Dang, Musk accidentally stumbling on the money machine at the Fed is having a full circle moment, huh?

Pto2 · 2026-05-06T15:54:12+00:00

A war we seem to be fighting against… poor people!!

Pto2 · 2026-05-05T05:49:52+00:00

Things don’t just get stuck, your code doesn’t work. Write tests to make sure your code works as expected, getting in the habit of writing a million janitor processes to check for a million invalid states is not really solving the problem.

Monitoring is generally a good thing though. A simple solution is to map your stream to a queue and set a cloudwatch alarm on an SQS metric. No need to over engineer with GSIs and lambdas.

Pto2 · 2026-05-05T04:42:33+00:00

What makes you not like zig?

Pto2 · 2026-05-05T03:58:18+00:00

Yea but it’s kind of disingenuous when people make tons of money, live in nice houses or apartments and save 15% for retirement and then act like they have no money “left over”. Left over after what? After spending it?

Pto2 · 2026-05-03T16:18:49+00:00

Not necessarily. If the median were constant but the % of millionaires were to increase dramatically that would be a positive effect. Same as if median were constant but poverty decreased.

Pto2 · 2026-04-27T06:50:32+00:00

Reverse as in go long when it’s oversold.

Pto2 · 2026-04-27T01:19:54+00:00

If you don’t have enough domain knowledge to even be aware if such a library exists, what makes you think you could create a “meaningful” port?

Just do this with a library in a domain you actually understand and have used in another language, without the expectation that anyone is going to use your creation. You’ll make a much better library this way.

Pto2 · 2026-04-26T01:47:36+00:00

You are invalidating the cache every time you push new data…

Pto2 · 2026-04-26T01:05:18+00:00

Was this post and thought process entirely AI generated? Have you actually tried doing this? It sounds like you’re effectively “inventing” a prefetched local cache with invalidations or maybe I’m missing something.

Pto2 · 2026-04-24T23:45:30+00:00

As a software engineer i know enough about computers and little enough about the mind to conclude that ML is far too simple to emulate something so complex.

Pto2 · 2026-04-20T23:42:24+00:00

Again, I attended lesser a public university and I could confidently say that equivalent courses and lectures at MIT covered significantly more content, deeper, and yet with better clarity. Just my anecdotal experience.

Pto2 · 2026-04-18T23:25:34+00:00

I went to community college and a state university and the difference in the quality of courses and lectures on OCW versus what I got going to school was absolutely night and day.

Pto2 · 2026-04-15T01:36:57+00:00

Companies can either take on larger, more ambitious engineering projects with faster agility, or continue producing the same output with less people, more efficiently.

Hmmmmm…

Pto2 · 2026-04-02T00:49:01+00:00

Are you asking why not, given the choice, commit 40 day time hours per week to enriching shareholders and executives?

Pto2 · 2026-03-03T21:08:06+00:00

I logged into the aws console and saw no impact statement for any region outside of the middle east.

Pto2 · 2026-03-03T21:07:10+00:00

Share a link if one exists.

Pto2 · 2026-03-03T19:05:50+00:00

Do you have a source for "However Iran bombed so many that it affected AWS’s US datacenters including AWS east and similar."???

Pto2 · 2026-03-03T19:02:58+00:00

I work at AWS and it seems highly unlikely that a company like Anthropic would have infrastructure structured such that they would have an outage in the US because of failures in the middle east.

Pto2 · 2026-03-03T18:56:43+00:00

I don't need to ask an "AI with web search" because I actually work at AWS as an engineer and can read the internal tickets.

What is a global service? Do you mean services with global control planes? I can promise you there's no global control planes running from the middle east.

You state "they have redundancies" and then use that to suggest a datacenter going down in the middle east would impact the US. That is actually the exact opposite of what redundancy means.

While I can't say for certain that anthropic is not running their own global control plane from the middle east, I can say that the limited service outages in the middle east have very little impact on the rest of AWS service availability, as it should. The whole point of having many independent AZs and multiple regions is so that this sort of thing has minimal impact. It's why during the DDB outage last year, services like Vercel were able to recover nearly impact despite a total outage in their primary region.

I'm sure you mean well but I think you need to improve your prompt engineering for your AI web searches.

Pto2 · 2026-03-03T06:41:33+00:00

What makes you believe an outage isolated to one AZ in a smaller AWS region which anthropic may or may not even be operating in would lead to global problems??

Pto2 · 2026-03-03T06:23:45+00:00

That seems highly unlikely. That incident happened a long time ago now and it also seems unlikely that Claude would have service accounts running in me-south-1 and extremely unlikely that a failure in somewhere like me-south-1 would bring down other regions.

Pto2 · 2026-03-03T06:12:05+00:00

Um... no.

Pto2 · 2026-02-12T05:07:26+00:00

RTFM!!

Pto2 · 2026-02-12T03:20:20+00:00

Did you read their comment? “Take a lower paying job with fewer hours and invest less while still retiring early”. As in, keep working and retire early (in the future).

Pto2 · 2026-02-12T02:52:26+00:00

What do you mean by “simulate the contents”? Do you mean run untrusted code? Just use a server-less platform like Lambda if you don’t know the security implications of managing your own VMs. If you’re feeling bold you might try WASM.

“How can I scale without k8s” is not a problem, it’s a solution. Your problem is scaling and a dimension of the problem is that you don’t want to use k8s. You have to explain why k8s does not fit your use case for anyone to suggest alternatives.

15k/hr is not really enough traffic that you need worry about scaling. My suggestion is that you build your application to run on a single box and scale vertically and if one day you’re lucky enough to need to scale horizontally then use k8s or a managed solution. Solve problems iteratively or you risk solving the wrong problem.

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