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Tinkeringz··on How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?
I feel your estimate of tokens is a few orders of magnitude off, it’s on the low side.

I use more (albeit cached) when centering a div.

Tinkeringz··on UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial intelligence
What corruption is there in the civil service?
Tinkeringz··on Phoenix LiveView 1.2
What caching is provided out of the box for Phoenix framework?
Tinkeringz··on Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen
Isn’t it illegal to pay a corporate entities tax with a personal card?

If it isnt it would be one hell if a headache with reimbursement and the accounting and reporting around it.

Tinkeringz··on MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security
Counter to that I’ve seen a £37m contract for a form on gov uk with absolutely no change in process, just going from a letter received to a online form
Tinkeringz··on European Tech Alternatives
They’re 5th off bottom on livebench

https://livebench.ai/

Tinkeringz··on Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations
Also experienced this
Tinkeringz··on GPT-4.1 in the API
Aren’t all of these reasoning models?

Won’t the reasoning models of openAI benchmarked against these be a test of if Sam is losing?

Tinkeringz··on GPT-4.1 in the API
They just realised a new image generation a couple of weeks ago, why are you eager for another one so soon?
Tinkeringz··on Launch HN: Pinch (YC W25) – Video conferencing with immersive translation
Slack, zoom, Apple etc were really successful without that mattering at all
Tinkeringz··on OBS – Open Broadcaster Software
If an other party on the call states they are recording afaik you can record without the disclaimer.
Tinkeringz··on Google Cloud: Major packet loss between multiple regions – Europe and Asia
Maybe a shared undersea cable or landing point issue since it’s multiple
Tinkeringz··on Poll: Self Hosting Git Repositories
While I have not used it, softserve looks like a cool terminal/SSH based remote git server.

https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve

Tinkeringz··on Ask HN: Is Heroku Being Sunset?
2 that I know of:

https://render.com/

https://platform.sh/

Tinkeringz··on So You Wanna Be a Chef (2010)
This goes against Bourdain's experience per his book Kitchen Confidential.

Most new businesses fail, especially in the restaurant industry, where the equity will be worth 0 (maybe even less).

There will always be a constant stream of new restaurants needing a chef and will pay (cash) for their services.

Change restaurants for startups and chefs for programmers.