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New comment by adrianstoll in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

adrianstoll — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:37:39 +0000

Good SREs can support a service without being familiar with the details. They use generic mitigations (e.g. rollback to a know good release, request an emergency quota increase, etc) to quickly stop the bleeding without needing to understand the root cause. Later the SWEs who understand the code can debug at their leisure. Having a deep understanding of the service obviously helps but is not essential. I expect agents are already applying these generic mitigations at bleeding edge companies but do not have firsthand experience as an SRE to confirm.

New comment by adrianstoll in "Stealing Is a Skill"

adrianstoll — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:01:31 +0000

Ben Franklin did this as well. He writes about this exercise in his autobiography.

New comment by adrianstoll in "Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break"

adrianstoll — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 05:07:28 +0000

If you expand your scope enough eventually you’ll find someone. For example, my first job was from someone who knew my dad.

New comment by adrianstoll in "Ask HN: Recommendations for a Linux Distro and Laptop?"

adrianstoll — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 21:05:51 +0000

I’ve had multiple Thinkpad X1 carbon laptops with whatever the most recent Ubuntu LTS version. The hardware is well supported by Ubuntu, however I have experienced a few bugs with Gnome and the keyboards on newer X1 carbons are not as reliable. Since much of what people do these days is in a web browser, the difference between operating systems is not as meaningful these days.

New comment by adrianstoll in "New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike"

adrianstoll — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:30:10 +0000

> You rarely knew if the people you interviewed were hired or not

Perhaps this has changed over the years. I recall there is a website listing all the people you have interviewed and their status (e.g. upcoming interview, rejected, application withdrawn etc)

New comment by adrianstoll in "Apple's “iCloud Private Relay” broke risk based authentication"

adrianstoll — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 19:38:49 +0000

This does not prevent geo-blocking, because the relay's IP is still in the same region as the user.

New comment by adrianstoll in "In praise of --dry-run"

adrianstoll — Mon, 24 May 2021 20:41:42 +0000

I only use sed on version controlled files and immediately run git diff afterwards to check the results.

New comment by adrianstoll in "Problems with low DNS TTLs"

adrianstoll — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 00:09:32 +0000

In 2016 Dyn DNS suffered a DDOS attack and sites including Twitter and Spotify became inaccessible. Higher TTLs would have extended availability from browsers with cached resource records.

New comment by adrianstoll in "BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux"

adrianstoll — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 22:56:40 +0000

Samsung provides authentication software for their sd cards too.

New comment by adrianstoll in "We can do better than DuckDuckGo"

adrianstoll — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 00:04:37 +0000

This is the idea behind sitemaps which have existed forever.