dwood_dev · HackerTrans

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Given the similarities in port layout (just missing a HDMI and USB3 header), and that the case is nearly identical, I would guess that this router probably is a custom run of the exact same BananaPi board without those headers. Both also use MiniPCIe in 2026, which is a bit of an odd decision.

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3 maanden geledendiscuss

Might be a difference in use cases. Mostly working in repos under 100k LOC, most of those are under 30k. Primarily golang, python, and terraform. Also a lot of interactive troubleshooting of Kubernetes, GHA, hardware debugging and application debugging.

I also only run in fast mode on gpt-5.4 high.

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3 maanden geledendiscuss

I use both. I avoided codex in late 2025 because it was slow as molasses. I tried it again in February and it was on par with Opus speed.

I like codex(gpt-5.4 high) more for its ability to nitpick my PRs and find bugs. I like opus 4.6 much better for anything dealing with visuals, but I feel its rule adherence is inferior and it is not nearly as thorough on code reviews.

I like working and building better with claude, I like fixing bugs better with codex. Also, claude is much better and faster evolving with skills, plugins, new features I find useful, etc. Codex is always a month behind or more.

I did both for a month at higher tiers, $200 Claude Max and $200 ChatGPT Pro. I was always having to conserve my usage with claude, with codex I could just let it run wild with no cares. In the end, I downgraded claude to the $20 plan and use it on occasion, and I have kept the $200 codex sub.

I also have Claude at work, so I'll know pretty soon if I want to swap subs again, but for now, I'm sticking with codex at home.

dwood_dev

3 maanden geledendiscuss

I'm looking at a new car later this year. The limited options for V2H are disappointing.

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4 maanden geledendiscuss

This predates AI. I've been interviewing candidates(SRE/DevOps) since 2018, so many candidates that claim to have extensive experience with things completely fall apart when you put them in front of a terminal.

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4 maanden geledendiscuss

No, it happens even with AirPods Pro/Pro2.

I have two iPhones and a MBP. I have to keep Bluetooth disabled on the MacBook otherwise it randomly triggers while I'm between podcasts or whatever and squeeze the AirPods to resume, instead it launches Apple Music, or some browser tab starts playing audio.

This is far from solved if you have more than one Apple device.

There is no option for me to say: never use AirPods for anything but podcasts, and absolutely never automatically select them as an audio source for zoom/teams. AirPods microphones just don't work for my vocal range, they sound horrible and underwater. The microphone on my MBP works great, the mic on my iPhones works great.

AirPods are fine if you only ever use one device at a time. If you use more than one at the same time, it becomes extremely annoying.

Let's not even get into the annoying ways which it becomes hard to manage when you have multiple AirPods, multiple iPhones, and multiple MacBooks.

dwood_dev

4 maanden geledendiscuss

There is a weak association with use of PPIs and memory loss. I myself noticed a difference once I stopped taking omeprazole regularly.

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5 maanden geledendiscuss

ubnt has been the ubiquiti default login at least back to 2010 when I started using their products, before UniFi was a brand. I always assumed it was short for Ubiquiti Networks.

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5 maanden geledendiscuss

I had a bash spaghetti code script that I wrote a few years ago to handle TLS certificates(generate CSRs, bundle up trust chains, match keys to certs, etc). It was fragile, slow, extremely dependent on specific versions of OpenSSL, etc.

I used Claude to rewrite it in golang and extend its features. Now I have tests, automatic AIA chain walking, support for all the DER and JKS formats, and it’s fast. My bash script could spend a few minutes churning through a folder with certs and keys, my golang version does a few thousand in a second.

So I basically built a limited version of OpenSSL with better ergonomics and a lot of magic under the hood because you don’t have to specify input formats at all. I wasn’t constrained by things like backwards compatibility and interface stability, which let me make something much nicer to use.

I even was able to build a wasm version so it can run in the browser. All this from someone that is not a great coder. Don’t worry, I’m explicitly not rolling my own crypto.

dwood_dev

5 maanden geledendiscuss

It seems to me like it would be a rather useful exercise to have the smaller model make the routing decision, and below certain confidence thresholds, it sends it to a larger model anyways. Then have the larger model evaluate that choice and perhaps refine instructions.

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6 maanden geledendiscuss

I really would like to see a cost and cooling breakdown. I just can't see how you can do radiative cooling on the scales required, not to mention hardening.

I thought this was a troll by Elon, now I'm leaning towards not. I don't see how whatever you build being dramatically faster and cheaper to do on land, even 100% grid independent with solar and battery. Even if the launch cost was just fuel, everything else that goes into putting data centers in space dwarfs the cost of 4x solar plus battery.

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6 maanden geledendiscuss

I'm surprised we have not seen more investment into RISC-V from Chinese firms. I would think they want to decouple from ARM and the west in general as a dependency. Maybe they view the coup of ARM China as having secured ARM for the time being and not as much pressure?

Either way, it's currently hard to be excited about RISC-V ITX boards with performance below that of a RPi5. I can go on AliExpress right now and buy a mini itx board with a Ryzen 9 7845HX for the same price.

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6 maanden geledendiscuss

One of my consulting customers has been half India, half not for a decade. There is a real push over the last year to wind down the not India half and shift to mostly India.

India based folks cost 50-75% less. I realize that quality India hires would be closer to US rates, but management is ignoring that aspect.

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7 maanden geledendiscuss

I use ACME with Google Public CA for this reason. No one bats an eye at GPCA. Also, their limits are dramatically higher than LE.

Good news for your manual renewal friends, renewals drop to 197 days in February, halving again the year after, halving again until it reaches 47. So they will soon adopt automation, or suffer endless renewal pain.

dwood_dev

7 maanden geledendiscuss

Strange to see this device here. I have one and use it extensively, but this isn't even the current generation.

It does work well as a travel router, and can pull north of 400Mbps over WireGuard.

Runs openwrt, but not upstream, so installing some packages can be a pain.

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7 maanden geledendiscuss

ATMs all over are like this. Very annoying. I have to decline conversation all the time. The ATM conversation rate is usually 15-25% markup. No thanks, my bank charges nothing, just passes on the Visa 1% fee for fx.

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7 maanden geledendiscuss

If you had ever purchased a RyanAir ticket you would understand. You get up charged for everything and have to deselect all the up charges at multiple screens. It is their operating model to sell basically free seats, and profit on upsells. Third parties eliminate a large portion of their upsell pipeline.

Ryanair is cheap, they charge extra for everything. But the tradeoff is you get where you are going for cheap if you avoid all the extras, including bottled water.

dwood_dev

7 maanden geledendiscuss

This is my exact setup. Maybe I don't have many issues because I literally only have the NS2/PS5Pro turn on the TV/change input. I still use the AppleTV remote to adjust volume no matter the input.

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7 maanden geledendiscuss

F500, we have a pretty custom ServiceNow, but all I do is put the ticket or any other identifier in the search box and go. Takes 2 seconds to be in the ticket. Granted, that interface sucks too, but I suspect your main problem is internal to your org and the people that configured your ServiceNow.

dwood_dev

8 maanden geledendiscuss

Yes. With Windows 3.x there wasn’t a lot to go wrong that couldn’t be fixed in a single ini file. Windows 95 through ME was a complete shitshow where many many things could go wrong and the fastest path to fixing it was a fresh install.

Windows XP largely made that irrelevant, and Windows 7 made it almost completely irrelevant.

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