Neikius's comments

On: I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling

[Neikius]

School system was created to increase productivity.

It is also and equalizer. Unschooled kids from bad backgrounds now start even lower.

On: I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling

[Neikius]

Just ban the phones from schools. Because with that you cannot compete. Instant gratification vs hard work?

On: I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left

[Neikius]

As you yourself said. Your load is so light you keep it in free tier. Their entire business model is for them to capture you while your load is light and then when you scale the price goes up.

[psanford → Neikius]

I have also used lambda at scale in professional environments. I would not use a lambda for a webserver at scale, but having an s3 object trigger processing via a lambda function is a really nice flow.

[sofixa → Neikius]

But the price per unit of measurement goes down, so no, it's not "their entire business model".

On: Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

[Neikius]

Leaking school or medical record can have serious personal consequences that cannot even be enumerated

[crazygringo → Neikius]

It can, but not for most people. For most people leaking that stuff would still have damages of zero dollars.

Which is what the comment above was referring to. "Most people". Not "all people".

On: The smelly baby problem

[Neikius]

Haha I love explaining things. It gets challenging and sometimes you have to stop the train...

What kills me is when I have to convince them of sometand they just are incapable of listening to any kind of reasoning. Sometimes you can let it slide but some issues are just too big like road crossing for example.

On: The smelly baby problem

[Neikius]

I find smelly things easy to deal with as the solution is clear and the path to it is simple.

Other problems may not have a clear path to solution and are not as simple.

On: Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants

[Neikius]

This.

And alternatively just making hydrogen but storage is a problem with that.

So simple with negative peak energy prices...

[cassepipe → Neikius]

Apart from the fact the round-trip efficiency is abysmal, hydrogen is so small and lightweight, it leaks through everywhere unless you have some specialized (read, expensive) equipment. I'd say why not if we could just repurpose gas infrastructure for it but turns out, no. I know people like to accuse each other's favorite energy sources of being fossil industry shills but hydrogen truly look like an attempt at stalling by big fossil. Hydrogen sounds good to politicians who don't understand energy, only understand fuel and just want a new clean fuel.

On: Ghostty is leaving GitHub

[Neikius]

Just moved our stuff from gitlab to forgejo. Gitlab is fine. Just too much stuff for a small org. And I hated the upgrades. And they kept adding things and none of those were what I wanted :) guess a different audience or something. very good to have some options though!

On: Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)

[Neikius]

Oh I don't know. It's a vision of java if java tried to supplant C and not C++.

I guess jit is bad for a micro service that scales constantly or a lambda. But java does have all of these options now. They just are not useful for most people.

On: Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)

[Neikius]

I disagree about rust.

I would say Rust is a successor to C/C++ for specific use cases.

No real successor to java yet so just keep using it, works fine and has finally evolved.

Point of java was always ease of use. Rust is... Not so.

Maybe golang is kind of an Evolution but into a very specific slightly different direction.