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New comment by balex in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

balex — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:38:33 +0000

It comes back to communication. If management acknowledges the issue but redirects budget elsewhere due to priorities, it's legit. Communicating it in a way IT personnel understand and accept isn't necessarily easy. Sometimes there's also incentive for management to avoid it altogether (we need to focus elsewhere and this could burn you out, but you're an acceptable loss).

That said, management needs to know there's pain and in a language it speaks - risk. Cost, legal, whatever. Preferably quantified without drowning them in numbers or fear mongering. That's what pain is all about.

New comment by balex in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

balex — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:26:31 +0000

Agreed. The whole intensity discussion is pointless.

New comment by balex in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

balex — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:21:55 +0000

I wasn't talking about Israel. I pointed out the antisemitic metaphor. Like it or not, that's the same language. I find the sarcasm of the parent taking sides and crossing into that territory telling. It's further strengthened by their response after being called out.

There, now you know. Hope you feel safe behind the throwaway account. Karma's tough, right?

New comment by balex in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

balex — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:25:47 +0000

As is the US. Go watch same interviews.

New comment by balex in "Ti-84 Evo"

balex — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:48:09 +0000

Now that's a tattoo right there. Never forget.

New comment by balex in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

balex — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:15:07 +0000

I read this and felt like I was reading a moltbook post.

Am I an agent? Are you?

Is Claude... God?

New comment by balex in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

balex — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:28:59 +0000

And who dies when GI Joe bets on the the date of an operation?

And if nobody dies, is it okay?

New comment by balex in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

balex — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:05:13 +0000

Sounds exactly the same to me. Maybe it's you who's pretending?

New comment by balex in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

balex — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 05:10:38 +0000

Of course not. There is no war in Ba Sing Se.

New comment by balex in "Go ahead, self-host Postgres"

balex — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:11:44 +0000

JFrog, is that you?

New comment by balex in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

balex — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:08:29 +0000

Atlas shrugged

New comment by balex in "Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies"

balex — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:22:42 +0000

Oh whew, I thought he was using hunter2 as his password too.

New comment by balex in "Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies"

balex — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:06:41 +0000

He's talking about the military filtering process. Who the military considers as "the best" depends on its needs. Simply put, if needs more fighting bodies, so that takes precedence. The Knesset is fighting over public opinion - who gets conscripted in the first place. It's who gets put through the funnel in the first place.

New comment by balex in "Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain"

balex — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 07:22:19 +0000

And this description is based on what?

DeepCode: Open Agentic Coding

balex — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 06:53:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/HKUDS/DeepCode

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44993874

Points: 18

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New comment by balex in "Why we use our own hardware"

balex — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 05:29:30 +0000

Or buy colo space and they do it for you. It's not all cloud vs owning a datacenter - There's a thousand shades of ltgrey

New comment by balex in "Why we use our own hardware"

balex — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 05:27:04 +0000

I've done it. It's nowhere as complicated as you make it seem. It definitely doesn't kill - no more than failing to manage your software tech debt. In fact, the latter is both harder keep up with and more risky, because it changes faster than the low level stuff, to support business needs.

With the cloud you have IT/DevOps deal only with scaling the software components of the infra. When doing on-prem they take on the physical layer as well. Do you have enough trust in them to scale the physical part where needed?

New comment by balex in "Why we use our own hardware"

balex — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 05:01:00 +0000

Cross region from on-prem to the cloud for a website is easy. In fact, as long as you don't buy into "cloud native" ("cloud lock-in"?), it's probably more cost effective than two on-prem regions or two cloud regions.

New comment by balex in "Why we use our own hardware"

balex — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 04:56:02 +0000

When there's little trust between the business and IT, both are incentivized to move to the cloud.

It's harder to build trust than the opposite.

New comment by balex in "Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada"

balex — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 06:26:34 +0000

Source? And what are these consensus opinions? (Honest questions)