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by cknoxrun 4mo ago
Google is actively, and directly helping companies continuously train use-case specific models based on Gemma 4 foundation. The company gets a model they fully own, trained on internal, sensitive data, and Google scoops up the profits from
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by cknoxrun 4mo ago
The interesting part is that agents are good at adding the safety layers (type safety) that exist for Ruby, but which add developer/cognitive overhead (such as Sorbet). I actually find, for some reason, that LLMs seem to be able to be
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by cknoxrun 4mo ago
I'm not sure where the original poster is from, but where I'm at (Canada) my local library has a large gaming collection, including Switch 2 games. The bigger games you have to wait a while on the hold list, but there are plenty o
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by cknoxrun 6mo ago
Thanks for the clarification, I see where you are coming from and definitely agree it's a real problem. I'm proud to say for myself that devices never leave the home now (and mine stays in my pocket except for explicit communicati
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by cknoxrun 6mo ago
The only thing I'll add is that you never know what people are going through. Both of my children have pretty intense ADHD, and when I went through my divorce I definitely leaned into too much screen time for a while. It wasn't pe
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by cknoxrun 8mo ago
Coming from another stressed out startup CTO, I'm curious what your daily meditation routine look like now?
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by cknoxrun 2y ago
I do like the approach Basecamp took to Kanban ("Card Table") - very very simple and clean ( https://basecamp.com/features/card-table ). We moved off of Basecamp but we found it super effective when we were a s
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by cknoxrun 4y ago
Only things he has asked for, this is not driven by a need for academic improvement or anything, but a chance to learn tools to improve a known deficit with ADHD that can negatively impact his ability to maintain social connections.
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by cknoxrun 4y ago
Interesting. I've often considered an Apple Watch for my 9 year old, who struggles with (and benefits from) ADHD and thus would benefit from specific features such as the reminders (especially location-specific), alarms, and overall or
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by cknoxrun 5y ago
Not the greatest UI, but you can show 2 conversations at the same time by command-clicking on a person/channel (or right clicking on a second person/channel and choose "Open in split view").
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by cknoxrun 5y ago
Your question caused a likely ludicrous and unoriginal idea to pop into my head - I wonder if it would be possible to purposefully engineer and release a mutated form of a virus like SARS-CoV-2 that demonstrates the ability to replace more
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by cknoxrun 5y ago
A couple of friends of mine are the co-founders of one of the big gif sharing sites. I've heard some pretty interesting, and very funny, stories about the sticker shock on S3 as they grew. But it sounds like Amazon has been fairly flex
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by cknoxrun 5y ago
Personally, this post made me aware there are existing alternatives to Codespaces. Codespaces is very cool, but it also adds to an ever-growing single point of failure, which is dependence on Github for almost all of our tools and tooling.
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by cknoxrun 5y ago
There's an interesting book that discusses this, "To Sell is Human" by Daniel Pink that I think is worth a read.
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by cknoxrun 5y ago
We migrated a high-traffic, complex site with a huge amount of data to MariaDB about 5 years ago as well, and it's been solid so far. We use Galera as well, which has performed and scaled really admirably.
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by cknoxrun 5y ago
I used Fellow briefly, but it was so incredibly slow. Glad to hear you are putting a big focus on performance! Submitted myself to the beta.
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by cknoxrun 5y ago
To preface this, I would love to see oil sands production halted. However, evidence seems to suggest it is far too idealistic to imagine a world where the oil manufacturers / countries leave all of that money on the table. In my opinio
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by cknoxrun 5y ago
PathWhiz is pretty general ( https://smpdb.ca/pathwhiz ) and covers most of that. Give it a go! You can sign in as a guest and start creating pathways. All of the gene information is included and pulled in from Uniprot as wel
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by cknoxrun 5y ago
Even outside of SPA apps and new magic, Rails is still faster to develop a prototype or website in than React or dare I say any modern SPA tools. We tested this for fun with some very experienced React and Rails devs at our company, each st
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by cknoxrun 5y ago
Interesting, I pointed it at my son and it immediately accurately described "a child sitting at a white table doing a jigsaw puzzle". I pointed at one of his Lego creations, and immediately "a multi-colour lego construction s
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by cknoxrun 5y ago
There is a common fear (and I have to admit I irrationally feel this fear) that your ranking will be impacted negatively by not using Google Analytics. Maybe not intentionally, but perhaps because Google knows less about your site.
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by cknoxrun 5y ago
Not sure when you used ActiveRecord, but slow query logging helps a lot to identify these issues. I also appreciate that in the docs for ActiveRecord they make it very clear that jumping to raw SQL is absolutely fine and normal, and they ma
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by cknoxrun 6y ago
It's actually a legitimate phenomenon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15643663
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by cknoxrun 6y ago
As a long time Rails developer, pushing products and prototypes out the door quicker than peers, it's heart-warming to see messages like yours more often on Hacker News lately.
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by cknoxrun 6y ago
The concept of performance is interesting, to me it should be more applied to the user's experience of performance. And personally, when I come across a slow, janky SPA where a server-rendered site would have made a lot more sense, I f
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by cknoxrun 6y ago
"About 1 day remaining" here [Edit: Make that "6 days remaining"] Interesting, usually these big updates are fast, even hours after launching. It could indicate bigger demand than expected, or a technical problem.
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by cknoxrun 6y ago
I agree it has demonstrated resilience, a positive thing indeed. But I think it's good to consider what would happen in other countries should a character like Trump be elected. In Canada, a polarizing character like Trump would be exc
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by cknoxrun 6y ago
I think it's become a tradition at the company, part of the culture that people can rally around for big releases. Not a bad thing I don't think!
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by cknoxrun 6y ago
This comment sounds so joyless. The programming language ecosystem allows for all sorts of approaches, some many folks love passionately, and some you may not like. However, your comment seems to suggest a whole swatch of software engineers

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