PenguinCoder (u/PenguinCoder)

PenguinCoder commented on Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools larr.net/p/namings.html... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

pdpi · 2 days ago

GNU's version of Yacc is called Bison. Pine Is Not Elm (even though that was never an official acronym). UNIX was UNICS which was a pun on MULTICS. I couldn't for the life of me tell you what dd stands for. nano is a copy of pico which was the "PIne COmposer". Postfix is a completely opaque portmanteau of post (as in mail) and "bug fix". C++ is "C incremented", and C is the successor of B, which is the successor of BCPL.

Developers haven't "lost the plot", we never had it in the first place.

Inversely, Clang, LLDB, jq, fzf, loc are modern projects perfectly in line with the author's notion of a good name. "mise-en-place" is the perfect metaphor for what mise does.

PenguinCoder · 2 days ago

Pretty sure dd is disk destroyer

PenguinCoder commented on Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas arstechnica.com/ai/2025/1... · Posted by u/OptionOfT

aabajian · 10 days ago

Well, it isn't every user. We use a version of Epic called Epic Radiant. It's designed for radiologists. The tab that always opens is the radiologist worklist. The thing is, we don't use that worklist for procedures (I'm an interventional radiologist). So that tab is always there, always opens first, and always shows an empty list. It can't be removed in the Radiant version of Epic.

PenguinCoder · 10 days ago

I'm sure you have, but try be bringing that up to Epic, not introducing AI slop and Data gathering into HIPPA workflows.

PenguinCoder commented on We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner prosopo.io/blog/we-cut-ou... · Posted by u/arbol

dspillett · a month ago

> You're using a single server in a single datacenter.

This is a common problem with “bare metal saved us $000/mo” articles. Bare metal is cheaper than cloud by any measure, but the comparisons given tend to be misleadingly exaggerated as they don't compare like-for-like in terms of redundancy and support, and after considering those factors it can be a much closer result (sometimes down as far as familiarity and personal preference being more significant).

Of course unless you are paying extra for multi-region redundancy things like the recent us-east-1 outage will kill you, and that single point of failure might not really matter if there are several others throughout your systems anyway, as is sometimes the case.

PenguinCoder · a month ago

Premature optimization. Not every single service needs or require 5 nines.

PenguinCoder commented on .NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser avaloniaui.net/blog/net-m... · Posted by u/vyrotek

brokencode · a month ago

Not really. The downsides are mostly overblown.

Plenty of category leading applications like Discord, VSCode, Slack, Figma, etc. use it quite successfully.

PenguinCoder · a month ago

All of those are examples of overbloated, slow, horrible user experience apps.

PenguinCoder commented on Anxiety disorders tied to low levels of choline in the brain medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/clumsysmurf

jamal-kumar · a month ago

Liver can be pretty good if you spice it up Jamaican style. I regularly make this for people who tell me they don't like liver and they just love it. Pretty easy - Fresh and whole tumeric, ginger, garlic, onions, thyme, oregano, and as much scotch bonnet as you can handle. Soak the liver in brined water or milk for a few hrs and it will draw out a lot of the strong taste as well (French technique). Stew in some water after sautéing the onions to your liking. Same recipe works for stewing heart meat if that's something more to your liking, and it also contains a lot of the same nutrients that a lot of people are lacking in modern westernized diets. Consider what other predators do when they get to their prey: They go straight for the liver and heart.

However if you don't like the idea of trying new things, and just want something in pill form, honestly lecithin or even better citicoline is the way to go in my opinion

PenguinCoder · a month ago

Chicken liver has more iron and selenium in it per Oz than beef liver. Easier to eat a ton and not as harsh tasting. Make some dirty rice or just liver stew!

PenguinCoder commented on ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk binnenlandsbestuur.nl/dig... · Posted by u/vincvinc

testing22321 · a month ago

It seems likely the ICC will issue an arrest warrant for Trump in the coming years. I see all their recent moves as a signal they want to distance themselves from the US so they can actually issue that warrant.

PenguinCoder · a month ago

There are quite a few reasons that should happen, but I won't hold my breath. And I that issuance really won't do anything worthwhile, except be a footnote in a history book.

PenguinCoder commented on I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced old.reddit.com/r/OSINT/co... · Posted by u/hentrep

jmb99 · a month ago

>many of whom are 100% innocent

Under US law, 100% of them are 100% innocent, by definition. "Innocent until proven guilty" and whatnot; it literally means that every person is innocent in the eyes of the law until a court finds them guilty.

PenguinCoder · a month ago

Unfortunately that had been forgotten in this era.

PenguinCoder commented on AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS oneuptime.com/blog/post/2... · Posted by u/ndhandala

steelegbr · a month ago

AWS may be overcharging but it's a balancing act. Going on-prem (well, shared DC) will be cheaper but comes with requirements for either jack of all trades sysadmins or a bunch of specialists. It can work well if your product is simple and scalable. A lot of places quietly achieve this.

That said, I've seen real world scenarios where complexity is up the wazoo and an opex cost focus means you're hiring under skilled staff to manage offerings built on components with low sticker prices. Throw in a bit of the old NIH mindset (DIY all the things!) and it's large blast radii with expensive service credits being dished out to customers regularly. On a human factors front your team will be seeing countless middle of the night conference calls.

While I'm not 100% happy with the AWS/Azure/GCP world, the reality is that on-prem skillsets are becoming rarer and more specialist. Hiring good people can be either really expensive or a bit of a unicorn hunt.

PenguinCoder · a month ago

I'm proudly 100% on prem Linux sys admin. There are not openings for my skills and they do not pay as well as whatever cloud hotness is "needed".

PenguinCoder commented on AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS oneuptime.com/blog/post/2... · Posted by u/ndhandala

speleding · a month ago

The complexity of AWS versus bare metal depends on what you are doing. Setting up an apache app server: just as easy on bare metal. Setting up high availability MySQL with hot failover: much easier on AWS. And a lot of businesses need a highly available database.

PenguinCoder · a month ago

Most businesses really don't need that complexity. They think they do. Premature optimization.

PenguinCoder commented on More random home lab things I've recently learned chollinger.com/blog/2025/... · Posted by u/otter-in-a-suit

tom1337 · 2 months ago

If you want to go another, related rabbit hole, check out the DataHoarder subreddit. But don't blame me, if you’re buying terabytes of storage over the next few months :)

PenguinCoder · 2 months ago

Data Hoarding is a bit more involved than just a homelab. Don't want your data hoard to go down or missing, whole you're labbing new techs and protocols.