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by prescriptivist 11mo ago
It's a sneaky supply chain threat for docker images. I'm not sure standard container registry tools actively scan for this. Of course you shouldn't be running random untrusted docker images that you find on the internet but i
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by prescriptivist 11mo ago
> It isn't? What is stopping companies from building on GPT-OSS or other local models for cheaper? The AI services have no moat. Right now there is an efficiency/hardware moat. That's why the Stargate in Abilene and corres
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by prescriptivist 11mo ago
OpenAI's (and other superscalers) revenue isn't really up for debate, nor is the long term value of their mission/product. The issue (somewhat articulated in this article) is that the superscalers (both public and private) ha
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by prescriptivist 11mo ago
This is such a strange take. Ruby Central, for better or worse, is the steward of Rubygems/Bundler. If Mike Perham wants to withdraw his funding because he thinks DHH is a white supremacist, then that's fine. But DHH didn't d
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by prescriptivist 1y ago
I was listening to a podcast the other day and one of the commercials I think was from Facebook (IIRC, it could have been Google...). It was directed toward students, so I'm pretty sure it was an organic ad, but there were several aspe
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by prescriptivist 1y ago
Are you saying that a company like Colossal has nothing to offer to the field of genetic biocontrol or are you saying there is nothing of interest in the field?
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by prescriptivist 1y ago
> Realizing this, these types will give up on re-introducing the original organism and instead create a bioengineered version that can survive in the changed world. I fear this path will not end well for us. Developing and injecting gene
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by prescriptivist 1y ago
Like the average observer who says the current conditions are really just the old conditions born anew, you are conveniently ignoring rate of change and its destabilizing effects.
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by prescriptivist 1y ago
Exactly, if you are doing copilot driven dev, then you are in a feedback loop with the agent and it's easier to have multiplexed ongoing "conversations" with the agent across discrete checkouts of the same codebase than it is
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by prescriptivist 1y ago
Guess what: This has all changed with LLMs. The impact of the average developer is proportional to the amount of code they ship in a world of copilots (key word is "ship", not write) and that's why some of the staff enginee
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by prescriptivist 2y ago
As an aside, I believe Nikola was at one time one of the more significant commercial users of the Crystal programming language. I wonder if they were/still major contributors to that ecosystem.
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by prescriptivist 2y ago
> Yet the coast of Maine is mostly parceled off to old money. I live half a mile from the Maine coast and when I look around I don’t see any old money in my neighborhood. If you are talking about literally a house overlooking the ocean,
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by prescriptivist 2y ago
In Maine I believe postings need to be no more than 100ft apart but a painted purple stripe will suffice, not sure if that rule is in VT. Maine is changing and every year more land is posted but in the inland areas people still look down on
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
I'm glad no one heeded this for techno-viking.
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
Dudes on a cycle with big red swollen faces and gynecomastia aren't going to run 8 minute miles. HGH maybe but that's a different class of PED for different reasons.
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
Watching this video is a reminder that if we could just enforce a minimum level of cardiovascular health via something like a three mile run time limitation or something like that the police force would naturally weed out people with poor i
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
Packrafting as it exists now was basically developed in Alaska for this very scenario (downriver floats that you might have to hike in or take a bush plane in to start). High quality packrafts are battle tested and there is a lot of great c
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
Do you actually care about what happens on this website or is this just a good chance for you to emerge randomly and make some arch point about how stupid everyone is for falling for this garbage?
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
Also to clarify Mainers have to reserve and pay for camping spots in Baxter, it just costs less for us. Day use is free. It's a very popular and beautiful place. In my opinion Baxter is the crown jewel of Maine and I'm happy for a
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
ahepp is correct, there is Baxter State Park which -- is actually not quite a state park and is instead administered as a quasi-independent concern that adheres to the goals of the original land grant to the state, which is to provide an ac
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
I'm glad it works for you but man I am peeved that they instituted it in the katahdin woods and waters national monument area of the east branch of the penobscot in maine. People have been just heading down that waterway on trips since
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
My experience with recreation.gov reservations has been as soon as registration is available for the coming season people will reserve every weekend speculatively and just eat the reservation or cancellation cost if they decide not to go. I
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
> AMA. Were you aware of YC before attending Lambda (ie, did the association lend credibility to Lambda) or did you find YC after attending?
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
Agreed. And if you have a rigid tests-are-necessary-to-merge regime you end up finding that the simplest way to write quality tests are simple approaches to implementations.
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
> Actually doing so breaks the covenant of Data, but an enforced prohibition breaks the language. Fortunately in my almost 20 years of ruby, dark magic does not survive a reasonable amount of sunlight. Most of the time someone (including
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
If you want to use something like this right now (with a threadsafe bonus) concurrent-ruby has some useful specialized structs that offer similar behavior: * ImmutableStruct: Immutable struct where values are set at construction and cannot
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
Yeah. I mean there are large swaths of New England where there isn't any cell service at all, let alone multi-carrier coverage. And these aren't just logging roads or whatever, they are paved roads that people commute and travel o
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
> The SOS button is very expensive. Extremely expensive. With my inReach I pay for the insurance plan [1]. I do wilderness float/canoe/kayak trips and I have it for peace of mind in case I or somebody I'm with (or encounte
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
Yep. In New England [1] roughly 2,000,000 households heat via "heating oil" or kerosene (which is more expensive). There are slightly more folks that heat with natural gas, but this is a rural vs suburban divide and New England is
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
It's more than transportation. "Heating oil" is basically diesel and is affected by these prices. Winter is about to hit the Northeast and many people still heat with it. To fill up my tank today would be around $1200 and I w

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