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andrew_mason1on `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach

i find it is usually most useful to blame systems, not people. of course, it is usually _easiest_ to blame a person, rather than go through the hard work of redesigning the system. hence why:

> I dont understand why there is not massive reorganisations in systems when things go wrong. Its always , oh yeah so we fired the guy furthest down the ladder.

andrew_mason1on Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%

I don't get why all your replies are on the AI language. Yeah the AI-isms suck and are obvious but is no one else bothered by how this page scrolls?

andrew_mason1on Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns

this one i really don't get. it seems pretty low-effort to me to just:

1. make the dish

2. take a photo of the dish

3. say "hey AI, touch this photo up to make it look nicer"

and you'd get way better results than this samey slop that looks nothing like what you'll actually be served?

andrew_mason1on GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

They are not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xl24s_0mZs

andrew_mason1on Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization

hey now, landmines destroy stuff below them too

andrew_mason1on Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code

my only request is that when it spawns a subagent we get "nother troll here"

andrew_mason1on Software factories and the agentic moment

As an aside:

> If you haven't spent at least $1,000 on tokens today per human engineer, your software factory has room for improvement

is an insane utility function. That would be like saying you get more nutrition the more you spend per calorie. Sure, true sometimes (fresh veggies are pricier than mcdonalds), but you can also go out to a bar and run up a much bigger tab for less nutritional value.

andrew_mason1on Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

correction, it is downdetectors all the way downdetectors

andrew_mason1on American solar farms

are the homes that were burned down by solar farms in the room with us right now?

andrew_mason1on Sora Update #1

hey don't forget about nintendo too

andrew_mason1on How do I get into the game industry

not the point of the article, but i really like the structure of this site

andrew_mason1on Neki – Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess

there are also a significant number of previous vitess maintainers that have gone to supabase to work on it with him, so there's that.

it is not at all accurate to say that neki is made by "the team that brought you vitess" and that multigres is somehow not

andrew_mason1on Statement or eyesore? Japan's divisive brutalist buildings – in pictures

come for the clickbait, stay for the real-life star wars buildings

andrew_mason1on The right way to sauce pasta (2016)

Yes. For a long time, butter and cheese were the _only_ toppings for pasta. If you're interested, I'd really recommend reading The Discovery of Pasta by Luca Cesari, which traces the development of a few well-known pasta dishes through historical documents, cookbooks, etc.

andrew_mason1on Open Observatory of Network Interference

wait not the pizza oven? :(

andrew_mason1on Seven Sins of Writing

The whole British English thing of "companies are plural nouns" (e.g. "Apple are creating a VR headset") simultaneously makes so much sense from how companies actually are (vs the American English that treats the company as a singular individual) and sounds completely wrong to me lol

andrew_mason1on Seven Sins of Writing

Exactly. And the fact that (probably) none of these people ever use the singular "datum" in writing makes the whole thing reek of gate-keeper-y "I am smart and you are not because I know a Latin thing".

Also, every single time I see this "gripe" I am tempted (but don't because it helps nothing) to go "hmm, interesting you don't have the same issue with 'agenda'."

andrew_mason1on My Friend, Stalin’s Daughter (2014)

> (Outside the US podcast ads are mostly for other podcasts)

You're not missing out much these days; most ads in the US are for other podcasts now, too.

andrew_mason1on C2rust: Transpile C to Rust

Shame it's not called `crust`. Very cool though!

andrew_mason1on Go 1.16 Release Notes

Very excited to see how many codebases that do anything along the lines of `fs := flag.NewFlagSet(...)` have to update to also import `io/fs`

andrew_mason1on Closed as non constructive – Best comments in source code according to SO (2011)

Once while perusing our main codebase I came across the following: "Please only use this for testing. Please."

It's been there for years.

andrew_mason1on Microsoft cURLs too

curl may not have the greatest CLI, but it's a huge step up from doing the equivalent tasks with powershell.

not to mention this brings windows closer and closer to nix. windows making itself more familiar to nix increases the number of ops folks that are willing to transition from nix shops to windows, increasing windows share in the server market

plus, as others have pointed out, curl handles protocols besides http.

andrew_mason1on HTTP Server in MIPS assembly

For reference, here was our rendered final report: https://github.com/thomasrussellmurphy/thomasrussellmurphy.g...

andrew_mason1on Don't copy paste from a website to a terminal

Don't copy paste from a website, just curl into ruby! http://brew.sh/

andrew_mason1on Null Object Pattern in Swift

I fail to see how optional chaining, Maybe monads (or Optionals, depending on your persuasion), or the Null Object pattern are fundamentally any different from each other.

andrew_mason1on A View of the Entire Netflix Stack

Well, node.js implies that at least part of Netflix is written in JavaScript, yet the only listed languages are Python and Java.