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by bob1029 7mo ago
> unless you spend serious money (own sewer, water from underground etc) It is often the case (at least where I live) that having a septic system and well is far more economical than obtaining a property with access to city utilities.
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by bob1029 7mo ago
A big problem with solid state electronics is fault current handling. The grid would become extremely brittle if it was purely a DC conversion setup. Semiconductors don't do too well outside their happy zone. All it takes is some wind
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by bob1029 7mo ago
It's definitely a skill. Perverting the organization into a support ecosystem for naysayers is not a trivial thing. It often takes years of meticulous, behind-the-scenes manipulation before these people can begin to reliably suppress i
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by bob1029 7mo ago
My productivity skyrocketed when I reduced my monitor count from 3 to 1. I tried the big chonkers, but the humble 27" 1440p is unbeatable for me. I'm not being paid enough money to worry about that many pixels.
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by bob1029 7mo ago
You should check out the banking industry sometime if you'd like to interact with a competent auditor. Compliance gets taken quite seriously in an industry where one of your principal regulatory bodies has the power to unilaterally abs
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by bob1029 7mo ago
$200 is a lot of money per month. I just bought this much in OAI API credits and I expect them to last me until August or so. If you started plugging tools into GPT5.4 you may soon discover that you don't need anything beyond a single
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by bob1029 7mo ago
SQLite + GPT5.4 works very well for me. My biggest success is a Roslyn method that takes a .NET solution and converts it into a SQLite database with Files, Lines, Symbols, and References tables. I've found this approach to perform su
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by bob1029 7mo ago
> first cover everything with tests Beware this goal. I'm dealing with the consequences of TDD taken way too far right now. Someone apparently had this same idea. > management who do not fully understand the problem nor are incen
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by bob1029 7mo ago
The potential for incredible forced demand has me considering participating for a period of time. I have no faith in things like datacenters in orbit, but I do have strong faith in the greed and recklessness of others.
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by bob1029 7mo ago
I think the #1 use case here is allowing AI/cloud workloads the ability to execute against the mainframe's data without ever leaving the secure bubble. I.e., bring the applications to the data rather than the data to the applicati
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by bob1029 7mo ago
SQL can do anything as of recursive CTEs and application-defined functions with side-effects. Performance and ergonomics are the only remaining concerns.
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by bob1029 7mo ago
This is getting dangerously close to how some AAA MMORPGs handle[d] much of their logic and state management. At the scales these games operate, enterprisey oracle clusters start to look like a pretty good solution if you don't already
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by bob1029 7mo ago
I was hoping this was an April Fool's thing, but unfortunately AWS doesn't play like that. I'll be in the market for a new email provider around Christmas. I'll let the competition fight it out for several months. I don&
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by bob1029 7mo ago
Entra ID https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/fundamentals/compare
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by bob1029 7mo ago
> Mass-produced drones today are a simple airframe, a lawnmower engine, and the smarts of a cell phone. Ukraine has people making them in basements. Presumably, so does Iran. The ships the LCS are intended to replace are significantly mo
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by bob1029 7mo ago
I'm convinced one of my org's repos is just haunted now. It doesn't matter what the status page says. I'll get a unicorn about twice a day. Once you have 8000 commits, 15k issues, and two competing project boards, things
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by bob1029 7mo ago
I agree about the culture. If I take my eye off the dev team for too long, I'll come back and we'll be using entity framework and a 20 page document about configuring code cleanup rules in visual studio.
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by bob1029 7mo ago
Is this significant? Copilot on OAI reveals everything meaningful about its functionality if you use a custom model config via the API. All you need to do is inspect the logs to see the prompts they're using. So far no one seems to car
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by bob1029 7mo ago
"Batteries included" ecosystems are the only persistent solution to the package manager problem. If your first party tooling contains all the functionality you typically need, it's possible you can be productive with zero 3
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by bob1029 7mo ago
> Recursive CTEs use an iterative working-table mechanism. Despite the name, they aren't truly recursive. PostgreSQL doesn't "call itself" by creating a nested stack of unfinished queries. If you want something that i
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by bob1029 7mo ago
Cats have completely deleted the rabbit populations in a lot of suburbia. I feel like it got worse around 2020 for some reason. I had to move to the middle of the woods to start seeing them again.
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by bob1029 7mo ago
https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/cerebras-cs-3-vs-nvidia-dgx-b20...
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by bob1029 7mo ago
I like the case of video editing. This is a situation where oftentimes zero percent of the source material is your own creation. Most would still consider this an artform. Shaping the overall meaning of a pile of raw assets is usually way m
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by bob1029 7mo ago
> safari can't open the page What is the point of these anti bot measures if organic HN traffic can nuke your site regardless? If this is about protecting information from being acquired by undesirable parties, then this site is cur
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by bob1029 7mo ago
If you ignore the titles and just start taking care of things, a whole world opens up that is invisible to most. Doing things even when you aren't sure if they are your responsibility is precisely what makes you a responsible person. E
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by bob1029 7mo ago
This is what taught me to sublimate my own ego. Overcoming the wickedness of others with patient, meditative calm can be an incredible experience. It just takes longer than a business day to play out. You've gotta think across much gra
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by bob1029 7mo ago
It's in the first party libraries now. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.numerics...
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by bob1029 7mo ago
The point is not to make the suffering permanent. It is a temporary phase. A lesson. Once you complete it you can go on to do the automated thing without as much concern.
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by bob1029 7mo ago
> It takes evolutionary time scales to affect chromosomes through evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics If we are mostly concerned with effects, focusing on the genome only tells you a small part of th
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by bob1029 7mo ago
Learning and suffering seem to be linked to some degree. It takes a lot of up front pain to get to a point where you can become an effective autodidact. You have to develop an appreciation for the game. AI can accelerate aspects of this, bu

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