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As a Canadian driving through Michigan/Ohio/Upstate New York and places look run down and like they peaked in the 60s-80s and its been down hill since.

When I was younger and it was a new thing it was quite a shock since American media obviously doesnt portray it that way. It is quite a contrast to even how the more run down parts of Canada look.

I remember about 10 years ago I switched our billing / subscription code from paypal to braintree. Braintree was better than paypal but that wasnt saying much. Then paypal bought Braintree and started fucking around with it, asking for conference calls because they wanted us off one of their old flows so they could get us on webhooks that preformed worse and were a pain to implement.

Anyway we switched to stripe. Don't love stripe and they take a big cut but I hate paypal.

The reason is because while you want to use the low end the general public does not understand that USB-C is the connector only and that various levels of power and data depend on the cable and the device at both ends.

If you sell a 10 port USB-C charged someone is going to plug 10 MacBooks into it and complain it doesnt work.

The best I have seen for what you want is

https://ca.ugreen.com/products/ugreen-500w-desktop-charger

but is not cheap at all or something like

https://www.amazon.ca/Powered-Aluminum-Adapter-Computer-Prin...

I make this comparison a lot and a lot of devs don't like it.

I am sure I could make a decent industrial PLC tech, same shit, different tools.

Repo claims

A single archive of public exploit PoCs and vulnerability research writeups. At the time I post these, none have been reported. Feel free to report them yourself and take credit for the CVE if handed out lulz. Please do not abuse these. I do this so to allure people into the field, and I've always found this is the most efficient way.

Which is roughly the definition of zero day. Whether the contents of the repo reflect the above claim is something else entirely.

Yeah the last decade of Nuclear work is the ONE thing that they have been successful at wrt to project planning.

Hopefully that expertise is well placed to execute on these other projects.

Mature ops would be tracking cache hit ratios right?

Sure, and sentry integrates well with redis in python which is what I use primarily with redis.

I don't think memcached is bad, I just think its old and industry has moved to redis because it offers more while covering the previous use case.

Calling redis fiddly is a mischaracterization. For many use cases I have not had to think more than 30s to setup redis.

(also when I say redis I mean Valkey at this point, even if they are starting to diverge)

I don't want my cache to silently fail.

Clustering redis is not that hard even if you do it manually and I have only had to do it once.

I never use redis persistence and have a max size set with LRU or whatever the application requires.

With memcached I remember having to mess around the LD_LIBRARY path to link whatever python module I was using at the time

I stopped using memcached a decade a go in favour of Redis and now use valkey.

Never felt the need to go back to memcached except when a legacy dependency needed it.

Merchants near me are using more computer based terminal that seem to take nearly every thing. Amex's cut probably smaller compared to squares or stripes.

When talking to a local merchant about why they dont take amex the fee was not mentioned. The merchant said that visa and mastercard settle at the end of the day and they get their money but amex it was sometimes 4 or 5 days before they actually got their payment.

I don't think people appreciate how much power comes from such a small amount of waste. The largest plant near me has been operating for > 50 years and the waste is still kept on site though I believe they are working on another solution.

The problem is that the agents can not be trusted to do things so at the end of the day you wade through loads of crap and they cant solve your problem because they usually only have the same powers you do.

Great if grandma doesnt know how to use a web form, fucking useless for everyone else.

For sure, I was thinking consumer desktop motherboards.

Even server boards often have their SFP in daughter boards specific to the chassis.

I mean.. cat8 already exists but it will never be common because most people who dont make home networking a hobby just use wifi.

Hell many many people now a days own only a tablet and phone and no desktop/laptop at all.

Someone else in this thread mentioned motherboards with SFP ports on them and I cant believe that will ever be common because people can barely handle the many flavours of cables using USB C, how are they going to manage the mishmash of transceivers that only like specific brands and the DAC cables that may or may not work depending on how they feel that day.

If you don't want the anime girl pay for the support, otherwise you get the anime jackal. Seems like a fair deal to me.

You are paying a fall guy to come in and gather data or implement something you want to do but don't have a ton of evidence for. That way if shit goes south you can blame them and if it succeeds you get the credit.

Their entire job is more related to corporate politics than prestige. Maybe it was in the past.

Yeah, the AUR is basically build scripts for github repos or a link to someones pre-built binary. It suffers from all the same problems that the underlying infrastructure suffers from. You could very easily argue that since github/npm/cargo/<your package manager of choice> has a supply chain issue so does the AUR.

Patroni serves this niche pretty well at this point.

SQLA async is a bit of a struggle with pgbouncer.

I had to disable application pooling as it was causing read only transactions I could couldnt pin down the cause.

We use logical replication and a pause / swap in pgbouncer for ~5s of paused (but not failed) writes.

This is for DBs that are ~1-1.5TB but doesnt have a huge amount of churn/qps

Effectively what is described here https://www.pgedge.com/blog/always-online-or-bust-zero-downt...

I had the opposite thought.

Being a generalist was very useful to me 5 years ago. Now AI models have made everyone a generalist. That wide but not terribly deep skillset was immediately devalued by the AI models.

You can argue that the models fuck up 20 percent of the time, or that they make poor code but there is a massive part for the industry that is totally fine with that and I think people ignore it to their detriment.

The other thing is that a lot of this thread is talking about domain knowledge and ignoring it forgetting that a massive number of jobs in this industry are in web app crud.

There is a massive number of software engineers that are closer to plumbers than computer scientists and for them the progressing AI models are going to be a problem.

I have found that design choice to be annoying

So they did.

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/discussions/2727...

I get the complaints in that thread but I still think it is hilarious. That repo is a gong show to random shit and perhaps one of the best worst examples of "opensource" LLM development.

I have not tried the Gemini CLI in a few months but when I did it was a shit show.

Google makes it very hard to use their shit and it was full of bugs.

Anthropic's current run is based entirely around Claude Code in this space and the last time I used the gemeini-cli it wouldnt give me access to the latest models and I was paying them for the privilege

For most CRUD apps running in docker its enough to just tell the "agent" to use podman.

HackerNews is social media and this is just representative of social media as a whole.

Critical thinking is at an all time low to start with but even if you attempt to think critically while using social media you cannot do it constantly. This is one of the problems with social media as a whole. You might notice one thing is not quite right and discard it but you cant do that constantly and eventually you will absorb one of the 15 posts or comments.

As a dev I would tell you its an ops burden.

My devops coworker just shrugs, pumps out some yaml and helm and away it goes.

It really depends on your experience and tolerance for a lot of things.

Usually maintenance burden doesent start to make itself known till you get off the happy path or something breaks. Sometimes it can be a long while before that happens, sometimes it happens right away.

I have heard people use smoke test but not nearly at the same rate an LLM uses.

If a repo is bare of CLAUDE.md but mentions a smoke test in a commit in the last year I assume it to be LLM written.

It isnt though.

The industry largely has selected for camp 1 long ago.

If you don't get immediate negative feedback camp 1 can go quite a ways before problems surface.