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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

# Comments: 2

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)

New comment by balex in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

balex — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 15:28:14 +0000

Admin: We should turn off the AV auto update in prod and test it in staging first.

Manager/CISO: That would increase our exposure time on zero day vulnerabilities. Overruled.

New comment by balex in "AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach"

balex — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 06:01:30 +0000

Those are not mutually exclusive.

New comment by balex in "Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”"

balex — Tue, 28 May 2024 07:41:18 +0000

"Most computer systems we interact with have an auth system of some kind."

The first sentence in the article actually highlights a nice "side effect" of the very thing it complains about. Covering "Authentication" and "Authorization" with a single "auth". Convenient for those who understand the concepts and don't need the distinction. Especially since these terms are strongly related and often come together.

New comment by balex in "Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”"

balex — Tue, 28 May 2024 07:32:10 +0000

So essentially you order off the menu based on your surroundings?

New comment by balex in "We're ending our Samsung collaboration"

balex — Fri, 24 May 2024 14:01:02 +0000

I'm on a OnePlus 11 (upgraded from a OnePlus 6T) and it's great. My only issue is that there's a small selection of cases for it, especially if you want one that's magsafe compatible.

New comment by balex in "I Lost Faith in Kagi"

balex — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 05:31:20 +0000

This was difficult to read. Not a hint of empathy on that thread.

New comment by balex in "Alexei Navalny has died"

balex — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:54:54 +0000

Lenin, Stalin, Putin...

"There's this new guy, Flapin. Good strong name, let's make him our leader! What could possibly go wrong?"

New comment by balex in "Boeing whistleblower: MAX 9 production line has "enormous volume of defects""

balex — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 05:52:41 +0000

Obviously he did. I guess you wanted to say "I disagree" but phrase it more aggressively?