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by vasusen 1mo ago
Yes, few years ago I was really surprised to learn that much of highly fertile amazon soil patches were created by humans using biochar. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta
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by vasusen 2mo ago
It was for use by our paid customers in CI/CD. We did not want large companies to use it as is without a contract from us.
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Freedom from NPM. Happy 4th(npmjs.com)
3 points by vasusen 2mo ago|4 comments
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by vasusen 2mo ago
We moved our SDK off public npm onto a private registry we host. Our customers mainly use Donobu's SDK to run their end-to-end tests in CI/CD, with AI self-healing and triage. It was unlicensed but on public npm on purpose, so `np
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Cancer might protect against Alzheimer's – this protein helps explain why(nature.com)
4 points by vasusen 8mo ago|1 comments
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by vasusen 8mo ago
Under non-urgent cases this sometimes takes 3-4 months in the US every time I experience the need to "ask an MD"
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by vasusen 10mo ago
I am really excited for this. Once going home with my family via Uber in SFO we realized on the freeway that our driver was high and driving at 80-85 mph. It was a really scary experience and I couldn’t do much about it in the moment.
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by vasusen 11mo ago
They need to make it eligible for Class Action lawsuits to be filed if these are ignored. I wrote a script to routinely test opt out on websites and was stunned to see almost 50% had it implemented incorrectly. This includes high-flying tec
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by vasusen 1y ago
Like many things where what constitutes base data changes and hence graphs change pretty radically, this can be cleanly explained by diagnostic drift. Here's a detailed breakdown: https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/how-to-
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by vasusen 1y ago
Highly recommend this Coursera course from University of Michigan, "Influencing People": https://www.coursera.org/learn/influencing-people
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by vasusen 1y ago
Super cool! I wonder if it would bother pets
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by vasusen 1y ago
The reason isn't technical. This isn't implemented because the entire card-processing ecosystem is hooked on the chargeback fees (min $15 to $100). It starts becoming a lucrative revenue stream for Visa/Mastercard/Stripe
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by vasusen 1y ago
It is quite popular in testing circles to write e2e tests that are easier to maintain. However, in practice I have found it to be quite useless due to the time it takes to write good page objects. QA teams usually rely on a complete POM bef
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by vasusen 1y ago
I used to be in-charge of homepage getting over 1.5M views a day. I would really be curious how this converts. I am assuming Posthog has a lot of metrics. If I were to bet, while this is fun, it will be a disaster for conversions once the l
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by vasusen 1y ago
Yes an electron app helps tremendously, especially for managing lifecycle of tabs independently. We use that for creating our AI browser automations at Donobu ( https://donobu.com ). However, we do have the luxury of just focusing
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by vasusen 1y ago
2011 were definitely not the dark ages!! I used to use Selenium for everything back in the day. I was able to scrape all of Wikipedia in 2011 entirely on my laptop and pipe it to Stanford NLTK to create a very cool adjective recommender for
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by vasusen 1y ago
Chewing plant twigs to clean teeth is an ancient way of tooth cleaning in many cultures[1]. I wonder if the Lignin or Suberin in plants acts the same was as Keratin in this study. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeth-
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by vasusen 1y ago
I love this website. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. Some AI tools can be genuinely helpful. I ran a browser automation QA bot that I am building on this website and it found the following link is broken: "Every Layout - loa
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by vasusen 1y ago
My wife decided to not travel to Japan due to an impending warning from a manga for July 2025. I have been making fun of her all month only to get this tsunami warning now! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2025_Japan_
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by vasusen 1y ago
I grew up in India and now live in the US. My mom recently got some ground turmeric from our own farm when she visited us. I am was stunned by how much more duller, brownish-yellow it was compared to the turmeric I buy in Indian stores in t
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by vasusen 1y ago
I think the Playwright MCP is a really good example of the overall problem that the author brings up. However, I couldn’t really understand if he’s saying that the Playwright MCP is good to use for your own app or whether he means for your
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by vasusen 1y ago
I am not from the deaf community, but my son has severe hearing loss. I really look forward to a world where condition like his simply becomes fixable like bad teeth and he doesn't have to miss out on so many things.
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by vasusen 1y ago
thank you, I appreciate that!
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by vasusen 1y ago
I love the idea of a trainable robot arm as a learning device at that price point. However, seeing the chess demo instantly makes me think of that horrible tragedy with the robotic arm breaking a kid's finger. How strong is this to be
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by vasusen 1y ago
I do this too by pasting only the relevant context files into O3 or Claude 4. We have an internal tool that just lets us select folders/files and spit out one giant markdown.
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by vasusen 1y ago
Grok's unhinged mode is the closest I have seen a bot that leverages profanity. I find it quite entertaining to use occasionally like watching a South Park episode.
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by vasusen 1y ago
Thank you so much for creating this folks! A browser navigation agent is key part of our AI QA setup at Donobu ( https://donobu.com/ ). We found the WebVoyager benchmarks severely lacking for complex e2e test cases like logge
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by vasusen 1y ago
Thanks for building it! It can really help help my 10 yo who is just learning coding. How does it handle potentially infinite loops like below? Currently I get a parsing error after it takes a while. ```python while exit != "yes&qu
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by vasusen 1y ago
(disclosure: I am no longer at Coursera) When Duolingo added that viral post on Growth hacking, it caused quite a stir about the push-notifications and gamification tactics they use. Ultimately, we decided it wasn't worth it for Course
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by vasusen 1y ago
What worries me most about MCP isn't that the protocol is so poorly created, but that fixing/improving it is only at the mercy of internal teams at Anthropic and OpenAI. It doesn't seem like the folks who are coming up with t

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