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tempest_
·4 giorni fa·discuss
I make this comparison a lot and a lot of devs don't like it.

I am sure I could make a decent industrial PLC tech, same shit, different tools.
tempest_
·14 giorni fa·discuss
Repo claims

> A single archive of public exploit PoCs and vulnerability research writeups. At the time I post these, none have been reported. Feel free to report them yourself and take credit for the CVE if handed out lulz. Please do not abuse these. I do this so to allure people into the field, and I've always found this is the most efficient way.

Which is roughly the definition of zero day. Whether the contents of the repo reflect the above claim is something else entirely.
tempest_
·18 giorni fa·discuss
Yeah the last decade of Nuclear work is the ONE thing that they have been successful at wrt to project planning.

Hopefully that expertise is well placed to execute on these other projects.
tempest_
·18 giorni fa·discuss
> Mature ops would be tracking cache hit ratios right?

Sure, and sentry integrates well with redis in python which is what I use primarily with redis.

I don't think memcached is bad, I just think its old and industry has moved to redis because it offers more while covering the previous use case.

Calling redis fiddly is a mischaracterization. For many use cases I have not had to think more than 30s to setup redis.

(also when I say redis I mean Valkey at this point, even if they are starting to diverge)
tempest_
·18 giorni fa·discuss
I don't want my cache to silently fail.

Clustering redis is not that hard even if you do it manually and I have only had to do it once.

I never use redis persistence and have a max size set with LRU or whatever the application requires.

With memcached I remember having to mess around the LD_LIBRARY path to link whatever python module I was using at the time
tempest_
·18 giorni fa·discuss
I stopped using memcached a decade a go in favour of Redis and now use valkey.

Never felt the need to go back to memcached except when a legacy dependency needed it.
tempest_
·22 giorni fa·discuss
Merchants near me are using more computer based terminal that seem to take nearly every thing. Amex's cut probably smaller compared to squares or stripes.

When talking to a local merchant about why they dont take amex the fee was not mentioned. The merchant said that visa and mastercard settle at the end of the day and they get their money but amex it was sometimes 4 or 5 days before they actually got their payment.
tempest_
·22 giorni fa·discuss
I don't think people appreciate how much power comes from such a small amount of waste. The largest plant near me has been operating for > 50 years and the waste is still kept on site though I believe they are working on another solution.
tempest_
·24 giorni fa·discuss
The problem is that the agents can not be trusted to do things so at the end of the day you wade through loads of crap and they cant solve your problem because they usually only have the same powers you do.

Great if grandma doesnt know how to use a web form, fucking useless for everyone else.
tempest_
·24 giorni fa·discuss
For sure, I was thinking consumer desktop motherboards.

Even server boards often have their SFP in daughter boards specific to the chassis.
tempest_
·24 giorni fa·discuss
I mean.. cat8 already exists but it will never be common because most people who dont make home networking a hobby just use wifi.

Hell many many people now a days own only a tablet and phone and no desktop/laptop at all.

Someone else in this thread mentioned motherboards with SFP ports on them and I cant believe that will ever be common because people can barely handle the many flavours of cables using USB C, how are they going to manage the mishmash of transceivers that only like specific brands and the DAC cables that may or may not work depending on how they feel that day.
tempest_
·26 giorni fa·discuss
If you don't want the anime girl pay for the support, otherwise you get the anime jackal. Seems like a fair deal to me.
tempest_
·27 giorni fa·discuss
You are paying a fall guy to come in and gather data or implement something you want to do but don't have a ton of evidence for. That way if shit goes south you can blame them and if it succeeds you get the credit.

Their entire job is more related to corporate politics than prestige. Maybe it was in the past.
tempest_
·28 giorni fa·discuss
Yeah, the AUR is basically build scripts for github repos or a link to someones pre-built binary. It suffers from all the same problems that the underlying infrastructure suffers from. You could very easily argue that since github/npm/cargo/<your package manager of choice> has a supply chain issue so does the AUR.
tempest_
·mese scorso·discuss
Patroni serves this niche pretty well at this point.
tempest_
·mese scorso·discuss
SQLA async is a bit of a struggle with pgbouncer.

I had to disable application pooling as it was causing read only transactions I could couldnt pin down the cause.
tempest_
·mese scorso·discuss
We use logical replication and a pause / swap in pgbouncer for ~5s of paused (but not failed) writes.

This is for DBs that are ~1-1.5TB but doesnt have a huge amount of churn/qps

Effectively what is described here https://www.pgedge.com/blog/always-online-or-bust-zero-downt...
tempest_
·mese scorso·discuss
I had the opposite thought.

Being a generalist was very useful to me 5 years ago. Now AI models have made everyone a generalist. That wide but not terribly deep skillset was immediately devalued by the AI models.

You can argue that the models fuck up 20 percent of the time, or that they make poor code but there is a massive part for the industry that is totally fine with that and I think people ignore it to their detriment.
tempest_
·mese scorso·discuss
The other thing is that a lot of this thread is talking about domain knowledge and ignoring it forgetting that a massive number of jobs in this industry are in web app crud.

There is a massive number of software engineers that are closer to plumbers than computer scientists and for them the progressing AI models are going to be a problem.
tempest_
·mese scorso·discuss
I have found that design choice to be annoying