literallyroy (u/literallyroy)

literallyroy commented on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service theregister.com/2025/12/0... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

aperture147 · 19 days ago

I don't get it, why did they allow GitHub bot to modify and merge pull request automatically? Yeah I agree that MS is ruining everything with AI, but this problem is avoidable, if they turn off the bot's auto merge feature, or turn it off completely. The reason they move to a lesser known Git provider sounds more like a marketing stunt.

literallyroy · 19 days ago

What are you referring to? I may be missing a line from the article but it seems mostly focused around a lingering GitHub Actions bug and the direction of GitHub.

literallyroy commented on Microsoft sued for allegedly tricking millions into Copilot M365 subscriptions bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/speckx

literallyroy · 2 months ago

Was this messaging only shown in Australia? That seems incredibly misleading/a flat out lie.

literallyroy commented on We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept ISO 27001 with Ansible medium.com/@accounts_7307... · Posted by u/sksjvsla

steveBK123 · 6 months ago

I think both things are true - people overestimate the level of support provided by AWS, but also re-building the laundry list of stuff OP did in-house to save $24k/year seems onerous.

But the idea that AWS provides some sort of white glove 24/7 support is laughable for anyone that's ever run into issues with one of their products...

literallyroy · 6 months ago

Only incident we needed AWS support we had an engineer on call with us for several hours (including a shift change for them). Might’ve been a one-off but has seemed like their support is pretty phenomenal (also talked with someone who worked there and they thought it was good).

literallyroy commented on Behind the scenes: Redpanda Cloud's response to the GCP outage redpanda.com/blog/gcp-out... · Posted by u/eatonphil

RadiozRadioz · 6 months ago

Hmm. Here's what I read from this article: RedPanda didn't happen to use any of the stuff in GCP that went down, so they were unaffected. They use a 3rd party for alerting and dashboarding, and that 3rd party went down, but RedPanda still had their own monitoring.

When I read "major outage for a large part of the internet was just another normal day for Redpanda Cloud customers", I expected a brave tale of RedPanda SREs valiantly fixing things, or some cool automatic failover tech. What I got instead was: Google told RedPanda there was an issue, RedPanda had a look and their service was unaffected, nothing needed failing over, then someone at RedPanda wrote an article bragging about their triple-nine uptime & fault tolerance.

I get it, an SRE is doing well if you don't notice them, but the only real preventative measure I saw here that directly helped with this issue, is that they over provision disk space. Which I'd be alarmed if they didn't do.

literallyroy · 6 months ago

Yeah I thought they were going to show something cool like multi-tenant architecture. Odd to write this article when it was clear they expected to be impacted as they were reaching out to customers.

literallyroy commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA · Posted by u/proberts

I_am_tiberius · 7 months ago

Do you find it normal that you have to recommend a person to speak with an attorney before traveling to a country?

literallyroy · 7 months ago

I’m not the person you’re replying to, but I’m interested in your response to your own question if you’re up for sharing.

My uninformed opinion if you want it: No, it’s not normal for someone to speak to an attorney before traveling. That question is a tad rigged though since I do find it normal to talk to an attorney if you’re doing something abnormal[0] to a legal document, especially to a legal document used to (ideally) rigorously confirm your identity.

[0] uncommon is likely a better choice of words, but I hope the added indirection isn’t necessary in this format of discussion

literallyroy commented on The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain? (2020) massivesci.com/articles/p... · Posted by u/smusamashah

literallyroy · 8 months ago

Is 42 participants statically significant?

literallyroy commented on Show HN: Daily Jailbreak – Prompt Engineer's Wordle vaultbreak.ai/daily-jailb... · Posted by u/ericlmtn

literallyroy · 8 months ago

How does something like this function under the hood? Is it not expensive/risky to let anyone run requests on your dime?

literallyroy commented on The Board Game Industry Is Burning – and It's Their Own Fault highnoongame.com/post/the... · Posted by u/gmargari

literallyroy · 8 months ago

Fun read, smug but I enjoy some opinion and life in my reading.

I don’t think people producing games being hobbyists rather than business people is quite the negative I feel this post presents it to be.

literallyroy commented on Distributed systems programming has stalled shadaj.me/writing/distrib... · Posted by u/shadaj

bsnnkv · 10 months ago

Last month I switched from a role working on a distributed system (FAANG) to a role working on embedded software which runs on cards in data center racks.

I was in my last role for a year, and 90%+ of my time was spent investigating things that went "missing" at one of many failure points between one of the many distributed components.

I wrote less than 200 lines of code that year and I experienced the highest level of burnout in my professional career.

The technical aspect that contributed the most to this burnout was both the lack of observability tooling and the lack of organizational desire to invest in it. Whenever I would bring up this gap I would be told that we can't spend time/money and wait for people to create "magic tools".

So far the culture in my new embedded (Rust, fwiw) position is the complete opposite. If you're burnt out working on distributed systems and you care about some of the same things that I do, it's worth giving embedded software dev a shot.

literallyroy · 10 months ago

How did you make that transition/find a position? Were you already using Rust in a previous role?

literallyroy commented on Show HN: Yaak – An open source, Git-friendly desktop API client yaak.app... · Posted by u/gschier

dhruvkb · 10 months ago

Would love to see a comparison with Bruno[1].

[1]: https://usebruno.com

literallyroy · 10 months ago

Here’s my own take [1] when I was on the hunt for a good HTTP client a month or so ago.

[1]: https://royathan.com/blog/the-api-client-hunt/