Diederich (u/Diederich)

Diederich commented on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now dosaygo-studio.github.io/... · Posted by u/keepamovin

Diederich · 5 days ago

I used the same prompt keepamovin used and changed it to CNN, which produced this:

https://realms.org/pics/cnn.html

Some interesting similarities.

Diederich commented on CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns apnews.com/article/immigr... · Posted by u/jjwiseman

dylan604 · 24 days ago

I'm confused. Are you saying they disassembled your car right there where you were pulled over? They had the tools on hand to do this? They didn't tow your car to a shop to have it searched? I've seen many many a car stop get searched by hand and/or with canine. Not once have I ever seen removal of seats/paneling/etc on the side of the road. So this is a bit much to take on first read without further questions

Diederich · 24 days ago

They don't need a lot of tools to do such a deep 'search' of your car, they're not under any requirement or mandate to make it easy or even possible to repair.

In my 40+ years of driving, I've seen such disassembled cars along the road a hand full of times.

Diederich commented on UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport avherald.com/h?article=52... · Posted by u/jnsaff2

sys32768 · a month ago

In 1986, I lived a mile or so from where a mid-air collision sent a DC-9 crashing into a neighborhood, which killed 15 people on the ground: https://www.presstelegram.com/2016/08/30/cerritos-plane-cras...

Every time I board a plane, I think what a crazy thing I am doing, but then I remember that I could be safe and snug in my house and still be in a plane crash.

Diederich · a month ago

I also lived not too far from that location, and unfortunately got a glimpse of the aircraft as it was spiraling down. The scene on the ground was pretty hellish.

Diederich commented on WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernel github.com/joelseverin/li... · Posted by u/marcodiego

frizlab · a month ago

killed by the fork bomb

    :(){ :|:& };:

Diederich · a month ago

How did that look on the host system CPU/memory wise?

Diederich commented on Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video techcrunch.com/2025/10/18... · Posted by u/gmays

supportengineer · 2 months ago

Well, any writes are reverted within seconds by the gatekeepers, but sure, ok.

Diederich · 2 months ago

Of the dozens of contributions I've made over the decades, some recent, either zero or one of them have been reverted.

Diederich commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

Diederich · 3 months ago

Location: Olympia, WA, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Perl, GoLang, HTML, JavaScript, SQL, Mysql, MongoDB, Postgres, Linux, AWS, GCloud, OCI, Oracle Cloud, Git, Bash Docker, Kubernetes Cloud, Kubernetes Bare Metal, Terraform, Pulumi, Helm, Flask, Networking, Routing, Switching, Load Balancing, F5, VPN, OpenSSL, InfoSec, Firewalls, DNS, DHCP, TLS, Regulatory, PCI, SOX, HIPAA, Monitoring, Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, Github, Gitlab

Résumé/CV: https://realms.org/hire/

Email: diederich@gmail.com

I am seeking a hands-on, team-oriented role at a stable, technologically innovative company where we will be able to facilitate evolutionary and revolutionary adoption of various technologies, intended to produce consistently growing operational return on investment.

I am passionate about improving operational processes and flows via the collaborative approach of design and architecture. Fundamentally, I am a programmer with decades of hands-on operational experience, ranging from all kinds of Linux system administration to databases to strong networking skills. Collaboratively designing and shipping high availability is my forte. Through many and diverse focus areas, LiveOps achieved 99.99% availability in Q4 2011. Above all, I seek to understand, assimilate and process all of the issues, big and small, that stand in the way of efficient and smooth operations, using that analysis to design elegant integration solutions. Shipping that automation so my co-workers can get their work done is job one.

Diederich commented on Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/jwilk

kortilla · 9 months ago

The rust produced by LLMs is quite bad. It’s overly verbose (misses combinators) and often subtly wrong (swallows errors on result types when it shouldn’t). A single errant collect or clone call can destroy your performance and LLMs sprinkle them for no reason.

Unless you are experienced in rust, you have zero ability to catch the kind of mistakes LLMs make producing rust code.

Diederich · 9 months ago

Is this deficiency likely to persist long-term as LLMs grow more powerful?

Diederich commented on Sync Engines Are the Future instantdb.com/essays/sync... · Posted by u/GarethX

worthless-trash · 9 months ago

I feel like this is the "serverless" discussion all over again.

There was still a server, its just not YOUR server. In this case, there will still be servers, just maybe not something that you need to manage state on.

This misnaming creates endless conflict when trying to communicate this with hyper excited management who want to get on the latest trend.

Cant wait to be on the meeting and hearing: "We dont need servers when we migrate to client side data stores".

Diederich · 9 months ago

Recently, something quite rare happened. I needed to Xerox some paper documents. Well, such actions are rare today, but years ago, it was quite common to Xerox things.

Over time, the meaning of the word 'Xerox' changed. More specifically, it gained a new meaning. For a long time, Xerox only referred to a company named in 1961. Some time in the late 60s, it started to be used as a verb, and as I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, the word 'Xerox' was overwhelmingly used in its verb form.

Our society decided as a whole that it was ok for the noun Xerox to be used a verb. That's a normal and natural part of language development.

As others have noted, management doesn't care whether the serverless thing you want to use is running on servers or not. They care that they don't have to maintain servers themselves. CapEx vs OpEx and all that.

I agree that there could be some small hazard with the idea that, if I run my important thing in a 'serverless' fashion, then I don't have to associate all of the problems/challenges/concerns I have with 'servers' to my important thing.

It's an abstraction, and all abstractions are leaky.

If we're lucky, this abstraction will, on average, leak very little.

Diederich commented on Police-Induced Confessions, 2.0: Risk Factors and Recommendations psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/... · Posted by u/amadeuspagel

ziddoap · 9 months ago

One of the classic videos on the subject by Law Professor (and former criminal defense attorney) James Duane, accompanied by a police officer that concurs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

And accompanying paper:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1998119

Diederich · 9 months ago

I watch this video at least once a year, and make my immediate family do the same.

Everyone in the United States should watch this video, or something similar, on a regular schedule.

As great as the first part is, I actually think the second part, with officer George Bruch, is even more important.

It's not as smooth, it's not flashy. Officer Bruch comes across as just a regular guy who wants to help you.

I've long viewed the world primarily through the lens of incentives and motivations. When officer Bruch is talking to you in a little room, you just want to tell your story, get it off your chest, and he makes it very, very easy to do that. In fact, if the roles of these two guys were reversed, and professor Duane, with his slick and fun personality, was interviewing you, you'd likely trust him less.

Even though it feels like it, officer Bruch is not your friend. He's not on your side. It doesn't feel like it, but his incentives and motivations are mostly in conflict with yours, whether you are guilty or innocent.

Diederich commented on The Prehistoric Psychopath worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/Petiver

krunck · 9 months ago

>It is not that we have an unusual proclivity for aggressive violence. On the contrary, most other species are far more aggressive than humans. Chimpanzees, for example, are over 150 times more likely to initiate violence against each other than we are. Rather, our species is characterized by low rates of aggression and conflict but extremely high lethality rates when conflict does arise.

I would argue that increased legality IS increased aggression. A person can whack me with a stick or they can shoot me in the head. One is a more aggressive act than the other.

Diederich · 9 months ago

I think you mean legality -> lethality? That had me stumped for a moment!