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by fergie 8mo ago
> The reason Message-ID is SHOULD rather than MUST? Mail clients > sometimes send messages without one to their submission server, which > adds it on their behalf. As for why Google enforces it anyway: > spam. Messages with mino
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by fergie 8mo ago
Could go either way- I think that ruthless free market forces are what keeps art good.
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by fergie 8mo ago
He explicitly said "I don't work for, invest in, or advise any AI companies." in the article. But yes, Hashimoto is a high profile CEO/CTO who may well have an indirect, or near-future interest in talking up AI. HN artic
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by fergie 8mo ago
Surely, in just about every company today, all of the examples in the article are already handled by databases and SQL?
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by fergie 8mo ago
Say I am just an average coder doing a days work with Claude. How much will that cost?
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by fergie 8mo ago
Truly dystopian.
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by fergie 9mo ago
Surely Redhat has gone from being the defacto default Linux to relative obscurity?
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by fergie 9mo ago
OP had checked that they would like to receive the "Proton for Business newsletter", and on that basis was deemed a "business".
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by fergie 9mo ago
> Proton for Business newsletter AFAIK you are legally allowed to spam businesses, but not individuals. A handy get-out clause for marketeers.
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by fergie 9mo ago
Wow! Thanks for the explanation :)
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by fergie 9mo ago
I'm 30 years in, and literally don't understand the question.
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by fergie 9mo ago
Right- but if you have a long line that is, for example, a JSON object, then surely it can't be properly be validated or syntax-highlighted before the entire line is scanned? I do agree that Emacs can be slower than the terminal when h
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by fergie 9mo ago
I see why this is easy and fun, but is it really "self-hosting" if you are dependent on a $1200 a year AI-service to build and maintain it?
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by fergie 9mo ago
It sounds weird, but for reasons that I don't fully understand (bandwidth issues maybe?), first gen MCP servers run and accept "queries" locally and talk to their AI-minds themselves on the back end. Its not an HTTP API direc
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by fergie 9mo ago
You only have to spend 5 minutes browsing for MCP servers to see that there is an issue with AI slop. MCP is probably the first "standard" to be built out in the vibe-coding era and it really shows. As mentioned in the article, it
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by fergie 9mo ago
The npm left-pad incident would be the classic argument against this position
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by fergie 9mo ago
There are a large subset of security problems that are solved by simply eliminating compilation steps typically included in "postinstall". If you want a more secure, more debuggable, more extensible lib, then you should definitely
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by fergie 9mo ago
This makes no sense, maintainers are not exactly operating under a cloak of anonymity. Quite the opposite in fact.
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by fergie 9mo ago
In all of this, people forget that NPM packages are largely maintained by volunteers. If you are going to put up hurdles and give us extra jobs, you need to start paying us. Open source licenses explicitly state some variation of "use
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by fergie 9mo ago
https://econofact.org/factbrief/do-private-equity-firms-own-... > "Large institutional investors, defined as those owning over 100 homes (which includes private equity firms), own 3 percent of the single-family
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by fergie 9mo ago
Proposal for new word: "employtainment"
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by fergie 10mo ago
I feel like the "I'm a 16 year old high school senior" thing is some kind of social engineering- his knowledge seems a bit too broad. But who knows.
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by fergie 10mo ago
Surely for debugging and auditing it's always better to write libs in JavaScript? Also, given that much of TypeScripts utilty is for improving the developer experience- is it still as relevant for machine-generated code?
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by fergie 10mo ago
> A lot of people leave their self-hosted runners running 24/7 Don't they generally only kick in when you push or merge?
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by fergie 10mo ago
I think youre mixing up two seperate concerns: functionality and standards. It seems to me that there could absolutely be a "dumb browser" that sticks to (and develops) web standards and is also relatively popular
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by fergie 10mo ago
> Modern HTML/CSS with Web Components and JSDoc is underrated. I've been a front end developer for 25 years. This is also my opinion.
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by fergie 10mo ago
This article is actually a veiled, but sensible argument for less income tax and more wealth tax.
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by fergie 10mo ago
Such a good game- very ahead of its time, great look and feel. Weird that it was allowed to wither and die.
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by fergie 10mo ago
Is there some sort of example exploit somewhere?
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by fergie 10mo ago
I did some contract work for Microsoft a few years ago (2011-2013). It was striking how much pressure was put on you to dogfood Microsoft stuff at the expense of basically everything. I can only imagine what it must be like at the moment.

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