> what exactly feels bloated about Java?

https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/2.5.x/javadoc-a...

How does someone login via this system? I'm asking because it has the force of law. In that sense, I can't imagine that passwords alone would be enough.

I just stick CloudFront in front of those buckets. You don't need to expose the bucket at all then and can point it at a canonical hostname in your DNS.

This is LLM as semantic search- so it's way way easier to start from the basic example code and google to confirm that it's correct than it is to read the docs from scratch and piece together the basic example code. Especially for things like configurations and permissions.

I agree but its about the extent. I'm willing to accept the risk of ocassionally making S3 public but getting things done much faster, much like I don't meticulously read documentation when I can get the answer from stackoverflow.

If you are comparing with stackoverflow then I guess we are on the same page - most people are fine with taking stuff from stackoverflow and it doesn't count as "brave".

In the late 1970s, my dad purchased an S-100 bus computer from Thinker Toys for about $3,000 (would be close to $15,000 today after adjusting for inflation). It had a Z80 microprocessor and ran CP/M. As was true of many hobbyist computers from this era, it came with full source code (in beautifully documented assembly) both for CP/M and for the BIOS. This was important because if you wanted to add peripherals or make other modifications to your computer, you had to edit the source code and recompile the BIOS.

A few years later my dad decided to buy an Epson MX-80 for his computer. The daisy-wheel and the plotter at work (he worked at SRI) just didn't cut it, I guess? This required buying a serial card for the S-100. In order to get that printer to work, he had to first, wire up a cable because the data lines from the card were on different pins in the printer. I believe there was a version of the MX-80 that came with a serial port instead of a parallel port which made some things easier. I was recruited as his assistant. Then he had to modify and recompile the BIOS. Then he had to also make some changes to CP/M. This was a process of trial and error that lasted for weeks. I remember I was away at summer camp and he sent me a letter he printed out on that printer. He was so happy that he finally got it to work.

Anyways, this resurfaced that memory and I thought I might as well share it. I still have the printout he sent me somewhere.

There’s nothing brave in this. It generally works the way it should and even if it doesn’t - you just go back to see what went wrong.

I take code from stack overflow all the time and there’s like a 90% chance it can work. What’s the difference here?

This is exactly what I use LLMs for. To just read the docs for me and pull out the base level demo code that's buried in all the AWS documentation.

Once I have that I can also ask it for the custom tweaks I need.

> as AI scrapers bother implementing the PoW

That's what it's for, isn't it? Make crawling slower and more expensive. Shitty crawlers not being able to run the PoW efficiently or at all is just a plus. Although:

> which is trivial for them, as the post explains

Sadly the site's being hugged to death right now so I can't really tell if I'm missing part of your argument here.

> figure out that they can simply remove "Mozilla" from their user-agent

And flag themselves in the logs to get separately blocked or rate limited. Servers win if malicious bots identify themselves again, and forcing them to change the user agent does that.