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by mbreese 3d ago
I’m saying that when you get to have games involving kids older than 10, that having teenage refs is more uncommon. In my area, there are a number of leagues. Only one has a large number of teenagers in the ref pool and they only are center
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by mbreese 3d ago
In the US, only the youngest games have teenage refs (U10 and younger). And even then, it is only common in the lower competitive tiers. Competitive travel/select league games generally have adult refs (national and regional leagues).
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by mbreese 3d ago
This is a common misconception. The referee has no control over who is in the stands - they are “outside agents”. Many people think that the referee can eject a spectator, but they can’t. The referee only has authority over the players and
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by mbreese 5d ago
This current project is effectively a cache database for an earlier tool. The earlier project is where the main impact is - predicting the functional effect of a variant in the human genome. For this updated project, they effectively ran th
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by mbreese 7d ago
Admittedly, software that's influenced by the iPad and iPhone, so there is new software, but it's not that new. Multitasking in iOS has been a thing for a while (iPad). I'm not trying to discount the efforts involved here, ju
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by mbreese 7d ago
High quality camera lenses take space. That alone starts to dictate the size of the phone. Add in the desire for all day battery life, and we start talking more volume. And the fastest chips take more power, so again more battery. The best
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by mbreese 8d ago
That’s my reading. (That this is a cached database of Alpha values)
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by mbreese 11d ago
This is usually my main concern with tooling like this that isn’t a first party project. Anthropic can tune Opus, Fable, etc and their harness to use their memory format or preferred method of tool calling. I have had mixed results getting
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by mbreese 12d ago
Doubtful. It will reduce some user count, but most people won’t care. And they probably spend more supporting the feature than they gain from the Gmail users that actually use the feature.
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by mbreese 12d ago
Is it worth setting up AI agent specific wikis or messaging boards as part of the provisioning? If you’re going to let loose a bunch of AI agents on a problem and they are going to figure out a way to coordinate, maybe it would be better to
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by mbreese 12d ago
That’s partly why they are giants. Let the startups take the arrows necessary to figure out or create the market. Then they can buy or build the gen 2 system that meets the needs of the market.
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by mbreese 16d ago
Those companies also have data sharing/use agreements that they can get from Cloud AI providers due to their size and spend. The secrecy and data protection is largely what they are paying for. Those types of agreements just aren’t ava
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by mbreese 22d ago
I ended up finding my own answer (after reading the above). https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/26/git-in-postgres.html Following another recent theme, the answer for Forgejo seems to be - just use Postgres.
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by mbreese 22d ago
I’ve been hit with limits at 4am Eastern time when I’d expect for not a lot to be going on. I always thought the quotas would be used best for shaping demand curves, but as you said — there are no off-peak hours anymore.
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by mbreese 23d ago
That’s an interesting question - it’s one thing to run an instance of forgejo for a limited user base and another to run at mass public scale. How does someplace like a GitHub/Gitlab go it? Are user accounts or repos sharded across dif
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by mbreese 28d ago
Except that tokens aren’t completely fungible yet. But, I think we’re approaching the point where it is close enough to be a “proof of work” analog.
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by mbreese 29d ago
I’m going to guess that a good chunk of products are named but never released. I’d love to know what products IKEA develops but decides to not release.
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by mbreese 29d ago
Congrats on the launch. I can’t wait to try it. But, I don’t think this is your strongest argument. The APIs for those providers are pretty easy to orchestrate and don’t take that many tokens to use. (Especially if you are hosting on top of
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by mbreese 29d ago
I have the same thing on different shells on the same server (tmux). It's wild. I'm guessing that some of the sessions just got lucky as to which backend server they are redirected to.
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by mbreese 1mo ago
The reason why GitHub is sticky was exactly this. It’s easy to fork, make a change, and submit a PR to another project. It’s the same interface for your code vs another person’s. It’s a simple, consistent interface to submit an issue. You c
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by mbreese 1mo ago
Is watermarking really watermarking if it can’t be independently verified? I mean, all of these text content watermarking schemes require the company to assess if the text was AI generated or not. They aren’t going to tell us where the tos
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by mbreese 1mo ago
From what I’ve read, they won’t be imposing specific choices, but using a different (biased) RNG for those “toss-up” choices. With enough sampling, you could detect if the RNG was biased or not.
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by mbreese 1mo ago
I’d argue this is not the right question. Obviously people use Postgres without PgBouncer. If you include non-production in the mix (CI/CD), most connections probably avoid it. But because PgBouncer is so common, the question should pr
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by mbreese 1mo ago
That is the most counter-intuitive thing for me while flying. Why make me pay to check my bag? Make people pay to carry on a bag. Most of the time boarding and leaving a plane is taken up with people dealing with overhead bags. Checking a b
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by mbreese 1mo ago
Go is really amenable to being used to write code by LLMs. New code takes time to pick up, but the LLM is a quick study. In my opinion, it has little to do with the speed of the language. The large quantity of source code to train on is qui
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by mbreese 1mo ago
You may think this. I may think this. But what really matters is if the lawyers for your customers think this. It may be pure FUD, but AGPL projects have a tough time getting adoption in companies because they would rather avoid the problem
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by mbreese 1mo ago
This is actually not a bad idea for funding open source software. It used to be that you’d have an author who coded a project and then could fix the occasional bug or two quickly. Now, we have larger projects where it is rare for one people
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Key Changes (to the MCP Specification)(modelcontextprotocol.io)
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by mbreese 2mo ago
I don't think this is for people that would just write code. Maybe you need that pressure release to get some edge cases, but for the most part, if you're using a visual programming tool, you are trying to avoid the code part for
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by mbreese 2mo ago
But isn't it more advantageous to have the gas -> electricity conversion in a plant from an emissions point of view? You still have losses in the system when moving natural gas around from the source to individual homes too (leaks).

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