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by bgrainger 12d ago
Hard to believe that article doesn't contain the phrase "slide guitar".
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by bgrainger 5mo ago
https://github.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N/Proof-of-Concepts/blob/ma...
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AI-Assisted Breach of Mexico's Government Infrastructure Report(gambit.security)
1 points by bgrainger 5mo ago|1 comments
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by bgrainger 5mo ago
The promise was that WPF would use hardware-accelerated libraries such as DirectWrite to put text on the screen even faster than GDI+ (using the CPU) could do. The reality turned out to be quite different: multiple layers of abstraction and
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by bgrainger 6mo ago
I first encountered this in Bjarne Stroustrup's 2000 book, _The C++ Programming Language_. As he notes in the introductory material: > In code examples, a proportional-width font is used for identifiers. … At first glance, this pres
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Planning Center is the newest Rails Foundation Contributing member(rubyonrails.org)
2 points by bgrainger 7mo ago|0 comments
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by bgrainger 10mo ago
This feels like a dumb question, but why doesn't Cursor implement that tool? I built my own simple coding agent six months ago, and I implemented str_replace_based_edit_tool ( https://platform.claude.com/docs/en&#x2
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by bgrainger 10mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968731 Why can I not authenticate into Google Antigravity? Google Antigravity is currently available for non-Workspace personal Google accounts in approved geographies. Please tr
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by bgrainger 11mo ago
Completely agree, and I've started writing more Roslyn analyzers to provide quick feedback to the LLM (assuming you're using it in something like VS Code that exposes the `problems` tool to the model). I also want C# semantics eve
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by bgrainger 11mo ago
Storing issues in a local SQLite database reminded me of Fossil SCM, which natively supports "tickets" as a source code artifact (and which uses a SQLite database under the hood): https://fossil-scm.org/home/d
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by bgrainger 1y ago
One interesting thing about this repo is that the "Contributors" view shows "Copilot" as the #6 contributor: https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server/graphs/contribut... It looks like t
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Open Source Maintenance Fee(opensourcemaintenancefee.org)
3 points by bgrainger 2y ago|8 comments
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Docker Announces Don Johnson as New CEO, Succeeding Scott Johnston(docker.com)
2 points by bgrainger 2y ago|1 comments
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by bgrainger 2y ago
We self-host GitHub using GitHub Enterprise Server. It is a mature product that requires next-to-no maintenance and is remarkably stable. (We did have a period of downtime caused by running it on an underprovisioned VM for our needs, but si
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by bgrainger 2y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42317968
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by bgrainger 2y ago
I couldn't add "Sydney", "Auckland", "Johannesburg", or "Buenos Aires". Is the entire Southern Hemisphere missing?
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More than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI(twitter.com)
23 points by bgrainger 2y ago|31 comments
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by bgrainger 2y ago
> [Dr. Jonathan] Anomaly is a well-known figure in a growing transatlantic movement that promotes development of genetic selection and enhancement tools. Nominative determinism is real.
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by bgrainger 2y ago
There's an ongoing issue with ranking in Google Search that's affecting a large number of search results. We've identified the root cause and this issue is unrelated to the ongoing core update rollout.
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Silicon Valley's False Prophet(wheresyoured.at)
41 points by bgrainger 2y ago|3 comments
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by bgrainger 2y ago
Are you sure? The article says "cite this as Yan et al. (May 2024)" and published-time in the metadata is 2024-05-12. Weird: I just refreshed the page and it now redirects to a different domain (than the originally-submitted URL)
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The People Deliberately Killing Facebook(wheresyoured.at)
127 points by bgrainger 2y ago|42 comments
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by bgrainger 2y ago
Previous discussion (from when it happened but before the victim company was named): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39248649
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by bgrainger 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38865020
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by bgrainger 3y ago
> the updater is busted, for the same reason the app stopped working. So re-download Keybase from http://Keybase.io and reinstall. https://twitter.com/KeybaseIO/status/1741607828706545766
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by bgrainger 3y ago
The Kenya joke explanation is fun, but probably not the real reason. ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) also fails for "L": User: Did you know that there is no country in Africa that starts with the letter "l"? ChatGPT: Yes, that's
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Celebrating Ten Years of Hacktoberfest(digitalocean.com)
2 points by bgrainger 3y ago|0 comments
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by bgrainger 3y ago
The paper proposes (on p32) that the following four paragraphs (pp 35-36) be added to the standard MIT license (which begins with "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associ
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by bgrainger 3y ago
On the home page, "For more detailed information take a look at the specification." links to https://www.domainverification.org/spec which is a 404. `dig 4i7ozur385y5nsqoo0mg0mxv6t9333s2rarxrtvlpag1gsk8pg._dv.dvex
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We are updating our Code of Conduct and we would like your feedback(meta.stackexchange.com)
3 points by bgrainger 3y ago|0 comments

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