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azthecx commented on Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me boston.conman.org/2025/08... · Posted by u/classichasclass

Xiol32 · 4 days ago

Changing the SSH port also helps cut down the noise, as part of a layered strategy.

azthecx · 4 days ago

Did you really notice a significant drop off in connection attempts? I tried this some years ago and after a few hours on a random very high port number I was already seeing connections.

azthecx commented on FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores axios.com/2025/06/23/fico... · Posted by u/cebert

eptcyka · 2 months ago

You clearly are delusional if you believe that the people drowning in credit card debt are in ever in this position.

azthecx · 2 months ago

Please don't put words into other people's mouths, I've never made that claim nor do I agree with it.

    Margin stock accounts also exist, although I don't know enough to know what situations it makes sense to use them in.

I was obviously replying to this part of the parents comment.

azthecx commented on Stop Killing Games jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/gond

simsla · 2 months ago

It's these extreme implications why I, as a gamer and software dev, haven't signed the initiative. A lot of these things are just not feasible. And it'll be so much harder on the indie devs than on the Bungie/Blizzards.

I'm afraid if this is pushed through, the studios will just switch all online experiences to be fully subscription based. No more purchasing the game, you just pay for a month of the experience.

azthecx · 2 months ago

As a software developer do you genuinely believe that it is harder for indie game developers to build online infrastructure and pay for its hosting costs rather than build some LAN feature into the game, or to package local server binaries into the game as it was done just a few decades ago?

azthecx commented on FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores axios.com/2025/06/23/fico... · Posted by u/cebert

john01dav · 2 months ago

You can buy investment properties to convert debt to income and get nice returns. While this is technically a business, there are ways to make it quite passive and thus more like an investment than a business. Margin stock accounts also exist, although I don't know enough to know what situations it makes sense to use them in.

azthecx · 2 months ago

There are arguments to be made, especially if you're young and just starting out to take a reasonable amount of margin and kickstart your compounding growth.

Say you just started working, have no use for your money and are willing to bet 20k on index funds vs a 90% market drop, you should be able to take 2k in leverage and set up your position be auto closed.

But of course as you have more money this type of market exposure starts shifting as you have shorter timer horizons to rebuild and are instead going into more of a wealth conservation mode.

azthecx commented on Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text github.com/mermaid-js/mer... · Posted by u/olalonde

paul_h · 3 months ago

I just used Mermaid for multiple sequence diagrams from build-steps sequences in a video talk I did on comparing build systems - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L67ri_xe2oQ (slides - https://paulhammant.com/google-style-dag-build-systems/). The new boost for me was GPT4o. It was able to quickly make what I wanted from the build logs alone, though it took some hand tweaking too. A new (or very old) problem after that was not taking sufficient save points (URL bookmarks) and sometimes making the same edit twice cos I'd lost a URL. That there was a second save of the PNG form for each (https://kroki.io/mermaid/svg/...) added to the keep-track-of-changes problem for me, especially when I'm very tired me :(

azthecx · 3 months ago

Interesting slides, it's always nice to see different ways to set up these kinds of systems and with a practical git repo to boot!

azthecx commented on Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities techcrunch.com/2025/05/14... · Posted by u/rpgbr

pixelatedindex · 3 months ago

> but the design of the system in my area seems to be to get the poor where they need to go

I don’t understand… do you not go to places where the poor go? Is there no transit to take you to parks and malls and theaters and stadiums? I suspect it’s more that taking your private vehicle is easier and faster, and not because there isn’t service - it probably just sucks.

azthecx · 3 months ago

In general the public transit system in the US is so underfunded and badly executed when compared to road infrastructure that only disadvantaged people that can't afford car transportation will even consider using it.

azthecx commented on Git Bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridges github.com/git-bug/git-bu... · Posted by u/stefankuehnel

omneity · 3 months ago

This looks cool and has the opportunity to replace my old and trusted todo.txt, but I couldn’t find how to create or resolve bugs. The CLI has features related to syncing but nothing about this, or did I miss something?

azthecx · 3 months ago

If you're looking at the CLI there are specific man pages for it.

You can find creation here https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug/blob/master/doc%2Fmd%2Fgi...

And status update here https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug/blob/master/doc%2Fmd%2Fgi...

azthecx commented on I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024) bugsink.com/blog/why-i-ga... · Posted by u/roywashere

mdaniel · 4 months ago

I haven't used Sentry's obserability portions, but the error capture has very strong deduplication built into it, and can optionally integrate with your SCM, CI, and issue tracker, if one wishes. Thus, the flow can go like:

- error happens, can be attributed to release 1.2.3

- every subsequent time that error happens to a different user, it can track who was affected by it, without opening a new error report

- your project can opt-in to accepting end-user feedback on error: "please tell us what you were doing when this exploded, or feel free to rant and rave, we read them all"

- it knows from the stack trace that the error is in src/kaboom/onoz.py line 55

- onoz.py:55 was last changed by claude@example.com last week, in PR #666

- sentry can comment upon said PR to advise the reviewers of the bad outcome

- sentry can create a Jira with the relevant details

- claude.manager@example.com can mark the bug as "fixed in the next release", which will cause sentry to suppress chirping about it until it sees a release 1.2.4

- if it happens again it will re-open the prior error report, marking it as a regression

Unless you know something I don't, Grafana does *ABSOLUTELY NONE* of that

azthecx · 4 months ago

Thanks for the detailed response

azthecx commented on I won't be vibe coding anymore: a noob's perspective varunraghu.com/why-i-wont... · Posted by u/Varun08

CharlesW · 4 months ago

> One problem I have is that AI is writing code I don't understand completely, yet I'm still responsible for it.

With vibe coding, you are as much a reviewer/editor as an author, and as an editor should never accept generated code that you don't understand. Happily, the same technology that generated the code can explain the code.

azthecx · 4 months ago

No, with vibe coding you are not a reviewer an editor or an author, quoting from the source:

    There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.
    ...
    I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it.

azthecx commented on I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024) bugsink.com/blog/why-i-ga... · Posted by u/roywashere

azthecx · 4 months ago

At first glance it's not immediately obvious to me, why would you pick Sentry or Bugsink over something included in the Grafana stack? What's the use use