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New comment by waynesonfire in "I don't want the details"

waynesonfire — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:56:36 +0000

You, and this entire thread is missing the point. Nobody is wrong but, the point being missed is that "leaders" isn't one thing.. there are leaders at every height of the organizations hierarchy and even to the sides. As a basic example, do you mean the immediate manager? their manager? their manager? The CTO? Each operates at ever more abstract level of detail.

New comment by waynesonfire in "Small programming tricks"

waynesonfire — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:35:34 +0000

Won't work.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way - Mark Twain

New comment by waynesonfire in "Small programming tricks"

waynesonfire — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:32:09 +0000

What a silly observation.. of course they matter. This, among other things called experience, seperates senior engineers from bright young green minds. Good thing those same green minds have all this extra time to throw at the problem to catch up and appear senior.

New comment by waynesonfire in "Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead"

waynesonfire — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:42:54 +0000

It's a terrible idea to delegate swap, a capability that is expected to operate under severe memory pressure, to a subsystem that fails under such conditions.

New comment by waynesonfire in "Watch the 'Eclipse of the Century' Next Year When Spain, Egypt and More Go Dark"

waynesonfire — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 07:42:14 +0000

don't miss that can't-miss appeal!

New comment by waynesonfire in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

waynesonfire — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:22:14 +0000

> the 662 MB used by the "Renderer" is shared between many Windows components

Fine, shutdown the weather and stock ticker apps.

New comment by waynesonfire in "That time when I failed the Microsoft interview"

waynesonfire — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:06:27 +0000

that seems very risky. it doesn't take much effort for the interviewer to spot a trickster, forfieting the interview. There is also no telling the second problem would be easier. I'd rather take my chances and hope i solve it or try to limp through with a hint.

New comment by waynesonfire in "2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026"

waynesonfire — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:08:26 +0000

Cool story bro. I used a llm to help me name a variable.

New comment by waynesonfire in "Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models"

waynesonfire — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:24:40 +0000

I disagree. Sony can't bring back Walkmans because a Walkman won't generate the returns Sony demands. Furthermore, they refuse to open-source it so it stays hidden in a vault.

Plenty of people would lose money, break even, or God willing, make a tiny profit, diving into this problem. Regardless, it would make society a happier place.

New comment by waynesonfire in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

waynesonfire — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:20:23 +0000

Yes, you're describing a fundemental feature of DNS.

New comment by waynesonfire in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

waynesonfire — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:25:46 +0000

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Not quite done right.

New comment by waynesonfire in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

waynesonfire — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:19:05 +0000

> because it is using the public ip instead of the private one.

For this edge case, the issue is not with DNS; it's that the router is not configured to allow internal clients to access the network through the public IP, vis-à-vis hairpin routing.

New comment by waynesonfire in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

waynesonfire — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:09:44 +0000

> - Run two haproxy instances,

This made me consider my haproxy architecture. I use haproxy acl rules and the use_backend directive to enforce security policy and routing. It denies http requests based on source ip address per service (host header)

I think a good middle-ground is to use a single haproxy but two frontends; one binds to the public interface and one for private. haproxy is now no longer responsible for routing, the router is.

New comment by waynesonfire in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

waynesonfire — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:36:20 +0000

because when crashing on a motorcycle, it's only the cyclists face that's turned inside out and in such a way that it's not a burden on society to treat a vegetable.

New comment by waynesonfire in "Iroh 1.0"

waynesonfire — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:38:16 +0000

Why? Because if you need to serve ads that are being blacklisted by DNS, you need something like this.

New comment by waynesonfire in "Iroh 1.0"

waynesonfire — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:05:08 +0000

why isn't your mental model to use DNS?

New comment by waynesonfire in "LLMs aren't conscious (and thinking they are is culturally dangerous)"

waynesonfire — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:01:09 +0000

Why would you think this ai slop suddenly breaks that barrier?

New comment by waynesonfire in "OCaml Onboarding: Introduction to the Dune build system"

waynesonfire — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:29:48 +0000

one day we'll get the equivelent of language server for build systems.

New comment by waynesonfire in "DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms"

waynesonfire — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:32:15 +0000

very impressived with no LLM results. If I want LLM, I don't need to use a search engine to engange with it. That's a different product.

New comment by waynesonfire in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

waynesonfire — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:29:44 +0000

> My first and only layoff

Won't be your last.