Glad I'm not crazy for running agentic tools in an isolated VM.
Readit Newsohhnoodont commented on Claude CLI deleted my home directory and wiped my Mac old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI... · Posted by u/tamnd
Any dream of owning a home, having retirement, even a career after a couple years when it’s clear I’m over the hump. I’m trying to squeeze as much as I can before that happens and squirrel it away so at least I can have a van down by a river.
What does squirreling it away mean though? A pile of cash instead of investments? The reality is that you don’t get to throw in the towel.
ohhnoodont commented on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels bringbackdoors.com/... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap
I’m glad that someone has built this and made it their personal crusade, but this is a problem that I can’t relate to having. I find it far more uncomfortable/intimate to sleep next to someone (even if in separate beds) than to shower or use the toilet in front off someone. Snoring, farting, dream talking, morning erections, etc.
Somehow I seem to be in the minority with this opinion. But if we’re sharing a room we’re probably pretty comfortable with each other.
ohhnoodont commented on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels bringbackdoors.com/... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap
I can assure you not even single people nor couples want doorless bathrooms.
Couples that poop together stay together.
ohhnoodont commented on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels bringbackdoors.com/... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap
There must be two types of people/couples.
Those that prefer privacy and those that don't care.
I’ve actually ended otherwise decent relationships early because the other person was way too coy/upset with bodily functions like farting and pooping. If we’er sleeping together I expect us to be farting together. And if we are living together I expect us to be using the toilet in front of each other. Anything less is both inconvenient and reflective of deep personality conflicts that will never be resolved.
You can pay for just one month at a time. I pay now and then and check in on my personal domain – like you, I use dozens of email addresses with a catchall.
The first tier ($4/month) only works for up to 25 aliases. Depending on how many of your aliases have leaked, you may have to pay a lot to perform that check.
I wish HIBP had a solution for those of us who are individuals but use domain catchall forwarding as our method for separating accounts.
It feels good to see adobe@mydomain.com, newrelic@mydomain.com, internetarchive@mydomain.com, etc. there but not any of the addresses I use for normal communication.
I have my own mail server and setup a catch all alias to a single account. So I can generate -- on the fly -- e-mails for services.
- Apple: me.apple@example.com - Google: me.google@example.com - Uber: me.uber@example.com - Tinder: me.tinder@example.com - random business: me.randombusinessname@example.com
This helps me with the following:
- unique usernames and passwords for each service
- easily able to tell when a service sells my information or gets hacked/breached
- "haveibeenpwned" also allows mail server owners to get access to reports for all addresses on a domain and receive notifications on breaches
- much easier to remember and communicate with others as compared to iCloud hide my e-mail addresses
- on the outgoing/sending, re-writing the "from" address field in e-mails is very easy to do
If you use this approach, once 10 of your aliases are in the HIBP database you will need to pay for a subscription to see breaches for your domain (and even then the $40/year tier is only good for 25 aliases).
I wish HIBP had a solution for those of us who are individuals but use a domain catchall to manage online accounts.
I'm on board with the cheap offshore and bad incentives motiv, but feel this has to be augmented with a mention of the senior cowboy coder (who just went into retirement). Most likely in the future these stereotypes will be joined by vibe coders and AI-powered juniors, but as someone working this industry for a couple of decades give or take - we've learned how to deal with these by now.
> the senior cowboy coder (who just went into retirement)
They just went into retirement?
For all the talk of AI Slop, I don’t hear much about the fact that we have been suffering from Outsourced Slop for decades now. I suspect that is how this kind of thing also fail at LinkedIn. I say that based on my experience dealing with outsourcing companies and the product they produce through outsourced programmers.
It’s really just been a similar problem as with AI code, that without strong and competent management that can set intelligent expectations and requirements and test for them, you will surely get what appears to all the business and leadership types like an equivalent product, without any sense that it’s slop underneath the surface.
I've seen coworkers at Big Tech Co™ make huge security blunders despite attending prestigious universities (Berkeley, Stanford, etc) and having 5+ years of industry experience. No LLM slop required. Just rushing to meet deadlines while requirements shift rapidly enough that details get overlooked.
I'm still happily using an 8GB M1 running Firefox in OSX + Firefox/VSCode/NodeJS in a Debian VM. Lots of tabs open. Both OSX and Debian can use compressed RAM.
What software are you using for virtualization? I wasn't impressed with the Apple Silicon options last time I looked.