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__float··on What About Rails?
Writing deployment manifests and CI pipelines is not really the core part of "SRE" to me: it's more related to how you run software in production, not the build/test process to get it there.

If you don't look at your code and need to debug a production issue, do you just panic chat with your agent to solve the problem?

__float··on What About Rails?
The only people I know still using Hey are doing so because there's no way to move your address elsewhere. It's a PITA to change your email everywhere (and some unfortunate place don't let you; e.g. email as the login and primary key)
__float··on VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)
It didn't occur to me when I first read the article, but I do see now the author called it "remote editing" as you did too.

It may be worth more attention though. VSCode is not really remote editing (thick client, thin server binary), it's setting up a development environment (compilers, LSPs, editor extensions, etc.) on a remote thing (VM, container) that you access with a thin VSCode shell.

If you want to quickly edit a config file on a remote machine, TRAMP seems great. VSCode Remote SSH is not meant for that.

__float··on TALA Is Open-Source
I thought "how bad could it be" and I was quite surprised :)

That's spectacularly obfuscated in comparison to the rest.

__float··on Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush
Don't worry, they wouldn't lose the chance to trademark something silly like CameraJet™
__float··on Reverse engineering my ADHD test
That's not really an "addiction" by any reasonable meaning besides "something I do often".

The actual meaning is more complex, involving inability to stop, negative effects on your life, etc. - none of which apply to wearing your glasses or breathing.

__float··on Running SQLite Apps on Docker and Kubernetes with Litestream
Do you have a particular issue with... the company that wrote this post, their choice of DB, decisions made in Litestream, SQLite, etc.?
__float··on Small Models Have Arrived
"with multiple 3090s" is quite a bit of burying the lede for "most local models work just fine", don't you think?
__float··on Incident with Github.com [resolved]
Architecturally, how are you storing Git data? If it isn't fundamentally different from bare-repo-on-disk with libgit2 or wrapping the git binary, you're not going to scale any better.
__float··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
They wanted capitalism, no? Here's the competition in the market.
__float··on Elixir-lang.org has a new design
How is this language related to Elixir? Or are you just commenting that another language has a website?
__float··on Grok Build is open source
Twitter (and others) had an algorithmic feed long before LLMs.

These don't actually seem like "good reasons" to me.

__float··on GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup
Ah, you meant differences in access to fuel, not differences in storing the waste.
__float··on GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup
What are the fuel constraints the French have that we don't?

Is it geographic (we have a lot more unused/undesirable than France, for example), regulatory, etc?

__float··on OpenPrinter
If it is not an open source license, you should not call it open source.

Imagine someone saying the same thing about MongoDB's license, for example.

__float··on Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System
I'm not sure how outlandish we're allowed to get here, but IMO we have a fundamental mismatch between application <> operating system <> CPU in terms of dependencies and trust.

Fixing this is beyond any one tool, of course :)

__float··on Costco is the anti-Amazon
Why do you need to visit Costco every week? This feels like the most inefficient combination of the city-style "shop small quantities often" and suburb-style "buy everything in bulk once a month".

> ...it may just be disguised political messaging article.

It doesn't seem to be particularly for or against the NYC proposal to me, so I don't understand why you are suggesting this.

__float··on The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs
I live near a very congested area and watch ambulances and fire trucks (which are also too big) get stuck in heavy traffic all the time.

Bikes do a lot of package and food delivery here, but fewer people commuting by car would make it easier for ambulances to get where they need to.

__float··on Show HN: Turn native language audio into flashcards and shadowing practice
I don't know what resolution or display you built this on, but a heads up the initial impression on my 4K monitor is that everything is incredibly tiny.
__float··on The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
Even a year from now you're still likely to need a custom firmware.

The custom firmware today is more than good enough, and the devices often sell for under $70.

__float··on The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
There will be an Android (11, unfortunately) reader, the S4. (This is already visible on xteink.cn and they've teased it in social media.)

There's also going to be an X4 Pro, which is an ESP32 reader too, and this seems to be an X4 with backlight and touch screen.

__float··on The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs
There are millions of people in American cities, and tons of people move from the less dense suburbs to these cities.

There are probably even more people who would move if they could, but our cities are expensive (because housing is expensive when you don't build it) and so they stick with the "default". Staying put, getting a car, and finding a way to make it work.

You can't conflate "this is what Americans want" and "this is largely the only choice most Americans get".

__float··on The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs
> Commuter rail has 1/200th the economic impact of interstate highways.

Ok, and what fraction of investment has it gotten?

We've underfunded rail/bike infrastructure for decades, of course money is going to flow on the cheapest route. Roads are cheap because we've subsidized the shit out of them.

__float··on TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP
If someone referred to the "previous decade" in 2004, would you have said the same thing?

As the calendar rolled from 1999 to 2000, we entered a new millennium, century, decade, year, day, ...

__float··on Iroh 1.0
I think everyone in this thread agrees on that part already.

The similarities are in an application lib to connect, and that tail net IPs correspond to device keys like in Iroh. The service using the Go library has its own Tailscale identity.

__float··on Your ePub Is fine
Hmm, Sumatra PDF perhaps?
__float··on GLM 5.2 Is Out
It's rather off-topic at this point, but I've never understood how HF can afford to be a CDN for such huge files. It seems like enterprise customers must be subsidizing a lot, but...at that point, is there not a cheaper alternative that doesn't subsidize every hobbyist and startup around?
__float··on The computer science degree isn’t dead
Do you not review the code that LLMs output?

It seems that now more than ever, testing is important. But LLMs love to cheat the tests and make them superficially pass. If you're never reading the code, how do you know changes are reasonable?

__float··on Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API
iOS generally lets you reject any permission an app asks for. This would certainly be "risky" enough that iOS would require explicit user permission, and you would be able to say no.

On top of that, the app is completely optional: if you aren't comfortable giving it those permissions, don't install it?

__float··on AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford
> you can actually learn a LOT by being given the answer, if you actually care to learn.

Even if you "actually care to learn", this is a huge mental shortcut and you're deceiving yourself if you think deep learning is happening from looking at the answer.

On top of that, the pressures to just finish the coursework and move on to your other homework due tomorrow seems pretty high. Your suggestion means we're no longer coddling/shielding students, but we also aren't actively helping them, are we?

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