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I remember waiting for IR file sharing. It was SLOW.
Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:51PM (#50309269)
I disagree: ops is related to dev, because good dev work makes ops easy. But they are different: being good at ops requires a mindset of curiosity, risk management, and being willing to chase things to to last details.
Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:47PM (#50309229)
Devops definitely still exists, I've seen it. It is when people are responsible, even in the middle of the night, for the systems they fucked up engineering in the day.
Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:45PM (#50309209)
TLAs and eTLAs.
Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:27PM (#50308991)
The same understanding most of the devs lack because they aren't.... curious. And thus, why they aren't SREs.
'Tis the season.

My family just switched to sunrise simulation alarm clock lights, and I'll start squirting vitamin D in my coffee milk soon.

In Europe, winter darkness is a bitch. Don't take chances with your health.

Must be convenient to get all your security bugs from one vendor...
Given this keeps happening in Spain, maybe we'll need to call this "Normalization of normalization of deviance".

Humans never learn.

Re:Why Is This Fingerprinting Script Creating Bioweapons? on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:40AM (#50285284)
Yes, I don't even work on especially security sensitive stuff, and I've twice in the last month had a task interrupted by GPT Sol for "security reasons".

But my agent makes it super easy to switch to DeekSeek and just carry on.

Re:No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner on Friday October 23, 2026 @12:11PM (#50211318)
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Re:No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner on Friday October 23, 2026 @12:08PM (#50211262)
Smoking and AI maximalists are uncool.
Re:EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:52PM (#50169239)
Thanks Wayne.
Re:OpenBSD 8.0 on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @01:29AM (#50161706)
It's like a pelican on a bicycle, but with social commentary.
Yes. The dashboard that grabs some data out of other systems is vibe coded. The design was mine, to make it safe to let the AI go wild on the rest. Places where authentication, durable state, un-reversible actions are concerned: the AI can sketch it, then you gotta own it, with perhaps help from the AI to improve tests or refactor.
Re:OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents on Saturday October 17, 2026 @05:16PM (#50135217)
...maybe stop doing crimes?
Re:OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents on Saturday October 17, 2026 @05:12PM (#50135183)
Service providers are still responsible to police what happens on their network. KYC already makes it very difficult to get service completely anonymously with only crypto changing "hands".
Re:OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents on Saturday October 17, 2026 @05:09PM (#50135154)
Well, the COVID story seems to indicate we don't actually take lab leaks seriously, so... yeah.
Re:OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents on Saturday October 17, 2026 @01:49PM (#50133284)
Too big to behave.
Re:Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:09AM (#50100735)
This made me smile and made my wife reply with "kissie eyes", which I'm assured, is better than "hugging face".
Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:53AM (#50086228)
More like in a world of round things that can bear loads, they decided to... (checks notes) reinvent the wheel?
Re:A man hiking the world in search of rare cheeses on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @01:41AM (#50082856)
I took my Swiss wife to the Tillamook factory in Oregon and she was laughing at how industrial it is. Later she took me to a Swiss mountain cheese maker, accessible only by hiking, making cheese over a wood-fired kettle.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:31PM (#50077311)
I use Gemini all day at work via the chat interface. It's rock solid. I find it hard to understand which model it's using though. Am I already using Argon, or does it switch models according to the subject?
Re:Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:09AM (#50051957)
I like this thinking. But also: it's clear this is a monoculture wood crop, not a "forest".

So in fact, this IS brownfield development: changing one industrial land use (forest products) into another one.

Doesn't mean they can't do the paperwork correctly tho.

Re:Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours on Saturday October 10, 2026 @09:27AM (#50032736)
Offering redundancy across zones is one thing (and I'm pleased to offer it to my customers). Getting them to use it is quite another thing.

Even if it was "only" 2x or 3x the expense to have a completely multizone setup, the ongoing operational burden is too high to justify over the 2, 10, or 100 year timeframe when no outages happen which could have been avoided.

Companies dependent on a single Amazon zone just give up and wait during a zone outage, blame it on Amazon, then get back to making money the next day.

Re:Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours on Saturday October 10, 2026 @09:23AM (#50032708)
ATT was paid by the government to do that. I doubt the commercial market can support those costs.
Also, it is willing to do legitimate work I need done which other models flag as dangerous and refuse to do. (Software testing of a DHCP server to survive bad inputs.)
Re:Calling a function in C without naming it on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:40PM (#50012731)
If you are using the attackers mindset as a teacher, you've lost the plot.

Leave room for your students to surprise you, even of they are hacking you.

Re:Wood Tape (2004) on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @02:35PM (#49996981)
Improv class made me a better dad. Whatever a kid proposes, the answer is "yes", if you can possibly make it that.
Re:Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:48PM (#49983884)
I care about delivering results to my colleagues, and so my ideas plus an LLM lets me do what I care about.

You and the author care about software craftsmanship, which is wonderful. But might need to remain a hobby...

Re:Find the flattest route between any two points in SF on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:30AM (#49974204)
Lausanne residents play the same game, but with elevators, metros, bridges, stairs and Lime bikes as additional game mechanics. :)

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