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by ljm 1y ago
They’re pretty on-the-ball with fraud. People are commonly scammed into being a money mule (basically being sent money and then being asked to send it on to another account, with the promise of payment) and they get locked out. They’re not
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If you’re addicted to scrolling social media then you’ll just get used to calling yourself a loser to get another fix. Or you just uninstall the extension. There needs to be a healthier alternative to that replaces the social media habit, t
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I never got a chance to see the difference there because I moved on shortly after. It was just that almost constant conflicts with poetry (and the errors about the project being out of sync) with a team developing in parallel were painful e
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It’s an absolute godsend. I thought poetry was a nice improvement but it had its flaws as well (constant merge conflicts in the lock file in particular). Uv works more or less the same as I’m used to with other tooling in Ruby, JS, Rust, et
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Wages for the average person (working class) typically remain stagnant while cost of living increases, particularly through inflation. I imagine minimum wage would be 25-30 bucks an hour if it did track inflation and that would only serve t
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I never bothered configuring my prompt at all because, inside emacs, I could already see most of what I needed in the editor itself. In fact, I only set up Starship when I started to do more pairing. It wasn’t for my benefit as much as it w
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by ljm 1y ago
The real security issue is around the use of ‘YOLO mode’ where you just let the agent invoke tools in a completely unattended manner. It’s not much different than slapping sudo in front of every shell command or running as root. People are
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This would also be easy to do if an API is designed around versioning from the beginning, because often it isn’t and it requires a lot of boilerplate and duplication, and it just results in everything being slapped into v1. Especially the c
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by ljm 1y ago
It’s better they don’t. Hyper-targeting of ads to achieve political aims has been happening for the past decade with Meta leading the way. There is zero situation where this technology doesn’t get co-opted by adverse interests to make your
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Aside from security issues it presents, it’s just a really bad idea to tightly couple your data model to your API like that. Any change to your DB schema is liable to become a breaking change on your API. If you need separate types for your
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It never caught on but I always liked setting the jumbo header images on Notion docs to creepy, unsettling pictures from Unsplash. Need to write a document about converting a Rust project to Typescript? A picture of an abandoned warehouse f
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I’ve been running k3s on hetzner for over 2 years now with 100% uptime. In fact, it was so low maintenance that I lost my SSH key for the master node and I had to reprovision the entire cluster. Took about 90 mins including the time spent u
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> agents query production systems How do you handle PII or other sensitive data that the LLM shouldn’t know or care about?
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Why does this read so much like a copypasta.
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I saw a post like this some time earlier this year and my first reaction is the same… Normal? Seriously? The article attempts to address this in an incredibly clumsy way by saying, well, everyone is normal in some way! It totally misses the
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Unless the client speaks to each micro service independently without going through some kind of gateway or BFF, I'd expect you'd just plonk your MCP in front of it all and expose the same functionality clients call via API (or gra
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The accessibility angle is what concerns me. The demos of the Music app, for example, seemed much less clear. You’re gonna have to mess around with whatever settings they provide to turn it off if you have impaired visibility. It gives off
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Literally nobody will give a fuck about a 24 episode series that exists because you spent a few seconds writing a prompt. AI doesn’t increase the value of content, it makes it meaningless by destroying scarcity. Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
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How do you deterministically verify that information was correctly entered? Is it just validates :email, format: :email In Rails?
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Or they bought warehouse space without doing due dil and they were holding the bag on a property that wasn’t up to code. So that’s actually on them, too.
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Where is the source? OP goes to a mastodon instance that can’t handle the traffic.
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I’ll call you cynical and say your entire first paragraph about organisations being right wing is total and utter tripe. And the rest of your diatribe doesn’t improve on it. I don’t really want to follow through the rest of your thesis.
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There is a world beyond startup exits and stock options and it is a sustainable non profit public good entity. It blows my mind that HN doesn’t have this nuance but I guess the fog of war sets in outside of the Bay Area in California and no
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My solution is actually to fuck off this mysterious version 5, that isn’t even defined, and to make PP a serious operation by growing v4 and putting a serious team around it. Right now it’s not serious. It’s literally the gambler’s fallacy
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I think the charitable middle ground no matter how you slice it is that whatever funding they receive should in part go towards bringing talent on board that can help them grow and avoid repeating past mistakes. Maybe nobody steps down but
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The key piece to that is creativity. I've encountered a fair few people who basically just have the sales nous and the cash, like the Silicon Valley version of "I've got an idea for an app," but the money isn't put
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I am literally referencing the article: > It will mean rebuilding things from the ground up, which requires much more help and resources than before. In what way is 'ground up rebuild' a misunderstanding of 'rebuilding t
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I would imagine a condition of the funding would be to restructure and get the right people in place to continue the mission, ideally more responsibly. Like, the entire article is saying "we fucked up in various ways" but there is
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Libraries are funded by the tax payer and as such have no expectation to make money - they simply operate within the budget they are given. A charity or a non-profit organisation is funded by donors. Non-profit doesn't mean 'loss
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> We received a €100K donation. Which was amazing, but we decided to give it all to the community so they can continue developing their projects. Not to sustain the organisation itself. It seems a lot of the problems they described are s

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