benjamincburns

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by benjamincburns 4mo ago
I suspect the first case worked as intended, and VS Code is greasing the wheels. I'm sure there's a way to get it working in iTerm 2, though I wouldn't be surprised if the solution was some Goldbergian chain of forwarded unix
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by benjamincburns 4mo ago
I wasn't alive in the 70s, but I still prefer a terminal. I can string together a complex series of text-related tasks far more effectively as a shell pipeline than I can by pointing and clicking in a UI. I can scale that sequence of t
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by benjamincburns 4mo ago
But can you paste an image into it? I have a similar setup, but I access it directly via iTerm2 instead of VS Code's terminal. I've figured out the right terminal settings to get copying/pasting text to work (including with n
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by benjamincburns 4mo ago
I don't think it's factually correct. There are context pruning strategies that will prune old messages that are no longer relevant, and context compaction from summaries, etc. But to say "most" do this on "every tu
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by benjamincburns 4mo ago
IIRC Anthropic's API produces cryptographic signatures for thinking blocks. If you try to submit a set of messages that include thinking blocks with missing/invalid signatures, it'll refuse. They do this to mitigate jailbreak
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by benjamincburns 6mo ago
Yes. More than a few times. It however is not really designed to operate as a secure sandbox environment. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68668 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/
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by benjamincburns 1y ago
I generally ask for 150% - usually on the expectation that it’ll make the non-compete go away. It’s not at all a ridiculous ask, either. I’ve made a career out of going after high-impact roles in whatever is the fastest growing area of tech
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by benjamincburns 2y ago
Disclosure: I'm an engineer at LangChain, primarily focused on LangGraph. I'm new to the team, though - and I'd really like to understand your perspective a bit better. If we're gritting the wheels for you rather than gr
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by benjamincburns 4y ago
Kaggle or HuggingFace
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by benjamincburns 4y ago
Relevant: https://slack.com/blog/news/dear-microsoft
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by benjamincburns 6y ago
A lot of the other responses here are too complicated and specific. Here's my attempt to put it into easier-to-digest terms: In a traditional web stack you have a backend and a frontend. The frontend is the stuff the browser runs, and,
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by benjamincburns 7y ago
Amazon is becoming more and more like AliExpress with respect to product accuracy and quality. As an example, I recently bought tomato seeds for my garden. I searched for rainbow tomatoes, and the bulk of the results were clearly photoshopp
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by benjamincburns 8y ago
Thanks to cumulative windowing, it does have a dropped packet signal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol#...
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by benjamincburns 9y ago
> to actually make a transaction on the blockchain On which blockchain, exactly? On the Ethereum Mainnet you can transact for a fraction of a cent USD and it'll typically be verified (mined into a block) within a minute (often faste
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by benjamincburns 9y ago
> If you KNOW someone is wrong, why not debate them? Why go after them personally? Alternatively, just let them be wrong.
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by benjamincburns 9y ago
To be clear I was speaking in terms of likelihood, not extremes. I personally feel I derive a benefit from identifying myself online, but YMMV. Also I really hope I didn't give the idea that I think all discourse must be kept PC, or ev
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by benjamincburns 9y ago
FWIW, most of what you're saying here is my rationale for the first half of the sentence you quoted. Specifically, there are times when it makes sense to speak up, and being able to do so anonymously definitely quashes fear-driven self
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by benjamincburns 9y ago
I don't disagree that anonymity offers protection against situations like this, but bear in mind that anonymity is very much a factor in the lack of civil discourse online. I'm not suggesting for a second that stripping anonymity
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by benjamincburns 9y ago
I agree that those who participate in a process like this shouldn't circumvent its rules -- that just makes the whole problem much more difficult to manage. However, I think you could just as easily argue that the process itself is scu
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by benjamincburns 9y ago
I strongly agree that this is true in a lot of cases, and the ahead-of-time rationalization of limiting liability helps to perpetuate the lack of necessity of a clear, defensible reason for rejection. I say this as a hiring manager, by the
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by benjamincburns 9y ago
I recommend starting w/ Gary Bernhardt's excellent "Tar Pipe" blog post. https://web.archive.org/web/20161227222637/http://blog.extra... From there, move on to using the shell as your
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by benjamincburns 9y ago
I assume there must be some way to rotate the mirror? Maybe I'm crazy, but I can't seem to figure it out. Edit: Seems it's mobile only, or the mouse drag event handling is masking the click event. That is, it rotates for me o
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by benjamincburns 9y ago
Nice work! I'd be curious to see a comparison w/ RabbitMQ's MQTT extension. By any chance have you done such a comparison? Also I assume the comparisons are done at QOS level 0?
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by benjamincburns 9y ago
I've downvoted you because I feel the tone of this comment has upended what could have been a constructive, well-thought conversation and turned it into somewhat of a shouting match. Ignoring your tone, it seems to me that you're
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by benjamincburns 9y ago
As the GP alludes to, the key insight to becoming productive in VIM is the power of the movement system. To (mis)quote Gary Bernhardt, the slowest thing you can do is read something to find where you want to be. Searching is better, and bet
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by benjamincburns 10y ago
Lots of other people talk about fancy GPS systems in this thread, but it's been done for far longer with much simpler, arguably more reliable technology: long poles/sticks either painted with bright high vis paint, or more recentl
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by benjamincburns 10y ago
I can't cite specific examples because the ones I know about formed confidential business relationships, but I can say with confidence that this works All. The. Time. That said, if you're some small-time researcher who can't
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by benjamincburns 10y ago
What did I do? Interdisciplinary projects. More specifically, building things which must work in the ocean and be operated on boats by salty old fishermen who aren't willing to put up with anything fiddly. What did I learn? First, to r
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by benjamincburns 10y ago
I think you want to be grounding the shield on your Coax line. But I'm not an electrician or an RF engineer, so I might be completely wrong.
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by benjamincburns 10y ago
tl;dr - Skip to the last paragraph for the actual advice. I'm not a teacher, but I did begin learning to code when I was about 8. Allow me to offer a bit of anecdata. I first started to learn to code on the Commodore 64. The first thin

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