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by petcat 2mo ago
> We have had machines faster than humans for a long time Yes it is true that we have had machines on rubber wheels that can move very fast on open roadways. But these new machines are also capable of walking up and down stairs, navigat
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by petcat 2mo ago
I agree, I've found MCP to be a waste of time. Any HTTP API + OpenAPI spec is sufficient to get my agents to do anything they need to do. Bonus that it just uses regular HTTP semantics and all the tools and infrastructure that have be
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by petcat 2mo ago
I think it is less about junior/mid engineers, and more just about the kinds of work inexperienced/cheap developers are often doing: assembly line, JIRA-ticket-taker type development. This is especially impacting Indian tech worke
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by petcat 2mo ago
> They're in clear violation of the GPLv2 now. I don't think they are? They could just as easily require requests for the source code to be made through the regular mail instead of a Google form. It's still (maliciously)
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by petcat 2mo ago
Geez even the EU's own government websites are polluted with cookie banners. Apparently they can't resist tracking their visitors either.
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by petcat 2mo ago
> A recent report by several civilian city unions found that over the past 15 years, even when department staffing increased, overtime continued to go up. From 2011 to 2024, staffing increased by nearly 9%. Over the same period, overtime
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by petcat 2mo ago
> What is GH's remaining long-term moat right now 180,000,000 monthly active users
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by petcat 2mo ago
Does sourcehut still require patches via email instead of "pull requests"? That was the deal breaker for me last time I looked at it.
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by petcat 2mo ago
Yes I said that. Largest producer, and 4th largest exporter.
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by petcat 2mo ago
> The US is also not a major oil exporter I believe this is wrong? USA is the largest oil producer in the world, and also one of the 5 largest oil exporters.
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by petcat 2mo ago
Recent estimates show it's down closer to 50% of all emails now. Which is obviously still outrageous.
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by petcat 2mo ago
Spam ruined email. It's really as simple as that.
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by petcat 2mo ago
Classic HN dev: it's just an API proxy! I can reproduce it myself for cheaper! Ignoring that you can't reproduce the widespread adoption and mindshare OpenRouter has already built . That's what Stripe is spending $7 billion
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by petcat 2mo ago
Use Claude through AWS Bedrock. Never been down for me.
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by petcat 2mo ago
This question will get more interesting responses if it was qualified as: "Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer for non-trivial workloads?" Because, as we can see from the comments so far, lots of people are going to say y
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by petcat 2mo ago
> US gov decide to rely on a TLD controlled by Montenegro Let's be honest, the US government can control basically any domain it wants. I doubt Montenegro is going to cause any problems for it.
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by petcat 2mo ago
Well it certainly lends credence to the opinion that GDPR and similar regulations are mostly designed for EU revenue generation by extracting fines from American tech companies. The actual privacy protections are secondary.
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by petcat 2mo ago
Which is also why their most recent model "Shieldstral" does nothing except monitor and moderate internet content. After stuff like Chat Control I think they're obviously seeing a big demand for this kind of "internet sa
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by petcat 2mo ago
> the "pro" models from OpenAI dominate. Not surprising considering the price difference, but it would ne nice if an OCR-specific model could do better. I haven't been impressed with any of Mistral's models. They obv
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by petcat 2mo ago
> Why should you be worried if it is used as designed? Well this whole article is about a company discovering a catastrophic corruption bug even though they were using it as designed. I think the lesson is that if you're ever actu
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by petcat 2mo ago
I think it is less about junior/mid engineers, and more just about the kinds of work inexperienced/cheap developers are often doing: assembly line, JIRA-ticket-taker type development. This is especially impacting Indian tech worke
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by petcat 2mo ago
My google android phone already does this. I get basically no spam calls at all except very rarely. But I go to the spam tab in the phone app and I see there are dozens that got blocked
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by petcat 2mo ago
> Linux distro founder here (stagex) What does it mean to "found" a Linux distro? Can you describe it?
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by petcat 2mo ago
I am extremely well aware of how rescues evaluate dogs. And I'm also fully aware that they do not know the full history of the dog. They go through a limited set of testing and interrogation to evaluate the safety of the dog. That&#x27
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by petcat 2mo ago
As an industry, I wish we would stop calling these things "open weight" because it is too easy to confuse with actual "open source", which they are not. Photoshop source code+ OSI license = open source Photoshop binary y
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by petcat 2mo ago
> What discontent do you mean? I mean, Brexit was the ultimate discontent and it didn't just come out of nowhere. It's still very recent history and, as far as I know, the circumstances that caused it haven't really chang
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by petcat 2mo ago
I saw an interesting stat recently that the poorest USA state, Mississippi, has a larger economy and GDP than 1/3rd of all EU members. It just seems like the EU is too top-heavy and I wonder if that's where a lot of the discontent
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by petcat 2mo ago
Sure, but the point was that the US doesn't even need to exercise their capabilities under the five eyes treaty. They have a separate Cloud act agreement with Australia already which is a more direct route to get what they want.
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by petcat 2mo ago
The EU isn't producing a domestic alternative to iOS or Google Android anytime soon. And no amount of "regular voting" is going to change that.
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by petcat 2mo ago
Kim dotcom was extradited from New Zealand, not Australia. They're different places.

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