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by dps 1y ago
Yeah, I really should have included <> :-) Fun to see this post from the deep archive get some interest - thanks for reading!
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by dps 1y ago
Author here… I wrote it, I used Claude for proofreading/editing as mentioned at the end. Anyway point is, real human here! I do still read the code _except_ when I am consciously vibe coding a non production thing where I will know emp
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by dps 1y ago
Author of the piece here :-). We are not building coding agents and focused on quite different stuff… I am just trying to share my personal experience as a software person!
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by dps 2y ago
Author of the post here… Cool to see this back on HN! I was trying to provide instructions that anyone could use regardless of platform, hence the choice of web tools (both those linked process the data locally). If you know of a base32 dec
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by dps 3y ago
admin/admin worked for me
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by dps 3y ago
>This year’s Advent of Code has been brutal (compare the stats of 2023 with that of 2022, especially day 1 part 1 vs. day 1 part 2). I enjoyed completing AoC this year. While it was very clear that day 1 (esp. part 2) was significantly h
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by dps 4y ago
I've been making wine at home in California for the past few years. Finding grapes on Craigslist/via friends, picking them myself and fermenting/storing/bottling wine in my basement. It's great fun, and tastes prett
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by dps 5y ago
I added an 'almost' caveat to the text - thanks for the note.
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by dps 5y ago
Hi folks, article author here. I just wanted to stop by to say I'm delighted so many folks enjoyed the piece. I really did have a lot of fun :-)
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by dps 7y ago
(Stripe CTO here) That's a reasonable question. We wrote this RCA to help our users understand what had happened and to help inform their own response efforts. Because a large absolute number of requests with stateful consequences (inc
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by dps 7y ago
(Stripe CTO here) Thanks for the questions. We have testing procedures and deploy mechanisms that enable us to ship hundreds of deploys a week safely, including many which touch our infrastructure. For example, we do a fleetwide version rol
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by dps 7y ago
I'm Stripe's CTO and wrote a good deal of the RCA (with the help of others, including a lot of the engineers who responded to the incident). If you've any specific feedback on how to make this more useful, I'd love to he
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by dps 8y ago
(stripe head of engineering here) I hosted the open house in Dublin, thanks for coming and sorry to hear about your experience; even if it doesn't end up being a fit, we always want candidates to feel respected rather than demoralized.
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by dps 8y ago
Does the combination of hypothermic state and medically induced coma (“hibernation”) have a prolonging impact on life expectancy? The lower metabolic rate would intuitively suggest that’s a possibility. It’s interesting to think about how t
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Sega VMU hacks (&C-M23 emulator)(dmitry.gr)
13 points by dps 9y ago|0 comments
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by dps 10y ago
If you already use pocket, then Pocket 2 Kindle https://p2k.co/manage/home is a good service to send stuff from your reading list, nicely formatted to your Kindle. I wrote something similar (taking lists of URLs) a co
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by dps 11y ago
I've made a preview PDF available at singleton.io/alpha/Journal.pdf also.
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A paper based journal for hackers(github.com)
15 points by dps 11y ago|1 comments
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I, pencil(youtube.com)
2 points by dps 11y ago|0 comments
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Building for Android Wear: Depth and Flexibility(android-developers.blogspot.com)
1 points by dps 12y ago|0 comments
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by dps 12y ago
The broadcast currently contains 758 articles, of which 676 are Wikipedia pages. The remainder are: - 15 gutenberg texts (e.g. Moby Dick, Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm, ...) - 10 open access Harvard papers - 54 dw.de news art
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by dps 12y ago
Posting to see what HN make of this. A friend backed the Lantern Indiegogo campaign yesterday [ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lantern-one-device-free-d... ] which sounded exciting and useful. I love the idea here
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Outernet – a curated subset of the web broadcast from space(outernet.is)
2 points by dps 12y ago|3 comments
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by dps 12y ago
Isn't this what Accept: image/webp is for?
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by dps 12y ago
Could pick a slightly more inspiring example chat for the landing page!
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by dps 12y ago
I have a r/g color blind friend who has a pair of these. He said: "They are amazingly totally worth the money and work very well. I have video of myself realizing that Starbucks is green and not brown for the first time. Mindfuck
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by dps 12y ago
Nicely executed. The choice of giving one [configurable] app for free and all apps for $5 is also an interesting business model.
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Things Successful People Do Every Day(medium.com)
7 points by dps 13y ago|0 comments
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by dps 13y ago
Also interesting to read about the work ConEd did to move its final customers off DC in NYC http://www.coned.com/newsroom/news/pr20071115.asp >In January 1998, Consolidated Edison began a program to eliminate D
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by dps 13y ago
commentator said that the flight computer canceled launch because the readings from the 9 merlin engines were "not nominal"

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