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AWS is built for production. It’s complex because it’s designed to create robust environments that can scale almost infinitely, that’s why half of the internet runs on AWS. But to …

And it was HUGE, the microsoft logo was like 50% of the screen.

We’re 100% on Azure but so far there’s no impact for us. Luckily, we moved off Azure Front Door about a year ago. We’d had three major incidents tied to Front Door and stopped trea…

I was drinking too much and i started to feel like maybe i had to drop it. But yeah, not quitting again.

Quitting coffee was a really bad experience for me. I had what felt like withdrawal symptoms: a strong headache, muscle aches, and I was really cold. It lasted for two days, until …

Some people reading this (systems engineers with a career) could probably retire, or at least downshift. Work just enough to pay for groceries, and spend your days doing what you a…

Sad news. I played a lot of Dead or Alive 2 on the Dreamcast. He was always on the cutting edge of boobs physic engines.

Great find! and I don’t want to underestimate the discovery by any means, but... We humans are predisposed to see anthropomorphic shapes in things. I understand why that could be i…

My first introduction to Linux was through Knoppix, the first “live CD” if I recall correctly. Maybe there was something before it, but I remember it as something new and magical a…

I’ve been thinking about the impact of LLMs on software engineering through a Marxist lens. Marx described one of capitalism’s recurring problems as the crisis of overproduction: t…

In my experience, LLM-generated code is only as good (or as bad) as the software engineering skills of the “vibe coder.” A seasoned engineer will not only craft clear, detailed pro…

It’s strange that you can patent gameplay mechanics. After all, gameplay mechanics are what define a genre. It’s like in literature if someone could patent the idea of a detective …

Oh the memories, i worked like... 20 years ago! on EDS for the Sun Microsystems account as a Solaris System Administrator. It's hard to explain how advanced was Solaris at the time…

Agree completely, the title is misleading. I was amazed by it by just watching the video, but this is actually a fan project. Which is cool, but not a prototype of the original gam…

yeah, i suppose we bought "a license to use the car", like a really expensive entry fee. If the car was free and i was just renting it then maybe it makes sense, but capping someth…

The idea of a service is that you pay a monthly fee and can use it during that period. It implies that the vendor has some kind of ongoing or recurring cost, or that they need to c…

This bug report is absolutely right

Don't worry, just press and hold the power button on the satellites until they turn off, then release and press it again to power them back on. Should be fine.

i know a friend that... (imagine adult joke here)

This will happen in production at a large company in the near future. I keep seeing more and more vibe coded AI implementations that do whatever... by anyone. And managers celebrat…

The example in the article: > // TODO: If the user triple-clicks this button, the click handler errors because [xyz] looks more like a comment than a real TODO to me. I agree that …

It was so hyped by Sun Microsystems that they even called their implementation of GNOME on Solaris the "Java Desktop System", even though there wasn't a single line of Java in it.

Well, but they are controlling that, the fact that they fail to check it shouldn't be on you. But besides that, if they consider that aliexpress is selling illegal stuff, they can …

To me, it's kind of strange that buying and showing something that is sold legally (like a console purchased from China, which I assume went through customs, or even sold on Amazon…

A few days ago there was a similar message from Xbox, saying that AMD will power it's future hardware project, talking about a strategic alliance and so on. So, Mark Cerny is contr…