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It depends how much spam or other abuse occurred from it.

It probably would. LPDDR5 memory bandwidth on M-series Macs is several multiples of the memory bandwidth available on DDR3 (depending on the exact chip, Pro, Max, etc... 4x to beyo…

You'd be surprised. I met a guy last week who was proud to tell me he had vibe coded an almost 2 million line code base. The app did not sound that complicated, so I'm assuming it'…

That "cost" includes all the overhead provided by the company: benefits, rent for offices, utilities, equipment, etc. The average SWE is not taking home anything close to that, out…

Whenever I encounter a "data lake" it's just a bunch of random CSV and JSON files on S3, and a bunch of half baked Python scripts to query it. And usually somebody tells me it's "b…

Same. I'm still not sure it isn't.

Having worked on some systems where the previous developers drank the AWS kool-aid, this rings true.

Personally, I'd rent a small server first. About 20 years ago I had a small web hosting operation with my own racked servers. It's a pain to deal with when something goes wrong. Ev…

I probably wouldn't start with buying a big server if I was just starting out. I would consider renting one from Hetzner, OVH, or many others. There are also many other alternative…

There are also many shades of gray between "big cloud" AWS/Azure/GCP and "my own rack" bare metal hosting.

I like the smol philosophy. I've been wondering how much of this stuff is closer to meaningless incantations, voodoo with no real benefit.

Itanium was effectively dead once Intel adopted AMD's x86-64. It just remained a zombie for another 15+ years.

I have an AlphaServer in my collection (DS10.) For a 25+ year old system, it still feels pretty snappy!

Same. I was very active in BBSing in the late 80's through the mid 90's. Kermit was the protocol of last resort.

I've been clicking apply myself, but only have had a few interviews. It's bad out there. I've been working since the late 90's and this is the worst job market I've seen in decades…

I do agree with more frequent upgrades, but it has to be part of the culture. The longer you wait, the harder it gets. Unfortunately, I have worked in some heavily tech-debt-laden …

It makes me think about The Terminator.

I would've liked to see a setup like that. The companies I worked for didn't get much beyond 2x bonded T1s.

LLMs have brought it to a new level. I have multiple people in my feed posting several page dissertations on a daily basis. More often than not, these posts are about the benefits …

Same. I'm being forced into a position where I'm supposed to do everything with AI agents, not write any manual code, and only act as a reviewer. It sounds like you know the drill.…

Yes, it was normal, for sure. I had an Amiga and it was also bad. Visits to the Guru ("Guru Meditation Error", equivalent of Windows UAEs) were common. Around 1994, I moved to Linu…

This might cause other problems, problems of the "if it's not broken, don't fix it" variety. Upgrading everything only to break something else, in a previously stable configuration…

It doesn't apply to Verizon (FIOS) either, despite their history of DSL.

I worked at an early ISP with a web development department. A couple of the guys had Macs with System 7.x. The things would lock up or crash on a daily basis and require near daily…

Mostly, I didn’t have all the cash to invest at once. There is also a psychological component: I feel better investing on down days.