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by boc 5mo ago
Whataboutism, used effectively, is designed to change the subject and stop detailed exploration of the topic at hand. Which is what you're doing in this thread. We don't need to turn a news-relevant thread specifically about the C
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by boc 5mo ago
It's a good question. I think it's similar to the question about an employee having sensitive access, and whether they'll get blackout drunk one night and delete everything. Or they get spearfished and get owned (prob more li
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by boc 5mo ago
More like, I expect this bomb can explode, so I've built contingency plans around it because the cost of not using the tooling is much higher than having downtime for my specific use-case .
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by boc 5mo ago
As described, there are other failsafes as well. The ultimate being that I keep all code version-controlled, and all databases snapshotted offsite daily/hourly and can rebuild them from a complete delete in fewer than X min. My broader
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by boc 5mo ago
I'm just so confused why people aren't just using ghostty/kitty/terminal.app and claude code. Compared to the other approaches I've tried, it's by far the most effective way to get performance from opus 4.6&#x2
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by boc 5mo ago
As soon as I read that line, I knew everything I needed about the author and his abilities.
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by boc 5mo ago
LLMs can research what a tool does before calling it though - they'll sniff that one out pretty quick. I think the better route is to be honest and say that database integrity is a primary foundation of the company, there's no tas
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by boc 6mo ago
It's mostly done because Iowa hosts (arguably) the most important primary election for presidential cycles.
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by boc 6mo ago
Zed is snappy as an IDE, and ghostty for your CLI. I've done like 99% of my work in the past month just in ghostty + CC.
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by boc 6mo ago
I think you're missing the larger point: software is about to be insanely easy to generate. Anthropic is churning out new products because they can basically spin these things up in a week, so there's really no "cost" to
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by boc 6mo ago
Love the Flashbulb!
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by boc 6mo ago
What's the point of living in an advanced society if you just sit around watching it decay around you? Our ancestors fought for our indifference today, and with attitudes like yours we'll watch our children fight for it again tomo
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by boc 7mo ago
Aka Claude Code.
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by boc 7mo ago
Maybe, but destroying USAID was an unforgivable sin. Short of nukes, rapidly turning off direct medical and food aid that people in critical need have relied on for years is objectively one of the fastest way to kill millions of people.
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by boc 7mo ago
Wamyos in SF are nearly indistinguishable from ubers/lyfts at this point. Maybe a bit slower if you don't have the highway mode enabled on your account, but they are everywhere and arrive within 5min most of the time I order one.
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by boc 7mo ago
Traffic lights can be tuned to create "green waves" that allows for efficient flow of traffic along arteries through a city. You can adjust the timing throughout the day to help alleviate congestion. In rural areas, heavy machiner
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by boc 7mo ago
Nominating this as the "most HN" comment of the year.
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by boc 8mo ago
As your net worth increases, the concern about what you have to lose from a personal safety perspective skyrockets. You start becoming far more paranoid and seeing crime everywhere. Tech CEOs and billionaires will build the dystopian panopt
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by boc 9mo ago
Farm 2 Feet is my favorite for socks!
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by boc 10mo ago
Maybe the rumors about failed training runs weren't wrong...
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by boc 11mo ago
The US actually has a series of social safety nets. There are massive government programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security which provide real, measurable safety nets to the most vulnerable in society. There are also hundreds of
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by boc 1y ago
“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®" https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari...
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by boc 1y ago
Well, not literally nothing. You have all that lovely carbon you burned to generate meaningless hashes polluting your biosphere for the next century. That part stays around long after crypto collapses.
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by boc 1y ago
Blockchain is essentially useless. You need legal systems to enforce trust in societies, not code. Otherwise you'll end up with endless $10 wrench attacks until we all agree to let someone else hold our personal wealth for us in a secu
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by boc 1y ago
Boycotts are different from unsubscribing. You can boycott Chic-fil-a and then one day return, but cutting off monthly revenue streams all at once is a much different dynamic. It takes a lot to get those customers back, especially for a ser
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by boc 1y ago
""For the first time ever in our country's history, we are making leading-edge 4nm chips on American soil, American workers — on par in yield and quality with Taiwan," Raimondo told Reuters." https://www.
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by boc 2y ago
Check out the tech behind avalanche beacons for some inspiration. They are meant to locate bodies buried deep in snow debris fields within a meter precision. You have to also have a beacon to search for another beacon.
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by boc 2y ago
We know that the administration ordered the name change for the Gulf of Mexico, and immediately following that order the data layers via USGS broke. Probably because someone (or some organization of geniuses) tried to change it directly wit
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by boc 2y ago
> I don’t think Trump ignoring the law is the answer or the right way to go about this, but I’ll take it for now if it keeps TikTok around. I don't really know what to say anymore. Like literally just staring at this comment and rea
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by boc 2y ago
I hope all the people working in tech today realize that once you let the executive ignore laws that you dislike, it's a very clear path to them ignoring laws that protect you and your companies. You WILL be a target eventually and nob

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