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hkleppeon Incident with Actions and Pages

I've started spending each github outage planning our move to an alternative. I guess I'm not alone. Where are you all moving?

hkleppeon Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5

"No moat", well...

How I see this is that its so important to bundle the model with the right tooling.

Like a racecar, having the best engine doesn't help if the rest of the car lacks other winning properties (reliability, aerodynics etc).

So for Cursor, which IMO, they put themself in a strong position by having both a solid IDE __and__ a solid+cost efficient model. Those two working great in combination for the task they are designed to solve (coding) is more important than benchmarks

hkleppeon Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)

aha, so I need more karma

hkleppeon Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)

what, can I change the topbar color?

hkleppeon How good engineers write bad code at big companies

You have to realise there is a almost full complete disconnect between engineering and business value

hkleppeon Trans-Taiga Road (2004)

Relatively long distances of road and power transmission lines to reach the two most remote locations. Especially considering they seem to be limited in capacity (only 319 and 469MW).

Curious to know if something bigger was in the plans, or perhaps the road also have/had other uses?

hkleppeon Will low and no code tools ever truly disrupt tech development?

I see it differently.

I see the low-code stuff as an opportunity to let the business-folks handle the usecases where the complexity is low, and value of rapid iteration with deep domain-knowledge is more valuable.

Also, they might get a better understanding of why the code stuff might make sense when stuff is actually getting complicated :)

hkleppeon Will low and no code tools ever truly disrupt tech development?

> My main issue with low-code/no-code is that it attempts to solve the complexity problem, without understanding what "complexity" is.

I get your point. But without low/no-code tools I would argue a lot of simple workflows have to be implemented using code. These usecases, where the technology-side is simple, is a good fit for low/no-code platforms IMO

hkleppeon A Twenty-First-Century Shipwreck

For a different perspective, have a look at this post. A statement posted by Team Vestas navigator Wouter Verbraak once they got back to civilization:

http://sailinganarchy.com/2014/12/04/walking-tall/

Wouters statement was since removed from his facebook-page

hkleppeon IPv6 Support Required for All IP-Capable Nodes

Not really. But you can tell your ISP it is not RFC compliant, I will tell mine.