denvrede (u/denvrede)

denvrede commented on Brain has five 'eras' with adult mode not starting until early 30s theguardian.com/science/2... · Posted by u/hackernj

goalieca · 3 months ago

Thousands of generations of parents had children much younger than today. I think we’re too worried about having everything perfect and de-risked these days. Also realize that parenting is what grew me up. I don’t think people are ever “ready”

denvrede · 3 months ago

Exactly that. It's not an arbitrary dated threshold that lead to "growing up". It was the event of having kids. I'm still able to look at my current life through the lenses of a 25 year old me and hell, that looks bleak. But I can say with confidence that I'm content. Of course there are little things here and there but mostly everything is fine.

I only wonder if there is going to be a next stage, the magical "midlife crisis", where I'm going to question all my decisions up to that point and I'm curious how I'm going to handle that.

denvrede commented on A $1k AWS mistake geocod.io/code-and-coordi... · Posted by u/thecodemonkey

andrewstuart · 3 months ago

They’re Linux computers.

Anything AWS does you can run on Linux computers.

It’s naive to think that AWS is some sort of magically special system that transcends other networked computers, out of brand loyalty.

That’s the AWS kool aid that makes otherwise clever people think there’s no way any organization can run their own computer systems - only AWS has the skills for that.

denvrede · 3 months ago

Good luck managing the whole day-2 operations and the application layer on top of your VPS. You're just shuffling around your spending. For you it's not on compute anymore but manpower to manage that mess.

denvrede commented on A $1k AWS mistake geocod.io/code-and-coordi... · Posted by u/thecodemonkey

Hikikomori · 3 months ago

Saved >120k/month by deploying some vpc endpoints and vpc peering (rather than tgw).

denvrede · 3 months ago

VPC peering becomes ugly fast, once your network architecture becomes more complex. Because transitive peering doesn't work you're building a mesh of networks.

denvrede commented on Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn? · Posted by u/unsupp0rted

pif · 6 months ago

Concerning professional software development:

Customers buy solutions. They don't buy specifications documents, they don't buy elegant code, they don't buy automatic test coverage. All of these are useful only as long as they help you deliver solutions to customers faster. Any effort more is better spent on actually building solutions for customers. Maintainability is nearly top priority; real top priority is to have something to maintain in the first place.

Corollary: quick-and-dirty exist for a reason. It's easy to say that quick-and-dirty is just dirty, and it's true: in the long run, quick-and-dirty takes longer than the-right-thing. But, there is a but: time doesn't always have the same value! Time just before a deadline is much more precious than the time after the deadline, when you can relax a bit and fix things before the next stress wave. Have it working and ship it now; we'll get it in better shape next week, while the customer will be happy playing with their new toy.

denvrede · 6 months ago

> we'll get it in better shape next week, [...]

All of the above is only true if the quoted part is taken seriously and actually acted on.

denvrede commented on Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI frigate.video/... · Posted by u/zakki

sajb · 6 months ago

I've been doing this with great success for over five years with Camect, so what's new?

denvrede · 6 months ago

At a first look? No, or at least not well maintained Home Assistant integration.

denvrede commented on AI in my plasma physics research didn’t go the way I expected understandingai.org/p/i-g... · Posted by u/qianli_cs

lazide · 9 months ago

Having tried to use various tools - in those specific examples - I found them either pointless or actively harmful.

Writing emails - once I knew what I wanted to convey, the rest was so trivial as to not matter, and any LLM tooling just got in the way of actually expressing it as I ended up trying to tweak the junk it was producing.

Meeting minutes - I have yet to see one that didn’t miss something important while creating a lot of junk that no one ever read.

And while I’m sure someone somewhere has had luck with the document search/extract stuff, my experience has been that the hard part was understanding something, and then finding it in the doc or being reminded of it was easy. If someone didn’t understand something, the AI summary or search was useless because they didn’t know what they were seeing.

I’ve also seen a LOT of both junior and senior people end up in a haze because they couldn’t figure out what was going on - and the AI tooling just allowed them to produce more junk that didn’t make any sense, rather than engage their brain. Which causes more junk for everyone to get overwhelmed with.

IMO, a lot of the ‘productivity’ isn’t actually, it’s just semi coherent noise.

denvrede · 9 months ago

+1 for all of the above.

> Meeting minutes - I have yet to see one that didn’t miss something important while creating a lot of junk that no one ever read.

Especially that one. In the beginning for very structured meetings with a low number of participants it seemed to be ok but once they got more crowded, maybe not all are native speakers and took longer than 30 minutes (like workshops) it went bad.

denvrede commented on Googler... ex-Googler nerdy.dev/ex-googler... · Posted by u/namuorg

dzogchen · 10 months ago

> the laid off employees were given a few days in the company to allow them to say goodbyes

This is just so wild for me as an European, because at least in Germany if you get fired (or if you quit) you need to stay 1 - 3 MONTHS at the company still.

denvrede · 10 months ago

Not true. They can remove you from the company grounds and block access to all systems the moment you get fired or you hand in your resignation. But they have to pay you (if there is no "good reason" for firing you) for a varying amount of time (depending on your contract and some minimums by law).

Of course, most of the time, you can / need to stay at the company for that above mentioned varying amount of time.

denvrede commented on Directus – real-time REST and GraphQL API of any SQL database github.com/directus/direc... · Posted by u/modinfo

denvrede · a year ago

Does anybody know something like Directus (building REST APIs on top of Postgres) with the ability to hook in custom authorization logic? (E.g. to do FGA checks before returning data)

denvrede commented on Home Assistant can not be secured for internet access frederikbraun.de/home-ass... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

perching_aix · a year ago

For hosting a service despite being on a residential contract.

denvrede · a year ago

A service for private use? Sorry I’ve never heard of that before and would ditch that ISP immediately.