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by physicles 15d ago
They really were separate. BuzzFeed News won a Pulitzer in 2021 (source: Wikipedia). It's unfortunate that they shared the same name.
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by physicles 26d ago
> There was a moment when it dawned on him "I don't want to be anything like these people!". Thanks for this great reminder that we can choose the kind of person we want to be.
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by physicles 1mo ago
Wow, I didn’t expect this kind of reply at all. What a labor of love. Can’t wait to try it out! What made you decide to emulate things at this level instead of using a more off the shelf hardware stack?
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by physicles 1mo ago
Amazing. This is nostalgia heroin for me. How far does the HAL go? Screen 12 and 13, and writing directly to VRAM? WAIT for vsync? Call absolute for mouse usage?
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by physicles 1mo ago
Ha, Chris McCandless is to vanlife what Alex Honnold is to rock climbing: technically the same activity but with a very different level of consequence for failure.
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by physicles 1mo ago
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. For the last month I’ve been living in a camper van, working and traveling, which I’m really lucky to be able to do by choice. It’s lonely to be sure, but I also feel mentally far more resilient t
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by physicles 2mo ago
Jellyfin does all these things too, and it’s free.
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by physicles 3mo ago
Congrats on the traction you’ve got with this project. We used Gin back in 2016 for a while. I honestly don’t understand those Go devs who claim that the standard library is sufficient for building a serious API — there’s still so much boil
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by physicles 3mo ago
I don’t know about the company’s ethics*, but the app is fine and it’s genuinely useful. For one thing, it has a map with the most popular running routes around you. And if you want to be part of an exercise community in the US or Europe (a
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by physicles 3mo ago
Have you tried https://github.com/simulot/immich-go for dealing with the some of the complexity of google takeout? Not sure how much it actually handles, and whether it can be used easily if you're not migrating t
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by physicles 4mo ago
It’s not about ease of use and freemium, it’s the strong network economies at play, just like credit cards or social networks. It’s impossible for a competing product to get traction if it’s merely a little better than GitHub.
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by physicles 4mo ago
This is the real issue. We’re currently migrating from GitLab+Jira to GitHub. I did most of the migration, including our CI/CD with a self-hosted runner, and it was… fine. The straw that broke the camel’s back was that Claude managed c
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by physicles 4mo ago
Nope, it was in the Midwest.
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by physicles 4mo ago
We did this on a train! Also StarCraft, also a coding competition, also felt like the coolest kids in the world.
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by physicles 4mo ago
I love that Naur paper! Also love this essay that extends it: https://hiringengineersbook.com/post/autonomy/ I literally maintain a conceptual-model.md that describes the “things” in our entire system, how they re
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by physicles 5mo ago
Were you concerned about the overhead of shelling out to journalctl?
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by physicles 5mo ago
As someone who’s an experienced coder but sorta new to LLMs, I’ve learned that my intuition about what is and isn’t machine-readable for an LLM isn’t well-tuned. Better to do the benchmarking so you can be sure you’re not fooling yourself a
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by physicles 5mo ago
From the perspective of the “physics” of code (for lack of a better term), this feels right. We all know that if you have a generated asset, you basically mark that asset as read-only or you’re entering a world of pain. As more and more cod
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by physicles 5mo ago
It’s almost as if we need to write some unit tests. For our profession.
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by physicles 5mo ago
Every now and then someone shares a small web link here (Kagi is one aggregator). It’s like survivors picking up the shards of civilization after the apocalypse. Of course such a project can remain viable and useful as long as it remains ni
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by physicles 5mo ago
I switched to Linux in 2018, and I hear you on the quirks. But now, an LLM can fix basically any quirk you hit. I’ve been surprised multiple times. I’m also on Pop OS, which feels more batteries-included than Ubuntu.
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by physicles 5mo ago
I’d guess that’s what GP was referring to. I’ll also be a day 1 preorder.
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by physicles 5mo ago
There are differences across vendors, but there’s a way to build with k8s where the benefit far outweighs the cost. We run a bunch of services in two very different cloud vendors (one of which used to be DIYed with kubeadm), and also on dev
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by physicles 5mo ago
That part was really surprising to me because for the kind of compute lake he’s talking about building, k8s seems like a pretty good fit for the layer that sits just above it. We run k8s with several VMs in a couple different cloud provider
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by physicles 5mo ago
Was just listening to the Lenny’s Podcast interview with Simon Willison, who mentioned another such incantation: red/green TDD. The model knows what this means and it just does it, with a nice bump in code quality apparently. I’m tryin
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by physicles 5mo ago
I have a Supernote and was looking at different models for handwriting recognition, and I agree that gemma4-26B is the best I’ve tried so far (better than a qwen3-vl-8B and GLM-OCR). Besides turning off thinking, does your setup have any sp
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by physicles 5mo ago
This is in fact what happened with SpaceX. Musk had the vision to make first stage reusability a thing with the Falcon 9, and Gwynne Shotwell is the operational genius behind the juggernaut that it is today. Hilarious quote from her Wikiped
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by physicles 5mo ago
The idea lingered for longer than that. China under Hu Jintao wasn’t exactly friendly to the west, but it was Xi who really set China on its present course to build a multi-polar world, make real noise about reunification with Taiwan, etc.
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by physicles 5mo ago
For sure. I feel I need all of my experience to discern the difference between “slightly different, and should be combined” and “slightly different, and you’ll regret it if you combine them.” One of my favorite things as a software engineer
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by physicles 5mo ago
I’m one of those that have thrown out Postel’s law entirely. Maybe the issue is that it never defines “strict”, “liberal”, and “accept”. But at least for public APIs, it never made sense to me. If I accidentally accept bad input and later w

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