hanwenn · HackerTrans

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Yes. The links are to isolated threads on a rail (model) forums (apparently, this publisher markets books/magazines related to railway models).

It's hard to see if the individual complaints really support a general problem, or if this simply the only result that talks about "scam + business-name". Probably, the latter.

The same problem happens on google search, if you look "<obscure false fact>", you'll get pages mentioning that false fact. If you fall into the trap of confirmation bias, it leads you to think the false fact is in true.

hanwenn

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Curiously, if you look for "geramond verlag betrugsmasche", or "verlagshaus24 betrugsmasche", it will now tell you that

     there are no indications it is a scam, but "significant organizational problems and extremely bad customer support lead to (list of bad experiences)".

Also, each purported fact now has a direct link to the source of the fact, that is more clearly visible than the previous chain icon.

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I got tired of the permission prompts and wrote a filesystem/network sandbox so I could skip all permission checks. It works on the same principle as bubblewrap, but has some niceties to separate Claude from its credentials. See https://github.com/hanwen/runclaude

hanwenn

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

AWS graviton, Google Axion? ARM has better performance per watt, which translates to better performance per $.

hanwenn

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

interesting article, but now I'm left wondering how the glucose gets to the retina. Why is this easier than supplying oxygen?

hanwenn

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

That is not quite the right word. For Python, the headcount was moved from the Bay Area (the most expensive place in the world to hire software engineers) to Munich (the most expensive place in Germany to hire SWEs.), for cost saving reasons.

hanwenn

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Is anyone from GitButler reading this?

As others alluded, JJ already exists and is a credible successor to Git for the client side.

Technical desides aside though: how is this supposed to make money for the investors?

hanwenn

vor 4 Monatendiscuss

blaze/bazel was a big improvement over its predecessor (a set of python scripts that generated huge makefiles), but that did not make it free of accidental engineering. The google infrastructure teams were very tightly staffed, so for a long time, it was held together with proverbial duct tape and heroism.

Source: I was on part of the team that did the open sourcing, and had to clean lots of cruft in the code base that had accreted over 8 years.

hanwenn

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

Rob left Google a couple of years ago.

hanwenn

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

"WarpBuild are still the better option."

what makes you think they won't hike the control plane price again? They can turn this knob arbitrarily to put you out of business.

hanwenn

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

more background: https://sourcegraph.com/blog/zoekt-creating-internal-tools-a...

hanwenn

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

IIUC, on EC2, the disk (EBS)is one service, and snapshots are in another service (S3). Taking a snapshot involves copying the entire disk to S3, while restoring a snapshot pages blocks in from S3 as the VM accesses the disk.

hanwenn

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

Also: did you consider using LVM snapshots?

hanwenn

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

Thanks for writing the blog post; it was a fascinating read!

I was curious about a couple of things:

* Have you considered future extensions where you can start the VM before you completed the FS copy?

* You picked XFS over ZFS and BTRFS. Any reason why XFS in particular?

* You casually mention that you wrote 'otterlink', your own hypervisor. Isn't that by itself a complicated effort worthy of a blog post? Or is it just mixing and matching existing libraries from the Rust ecosystem?

hanwenn

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

In the Bazel build system, you would mark the test data blob as testonly=1. Then the build system guarantees that the blob can only be used in tests.

This incident shows that killing the autoconf goop is long overdue.

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