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I’ve just started a new job and my first month has been coming to terms with a vibe coded codebase. Nobody really understands it. I think that people who have the skills to really …

I am currently wrestling a vibe-coded codebase into a shippable state and we should call these tools out for what they actually are - technical debt generators.

100% with you. I start a new job on Monday and I intend to keep building great young engineers who love their craft and their community. Enough of this vampiric unethical horse man…

Extremely useful information - unfortunately I just assumed this didn't apply to me because I am in the UK and not the EU. Another mistake, though given it's not huge amounts of mo…

I've just shifted my SWE infrastructure from AWS to Hetzner (literally in the last month). My current analysis looks like it will be about 15-20% of the cost - £240 vs 40-50 euros.…

That is false. Burglary is a crime in the UK. See https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/section/9 and https://www.cps.gov.uk/prosecution-guidance/theft-act-offenc...

I think this is partly true. Raising the necessary funds, hiring enough of the right people and become sufficiently visible to get "mindshare" are all important factors in building…

It's not uncommon. My cousin sent out a Christmas card announcing her divorce - I think it stops a lot of 1-1 conversations with people which can be quite draining when you're alre…

These are all good arguments. Then do the opposite and block S3 access from VPCs by default. That would violate none of those. “We have no idea what your intent is, so we’ll defaul…

Yes, this. You lock it into Terraform or some equivalent. And ok, this is a mistake you will probably only make once - I know, because I too have made it on a much smaller scale, a…

Right, I can appreciate that argument - but then the right thing to do is to block S3 access from AWS VPCs until you have explicitly confirmed that you want to pay the big $$$$ to …

This happens so often that the S3 VPC endpoint should be setup by default when your VPC is created. AWS engineers on here - make this happen. Also, consider using fck-nat ( https:/…

OPs experience working their way up the keyboard stack is very similar to my own. I settled on the Dygma Raise. I now own one of the Raise and Raise 2. Yes, they are a lot of money…

Such a relief! But it drives my wife completely crazy.

By narrow program of study I don’t mean “breadth within the discipline” I mean “credit for work outside the discipline”. My son is studying maths but has taken two semesters of bib…

The truth is that if you have an intelligent child, independent school is a complete waste of money. In the UK you will be spending in the vicinity of £200k over a child’s educatio…

Yes I'm really not sure obsessive patterns of behaviour will be helped by an unqualified stochastic parrot giving you advice. Unfortunately, when treatment for conditions in some c…

Nope, don’t think it’s the demographics, unless by demographics you mean “easy to buy a gun”.

That isn’t the only reason why there are large numbers of gun deaths in the US.

I really don’t understand why people are downvoting these remarks. We can feel desperately sad and sorry for his wife and child and family while also recognising that he has litera…

In Australia this would be considered normal office conversation.

Good, it's not just me. I guess it's not a massive surprise given it's an HN forum and a reasonable percentage of HN candidates are doing LLM/AI stuff in recent cohorts, but it sti…

Answering my own question: If you've got a QNAP, you can install Debian 10 on some of them https://www.cyrius.com/debian/ > If you've got a Synology, it has been done on some older…

Stupid question, but has anyone hacked/replaced the vanilla firmware on Synology boxes and got it running something more flexible? This is kind of a lazyweb request, but I have an …

That is impressive. Beyond bonkers, but impressive.