bastardoperator (u/bastardoperator)

bastardoperator commented on Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail' threads.com/@qa_test_hq/p... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon

prodigycorp · 7 hours ago

What would this have costed had they used render or railway? Maybe, what, $200 a month?

Vercel's pricing is so ridiculously convoluted that you can't even cleanly compare usage. With render/railway/(insert provider of choice) you can at least predict that you're your biggest cost is going to be egress.

edit: I just saw that it gets 450m pageviews. I'm guessing on the upper end this costs ~$1k with railway + cloudflare?

bastardoperator · an hour ago

The pricing is so bad I had to remove my CC details. One mistake and you wake up with a 50K bill for your personal project that was just you exploring.

bastardoperator commented on I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed jamesdrandall.com/posts/t... · Posted by u/jamesrandall

renegat0x0 · 2 hours ago

Programming is not art for me. I do not find it useful to gold plate solutions. I prefer getting the job done, sometimes by any means necessary for "the vehicle" to continue running.

AI often generates parts of code for my hobby projects, which allow me speed running with my implementation. It often generates errors, but I am also skilled, so I fix error in the code.

I use AI as boiler plate code generator, or documentation assist, for languages I do not use daily. These solutions I rarely use 1:1, but if I had to go through readme's and readthedocs, it would take me a lot longer.

Would there be more elegant solutions? often - yes. Does it really matter? For me - not.

bastardoperator · an hour ago

I'm yet to see perfect code from a human or ai. Most of the people I work with that want everything to be in a perfect state typically get way less done. To your point, sometimes we are just mechanics and that's okay.

bastardoperator commented on AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports reuters.com/business/medi... · Posted by u/redman25

bastardoperator · a day ago

I worked at Verizon almost 10 years ago, they hired a group come to come in and assess. Within 3-4 hours they pwned the entire place (including offices outside of the office we were in) through an unsecured windows jenkins machine/script console.

bastardoperator commented on I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams kirkville.com/i-now-assum... · Posted by u/cdrnsf

bastardoperator · 4 days ago

Let me fix this, "I now assume that all ads are scams"

bastardoperator commented on It's 2026, Just Use Postgres tigerdata.com/blog/its-20... · Posted by u/turtles3

bastardoperator · 5 days ago

I don't disagree, but I think big enterprises expect support, roadmaps, and the ability to ask for deliverables depending on the sale or context of the service.

bastardoperator commented on GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client xda-developers.com/gog-ca... · Posted by u/franczesko

aleph_minus_one · 11 days ago

Multiplayer games is only some specific sub-scene of PC gaming.

bastardoperator · 8 days ago

Of the top 10 games on steam, 8 of them are multiplayer. Until they have top multiplayer games, they have nothing. The reality is most of these studios aren't going to enable Linux because they're already on record stating it would make the cheating worse.

bastardoperator commented on GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client xda-developers.com/gog-ca... · Posted by u/franczesko

orbital-decay · 11 days ago

Most gamers don't give a shit about openness. A much more likely outcome is "big tech" following the numbers and slowly making Linux unusable by using EEE or any other tactic under the pretense of usefulness.

bastardoperator · 11 days ago

Until it fully supports multiplayer which doesn't seem to be a thing for any major game or studio, it's a nothingburger for the majority of people.

bastardoperator commented on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux himthe.dev/blog/microsoft... · Posted by u/bobsterlobster

giancarlostoro · 13 days ago

This was me in 2022 or 2023. I have posted on HN about my shift a few times. I gave up with Windows 10 because you needed Windows Pro in order to make an "offline" account, I spent $2000+ for a gaming rig, and I couldn't add new users, one program told me to use the other program which brought me back to the original program... I had to go out of my way, buy a license just to make it work. I just went and installed Linux finally. I was on POP_OS! for a good year, but been on Arch Linux for one year plus now.

I know its a "meme" to talk about how great Arch is, but when you want the latest of something, Arch has it. I use EndeavourOS since it had a nicer simpler installer (idk why Arch doesn't invest in whats standard in every other major distro) and if you just use "yay" you don't run into Pacman woes.

Alternatively, I'm only buying Macs as well, but for my gaming rigs, straight to Arch. Steam and Proton work perfectly, if you don't sell your games on Steam or in a way I can run them on Linux I am not buying or playing them.

bastardoperator · 13 days ago

How do you figure out Arch but not OOBE?

bastardoperator commented on Claude's new constitution anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

Retr0id · 20 days ago

I have to wonder if they really believe half this stuff, or just think it has a positive impact on Claude's behaviour. If it's the latter I suppose they can never admit it, because that information would make its way into future training data. They can never break character!

bastardoperator · 20 days ago

Remember when Google was "Don't be evil"? They would happily shred this constitution and any other one if it meant more money. They don't, but they think we do.