Hacker News: fijiaarone

New comment by fijiaarone in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

fijiaarone — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:33:20 +0000

Don’t all non-European people look alike?

New comment by fijiaarone in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

fijiaarone — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:29:39 +0000

I remember when people claimed to use NixOs in order to have a deterministic, repeatable setup.

New comment by fijiaarone in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

fijiaarone — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:26:47 +0000

Your understanding of not-containers is incorrect.

In non-containerized applications, the data & state live outside the application, store in files, database, cache, s3, etc.

In fact, this is the only way containers can decouple programs from state — if it’s already done so by the application. But with containers you have the extra steps of setting up volumes, virtual networks, and port translation.

But I’m not surprised this has to be explained to some people in 2025, considering you probably think that a CPU is something transmitted by a series of tubes from AWS to Vercel that is made obsolete by NVidia NFTs.

New comment by fijiaarone in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

fijiaarone — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:17:14 +0000

I’ve never seen nix, but I’d rather learn “yet another language” than fight yet another yaml syntax.

New comment by fijiaarone in "Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026"

fijiaarone — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:26:35 +0000

I think Instagram has pink headings and Facebook has blue. So they’re practically different companies.

New comment by fijiaarone in "Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026"

fijiaarone — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:22:51 +0000

Also, Instaface doesn’t need developers. Their product was completed at least a dozen years ago. And it was created by a team of a dozen or so engineers.

New comment by fijiaarone in "Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026"

fijiaarone — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:16:39 +0000

Tech workers used to not be average people.

New comment by fijiaarone in "Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)"

fijiaarone — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 02:43:55 +0000

Sounds like the guy that invented bicycle helmets. He didn’t want Nazis to feel safe letting their kids ride bikes to school either.

New comment by fijiaarone in "Let go of StackOverflow; communities must take ownership"

fijiaarone — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 02:24:21 +0000

And we wouldn’t have a use case for Ai without StackOverflow & Google’s broken search.

New comment by fijiaarone in "The HTTP Query Method"

fijiaarone — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 02:21:07 +0000

We already have POST, PUT, and PATCH that do the exact same thing. Why not have another version of GET that looks the same as POST and is subject to personal interpretation.

FYI: QUERY is for GET requests where the query string make the URL too long. It does this by sending a body like POST.

In the past, POST meant you were sending a body, and GET meant you received a body. And the people got religious about a pseudoacronym called REST.

New comment by fijiaarone in "AI CEO – Replace your boss before they replace you"

fijiaarone — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:17:54 +0000

Left to their own devices, the LLMs would probably design a pocket watch.

New comment by fijiaarone in "AI CEO – Replace your boss before they replace you"

fijiaarone — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 19:51:49 +0000

Can you explain why we pay Sam Altman & Elon Musk? Or Jeff Bezos & Bill Gates? They’re just middlemen collecting money for other people’s labor.

New comment by fijiaarone in "The fall of Labubus and the mush of modern internet trends"

fijiaarone — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 04:03:23 +0000

The reality is that every middle aged loser knows more than they ever wanted about kpop, labubu, and furries just goes to show it’s all a centralized homogenized monoculture being forced on everyone.

New comment by fijiaarone in "The fall of Labubus and the mush of modern internet trends"

fijiaarone — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 03:58:25 +0000

Do they have real beans in them?

New comment by fijiaarone in "The fall of Labubus and the mush of modern internet trends"

fijiaarone — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 03:56:14 +0000

When a trend only reaches mainstream awareness as a mockery, like labubu, it’s not destined to last long.

New comment by fijiaarone in "Reinventing how .NET builds and ships (again)"

fijiaarone — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 02:30:08 +0000

On most cloud deployments, you get one shared “virtual” core — whatever that means.

New comment by fijiaarone in "Reinventing how .NET builds and ships (again)"

fijiaarone — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 02:19:23 +0000

Ah, but if you use node.js you get breaking changes every other day from dependencies on dependencies you didn’t even know you had.

New comment by fijiaarone in "Pebble Watch software is now open source"

fijiaarone — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 03:21:35 +0000

So is the FORTRAN75 compiler, but it’s still being used.

New comment by fijiaarone in ""Good engineering management" is a fad"

fijiaarone — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:54:45 +0000

A manager’s job isn’t to guide the company, it’s to make sure his team does the tasks they are assigned. Likewise, a worker’s job isn’t to “think about the big picture” and come up with a strategy for the organization.

So who is supposed to do it? Because executives sure aren’t.

New comment by fijiaarone in "Europe converged rapidly on the United States before stagnating"

fijiaarone — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:21:49 +0000

The American billionaire class absolutely controls Europe, and American politics dictates European policy. There is the illusion of European ascendance right now because the American soft power is being channeled through Europe because the faction of the US government (that still controls the majority of soft power) is out of power politically, so they project their values (and funnel their money) through Europeans.

When a Democrat returns to power in the USA, nobody will care what European vassal governments and corporations say or do anymore.

American projection through Europe has made Europe weaker and more subservient than ever.