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by kentonv 7mo ago
Dynamic Workers don't have a built-in filesystem, but you can give them access to one. What you would do is give the Worker a TypeScript RPC interface that lets it read the files -- which you implement in your own Worker. To give it fa
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Sandboxing AI agents, 100x faster(blog.cloudflare.com)
52 points by kentonv 7mo ago|13 comments
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by kentonv 7mo ago
Cloudflare Workers was actually pushing for web standards on the server side several months before Deno was announced. :) Though Ryan of course had a lot more clout from day 1 than I did.
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by kentonv 7mo ago
Since a lot of people here aren't familiar with the private credit situation, here's my understanding, which comes almost entirely from reading Money Stuff, a daily column by Matt Levine. If you are a tech person who wants to lear
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by kentonv 7mo ago
TBH "private credit" (meaning exactly what this article is talking about) is such a big thing in the finance industry that probably most finance industry people can't even fathom that the title is misleading to non-finance-in
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by kentonv 8mo ago
You can trivially block Cloudflare crawl via robots.txt. You don't need to buy Cloudflare's bot protection -- this is not a malicious bot. https://x.com/CloudflareDev/status/2031745285517455615 (Disclosu
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by kentonv 8mo ago
No, it does not take any action to work around other bot protections. https://x.com/CloudflareDev/status/2031745285517455615 (Disclosure: I work for Cloudflare but not on this product.)
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by kentonv 8mo ago
Cloudflare crawl respects robots.txt. It does not attempt to bypass any anti-crawling measures. If the site doesn't want to be crawled -- whether it uses Cloudflare or not -- this product will not help you crawl it. Some sites actually
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by kentonv 8mo ago
> flatbuffers and capnproto are in the game of trying to make serialization to binary format as efficient as possible. Little-understood fact about Cap'n Proto: Serialization is not the game at all. The RPC system is the whole game,
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by kentonv 8mo ago
Interesting. workers.dev domains can be a liability sometimes -- if you've mapped the worker to a real zone, then you probably don't want the workers.dev zone anymore. For what it's worth, you can disable the workers.dev zone
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by kentonv 8mo ago
As a teenager I found this video on the Windows 95 CD without context and for some time after I thought that Weezer was a 60's band that just had a style way ahead of their time.
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by kentonv 9mo ago
Protobuf has far better ergonomics than ASN.1. ASN.1 is an overcomplicated design-by-committee mess. Backwards compatibility in particular is much harder.
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by kentonv 9mo ago
lol are you accusing Sanjay of creating Protobuf to get promoted?
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by kentonv 9mo ago
There is so much low-hanging fruit in the tooling side right now. There's no way Anthropic alone can stay ahead of it all -- we need lots of different teams trying different things. I myself have been building a special-purpose vibe-co
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by kentonv 9mo ago
I mean... I don't like it either but this is pretty standard stuff and it's obvious why they're doing it. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok are all more or less on par with each other, or a couple months behind at most. Chine
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by kentonv 9mo ago
I've had wake-from-suspend issues on plenty of non-nvidia machines, and I have had nvidia machines that have no issues. I think it has nothing to do with the GPU and everything to do with the motherboard chipset.
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by kentonv 9mo ago
Err... well... I live in Austin currently. I'm describing the red line which goes from downtown to Leander. (The one I linked to.) If you're describing some other line then sorry for the confusion, I didn't actually know ther
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by kentonv 10mo ago
Not sure if my word is any better but I wouldn't be working for him if I thought he was the kind of person who harasses security researchers.
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by kentonv 10mo ago
That's a bit of an exaggeration. A quick look at the schedule shows they do have multiple trains running in each direction during peak hours: https://www.capmetro.org/plan/schedmap?route=550 But much of the length
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by kentonv 10mo ago
> when they lobbied the FTC to investigate him FYI Cloudflare didn't actually do that: https://x.com/eastdakota/status/1566160152684011520 (Disclosure: I work at Cloudflare but have no personal involvement
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by kentonv 10mo ago
Hey Sanjay, long time no see. Thanks for the note! But I'm fully aware you wouldn't want a "Sanjay Facts", and that's not the point. ;)
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by kentonv 10mo ago
That's the ironic thing too... honestly, while I couldn't say that one or the other is a better engineer... I would say I personally identified more with Sanjay's approach and style.
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by kentonv 10mo ago
Having worked with them I would say Sanjay is certainly NOT the "junior" partner. Nor vice versa. They have different strengths but I couldn't say that one or the other is a better engineer overall.
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by kentonv 10mo ago
If I said I'd done something rude and people then argued with as much fervor about whether I'd actually been rude as they are arguing here, I would actually find it pretty weird.
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by kentonv 10mo ago
Hi Ari, Thanks so much for falling for my trick and taking it over, I was getting pretty sick of dealing with the same issues you describe. :) One of the reasons Cloudflare Workers has a policy that we absolutely never break deployed code,
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by kentonv 10mo ago
Yes, I actually do think if Sanjay Ghemawat were instead Wojciech Przemysław Kościuszko-Wiśniewski, white European but otherwise an equal engineer, and I chose to elevate Jeff Dean over him, I would later feel equally bad about it. (Which a
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by kentonv 10mo ago
I feel like Jeff's public profile has grown quite a bit since then. Note that in 2008 he wasn't doing anything related to AI yet -- none of that had even started. That has since given him somewhat of a more public role, whereas Sa
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by kentonv 10mo ago
Are we... arguing about what happened in my head? As the world's foremost expert about what happened in my head, do I get to, like, pick a winner here? If so I pick tczMUFlmoNk, I think their description is accurate. (I think you might
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by kentonv 10mo ago
Thanks, you explained this better than I could. I'm not calling myself Hitler here, I think it was a mild offense. But in retrospect the site could have been about both of them, with competing facts, and that could have been really coo
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by kentonv 10mo ago
I submitted this "fact" and it is indeed a true story, exactly as you said. The "global protobuf db" had comments all over it saying it's not intended for production-critical tasks, and it had a lot of caveats and g

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