pcollins123

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by pcollins123 2mo ago
I once interviewed for a senior product position at Google by a VP across many of their Web Products (including the Blink engine). He asked me "So, how would you make the Internet better at Google?". My response, "Setup prefe
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by pcollins123 2mo ago
Being a bad manager. That’s a very personal attack.
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Grok 4.5 and GPT5.6 beat Anthropic for finding security vulnerabilities in PRs(docs.damsecure.ai)
11 points by pcollins123 2mo ago|1 comments
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by pcollins123 2mo ago
4 days ago Grok 4.5 and GPT5.6 were released. In our study, they beat all Anthropic models for finding vulnerabilities in Pull Requests. We ran 10 models over the same 10 pull requests, each carrying one planted access-control bug (IDOR, mi
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by pcollins123 1y ago
100% agree! I built Paisley (because it is the opposite of plaid), to host your personal finances locally and is 100% open source. Paisley pulls data from your financial institutions by scraping balances and importing CSV exports, storing e
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by pcollins123 1y ago
You could summarize that data using some form of machine learning. A good new skill to develop. Then you don’t need to share the exact details, just a count per category. E.g. personal incident (32), late take off duty to X (23), passenger
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by pcollins123 2y ago
Am I the only one who found this article a rambling mess? The first page makes a point, then it diverts off into a ridiculous rant.
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ESPHome Fan Controller(github.com)
4 points by pcollins123 2y ago|1 comments
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by pcollins123 2y ago
This project describes how to build a quiet $20 PID-controlled thermostat controlled fan for cooling your media console or gaming cupboard. The software is ESPHome and Home Assistant. The hardware is an ESP32 with a regular 12v 120mm Comput
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by pcollins123 2y ago
Just bloody shootin for bronze… lookin for a Steven Bradbury.
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by pcollins123 2y ago
With a $10 18650 rechargeable battery you could probably get a couple months on a single charge. Esphome can deep sleep between readouts: https://esphome.io/components/deep_sleep.html Deep sleep pulls the power draw do
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by pcollins123 3y ago
Seems like it worked for them.
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by pcollins123 7y ago
Thanks Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox!
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by pcollins123 7y ago
Check your video card chipset and call support :P
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React Storefront(github.com)
2 points by pcollins123 8y ago|0 comments
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by pcollins123 8y ago
Except when they're actively expounding upon and peddling bad news to ensure the stock price drops at the right time. That is what Musk is most frustrated by. In my mind, all negative news about Tesla is now called into doubt as being
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by pcollins123 9y ago
> Even that was close, and the Republican candidate was _accused of molesting children_. There, fixed that for you. Look, I'm very progressive, but we need to firmly stand behind "innocent until proven guilty" especially w
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by pcollins123 9y ago
For every service there are very relevant factors about what makes the product good or bad. If you don't separate these 2 or 3 factors, then over time everything becomes a score of 3.6. In the case of Amazon, the relevant options are:
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by pcollins123 9y ago
Google is releasing 20M bacteria-infected mosquitoes in Fresno... wearing small cameras and a projector that can display text advertisements
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by pcollins123 9y ago
I'm not sure they will ever implement it actually. Nginx does not support HTTP/2 server push as of March 2017 (v1.11). Owen Garrett at nginx has summarized the reasons as follows: - it is a non-essential and optional part of http&
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by pcollins123 9y ago
This is really interesting thanks. Doesn't this lead to the most highly used static assets being pushed for every subsequent request? Isn't that wasteful? I use varnish cache extensively and am considering writing a probabilistic
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by pcollins123 10y ago
Best ways to get into hobby game dev these days is PixiJS for HTML and Swift or Cocos2D for phone dev. Unity for 3D, but it is pretty hardcore. Get a good "learning 2d game programming book". I learned SpriteKit and Swift for fun
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by pcollins123 10y ago
Fire Particle Simulator with JS and WebGL https://ethanhjennings.github.io/webgl-fire-particles/