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by bikelang 15d ago
I’ve never been enough of a uBO power user to say conclusively - but I am extremely satisfied with Brave - in particular its ad blocking on YouTube. I also think Brave is by far the best ad block available on iOS.
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by bikelang 27d ago
Funny you’re the only person mentioning IQT here. The CIA is a huge VC! They funded several of the cybersecurity startups I’ve worked at.
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by bikelang 28d ago
Go genetics are still incredibly simple compared to languages with a rich type system.
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by bikelang 1mo ago
This really resonates with me. I think I have 2 kinds of meditations like this. 1 is more “centering” - fly fishing; and the other is more “processing” - gravel biking. When I’m on a long, multi hour gravel bike ride - I usually don’t liste
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by bikelang 2mo ago
This is probably a stupid question - as I’m totally unfamiliar with how interpreters call into system APIs - but would those calls use the bun runtime or the JavaScript Core engine the bun runtime wraps?
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by bikelang 2mo ago
That really isn’t true anymore. I’ve been using Bazzite for 9 months now and haven’t needed to boot windows once for a game. I don’t even bother checking protondb anymore. Games just work and peripherals just work has been my lived experien
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by bikelang 2mo ago
Curious to learn more here - why would altitude play a role here? And when you say high altitude - are we talking La Paz, Bolivia (~12k feet) or Denver, CO (~5k feet)?
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by bikelang 2mo ago
It’s just an opinionated, gaming-centric build of Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite. It ships with everything preconfigured for typical gamers that just want a low barrier to entry and low maintenance burden. It’s extremely plug-and-play.
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by bikelang 2mo ago
I really appreciate companies that are transparent with renewals. I’m sure it cuts down on customer support load a lot too. Kagi goes as far as not billing you if you don’t use their service in the prior month. I was pretty shocked the firs
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by bikelang 3mo ago
I would love to buy a Rivian R2 but I will absolutely not drop that kind of money until they support CarPlay. To me - a refusal to support CarPlay is an extremely user-hostile decision.
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by bikelang 3mo ago
Arguing that success is purely about the ultra high numbers seems to miss the forest for the trees. Is HN a failure because it did not reach the level of DAU as Reddit? The quality of discussion and community here is certainly substantially
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by bikelang 3mo ago
On the contrary - forced retirement may be a healthy prophylactic to those suffering from wealth addiction.
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by bikelang 4mo ago
OpenAI’s models could be materially better than Anthropic’s and I still wouldn’t use them because I don’t want to support Altman.
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by bikelang 4mo ago
My wife already has her green card through our marriage - but it expired under the Biden admin and we were given a 4 year “non-renewal extension” because USCIS was unable to process its renewal in time due to the post-COVID backlog. We’ve g
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by bikelang 4mo ago
Wow - actually pretty astonishing how fast their inference is. So fast it feels fake?
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by bikelang 5mo ago
Why RHEL and not just Fedora? Or if you value stability - then maybe Ubuntu or one of its derivatives like Pop_OS?
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by bikelang 5mo ago
Huge congratulations to the Zed team!
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by bikelang 5mo ago
I feel like people who loved writing software before ai Armageddon referred to our practice as a craft and themselves as craftsman. I think I still prefer that term.
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by bikelang 5mo ago
And then there’s those of us that loved writing software and loathe what AI has reduced it to.
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by bikelang 5mo ago
I would really recommend playing around with Canadian specific financial planning and retirement calculators. Maybe the Canadian system is totally fucked - I don’t know. But your inclinations are a very common misconception about 401k’s in
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by bikelang 5mo ago
Idk about Canada - but in the US most people are going to be in a lower tax bracket in retirement (sometimes substantially lower). Is that not the case in Canada? You only pay your marginal tax rate on what you withdraw. For example - if my
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by bikelang 5mo ago
If you’re the kind of saver that’s on target for an early retirement thru high retirement savings then you should have a pretty good idea of what your annual expenses are. Throw in a buffer + known liabilities (roof needs replacing, aging c
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by bikelang 5mo ago
Totally agree - it’s not at all the same. White boarding and the camaraderie you build in person are the things I miss. Thankfully my team still gets together for a week once a quarter. I think that’s an pretty ok balance.
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by bikelang 5mo ago
It takes planning but you can get your money out early via SEPP 72t disbursements and Roth conversion ladders. You can also just straight up pay the early withdrawal penalty. Depending on your effective tax brackets pre/post retirement
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by bikelang 5mo ago
Kind of crazy the negative feedback you’re getting from this. This is extremely valuable guidance for a fresh college grad into a good paying job.
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by bikelang 5mo ago
I got a 25 - apparently just because my robots.txt addresses AI bots (by telling them to sod off via disallow: /)
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by bikelang 5mo ago
Could you elaborate a bit more on this? Curious what your workflow looks like. Is this multiple agents running on the same feature/refactor/whatever unit of work? For concurrent but divergent work I just use a git worktree per fea
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by bikelang 5mo ago
Thanks for explaining that. Having a bit of a (dim) lightbulb moment now. I’ve never used Gerrit - just GitHub and GitLab and Forgejo. So I assumed the PR/MR model was more or less universal. But if smaller development commits are bein
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by bikelang 5mo ago
Reading threads like this and the GitHub stacked PRs just makes me feel like an alien. Am I the only one that thinks that commits are a pointless unit of change? To me - the PR is the product of output I care about. The discussion in the re
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by bikelang 5mo ago
The Atlassian CLI is pretty bad too! But at least the robot can consistently use it. And I can use it to help the robot figure out Atlassian’s garbage data structures. There’s not much I can do to debug their awful MCP.

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