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icedchai··on eMudhra intermediate CA compromise
Wow. One might even say their name is mud now...
icedchai··on On AI writing
Same. I hate AI writing. AI code is okay. I can deal with that. But I want people to be able to explain things themselves. It's especially bad when some folks use a prompt to generate an even larger prompt, then pretend they "wrote a spec." Meanwhile, the spec is virtually incomprehensible gibberish about gaps, evidence, and load bearing dependencies.
icedchai··on Google cloud outage takes down banks
Who's "they"? Someone from [cloud]'s professional services?
icedchai··on Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
If your plan is to have AI maintain it, you really don't. Honestly I hate being forced into this position. I want to understand it.
icedchai··on Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
If you were forced into an "AI native" position, not given time for proper reviews, etc... you absolute can.
icedchai··on AI Can Write the Code. Who Verifies It?
Those days are long gone, unfortunately. I haven't seen anyone write a real design document in years.
icedchai··on RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop
Yes, but that rarely happens with IPv6. ISP / LIRs get huge allocations.

The real problem is BGP isn't available from most home or "small business" internet connections. You can't multihome even if you want to. You need a DIA / enterprise plan, or you need to use tunneling (which is what I do, from several BGP capable VPSes, in a configuration that is too complex for the typical SMB.)

icedchai··on RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop
"PA" or "PI" is an administrative distinction and technically has nothing to do with BGP or multi-homing. You can still announce PA blocks under your own ASN. I do that today, actually.

It's the same with IPv4, by the way. An ISP can assign you a block from their allocation, you can still announce it with your own ASN as long as it doesn't violate the issuing provider's policy, you're still a customer, etc.

icedchai··on RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop
I do admit this is a challenge. The only reason it's "easy" with IPv4 is because of NAT. With IPv6 you'll need prefix translation. I've found someone with a failover solution for UniFi but in general you are correct, it's a pain: https://github.com/mattackerman808/ipv6-wan-failover
icedchai··on RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop
That's not a very good example.

1) I can count on one hand the number of times my Internet connection has gone down in the past 5 years.

2) I can count on zero hands the number of times I've tried to print from a phone, ever.

icedchai··on RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes
Mainly for RPKI.
icedchai··on RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes
As a legacy IPv4 holder for over 30 years, I realize I'm going to be forced to pay ARIN at some point. It's been a good run though.
icedchai··on AWS Lambda Web Functions
I find GCP Cloud Run soooo much more pleasant to work with than either AWS Lambda or ECS. Unfortunately most companies don't use GCP.
icedchai··on AWS Lambda Web Functions
Yes. I found it was simpler to have a "fat" monolithic lambda than split up your logic across multiple lambdas. Easier to deploy, too.
icedchai··on OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room
Nope. He probably should've googled it (from a coffee shop, over a VPN.) There is commercial grade spy equipment that can be bought relatively cheaply and looks like every day items.
icedchai··on A Modern Web App in C
Same. My first "web app" was a Perl CGI that saved data to mSQL (not MySQL), probably early 1995.
icedchai··on Postgres isn't slow, your storage is
Yep, this can be huge. I learned this in the MySQL days with "covering indexes."
icedchai··on Postgres isn't slow, your storage is
I haven't seen a small company hire for a dedicated DBA in over 15 years. It was unnecessary then, it's unnecessary now. As "agile" and "devops" took over, many of the more specialized roles disappeared.
icedchai··on Type-safe HTML templating in Zig
In the old days, we used to emulate this with a <script> tag that did a document.write ... yes, very hacky.
icedchai··on "Just Ask Claude" Is a Rare and Valuable Skill
I realize I could use these tools, but I feel I should give Google "something" for using their services. I get value from YouTube, both for entertainment and professional purposes, not to mention gmail, docs, etc. Maybe I am a fool!
icedchai··on "Just Ask Claude" Is a Rare and Valuable Skill
I've been subscribing to YT Premium for years. I've probably saved days of time in ads...
icedchai··on Postgres isn't slow, your storage is
I just think of anything that isn't a NAS?
icedchai··on Postgres isn't slow, your storage is
It’s kinda crazy that this is the case, and then they make it sooo convoluted to copy those backups elsewhere. Typical cloud.
icedchai··on Postgres isn't slow, your storage is
Look up “SAN” or “storage area network.” EBS looks like a regular, local block device, another disk in /dev, but is actually served over the network. The implementation is transparent.
icedchai··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
Yes, this is impressive. When the iPhone SDK was first released in 2008, I spent months building apps to get them into the App Store. That included learning Objective C, XCode, various frameworks, and tons of manual testing. It was a lot of work!
icedchai··on Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?
No, I don't think it was $7. I'm just interested in the relative change since the before times. For reference, I remember large pizzas being under $20 with one topping around that time.
icedchai··on How to Build Wealth as a Career Person
Most people don't have that discipline. If you asked the average person to "just" save 25% of their earnings, they'd look at you like you had two heads.
icedchai··on IRCv3
yes, I used AIM from 1999 until whenever it was shutdown (2017?) At several companies, we used AIM for what many use Slack for today. We even coordinated prod deployments in a private AIM chat room!
icedchai··on Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?
That's a good deal. It's closer to $30 here. What was it in 2019?
icedchai··on Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?
It's at least doubled since the pre-COVID times. The days of $20 large pizzas are mostly gone.
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