powvans

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by powvans 12d ago
Same. My first real job out of college was at IBM 2004 to 2005. I was so proud to be an IBMer. Hated it. Lots of good people, but the bureaucracy, the pace, the whole thing, not fun.
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BROCS: The framework for enterprise AI enablement(brocs.fyi)
4 points by powvans 17d ago|1 comments
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by powvans 28d ago
AI products are going to have to deal with accounting. An agent performs some work. It uses some models and perhaps some other metered services. Someone has to meter that activity. They have to attribute costs, apply the product's pric
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by powvans 1mo ago
Ha, no I just tried to think of an example and an accountant wearing a visor turned AI came to mind. Pardon my hallucinations. It happens to meat sacks too. Of course, of course, it turns out that name is already taken. Though not anything
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by powvans 1mo ago
Claude, build Kardashev Type III power harnessing. Make no mistakes.
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by powvans 1mo ago
Everyone seems to be asking why this a great strategic fit for Stripe. Stripe can now provide tools to every product that sells metered AI usage and take a cut. This isn't about extracting a small percent on the tokens flowing from you
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by powvans 1mo ago
If your safety/shelter tier is at risk, the last thing you need to see is the LinkedIn feed.
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by powvans 2mo ago
The submission is cool because it opens the comments even if you just happen upon some article that also happens to have a HN discussion. That said, when I read the headline I thought the same thing, “uh, right click, open in split view?” W
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by powvans 4mo ago
Even if you can get it approved you are adding surface area to your annual security audits, adding another vendor that needs to be disclosed on security assessments, spreading your data to yet another processor, and adding another invoice a
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by powvans 4mo ago
For what it's worth I genuinely loved your landing page. I casually clicked through and got an immediate unexpected chuckle at the giant animated crab. It's obviously AI assisted but I interpreted it as a nod to itself on that and
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by powvans 4mo ago
Feels like lately most of the time is spent arguing about or at least worrying about whether or not AI is going to replace all software developers.
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by powvans 5mo ago
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. There's also nothing stopping us from stigmatizing the use of smartphones in public. Even a slight discouragement of it would be progress. It doesn't have to be all or nothing.
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by powvans 5mo ago
I know someone[0] who is working on exactly this right now: https://fossilrepo.io/ I don't think he's got public sign ups turned on yet. Maybe hit him up on the Twitter for more info. [0] - https://x.co
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by powvans 5mo ago
Quietly has not so quietly become an AI slop calling card.
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by powvans 5mo ago
Teams is insane. You want a new entry in a bulleted list? Hit the enter key. If you dare. I had managed to be on Slack exclusively for at least 10 years. Recent acquisition has me using Teams and it's hilarious to see for the first tim
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by powvans 5mo ago
Nitpicky, but he’s rounding the edges, not the corners. And yes, why are they so sharp? I seem to recall my wife having the plastic MacBook that came out circa 2006 and the edges on that thing were legitimately painful. I always marvel at h
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by powvans 5mo ago
I spend well over that of my employers money on pentesting every year. I’m absolutely certain Claude could perform as good or better a job using what’s available today. It had crossed my mind that an AI agent pentester would be an interesti
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by powvans 6mo ago
Yeah, flying my family of 5 to Hawaii using skymiles accrued on my Amex. Totally a scam. They’re basically interchangeable with cash. I don’t get the issue. The main frustration I have is that I cant buy myself a ticket with cash and then p
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by powvans 6mo ago
Quietly adopting the em dash is the move that humans who know, make.
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by powvans 9mo ago
I find walking can be a similar experience. It really crystalized for me this summer while walking the Camino de Santiago because of the effect of exploring another country. When you walk, you see everything. The world is huge. Everything i
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by powvans 9mo ago
100% Though I will say, HN is a pretty great source of information about major outages like the recent AWS and Cloudflare issues. I had a moment this morning where I thought, oh, is there a larger issue and then, oh, HN is down, huh, the ne
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by powvans 10mo ago
I need a portable mini 5G cell tower in a backpack form factor so that I can have 5G service indoors no matter where I am.
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by powvans 11mo ago
Yes. I once interviewed a developer who’s previous job was maintaining the .NET application that used an Excel sheet as the brain for decisions about where to drill for oil on the sea floor. No one understood what was in the Excel sheet. It
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by powvans 1y ago
You can buy a sheet of LED blocking stickers on Amazon for a few bucks. I keep some in my suitcase and leave every hotel room a little better than I found it.
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by powvans 1y ago
You aren’t wrong. Up until a couple of weeks ago it was $299. Once. Forever. That was the whole idea. Very cool that they open sourced it. MIT license too. https://x.com/dhh/status/1963675999012552970 https:&#x2F
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by powvans 1y ago
This is really amazing to see trending on HN. I spent a couple days in Pontevedra this summer while walking the Camino de Santiago. It was absolutely delightful and what I experienced aligns with the article. The old town was filled with wi
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by powvans 1y ago
Nice, I’ll have to put my (employer’s) money where my mouth is and try it out tomorrow. Thanks!
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by powvans 1y ago
If this integrated with AWS for billing, usage, and IAM purposes it would be a no brainer to have my team trying this out today.
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by powvans 1y ago
Well, it works. Unfortunately it doesn’t remove sponsored content in the videos. I’m paying for an ad free experience, but I’m still hearing about AC1. Annoying.
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by powvans 1y ago
This is amazing! I am vacationing in Spain and rented, I think, the same model as you. A BMW X2 M something or other. Absolutely rock bottom by far the worst driving experience ever. Ultimate driving experience indeed. Insane and subtle ann

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