kyledrake

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by kyledrake 10mo ago
I've had an HN account for 17 years now. This is one of the last good places left on the web for intelligent conversation, and pretty much the last place I even want to post comments anymore honestly. Thank you @dang for the hard work
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by kyledrake 11mo ago
Awesome project! I did a similar thing with the Myspace dragon hoard https://mydora.restorativland.org "Mydora is a continuous streaming player that gives you a deep dive into the lost archives of Myspace Music, based on so
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by kyledrake 11mo ago
The article mentions Equinix Metal but if you look it up they are shutting down the service https://docs.equinix.com/metal/hardware/standard-servers Doesn't make me want to be a Equinix customer when they jus
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by kyledrake 1y ago
One of my favorite Ken Thompson hacks is one where he demonstrated how a backdoor could be introduced into a compiler in such a way that it would be difficult to notice https://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack
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by kyledrake 1y ago
One of the highlights of my work in tech was meeting someone I had read about in many computing history books, Bob Frankston, who dropped in for the Web 1.0 Conf at MIT Media Lab years ago. I was indifferent to the coffee choice at the even
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by kyledrake 1y ago
> Even Carl Sagan (a general believer that any civilization advanced enough for interstellar travel would be altruistic, not hostile) called the practice of METI “deeply unwise and immature,” and recommended that “the newest children in
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by kyledrake 1y ago
You can set cookies that strictly stay on the root domain and don't cross to subdomain origins, and vise versa ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Coo... ). We've been
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by kyledrake 1y ago
Google has some sort of internal flag for determining origin is different on some platforms. We don't get a complete takedown of Neocities every time there's a spam site reported. It is likely that they were not on that list but p
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by kyledrake 1y ago
You should message the MN Ruby meetup, I think this would be an interesting talk and I heard they may be looking for upcoming speakers https://www.meetup.com/ruby-mn/
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by kyledrake 1y ago
Having spent a decade in Portland and a few years in the Bay Area, all I can say here is that I've met these people in droves in both places, and the rural-urban political divide is just as strong in the coastal states as it is in the
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by kyledrake 1y ago
If I'm allowed to be anecdotal too I've also spent a decent amount of time in the area, including a visit to Bloomington, Indiana to visit their Informatics school, which was full of very interesting, open people that were absolut
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by kyledrake 1y ago
They didn't "get tired", they found rich soil and ample water to do farming and milling, which is what they were intending to find. It's called the bread basket of America for a reason.
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by kyledrake 1y ago
It's really easy to write off a giant part of the country that millions of people live in as tired (and the implication underneath is usually "backward"), it's also dehumanizing them and makes assumptions about their qua
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by kyledrake 1y ago
There was this amazing demo I was given at the at proto dev con of a working web site using the protocol https://danielmangum.com/posts/this-website-is-hosted-on-blu... It could definitely work as an alternative for th
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by kyledrake 1y ago
> The companies building out capacity certainly believe that AI is going to use as much power as we are told. The same could be said of dark fiber laid during the dot com boom, or unused railroads, etc. Spending during a boom is not indi
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by kyledrake 1y ago
Spiped is excellent, I use it in production for really critical stuff and it's rock solid. Seriously one of the best pieces of software ever written. I've never even once had to debug a problem with it, it just works.
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by kyledrake 1y ago
> Though I'm not sure we should be killing the earth for better search Are we, though? What I have read so far suggests the carbon footprint of training models like gpt4 was "a couple weeks of flights from SFO to NYC" htt
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by kyledrake 1y ago
Another really important distinction here is simply that drugs and alcohol damage health, cause cancer, cause brain damage, cause car crashes and kill people, and photons of humans having sex with each other are probably orders of magnitude
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by kyledrake 1y ago
Very interesting idea! I wonder if a political campaign one day will be to start a program that eradicates mosquitos via drone fleets, not just in the context of malaria protection but also in just nuisance reduction. There are similar prog
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by kyledrake 1y ago
The main benefit of something common and well supported like VIX is that it's easier to transfer between companies without selling it, which for a brokerage account is a taxable event. Fidelity has no expense funds or low expense funds
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by kyledrake 1y ago
SMS 2FA is also quite expensive. In the US it's $0.0083 per SMS, which at bulk is going to add up quickly. Even before the war started, it was $0.70 to send an SMS to Russia. And then there's the premium SMS line fraud that's
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by kyledrake 1y ago
The goal of the program is to reduce the tragedy of the commons that causes the municipal water supply to run out, making it so that nobody's Speed Queen works anymore. Given the contrast, I would prefer a slightly derpy washing machin
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by kyledrake 1y ago
At least some of the blame here is the bias towards HTML being something that is dynamic code generated, as opposed to something that is statically handwritten by many people. There are features that would be good for the latter that have b
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by kyledrake 1y ago
There seems to be this emerging consensus from tech leaders that people want to escape reality and go into a VR world or some flavor of AI focused singularity and I suspect they've miscalculated how much most of their users prefer to,
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by kyledrake 1y ago
All micro cargo van providers have stopped building them. The Transit Connect, Metris, Promaster City and NV200 are all now discontinued. The VW Caddy isn't sent to the states. There are rumors that they will make a cargo van based on
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by kyledrake 1y ago
The unfortunate consequence of this approach for me is that I've been busy the few days they allowed the movie to be streamed, so I haven't been able to see it yet. Can't really put it on Netflix or YouTube if it has to be no
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by kyledrake 2y ago
My understanding is that our local climbing gym sees most of its non-bouldering accidents from people not clipping into autobelays before they start climbing.
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by kyledrake 2y ago
If you get a chance try out the NEOX. It's basically a GriGri with smoother rope feed, so you almost never have to defeat the cam when lead belaying with a proper dynamic technique. They've been polarizing to some people but it re
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by kyledrake 2y ago
That looks good, I didn't see that earlier.
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by kyledrake 2y ago
This interface needs to have a better relationship with streaming, there is always a lag in response and a lot of people are going to want to stream the response in non blocking threads instead of hanging the process waiting for the respons

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