms with a vibe coded codebase. Nobody really understands it. I think that people who have the skills to really know what is there and how it all fits together will be the
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by wulfstan 6mo ago
I am currently wrestling a vibe-coded codebase into a shippable state and we should call these tools out for what they actually are - technical debt generators.
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by wulfstan 6mo ago
100% with you. I start a new job on Monday and I intend to keep building great young engineers who love their craft and their community. Enough of this vampiric unethical horse manure.
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by wulfstan 7mo ago
Extremely useful information - unfortunately I just assumed this didn't apply to me because I am in the UK and not the EU. Another mistake, though given it's not huge amounts of money I will chalk it up to experience. Hopefully so
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by wulfstan 7mo ago
I've just shifted my SWE infrastructure from AWS to Hetzner (literally in the last month). My current analysis looks like it will be about 15-20% of the cost - £240 vs 40-50 euros. Expect a significant exit expense, though, especially
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by wulfstan 8mo ago
That is false. Burglary is a crime in the UK. See https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/section/9 and https://www.cps.gov.uk/prosecution-guidance/theft-act-offenc...
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by wulfstan 8mo ago
I think this is partly true. Raising the necessary funds, hiring enough of the right people and become sufficiently visible to get "mindshare" are all important factors in building a successful business. It is a lot harder to do t
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by wulfstan 9mo ago
It's not uncommon. My cousin sent out a Christmas card announcing her divorce - I think it stops a lot of 1-1 conversations with people which can be quite draining when you're already pretty raw.
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by wulfstan 10mo ago
These are all good arguments. Then do the opposite and block S3 access from VPCs by default. That would violate none of those. “We have no idea what your intent is, so we’ll default to routing AWS-AWS traffic expensively” is way, way worse
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by wulfstan 10mo ago
Yes, this. You lock it into Terraform or some equivalent. And ok, this is a mistake you will probably only make once - I know, because I too have made it on a much smaller scale, and thankfully in a cost-insensitive customer's account
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by wulfstan 10mo ago
Right, I can appreciate that argument - but then the right thing to do is to block S3 access from AWS VPCs until you have explicitly confirmed that you want to pay the big $$$$ to do so, or turn on the VPC endpoint. A parallel to this is ho
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by wulfstan 10mo ago
This happens so often that the S3 VPC endpoint should be setup by default when your VPC is created. AWS engineers on here - make this happen. Also, consider using fck-nat ( https://fck-nat.dev/v1.3.0/ ) instead of NAT ga
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by wulfstan 1y ago
OPs experience working their way up the keyboard stack is very similar to my own. I settled on the Dygma Raise. I now own one of the Raise and Raise 2. Yes, they are a lot of money. I don’t have time to game any more, and they clearly focus
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by wulfstan 1y ago
Such a relief! But it drives my wife completely crazy.
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by wulfstan 1y ago
By narrow program of study I don’t mean “breadth within the discipline” I mean “credit for work outside the discipline”. My son is studying maths but has taken two semesters of biblical Greek, previously did a music subject and this term is
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by wulfstan 1y ago
The truth is that if you have an intelligent child, independent school is a complete waste of money. In the UK you will be spending in the vicinity of £200k over a child’s education to finish a levels, and although they will get better a le
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by wulfstan 1y ago
Yes I'm really not sure obsessive patterns of behaviour will be helped by an unqualified stochastic parrot giving you advice. Unfortunately, when treatment for conditions in some countries costs you an arm and a leg people will resort
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by wulfstan 1y ago
Nope, don’t think it’s the demographics, unless by demographics you mean “easy to buy a gun”.
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by wulfstan 1y ago
That isn’t the only reason why there are large numbers of gun deaths in the US.
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by wulfstan 1y ago
I really don’t understand why people are downvoting these remarks. We can feel desperately sad and sorry for his wife and child and family while also recognising that he has literally espoused wide availability of guns AND the inevitability
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by wulfstan 1y ago
In Australia this would be considered normal office conversation.
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by wulfstan 1y ago
Good, it's not just me. I guess it's not a massive surprise given it's an HN forum and a reasonable percentage of HN candidates are doing LLM/AI stuff in recent cohorts, but it still means I have to apply a very big filt
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by wulfstan 1y ago
Answering my own question: If you've got a QNAP, you can install Debian 10 on some of them < https://www.cyrius.com/debian/ > If you've got a Synology, it has been done on some older devices as well <
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by wulfstan 1y ago
Stupid question, but has anyone hacked/replaced the vanilla firmware on Synology boxes and got it running something more flexible? This is kind of a lazyweb request, but I have an old Synology box that I wouldn't mind resurrecting
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by wulfstan 1y ago
That is impressive. Beyond bonkers, but impressive.
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by wulfstan 1y ago
When I worked in China (not for long periods but frequently enough that the Great Firewall became an irritant) I hosted an OpenVPN server on port 443 and/or port 22 of a server I owned. That worked sufficiently well most of the time.
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by wulfstan 1y ago
I bought your app in 2010 and use it regularly. Thanks for making it!
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by wulfstan 1y ago
I would like to say an enormous thank you to Dave, who after a huge amount of pestering (and probably to try to save himself from further pestering) shared his .emacs filetree with me and told me to learn Lisp. Be generous with your dotfile
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by wulfstan 1y ago
The reason it works for music is because the people behind the databases have a team of lawyers that will come after you for violating copyright/performance legislation if you don’t pay your dues. The argument that LLM outfits are usin
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by wulfstan 1y ago
Yes, this is the crux of the matter. The "social contract" that has been established over the last 25+ years is that site owners don't mind their site being crawled reasonably provided that the indexing that results from it l

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