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by xnorswap 7mo ago
There was one I thought was maybe a waste-water leak from the smell, but generally wastewater leaks are much harder to spot, and it's generally CSOs (Combined Sewer Overflows) that are the main problem there, which happen in heavy rain
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
My strange hobby was going on what I called "leak walks". I lived in a town where on any sunny day I could go for a walk and be almost guaranteed to spot a water mains leak I hadn't seen before, which I'd then report and
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
That's a basic example with a single level of generics too, you'd sometimes have to do things like: Dictionary<string, List<Tuple<string, string>>> foo = new Dictionary<string, List<Tuple<string, s
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
MIDI is a protocol for describing audio. Sure, it saves a lot of bytes compared to PCM encoded wave-form data, but it's not really cheating anything unless we also consider the red, blue and green parts of the computer monitor to be ch
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
Is there a guide on getting it working with a devcontainer on the command line?
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
And that's just the opening paragraph, the full text is rounded off with: "The constraint is real: one server, and careful deploy pacing." Another strong LLM smell, "The <X> is real", nicely bookends an obviou
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
Yeah, it's weird "they" don't consider any middle ground between SQLite and replicated postgres cluster. Locally running database servers are massively underrated as a working technology for smaller sites. You can even e
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
I'm fairly confident they let it write the blog post too.
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
Looking at https://news.ycombinator.com/show , it's definitely no longer a raw feed of show HN: from /new. It's not clear what the change is, whether it is curation by hand or some other metrics, but it'
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
The MX440 is a nearly 25 year old GPU, it performed somewhere between a Geforce 2 and GeForce 3 ti 200. It was a good budget option those decades ago.
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
That was actually an interesting case of things that CI/CD don't tend to catch. It failed to start because it failed to parse the published release notes. In the CI/CD system it would have passed, because the release notes th
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
Wait, I should check if they pre-exist on master. < 1,000 prompts for compound cd && git commands that can't be safely auto-accepted >
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
I think that latter interpretation must be right, it seems possible, if high. Either raw comments or submissions doesn't seem credible.
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
5% of all comments mention Claude code? Am I reading that right?
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
In the UK you already can for anything done via "Direct Debit", which covers a lot of regular payments.
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
One of most magical things about HN is that heavy comments are punished as a negative signal, not rewarded as a positive one.
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
Yes, declaring AI to be 99% hype just turns away people like me from what the author has to say. I was an AI sceptic for a long time until toward the end of last year when I seriously evaluated them, and came to realise it could add tremend
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
I doubt it is odd, I suspect almost every ToS has something similar.
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
Not just in the obvious ways either, even good CGI has been detrimental to the film (and TV) making process. I was watching some behind the scenes footage from something recently, and the thing that struck me most was just how they wouldn
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
An awful lot of stuff in the "hand made" aesthetic are made by machine and factory too, and I suspect a similar thing will happen to any popular writing aesthetic that attempts to avoid being automated away. Personally, I'll
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
Thank you for the correction, I should have said "not open contribution" rather than "closed contribution".
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
Zero-contribution open source doesn't at all make it closed source. It delivers on the value of open source, that anyone using your software is permitted to make and distribute their own changes. SQLite is an example of a project that
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
Perhaps it's specific because it's Opus 4.6, released February 5th. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
> Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Your comment would have been just as interesting as the first line follo
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
It is, but it's also a decade after the language was first released.
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
Some kind of Digital ID? The UK government proposed that and was met by the usual resistance to it.
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
In the UK More people have passports than have credit cards, the assumption otherwise is precisely the culture-clash that the article is complaining about.
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
It's particularly culturally deaf to try to verify with literally "credit cards". In the UK most people use debit cards instead for most things. https://www.ukfinance.org.uk/data-and-research/data/ca
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
It's fine but it's sharp-edged, in that it's recommended to use IHttpClientFactory to avoid the dual problem of socket exhaustion ( if creating/destroying lots of HttpClients ) versus DNS caching outliving DNS ( if using
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
I always liked these benchmarks, I've been following them since the earliest rounds. One thing to note is how much things have improved over that time. Numbers that used to top the benchmarks would now be seen as "slow" compa

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