zzyzxd

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by zzyzxd 2mo ago
It's funny because different people would interpret this sentence differently. If you have high level understanding of the tech behind it, this feels like a threat. But if you don't, this sounds like an honest message from someone
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by zzyzxd 2mo ago
Those people are designers. And they don't necessarily understand software, data, or security. When I explained to my non-technical friends about how they were being tracked by website cookies, it sounded like a sci fi story to them. B
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by zzyzxd 2mo ago
In my experience, those operations require understanding, judgement, and taste. But all of that only matters if I care about the codebase enough for it to matter. So I don't think the disagreement is really about git. It's about h
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by zzyzxd 2mo ago
The author had 27 years of experience but still found "babysitting git" was painful. I couldn't remember what's the last time git got in my way. I guess such benefit from AI is probably very specific to their setup. I do
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by zzyzxd 2mo ago
My water heater once emitted a cryptic warning light. I called a local contractor, the person came and spent 10 seconds inspected the appliance, then start dialing the appliance vendor's support number. Support asked him to press some
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by zzyzxd 3mo ago
> Yeah but you won't so it's not a big problem The reason you can comfortably say this is exactly because we orchestrate our society around what someone "could" do. Operating a drone is not that easy, today. And killi
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by zzyzxd 3mo ago
I think the blog post's target audience were people who already embraced vibe coding. It's not for you (or for me). But still, between the lines the blog seems to want to picture an imaginary AI agent that has somewhat predictable
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by zzyzxd 3mo ago
That's my point. It's not about the technology itself, because that's never cut and dry. It's about having a process to evaluate and criticize a technology before fully embracing it. Socrates was in a position with loud
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by zzyzxd 3mo ago
It's a thread border router and matter controller, providing Remote access to local-only devices, scheduling, automation... with better track records on security and privacy than competitors.
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by zzyzxd 3mo ago
I think nowadays the Apple TV is more about smart home than TV. But as long as they keep calling it a "TV", most of the people will compare it with the built-in apps in their smart TVs and think it's unnecessary. Even if you
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by zzyzxd 3mo ago
Well I didn't say it was achievable at the time. But is it really that unimaginable? > assuming nobody fell asleep on watch, the wood was dry, the fog cooperated, and the enemy hadn't already lit a fake beacon to mess with you.
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by zzyzxd 3mo ago
They already learned to use light and fire to transfer data over long distance. How much difference is there between beacon fire and fiber optic cable? But I think they would be more surprised by how we managed to invent things like social
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by zzyzxd 3mo ago
It's totally fine to not to use k8s. Personally, I think I have made several good decisions in my career to use/avoid k8s in different scenarios. But if someone wrote a blog to brag about not using k8s, they can't stop people
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by zzyzxd 3mo ago
If this creation stays as is, then it's not very complicated and pretty easy to understand and support. But that is a big IF, and very likely won't be true. Over time people will add more useful features to it, then it becomes ano
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by zzyzxd 3mo ago
The biggest concern about Ubiquiti to me is still its software/infrastructure quality. Off top of my head, besides all the UI/UX glitches: - They once allowed a human employee to access static AWS root access key. - Their employee
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by zzyzxd 3mo ago
I totally believe this works for you. But in your case, isn't NixOS just another declarative orchestration system like Kubernetes? Similarly I can just run a standalone nginx, caddy with acme, and a coredns pod in a bare minimum k8s cl
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by zzyzxd 3mo ago
> One thing that I think people new to it don’t realize is that it’s not at all batteries included - to get a basic managed cluster setup, you’re still going to be installing a bunch of additional controllers (ingress, cert-manager, exte
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by zzyzxd 3mo ago
IMO that is not a rockstar developer, but a junior developer rocking LLM agents. Completing each individual programming task is easy. Engineering the system in a sustainable way that changes can be traced, understood and reasoned about is d
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by zzyzxd 3mo ago
Automation should always be the serialization of understanding of the system, which can execute on its own under normal conditions. When it breaks, your reaction should not be removing the automation and asking humans to get back to manual
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by zzyzxd 3mo ago
If they are ok with shortcuts being vibecoded, maybe it's time to expose a proper programming language to the end users as well. All my automation shortcuts can be easily explained in pseudo code under 5 minutes, but it took me ages to
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by zzyzxd 3mo ago
I never care about AI usage disclosure, because I don't believe that human produced code is necessarily better than AI produced code, unless it's someone I personally know. People need to be responsible for code they commit and pu
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by zzyzxd 4mo ago
It would be nice if I could talk to my parents in person everyday, feeling their touches and temperature. But we live in different countries, so instead I talk to them over FaceTime everyday. TBH, even if they live next door, I may not alwa
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by zzyzxd 4mo ago
> every single manufacturer that wants you to install their app and use their ecosystem That's good. I don't want a single company to control everything in my house. Having multiple vendors with different implementations is hea
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by zzyzxd 5mo ago
It just takes time to design your hardware/software stack to be able to survive reboots and recover back to ideal states. I guess nobody really enjoys rebooting machines, but at the same time, I don't think people should be afraid
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by zzyzxd 5mo ago
Vibe coding is fun, but I can't trust it to make any serious decisions. Like, it knows what's the best way to do a thing, but when encounters challenges, it started to make all kinds of excuses to cut corners, just like humans. &q
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by zzyzxd 5mo ago
One mistake I see across many organizations is that sometimes they overthink how much order should matter. Sure, your application has a dependency on that database, but it doesn't necessarily mean you can't deploy the application
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by zzyzxd 5mo ago
> Less awkward prefix keys > Probably the most common change among tmux users is to change the prefix from the rather awkward C-b to something that’s a little more accessible. I like the awkwardness of the default prefix key. I have a
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by zzyzxd 6mo ago
You are right. I didn't read the terms. Looks like ABE can only be used by a business entity.
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by zzyzxd 6mo ago
This is interesting to me as the IT support for my family. I have been considering using MDM to provision Wi-Fi credentials and other device configurations. 3rd party solutions are a little bit too much for what I need. Apple Business Essen
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by zzyzxd 6mo ago
I have a GL.iNet travel router. When I am not travel, it connects to the router's second WAN port. If my main internet goes down, it takes me 30 seconds to tether my phone and failover manually. My carrier detects and throttles hotspot

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