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by nine_k 2mo ago
Sending two identical parallel requests is the classic approach. But, logically speaking, it should also double the cost. I would send a second request if the first request fails to return the first token within, say, 1 second. Then there&#
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by nine_k 2mo ago
Because it comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_(web_server)
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by nine_k 2mo ago
(Umpteenth time:) GitHub is not about just publishing source code; with git, it's trivial out of the box. GitHub's value is in the PR process, in CI/CD, releases, the issue tracker, and an identity system propping all of that
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by nine_k 2mo ago
So sloppy that a number of commenters are impressed with the graphics?
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by nine_k 2mo ago
It's easier as in using already known tools. It's potentially less secure because sshd is vastly more complex, and allows literal (authorized) remote code execution, unlike fwknop.
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by nine_k 2mo ago
Replace curl with wget, get robots.txt support. Write timed-out URLs into a file for the next identical run. The idea stays: you can jerry-rig a web crawler from pedestrian, readily available parts, and quickly test the idea for which y
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by nine_k 2mo ago
The structure is untenable when the work of one team is to say "no" to other teams, when these teams are not asking. A good infrastructure team would seek a competent security review that would say "no" to problematic
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by nine_k 2mo ago
Gift link: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-wearable-s... @dang, please consider updating.
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by nine_k 2mo ago
No extinguisher can stop a lithium battery fire. Putting the phone into a metal box, and the box, onto something not flammable, would help.
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by nine_k 2mo ago
My second monitor is my laptop screen. Great for keeping the music playback and IM chats on it, while the main screen is all editor and terminal windows.
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by nine_k 2mo ago
You just have to set the font size to 16-18pt, as I saw many people do. (Brought my own 4K monitor to work, like I did the last few times.)
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by nine_k 2mo ago
Bosses are those who hire and fire. Leaders are those who other people willingly follow.
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by nine_k 2mo ago
C-suites have no grip on reality, because their subordinates are afraid of telling them truth. The subordinates just want to look better in the boss's eyes, and are afraid to be replaced. The more levels the org chart has, the more pro
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by nine_k 2mo ago
Not so if it's embedded in something smart enough for its intended purpose. Think vision, spatial reasoning, speech synthesis, even some speech analysis. Think self-driving cars (and drones) that need 10x less power for the brain, and
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by nine_k 2mo ago
Since AOSP is open source, is it possible to reuse the Android HAL?
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by nine_k 2mo ago
> Years ago, you had watched the same pattern play out in design. Organizations displaced design conviction with A/B testing UX changes. The system produced optimized outcomes but could not produce original ones. The designers who
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by nine_k 2mo ago
> As if licenses mattered They still do, if you want your changes be made public, or even upstreamed. No sane license that gives access to the source code forbids modification for internal use; one reason is that it would be really har
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by nine_k 2mo ago
Mere 25-30 years ago I saw some very chatty Java builds run faster if the terminal window was obscured or minimized. Slow console output held back the compilers.
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by nine_k 2mo ago
To comfortably indulge in all that, inherit old money.
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by nine_k 2mo ago
Tired: pass live DB model objects around, mutate them to accumulate random changes, call commit() five levels deep, experience the chaos as described by the author. Wired: fetch DB records and construct domain objects, pass them around, do
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by nine_k 2mo ago
Not only do take-offs spend large amounts of fuel; the fact of a landing and the servicing and refueling in the airport also cost the airlines. Not having to land but instead having to carry some extra fuel while the engines work in their m
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by nine_k 2mo ago
These timelines are not arbitrary. They are dictated by the cost of money (for the VC). They have little to do with the target market situation, and totally don't care about technical considerations. They only care if your profits, or
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by nine_k 2mo ago
> sit there for 10 minutes doing nothing Try that. Some of the best ideas get born during the "idle time".
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by nine_k 2mo ago
The agent is your tool then. I suppose you have put some effort into tuning it, by writing and honing various .md files, providing MCP servers and access tokens where access is needed, etc.
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by nine_k 2mo ago
I think it's a false dichotomy. A good craftsman cares deeply about their tools. But the tools are a means to an end, not a toy. I have a bunch of small productivity tools I made to match my workflows: tiny shell scripts and functions,
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by nine_k 3mo ago
Huge SOTA models are like a floodlight. They elucidate a huge area at once. A fine-tuned small model is like a laser pointer. It only illuminates a tiny specific spot. But it can illuminate it as brightly as the huge floodlight, for a tiny
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by nine_k 3mo ago
Millions of people learn and practice functional reactive programming every day, without considering themselves software developers. They just use spreadsheets. Many of the lofty sounding concepts of programming were invented to make things
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by nine_k 3mo ago
Crewed sea travel should offer many hints. Its history is many centuries long.
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by nine_k 3mo ago
Give your binary CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE capability, and run it as a regular user. Almost no daemons need to run as root.
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by nine_k 3mo ago
I think that "Linux ran on mainframes" was said in jest. Even though Linux runs on mainframes pretty well even now.

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