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bananapub commented on Using LLMs at Oxide   rfd.shared.oxide.computer... · Posted by u/steveklabnik
philippta · 9 days ago
> LLM-generated code should not be reviewed by others if the responsible engineer has not themselves reviewed it.

To extend that: If the LLM is the author and the responsible engineer is the genuine first reviewer, do you need a second engineer at all?

Typically in my experience one review is enough.

bananapub · 9 days ago
yes, obviously?

anyone who is doing serious enough engineering that they have the rule of "one human writes, one human reviews" wants two humans to actually put careful thought in to a thing, and only one of them is deeply incentivised to just commit the code.

your suggestion means less review and worse incentives.

bananapub commented on Rsync.net Technical Notes – Q4 2025   rsync.net/resources/notes... · Posted by u/rsync
bananapub · 11 days ago
just another happy customer, from so long ago I can't find my signup email anymore. very glad there are still companies who just do a thing well without trying to tie me up with them further or cross-sell or sell themselves or make the product worse.

keep up the good work!

bananapub commented on Zmx: Session Persistence for Terminal Processes   github.com/neurosnap/zmx... · Posted by u/birdculture
perrohunter · 12 days ago
I want this, but with the window switcher from tmux
bananapub · 11 days ago
if you want anything other than "switch to another full terminal window, no splits, no status bar" then you want tmux or screen or zellij - this tool and the others like it are explicitly avoiding becoming (nested) terminal emulators like tmux and screen and zellij.

at least I think it would be possible to do "switch to another full terminal window, no splits, no status bar" without being a terminal emulator, I haven't tried.

bananapub commented on MinIO is now in maintenance-mode   github.com/minio/minio/co... · Posted by u/hajtom
bananapub · 12 days ago
for those looking for a simple and reliable self hosted S3 thing, check out Garage . it's much simpler - no web ui, no fancy RS coding, no VC-backed AI company, just some french nerds making a very solid tool.

fwiw while they do produce Docker containers for it, it's also extremely simple to run without that - it's a single binary and running it with systemd is unsurprisingly simple[1].

0: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

1: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/cookbook/system...

bananapub commented on Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy   jacobin.com/2025/11/peter... · Posted by u/robtherobber
psunavy03 · 13 days ago
Interesting that this is being downvoted considering "Thiel is a right-wing loon" and "Jacobin are a bunch of left-wing loons" are not mutually exclusive statements.

They're both wrong, just in different ways, and observing this is not "bothsidesism."

bananapub · 13 days ago
it's not interesting at all - the comment is very stupid (jacobin is not "whole journal on literal communism") as well as such lazy both-sidesism everyone is dumber for having read it.

there's lots of stupid brigading on HN, but sometimes dumb comments get the downvotes they deserve.

bananapub commented on Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy   jacobin.com/2025/11/peter... · Posted by u/robtherobber
jmathai · 13 days ago
Maybe slightly off topic to the article, but I don't really care what Peter Thiel has to say. I do think we need to collectively think about how to not give these people a microphone. It's one thing to have concentrated wealth. It's a very different thing to have concentrated wealth and people's attention. I think that's a much more interesting discussion :).
bananapub · 13 days ago
you should care, he and his fellow nutters have siezed control of the USA and most tech-mega-corp leadership either agree with them or will go along with them.
bananapub commented on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days   letsencrypt.org/2025/12/0... · Posted by u/abraham
redrove · 14 days ago
Big news for both the lazy homelab admin that can set a TXT once and ultimately be more secure without spraying DNS Zone Edit tokens all over their infra AND for the poor enterprise folks that have to open a ticket and wait 3 weeks for a DNS record.
bananapub · 13 days ago
a perhaps non-obvious option is to CNAME (or NS) the `_acme_challenge` record from your main zone to another zone you can control better and can't affect production traffic the same way the main zone could. `acme-dns` is a neat little tool for exactly this, that has an https api for your ACME client to request a cert from, and a dns server to respond to dns-01 challenges from your provider.
bananapub commented on Kagi Assistants   blog.kagi.com/kagi-assist... · Posted by u/ingve
bananapub · 25 days ago
regular reminder: kagi is - above all else - a really really good search engine, and if google/etc, or even just the increasingly horrific ads-ocracy make you sad, you should definitely give it a go - the trial is here: https://kagi.com/pricing

if you like it, it's only $10/month, which I regrettably spend on coffee some days.

bananapub commented on BBC director general and News CEO resign in bias controversy   bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd9kq... · Posted by u/mellosouls
bananapub · a month ago
since this post has been immediately brigaded by far right lunatics, it's worth clarifying these people have resigned based on a far right wing pressure campaign over the way a trump speech was presented, in a third-party-produced current affairs show, that was broadcast last year.

this[0] article by the BBC covers the details of that fine. here's the meat of it, for the extremely lazy:

> In his speech in Washington DC on 6 January 2021, Trump said: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women."

> However, in Panorama's edit, he was shown saying: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol... and I'll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell."

> The two sections of the speech that were edited together were more than 50 minutes apart.

> The "fight like hell" comment was taken from a section where President Trump discussed how "corrupt" US elections were. In total, he used the words "fight" or "fighting" 20 times in the speech.

> After showing the president speaking, the programme played footage of flag-waving men marching on the Capitol, the Telegraph said.

> According to the leaked memo, this "created the impression President Trump's supporters had taken up his 'call to arms'". But that footage was in fact shot before the president had started speaking.

it is worth considering the bar that is being demanded here, and how every single other news source in the world would compare against that bar.

the reason this is in the news now is that someone "leaked" an internal memo from the BBC that discussed the show. the claim is that it was fundamentally unfair to suggest that trump was encouraging these people. since that day he has:

- explicitly claimed he supported them and what they did [1]

- given federal pardons to ~all of them, including ones who had commited previous crimes and then after being pardoned committed further crimes [2]

0: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgzkyk7knzo

1: https://apnews.com/article/trump-jan-6-evolution-downplay-vi...

2: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjw4vjvlgxpo

u/bananapub

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