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Unsecured Firebase... yet again. Plus the added bonus of unresponsive CTOs and employees that don't seem motivated or capable of taking ownership and at least driving things forwar…

I bought a whole bunch of GE LED bulbs figuring big name, probably more reliable. Nope. Diabolically bad. Never again.

Independent testing of prismml suggest quite a capability drop off outside of their cherry picked benchmarks. I'll be curious to see what this model achieves though.

This is one of the things that is tiring me out the most. Previously people could have these "ohh shiny" ideas and would lose steam before they could be implemented, especially in …

I poison their requests with crap, particularly because they were the worst offenders for sheer request rate. The site has maybe a hundred pages, and I'd see them hit at a sustaine…

It is depressing listening to engineers I respected, who now just parrot incorrect information at me from their LLM. One smart engineer seems to have entirely offloaded all thinkin…

https://xkcd.com/1357/

It's one of those "I hate it, but I get it" situations. Migrating metering over to a whole new format on AWS's scale is a scarily large undertaking.

I got known as a "Chaos Monkey" at AWS, and have sort of carried on that title. It's not exactly accurate, but tech stuff just breaks around me, and it's very, very rarely my fault…

Sure, and I would expect the COE called out the operational aspects. No one should have been in a position to be able to trigger that bug trivially (I don't remember if it came fro…

I wonder if AWS billing still uses CSV files for passing data around. IIRC it was one of my first on-calls at AWS over a decade ago now, and I got a page early evening because some…

I got badly burned by the Pixel 5a, but especially with Google's support. My wife and I both had 5a, and both died spectacularly right around the end of warranty period. Mine ultim…

I can secure myself first, so I'm never at fault. I never want to be the one to accidentally break production. Beyond that, I just keep advocating for more safe and secure approach…

I've been biasing towards VMs myself just out of caution, but maybe that's just extreme paranoia. The way I look at it is similar to how I'd look at any hypothetical employee. How …

The easiest, most guaranteed way to isolate it is to run it in a VM or container where it literally can't do the wrong thing without some kind of full container or VM exit exploit.…

Agreed. In my current job, across several large java code bases that have been developed over the last 12 years, the only place I've seen xml come into play is for maven. We've hun…

> I still consider it some of the best multiplayer experiences I've ever had though. I played Eve for a few years as part of a corporation in Xetic and then Ascendant Frontier. So …

Back around 10 years ago, I gained a new manager who had previously managed mechanical turk. It was already recognised as a dead end back then. I remember him talking about getting…

> I have never seen a company use AMD outside of wafer and a couple others mostly in US. There's a few using them, and even more starting to experiment with them. AMD has long been…

Not sure why you're getting downvoted, this is the entire point of open source. Does such a bug exist in Windows? OSX? Who checks? If someone finds the key in memory, can they tell…

When I moved to the states nearly 20 years ago, my pronunciation sharpened up (stopped dropping consonants) very quickly. Over time I stopped using idioms, and the few bits of Cock…

I don't think this is where you were going with your comment, but I'll mention this just because you're somewhat adjacent to a routine mistake in business: Uber is a people deliver…

NUMA is one of those amazing things that trip you up in all sorts of ways at unexpected times. The amazing "invisible" performance killler (invisible because unless you're already …

Intel suffers just as much when NUMA enters the picture, even prior to CCD style architecture. That extra latency hop across to the other core to get at memory is absolutely crippl…

In theory having it in the same language could provide performance benefits, vs reaching out to a C library and dealing with C interop fun. Any language that is JIT'd would have na…