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clusterfookon ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation

<<Insert Rage>>

But for interesting HN discussion... anyone got any juice on why this is happening. Is there orders going down the chain of command from the president to do this sort of thing. Was this behaviour always there but less reported before? Are they more emboldened by the current environment?

clusterfookon Ask HN: I am at a loss. What shall I do?

It is pretty decent strategy. Wait for a once a century global pandemic, then buy like crazy at the bottom!

clusterfookon A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn

Abbreviations :-) being defined or not depends on the audience, so it is not a law that you need to define them. PMF (product-market fit) and GTM (go to market) I would define though.

clusterfookon Hasochism: The pleasure and pain of dependently typed Haskell programming [pdf] (2013)

I am not sure, but as a Typescripter, I think I'd find refinement types easier - https://github.com/ucsd-progsys/liquidhaskell

I am not sure if they serve the same purpose or how the venn diagrams overlap on this, but in 2000 I loved the idea of the assersion in Ada, and I love even more the idea the type system can prove your number is between 1 and 10 (etc.).

I reckon it occasionally will catch a bug, but more than that is perfect documentation. I don't want delay to be an int, I want it to be a RateLimitBackoffDelaySeconds which is between >0 and <60, for example.

clusterfookon Hasochism: The pleasure and pain of dependently typed Haskell programming [pdf] (2013)

You can use fun language for any discpline. Even stamp collecting.

clusterfookon The "S" in MCP Stands for Security

The "S" in LLM stands for security

https://simonwillison.net/search/?q=llm+security

MCP is just another way to use LLMs more in more dangerous ways. If I get forced to use this stuff, I'm going to learn how to castrate some bulls, and jump on a train to the countryside.

This stuff in not securable.

clusterfookon Show HN: Cloud-Ready Postgres MCP Server

You will need 2. BUT, and here is the rub. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

I am hoping Jevon will keep employing me. He has been a great boss for the last 25 years TBH.

clusterfookon Convert Linux to Windows

Not too suprising though. It is zipped xml. Future versions may add to the xml optional nodes that can be ignored by previous versions.

clusterfookon Show HN: Cloud-Ready Postgres MCP Server

Yep gonna be easy

Q: show me the top 5 customers by total sales

A: System.Data.Odbc.OdbcException (0x80131937): ERROR [57014] ERROR: canceling statement due to statement timeout;

Q: Why do I get this error

A: Looks like it needs an index, let me create that for you. Done. Rerunnign query.

could not close temporary statistics file "pg_stat_tmp/global.tmp": No space left on device

Q: Why this error

A: 429 Too Many Requests

Rub hands... great next 10 years to be a backend dev.

clusterfookon How much traffic can a pre-rendered Next.js site handle?

No mention of https://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html#cluster? Not sure if NextJS supports it even, but if you are only using one core of your webserver for node, you are leaving stuff on the table.