sleepychu (u/sleepychu)

sleepychu commented on Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024) cep.dev/posts/every-infra... · Posted by u/Meetvelde

tech2 · 22 days ago

I have to ask, because wow that's a lot of buckets, but what kind of activity requires breaching even a 1,000 bucket limit per account?

sleepychu · 22 days ago

Simplistic tenant isolation and cost tracking :-)

I know there are other solutions to this particular problem but this model is extremely easy to reason about. When the application accesses tenant objects or delegates that access with pre-signed URLs it is doing so with ephemeral credentials that literally could not access the objects in another tenancy.

That and a similar DB isolation, allows most of our handlers to be very simple as far as tenant isolation goes.

sleepychu commented on Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024) cep.dev/posts/every-infra... · Posted by u/Meetvelde

SkiFire13 · 23 days ago

> Every organization I’ve ever witnessed eventually ends up with some kind of struggle with AWS’ insane organizations and accounts nightmare.

What are these struggles? The product I work on uses AWS and we have ~5 accounts (I hear they used to be more TBF) but nowadays all the infrastructure is on one of them and the other are for some niche stuff (tech support?). I could see how going overboard with many accounts could be an issue, but I don't really see issues having everything on one account.

sleepychu · 23 days ago

We were saved by the bell when they announced the increased account limit for S3 buckets (1M buckets, now, 1k I think before).

Just before they announced that I was working on creating org accounts specifically to contain S3 buckets and then permitting the primary app to use those accounts just for their bucket allocation.

AWS themselves recommend an account per developer, IIRC.

It's as you say, some policy or limitation might require lots of accounts and lots of accounts can be pretty challenging to manage.

sleepychu commented on Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/novaRom

docdeek · a month ago

The French term for potatoes is also ‘earth apple’: pomme de terre

sleepychu · a month ago

I'm fairly sure that is the origin of Erdäpfel. We certainly thought this was a funny name for potato when we learned French in Scotland :-)

When I learned German the word for potato was Kartoffel.

sleepychu commented on The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup twitter.com/bcherny/statu... · Posted by u/KothuRoti

MattGaiser · 2 months ago

Yep.

For one of the things I am doing, I am the solo developer on a web application. At any given point, there are 4-5 large features I want and I instruct Claude to heavily test those features, so it is not unusual for each to run for 30-45 minutes and for overall conversations to span several hours. People are correct that it often makes mistakes, so that testing phase usually uncovers a bunch of issues it has to fix.

I usually have 1-2 mop up terminal windows open for small things I notice as I go along that I want to fix. Claude can be bad about things like putting white text on a white button and I want a free terminal to just drop every little nitpick into it. They exist for me to just throw small tasks into. Yes, you really should start a new convo every need, but these are small things and I do not want to disrupt my flow.

There are another 2-3 for smaller features that I am regularly reviewing and resetting. And then another one dedicated to just running the tests already built over and over again and solving any failures or investigating things. Another one is for research to tell me things about the codebase.

sleepychu · 2 months ago

Where is Claude's checkout? Do you have them all share the same local files or does each use its own copy?

sleepychu commented on iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA macrumors.com/2025/12/22/... · Posted by u/Tomte

f1shy · 3 months ago

Then you will see here thousands of comments explaining how that is bad for small businesses, and apple is forcing them out of the market… is a balance…

sleepychu · 3 months ago

Perhaps it should be by user base?

"You have 100M MAU, you need to be keeping up with the standards"

sleepychu commented on Can you use GDPR to circumvent BlueSky's adult content blocks? shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/... · Posted by u/furkansahin

CaptainOfCoit · 5 months ago

You don't, it's up to citizens to make sure whatever authentication they use can only be used by them, just like how it works for other services today where you authenticate online somehow and the government service assumes you're you since you were able to authenticate.

sleepychu · 5 months ago

My point is that this is either a bearer token (in which case it will be obtainable by proxy) or tied to your identity.

What is the incentive for the citizen to make sure their authentication isn't shared?

sleepychu commented on Can you use GDPR to circumvent BlueSky's adult content blocks? shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/... · Posted by u/furkansahin

CaptainOfCoit · 5 months ago

I'm not sure if you work in software or not, but it's definitely possible to come up with a schema where you could verify people's age in order to use a platform, without exposing your entire identity to said platform, with a combination of signatures and other cryptographic basics.

Say you have a digital certificate from the government or similar that you use to do your taxes online or whatever, the government could have endpoints where you could use that certificate for signing a proof, that you then hand over to the platform you want to verify your age with. The platform can then confirm it's valid, and that $AGE>X, but they get no other details.

You can even go a bit fancier/more complicated, and the government endpoints wouldn't know what platform you're trying to verify.

sleepychu · 5 months ago

How do I prevent my citizens from sharing their certificates in order to bypass the block?

sleepychu commented on Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/doppp

HPsquared · 6 months ago

Solution: make cars safer (as in, less likely to harm others) through road design, and things like automated emergency braking and self-driving.

Then the cars are safer both for the occupants and pedestrians/cyclists, so paradoxically people might be more inclined to walk or cycle.

sleepychu · 6 months ago

I'd sooner see a more practical solution that works on the roads and cars we already have.

Aggressively limit speed and enforce it until you're onto the fast roads.

If cars could only roll on at 10mph I'd feel a lot safer and I'd probably be able to use my bike and make better time for the local stuff.

sleepychu commented on Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/doppp

noosphr · 6 months ago

> Second, it's not just games. In my NYC days I was a "transit and bike lanes" guy all the way. Now with kids, I understand why "Americans love their cars" - it switched form a derogatory statement to one of understanding. There's a reason that "ban the cars" posters never mention a partner or children in their bios.

Buy a bakfiet cargo bike, there's models that can fit five kids under 7. Mine fits three.

Kids like them better and you get exercise. For the first time in my life I have a BMI of around 20 without having to waste time at the gym, the drop off, pick up, shopping, and work commute add up to an hour and a half of medium intensity cardio.

Every other parent my age in the neighborhood looks five years away from a heart attack. I'm fitter than I was in my 20s.

>There's less "objective good" or "objective bad" in these matters than I used to think. It's more about who you optimize for.

There are over 1,000 children killed in the US annually by cars. This is after we restrain them like Hannibal Lecter while in cars and don't let them out of our houses so they don't get run over.

That's before we talk about the child obesity epidemic, social media abuse, and on and on.

If given the choice between keeping cars or letting polio loose on the land you'd be hard pressed to figure out which will kill and disable more kids.

sleepychu · 6 months ago

I'd love to get a cargo bike and use it for kid transport.

I would be worried about collision safety though, I am not going to persuade everyone in my neighborhood to stop using cars in a hurry and there are not bike routes between me and school, library, shops, ...

sleepychu commented on iPhone dumbphone stopa.io/post/297... · Posted by u/joshmanders

sleepychu · 6 months ago

> It’s common to rack up 4 hours or more of screen time a day on your phone. Here’s one way to see the cost of that: every 20 years, you lose 5 years of your waking time looking at your phone.

If you spend 4 hours/24 hours on your phone then every 20X you'll have lost 3.33... X.

I think the author is using year and waking-years but it doesn't parse well for me because you don't get close to 20 waking-years for every 20 years.