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by btown 10mo ago
I can say, from a business perspective, I've needed to use similar methodologies, though far from needing air-gap requirements and relying heavily on web search, to evaluate potentially fraudulent transactions and relationships between
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by btown 10mo ago
> call Brent so he can fix it again Not sure if a Phoenix Project reference, but if it is, it's certainly in keeping with Github being as fragile as the company in the book!
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by btown 10mo ago
Thanks for this history, I wasn't aware. It's an interesting point that if this is happening anyways by Apple's fiat, it's in the legacy CAs' interest to even further accelerate the mandatory timeline, so they can
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by btown 10mo ago
Even Salesforce doesn't have a good way to quickly port an Excel-based workflow, with file handoffs and backwards compatibility, into Salesforce. In theory, you could have an LLM generate all the metadata files that would execute a rel
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by btown 10mo ago
> an American company with American employees While technically true, these articles give context about the level of decision-making control and data access from ByteDance, as of the time of their publication. https://restofwo
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by btown 10mo ago
The certificate lifetime decrease, to 45 days, was discussed in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117126 This isn't LE's decision: a 47 day max was voted on by the CA/Browser Forum. https://w
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by btown 10mo ago
It's a bit surprising to me that Microsoft hasn't created a product that's "you have an Excel file in one of our cloud storage systems, here's a way for you to vibe code and host a web app whose storage is backed en
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by btown 10mo ago
I don't have a statistic here, but I'm always surprised how many websites I come across that do limited user-agent and origin/referrer checks, but don't maintain any kind of active IP based tracking. If you're tryin
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by btown 10mo ago
The general thing about state actors is that they have every incentive to have a dossier of compromising information on every foreign national regardless of current relevance, for potential use in the future. You could, for instance, someda
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by btown 10mo ago
I like to go a level beyond this and say: "Passing tests are fine and all, but the moment your tests mock or record-replay even the smallest bit of external data, the only accurate docs are your production error logs, or lack there
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by btown 10mo ago
I love how this import trick shows how hackable Python is - and it’s this very hackability that has led to so many of the advances we see in AI. Arguably without operator overloads we’d be 5 or more years behind. https://github.c
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Failed? It was a $3.2B acquisition with a total of 283M raised. I don’t see any way that’s a failure. That said I’m curious if you’re basing this on service degradation you’ve seen since the acquisition. We were thinking of starting to use
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by btown 10mo ago
Some important context to this 2018 article is given here: https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/archive/2018/introducing-c... TL;DR they have a highly partitioned job database, where a job is a delivery of
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by btown 10mo ago
Did some research and it's a bit more nuanced than this, though still RAG at its core: each skill has a name and brief description that's included verbatim into every prompt, and a Bash "cat" is triggered as a standard t
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> [The] way to do is to register a tool / function to load and extend the base prompt and presto - you have implemented your own version of skills. So are they basically just function tool calls whose return value is a constant stri
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by btown 10mo ago
It would be incredibly ironic if, with Apple's relatively stable supply chain relative to the chaos of the RAM market these days (projected to last for years), Apple compute became known as a cost-effective way to build medium-sized
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by btown 10mo ago
Still alive and kicking in production for us! For situations where many requests are bound by external HTTP requests to third-party suppliers, it's an amazing way to allow for practically unlimited concurrency with limited cores.
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by btown 10mo ago
For those using it in Python, Gevent provides a pluggable set of DNS resolvers that monkey-patch the standard library's functions for async/cooperative use, including one built on c-ares: https://www.gevent.org/dns
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by btown 10mo ago
The November federal indictment, for those unfamiliar or curious: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/media/1417041/dl Allegedly, per the indictment: > Overall, between 2023 and 2025, the Bettors won at leas
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by btown 10mo ago
To add to that (extremely thought-provoking) video, I do think that the Marvel model of "pre-viz everything to death, the edit's already done before filming begins" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgvgi3Shcm
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Is batch mode on the roadmap? As the frontier model providers start to think more and more about profitability, and prices/latencies rise as a result, I can see batching becoming more and more necessary for many use cases. Would love t
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by btown 10mo ago
To be frank, while it may have a level of technical beauty, this kind of "opt-in whitelist" approach is an authoritarian's dream. Once the baseline is established, the playbook becomes simple: Shift that age bracket up to the
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In case it's helpful to anyone, https://openrouter.ai/google/gemini-3-pro-preview is useful to know about. Adding another layer on top of Google's own APIs adds latency, lowers reliability, and (AFAIK) doesn&
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Hadn’t known about Odin but yes! > Operations such as new, free and delete by default will use context.allocator, which can be overridden by the user. When an override happens all called procedures will inherit the new context and use th
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I'm not sure what the parent posters were referring to, but there's an interesting way in which "automation" might make sense in some languages: implicit arena utilization based on the current call stack, without needi
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This was an incredibly mainstream meme, back in the day! https://mattbateman.net/writing/avatar-pocahontas.php describes his contribution to the comparison.
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This could be hugely popular for songwriters who want a zero-friction way to capture melodies or lyric ideas on the go! https://www.reddit.com/r/Songwriting/comments/yd8jsv/what_do... is illustrative, as
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BIMI, as misguided as it is, does aim to solve this by tying registration to insanely high prices and government-registered trademark verification. You would have a hard time registering the Stripe trademark nowadays in a way that would get
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To be fair, for a CEO in 2022, EV certificates had only lost their special visualizations since September/October 2019 with Chrome 77 and Firefox 70 - and with all that would happen in the following months, one could be forgiven for no
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Among the various potential uses of a toast, IMO: - quick, in response to a clicked button -> why not just show feedback on the button? - quick, in response to a keyboard shortcut -> ok - seconds or more after an action, say, if your

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