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craigmcnamara

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craigmcnamara··on Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data
How unknown is a well known PBS affiliate?
craigmcnamara··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
My biggest complaint is it tries to insist a test failure is preexisting and checks out main to make sure, burning tokens and time the whole way. Shut the fuck up and fix it, robot!
craigmcnamara··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
This load bearing concern belt and braces.
craigmcnamara··on Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data
Why should they have to get a court order when the party in custody said they have the data? Unless they don't actually have the data and they're hiding behind the court.
craigmcnamara··on From Rust to Ruby
method(:name).source is your friend
craigmcnamara··on Optimizing Ruby Path Methods
Skill issue
craigmcnamara··on I built a programming language using Claude Code
Now anyone can be a Larry Wall, and I'm not sure that's a good thing.
craigmcnamara··on Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer
I was immediately bothered by the picture because of these facts.
craigmcnamara··on Have Lots of AWS Accounts
Root account for billing and AWS Identity Center. Dev account for all the crap and lax permissions so people can try stuff. Production account with only production and extremely strict permissions where changes can only be made with terraform or a god mode account.
craigmcnamara··on Rectal oxygen delivery might soon be a real medical treatment
This is like the intro to the Squdbillies episode where Dan Halen makes the octowing chicken, but instead of that is ass lungs.

Welcome to the future, we have ass lungs now.

craigmcnamara··on Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
Hard agree. I've worked both kinds of places, I'm never working in an MS environment again for less than 7 figures.
craigmcnamara··on Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
One of us! One of us! One of us!
craigmcnamara··on Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover
If that's your opinion I have to assume you only know PHP.
craigmcnamara··on Grok 4 Heavy ($300/mo) returns its surname and no other text: "Hitler"
Some chuds trained an LLM and gave it a system prompt to also be a chud.
craigmcnamara··on New Zealand's $16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet
Just bad enough
craigmcnamara··on Upside Down Air Force
I used to work at AFRL as an intern and a contractor, there were pictures of these platforms in a bunch of the buildings. I also played in a golf league in Newport NY. You could see the platform from a few of the holes.
craigmcnamara··on More Solar and Battery Storage Added to TX Grid Than Other Power Src Last Year
With an appropriate property tax regime you could cut income taxes.
craigmcnamara··on Implementing a Game Boy emulator in Ruby
Very cool. Love to see Ruby outside of a web development context.
craigmcnamara··on DOGE staffer resigns over racist posts
Always has been. Trying to right that wrong gets the most violent pushback every single time.
craigmcnamara··on DOGE staffer resigns over racist posts
DOGE is just a dipshit rebrand of the US Digital Service, which was created under the Obama administration, and did bring real improvements and efficiency to the Federal Government. They're behind the IRS free to file program that I heard was just killed off. They also did login.gov. There is a huge number of lower profile improvements across the government that they're responsible for.

DOGE is a farce and I hate that I have to type the name of a joke from 2009 because Elon is a child and Trump is a crook.

craigmcnamara··on Science of Microwave Ovens (2016)
Put a whole uncooked egg in the microwave for a few minutes and call me in the morning.
craigmcnamara··on Ruby “Thread Contention” Is Simply GVL Queuing
It's only magic if you don't understand how it works.
craigmcnamara··on Enhancing your MIDI devices with Perl
This looks like a rad API
craigmcnamara··on Freeze on grant funding temporarily halted by federal judge
It's very easy to understand. You're terrible people, dumb people and you try to inflict suffering to make yourselves feel good.
craigmcnamara··on Upcoming Hardening in PHP
Seems like an attitude problem.
craigmcnamara··on Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress
The decorative cyan colored cladding had quite a bit to do with what caused that fire to go our of control with a bonus of cyanide gas when combusted. The cladding left a space between the building that carried the fire up the side of the building like a chimney.
craigmcnamara··on Students invent quieter leaf blower
Have you heard of a rake?
craigmcnamara··on The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound (2019)
Harsh
craigmcnamara··on Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job
The law is called HIPAA and technology providers sign a BAA(Business Associate Agreement) that states they agree to handle and store your information in compliance with the relevant standards and laws. With tools like OpenAI Whisper and GPT the HIPAA mode means that the tools don't retain any memory of prior interactions. Health tech is built on 3rd party vendors AWS, Google, and Microsoft are huge in the space.
craigmcnamara··on Ask HN: How do you define an "AI engineer"?
This is the correct answer.
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