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by whitlock 2mo ago
For those wondering, < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_S._F._Cooper_Jr. >
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Turn And Face The Strange: Fly.io is betting on computers for AI agents(fly.io)
22 points by whitlock 2mo ago|3 comments
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by whitlock 2mo ago
Sprites are becoming the primary product focus, Scott Johnston takes over as CEO, and Kurt explains the thinking behind the shift.
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by whitlock 3mo ago
The core abstraction seems identical to Fly.io Sprites: give the coding agent its own real Linux machine, put a hard network/isolation boundary around it, then yeet. Sprites arguably has the better security boundary, since the agent is
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by whitlock 5mo ago
https://toptout.me - exists and handles a lot of these problems, if not looking to create a new wheel. Though if you just want a simple ENV var that handles this WHILE honoring the specification on this page: https://
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by whitlock 5mo ago
Love it. This is an annoying problem and likely the actual solution than asking folks to use a universal one. I'll put something together as a starting point.
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by whitlock 6y ago
I recently watched the AeroPress Movie ( https://aeropressmovie.com/ ), which was a fun look into the history and culture around the AeroPress. Something I enjoyed about it was seeing the inventors workshop in his garage, as
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by whitlock 7y ago
The statistics cited by Local Babysitter are ten years old, collected in 2009 by Nielsen. This doesn't reflect how media has changed in the last ten years, along with how children consume it. It would be nice to have a more updated sou
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by whitlock 8y ago
Cheap boards like the ESP-12F (ESP8266) allow you to remotely control a device or receive sensor data, like that from a DHT11 temperature-humidity sensor. Instead of paying a lot of money, you can flash your own firmware on a device and mak
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by whitlock 8y ago
Like you hinted, flashing Sonoff-Tasmota firmware on ESP8266 hardware lets you get A LOT of home automation equipment for fairly little. They make many devices and someone getting started should checkout the Sonoff-Tasmota for supported dev
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by whitlock 11y ago
"They even offered a token bounty of 5000 rupees in BigBasket credits, which we have not accepted." That's a pittance for such a critical flaw in their purchasing system, especially for a company valued at over 180 million US
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by whitlock 11y ago
I thought this was in reference to Apache Spark.
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by whitlock 11y ago
Someone violated read-only Friday.
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by whitlock 11y ago
There is no upgrade path from OS Luna (previous release) to Freya. Their own web site states, "elementary OS Luna users should back up their data and perform a clean install". Given that the operating system is built on Ubuntu I s
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by whitlock 13y ago
If you like xargs, but want more flexibility, I'd highly suggest GNU parallel. Such flexibility includes running jobs on multiple computers, running intensive command using all available CPU's (like xargs -P), and creating unique
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by whitlock 13y ago
Thank you for answering my question. I was afraid you'd skip it if there was truth in what NPR had presented. I'm probably not the only person who felt that you and Pete are misleading people with the story of Pete's online p
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by whitlock 13y ago
Patrick, I heard Pete's story on NPR a while back and how it helped your company grow. It stuck out since when the reporter tried to verify the story they found no results. The reporter comes short of accusing you or your co-founder of