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skywhopper commented on Go is still not good   blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go... · Posted by u/ustad
skywhopper · a day ago
God, this sort of article is so boring. Go is a great language, as evidenced by the tremendous amount of excellent software that’s been written in it. Are there some rough points? Sure.

But that’s all this is, is a list of annoyances the author experiences when using Go. Great, write an article about the problems with Go, but don’t say “therefore it’s a bad language”.

While I agree with many of the points brought up, none of them seems like such a huge issue that it’s even worth discussing, honestly. So you have different taste the the original designers. Who cares? What language do you say is better? I can find just as many problems with that language.

Also, defer is great.

skywhopper commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears   telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera
baby · 3 days ago
As someone using LLMs daily, it's always interesting to read something about AI being a bubble or just hype. I think you're going to miss the train, I am personally convinced this is the technology of our lifetime.
skywhopper · 2 days ago
How are you using it? The execs and investors believe the road to profit is by getting rid of your role in the process. Do you think that’d be possible?
skywhopper commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears   telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera
onlyrealcuzzo · 3 days ago
1000 people can't get a woman to have a child faster than 1 person.

So it depends on the type of problem you're trying to solve.

If you're trying to build a bunch of Wendy's locations, it's clearly better to have more construction workers.

It's less clear that if you're trying to build SGI that you're better off with 1000 people than 10.

It might be! But it might not be, too. Who knows for certain til post-ex?

skywhopper · 3 days ago
In re Wendy’s, it depends on whether you have a standard plan for building the Wendy’s and know what skills you need to hire for. If you just hire 10,000 random construction workers and send them out with instructions to “build 100 Wendy’s”, you are not going to succeed.
skywhopper commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears   telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera
nabla9 · 3 days ago
BTW: Meta specially denies that the reason is bubble fears and they provide alternate explanation in the article.

Better title:

Meta freezes AI hiring due to some basic organizational reasons.

skywhopper · 3 days ago
A hiring freeze is not something you do because you are planning well.
skywhopper commented on AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong   lastweekinaws.com/blog/aw... · Posted by u/keithly
kassner · 3 days ago
I haven’t used AWS in the last 5 years. Is IPv6 still somewhat of an issue? I remember some services not supporting it at all and making it impossible to manage as a IPv6-only network.
skywhopper · 3 days ago
Yeah, it’s still limited, and a few things still require at least a dual stack setup.
skywhopper commented on AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong   lastweekinaws.com/blog/aw... · Posted by u/keithly
raffraffraff · 3 days ago
> Availability Zones used to be randomized between accounts (my us-east-1a was your us-east-1c)

WTH?

skywhopper · 3 days ago
They did this to stop people from overloading us-east-1a.

It was fine, until there started to be ways of wiring up networks between accounts (eg PrivateLink endpoint services) and you had to figure out which AZ was which so you could be sure you were mapping to the the same AZs in each account.

I built a whole methodology for mapping this out across dozens of AWS accounts, and built lookup tables for our internal infrastructure… and then AWS added the zone ID to AZ metadata so that we could just look it up directly instead.

skywhopper commented on Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature   sso.tax/... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon
lousken · 4 days ago
> Part of the problem is that every identity provider is different. So you'd have to provide docs for every single one of them and their particularities.

no, you just provide the most used ones, once you have like top 5, that helps a lot

> And customers don't necessarily read the docs, or even if they do they don't configure everything correctly.

so just like with any other feature, really

also you should be improving docs, if they are not clear, make them clearer

it's basic sysadmin stuff, eventually 90% will understand and 10% will ask regardless of what you do, so just embrace yourself for those occasions

skywhopper · 4 days ago
The necessary docs are for the SSO system. So while we can build the docs, those UIs change often and without notice, and each customer may see something different, depending on their individual config or permissions. It’s literally impossible to “just provide better docs” consistently without incurring heavy expense… thus the extra cost.
skywhopper commented on Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature   sso.tax/... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon
lousken · 4 days ago
Sorry but that just means the feature is difficult to use on either side, so that would be at least 50% of your problem anyway. Provide good docs? How about that?

Every time someone has a problem create docs for it and after some time those questions will reduce significantly.

edit: also, for people implementing this the first time it should be obvious what happens when

1) they create a new account in your app (local)

2) if they create a new account within SSO provider

3) what happens with existing accounts during setup and if current users will be migrated over or not (or if they can use both singins)

skywhopper · 4 days ago
You really need to listen to the folks who have expertise in this area. It’s not this simple. Nowhere close. Take just Google users or Entra users, and there are variations between almost every single one, and they all require handholding and multiple back and forth manual steps to configure. And if anything goes wrong in the future they are impossible to troubleshoot.
skywhopper commented on Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature   sso.tax/... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon
zoeysmithe · 4 days ago
I think this is overly complimentary to big business and what's essentially predatory pricing.

The reality is you can't just carve out on feature and say "we pay for this." I mean that's true of a lot of things. The big revenue generators pay for a lot of things, but how things are billed is important. Remember, not to long ago people paid for Netscape, but now its laughable to pay for a browser. Its arbitrary to have this 'buffet' mentality and seems purposely shaming towards people who rightfully complain about ridiculous pricing structures like this.

I'm also skeptical that SSO costs vendors money. Maintaining and supporting an authentication database is a huge expense. For every SSO client, its one less Adobe or whatever account that needs to be hosted. Less helpdesk tickets about password resets, etc. SSO tends to be once and done. Hosting millions of accounts and being the sign-on provider for them is not 'once and done.'

Lastly, a lot of orgs don't do this. A lot arent SOC2. That means they'll just use whatever account the vendor supplies, and most likely without MFA, but their SSO would have provided that, thus making everyone more vulnerable. This is a great example of how exec salaries and stock buybacks and other things have priority over security because security is seen as a cost-center and without litigation or law, stuff like this becomes the norm. Oh and now there's one more source of passwords out there and another potential hack.

This is just greed and predatory. Its not the wonderful largess of big companies. It fact, its quite the opposite.

skywhopper · 4 days ago
Sure sounds like you haven’t done SSO operations for a large SaaS provider. Because it’s much, much more support and engineering work to integrate every random SSO provider, each with wildly customized differences for each customer, all totally opaque to the application provider, versus just having a single unified login system that your support staff has necessary visibility into.
skywhopper commented on Google is watching   not-a-tech-bro.ghost.io/g... · Posted by u/hodgesrm
mgiampapa · 5 days ago
Instead of writing a blog post or throwing away a working device, I would have just removed the location permission after updating the wifi...
skywhopper · 5 days ago
That hacky workaround is beside the point. Most people arent that conversant with the permissions options on their devices. And even if they are, intentionally forcing them to turn it off is the problem: Google doesn’t care about your experience or your privacy. They just want to take advantage of captive users.

u/skywhopper

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