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by macNchz 7mo ago
I dunno, I thought about this before switching to Linux, when I gave my wife a Linux box I had sitting around in a pinch during the pandemic laptop shortage—a lot of people these days just need a browser, and there’s not really much to go w
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by macNchz 7mo ago
Great point. Just last week I used AI to build a minimal replacement for a SaaS tool I’ve used in the past that has obnoxious feature gating/price tiers. My version isn’t nearly a complete replica, but it has the base functionality I w
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by macNchz 7mo ago
The only places I've heard of losing water during power outages are houses that use a private well (no power, no well pump), which would be the case anywhere. Municipal water systems may or may not use power to provide pressure, but ar
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by macNchz 7mo ago
I use uv here and there but have a bunch of projects using regular pip with pip-tools to do a requirements.in -> requirements.txt as a lockfile workflow that I've never seen enough value in converting over. uv is clearly much faster
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by macNchz 7mo ago
There’s a name for that, SLAPP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ... Many states in the US have laws to try to limit them by making them easier to dismiss etc.
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by macNchz 7mo ago
No maliciousness or injection required, even the newest and most resistant models can start doing weird stuff on their own, particularly when they encounter something failing that they want to work. Just today I had Opus 4.6 in Claude Code
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by macNchz 7mo ago
In legal states in the US it’s fairly easy to find commercial 1:1 THC:CBD products, among a litany of mega-potent THC-only options. I never particularly cared for cannabis in general in the past–it didn’t give me panic attacks, but even a l
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by macNchz 7mo ago
I’m a huge user of AI coding tools but I feel like there has been some kind of a zeitgeist shift in what is acceptable to release across the industry. Obviously it’s a time of incredibly rapid change and competition, but man there is some a
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by macNchz 7mo ago
I think it’s maybe close to a wash between non-replaceable batteries in wireless headphones dying and cords failing, in my experience at least. The ideal case IMO is over-ear headphones that have a replaceable cord—I have some 14 year old B
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by macNchz 7mo ago
I was just talking with a friend about this on Sunday, just before the big oil price runup—it was very curious to me that I had had to hunt around a bit for coverage of what was going on with the strait. Closure was something I had known wa
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by macNchz 7mo ago
If Moltbook becomes as big as Instagram I’m giving up on tech and moving to the mountains to raise goats.
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by macNchz 7mo ago
Ultimately I think all of what you describe there falls into a bucket of personality traits and social skills that contribute to success in many areas of life. It's some combination of what they call "self monitoring" in soci
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by macNchz 7mo ago
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I do have a 64GB machine that I'd been planning to bump up to 128 right around the time the prices went through the roof. My uses are: - VMs, I'm leaning on them more and more f
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by macNchz 7mo ago
Meta has consistently and repeatedly shown an absolute lack of respect for user privacy for basically as long as they’ve existed as a company. I’m honestly not certain there’s anything fully out of the question as far as things they might d
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by macNchz 7mo ago
Interesting idea on the local search index! It occurs to me that running something that passively saves down content that I browse and things that AI turns up while it does its own searches, plus a little agent to curate/expand/en
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by macNchz 8mo ago
Biopsies, radiation from additional scans, surgery, treatment for cancers that would not have developed further. A lot of potential harms are at a societal level as well—from a public health perspective, if everyone starts having regular MR
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by macNchz 8mo ago
Absolutely agreed—seeing this post continue to circulate across all forms of media with seemingly zero critical thinking or evaluation of its author’s credibility reminds me of the Zoolander “I feel I’m taking crazy pills” meme. I remembere
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by macNchz 8mo ago
Interesting that for some people flow state is non-verbal. I personally have sort of a constant dialogue in my head (or sometimes muttered out loud under my breath) that I have to buffer or spool into various notes/diagrams/code.
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by macNchz 8mo ago
Sentry is indeed, and is open source and self-hostable: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry It’s a pretty large app (I think >1M lines of Python). I ran a self hosted version for several years and found it performan
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by macNchz 8mo ago
That article is seemingly all about the perf of the complex frontend app with a custom renderer running in the browser, nothing to do with what’s happening on the server.
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by macNchz 8mo ago
There are a variety of ways that democratic governments are structure that make this an inaccurate characterization of how things work. The US, for example, apportions representatives and votes for President in a way that overweights less p
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by macNchz 8mo ago
I have not been following this whole thing closely, but this is where my mind went as soon as I heard there was some overlap in the popularity of this new un-sandboxed agent and people who are into crypto. It's like if everyone who is
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by macNchz 8mo ago
Historically I've found sleepinginairports.net useful for this kind of intel—I was pleased to discover just now that it's still around! Nearly 20 years ago now it saved me from a night of awful sleep. My backpacking buddy and I ha
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by macNchz 9mo ago
As a fan of text adventures who has played many over the years—Anchorhead is hard . It was kind of a white whale for me over many years until I finally beat it during the pandemic lockdown.
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by macNchz 9mo ago
Historically retailers have employed buyers in charge of selecting products that would appeal to the store’s customers. A customer will likely have different expectations, and have an existing understanding of what sort of products they’ll
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by macNchz 9mo ago
For what it's worth, I evaluated Fly.io during a divorce from Heroku some time in mid 2022 (I think), found the platform was... way too rough around the edges at the time to want to migrate any real workloads. I kept it on my radar and
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by macNchz 9mo ago
Pure speculation, but I’d guess that an arrangement with Google comes with all sorts of ancillary support that will help things go smoothly: managed fine tuning/post-training, access to updated models as they become available, safety&#
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by macNchz 9mo ago
This is the thing that makes any conversation about broad categories of food difficult—there’s just a huge range of ways to package those carbs, and people eat a ton of “hyper palatable” foods. A few hundred calories of Smartfood popcorn wi
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by macNchz 9mo ago
Working on a system like this (mostly configured with complex yaml, but extended with a little DSL/rule engine to handle more complex situations) a long while ago, I introduced a bug that cost the company quite a bit of money by using
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by macNchz 9mo ago
That's a pretty frustrating market segment to shop for in the US these days, given there are so many good options that just aren't sold here. I was looking for similar cars early last year and quickly ruled out Golfs (and a variet

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