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dsauerbrun··on Can I Let My AI Agent Run on Shabbat?
Am I going to have to find a shabbos goy to unblock my swarm? They already don't like when I ask them to turn on my lights.
dsauerbrun··on Superlogical Pre-Alpha Demo [video]
It seems like the main selling point is going to be performance over tmux(or really any multiplexer) with the anticipation of giant multiplexer sessions resulting from increased AI agent usage(which is talked about in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5gV6anSt-4).

I'm fairly new to using multiplexers and not a hardcore user as I'm mostly getting my feet wet with herdr at the moment. For the hardcore users, is performance really a bottleneck? How big are your sessions that you have rendering issues?

Regardless, whenever Mitchell talks, I'm interested so I'm signed up for the release notification and will definitely check it out!

dsauerbrun··on Being ambitious and being a dad
That's a pretty narrow viewpoint. I could see many examples where it's better to work than focus on your kids... At least for society. Leader of a country comes to mind as one of those jobs
dsauerbrun··on US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
If you think about this in terms of systems... it's unsustainable. You'll eventually get to a point where the damage you've done requires a flow of wealth/energy that cannot be generated for everyone.

I'm assuming that we can drive our environment to that kind of state, maybe there's an upper limit on how bad the environment can get. I'm not a climate scientist and don't have the curiosity to look into if there's a limit to climate change.

dsauerbrun··on The great wealth transfer reality check
They have the data but I wouldn't trust their analysis of it unless they release all the raw data which would be to the benefit of their competitors.
dsauerbrun··on Git rebase -I is not that scary
I'll give it a go next time! ty!
dsauerbrun··on Git rebase -I is not that scary
Yeah it's not scary but it can be frustrating...

Imagine bushwhacking your way through a bunch of conflicts while rebasing on main... Now you realized that you needed to do some other work before your pr is ready for review... Now you need to rebase on main again and get to relive conflict hell again.

Maybe I'm one of the stupid incompetent people referred to in this post but I haven't figured out a way to deal with the having to solve the same merge conflicts when I rebase again :(

dsauerbrun··on The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
Well that explains where my sessions went on my side project that I came back to after a few months... Thought I was going crazy
dsauerbrun··on Everyone should know SIMD
And here I am pooping out simple typescript... These articles always make me feel like I'm wasting my talents working on products that don't really have the need to leverage any understanding of what's happening under the hood at the CPU instructions level.
dsauerbrun··on Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained
Hmm, if the caching layer doesn't change(I assume it was optimized for olap style queries), and the new parquet format is better for olap... I'm still not understanding how it performs well for oltp reads.

I'll give the article another read... Maybe I missed something. Thank you for the response! Really nice to be able to get info straight from people who work on the product

dsauerbrun··on Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained
Maybe I'm too stupid to understand the article... How does this achieve performant querying for olap and oltp purposes?

Based on my understanding, olap queries will go to the parquet files which are stored in a columnar fashion and oltp style queries will go to a caching layer that sits on top of those parquet files?

What's the special sauce here? Seems like they're just caching the data which, for all intents and purposes, seems like the same solution of storing another copy of the data which is what they say they're avoiding.

dsauerbrun··on Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case
one of the benefits of being on android and being able to sideload apps. Look up "revanced youtube" and you'll be able to turn off shorts.

ublock origin for blocking them on desktop. If you're on an iphone... uninstall youtube?

my quality of life has increased substantially... although sometimes the app bugs out and shorts still make it on my home page. I spend like 10 minutes scrolling through shorts and get a weird shock "how the fuck did I end up here?", restart the app and boom shorts gone again.

dsauerbrun··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://www.climbcation.com/ a site to help you come up with good climbing trip ideas where you filter based on climbing type, time of year, location, and your climbing abilities.
dsauerbrun··on Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right
Does my wife also get this so she can be on the other side? Nevermind... I don't need the sad reality of her trying to swipe left and telling me she thinks the app is broken.
dsauerbrun··on Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot
how do you and others get past all the permissions that onesec needs? They say everything remains on device; however, it's a closed source application so there's not really any way to confirm that besides looking at the packets that are going out of your phone.
dsauerbrun··on Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot
this seems like an interesting idea I'd like to try but all the permissions it needs is terrifying to me... I understand why it needs them but there's no way for me to verify that they aren't doing anything funny with that access.
dsauerbrun··on The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
i'd disagree heavily with that... let's say you have an expense of an insurance policy that covers you for the next 10 years. You're paying for 10 years of service, that should be amortized over 10 years.
dsauerbrun··on When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines
I'm a bit confused.

The lossy timeline solution basically means you skip updating the feed for some people who are above the number of reasonable followers. I get that

Seeing them get 96% improvements is insane, does that mean they have a ton of users following an unreasonable number of people or do they just have a very low number for reasonable followers. I doubt it's the latter since that would mean a lot of people would be missing updates.

How is it possible to get such massive improvements when you're only skipping a presumably small % of people per new post?

EDIT: nvm, I rethought about it, the issue is that a single user with millions of follows will constantly be written to which will slow down the fanout service when a celebrity makes a post since you're going through many db pages.

dsauerbrun··on I built a platform for discovering and sharing Chrome extension collections
I'm gonna need the remove youtube shorts one
dsauerbrun··on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
the only safe option anymore is the cup and string
dsauerbrun··on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
casualties refers to injuries as well as deaths. I think the citation they were looking for was for the ~2800 number. I don't think it's reasonable to say that 6/12 killed were civilians, so half of all casualties were civilian.

We dont know until we get more reports, like you said, it could be higher... but it could also be lower.

dsauerbrun··on Denver gave homeless people $1k/mth. Year later, nearly half had housing
I'd imagine they mean a room in a house... or someone's basement in englewood that's in a dumpy spot.
dsauerbrun··on Please don't mention AI again
whoa that's very cool. can you share some info about how you set up the integration in ha? would love to explore doing something like this for myself
dsauerbrun··on Why has LLM progress seemingly stalled around the GPT-4 level? Or has it?
just watched the first 15 min. this is exactly what I was looking for, thank you!
dsauerbrun··on Why has LLM progress seemingly stalled around the GPT-4 level? Or has it?
as a lowly application developer who is interested in how llms actually work, where's a good place to start? is there an article or book that most folks would recommend?
dsauerbrun··on The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day
why is that an issue? just in case someone is peering over your shoulder? the pw will be sent in the request body as plaintext on a post...
dsauerbrun··on I love programming but I hate the programming industry
pretty much the same analogy I always use to describe how I feel about the industry.
dsauerbrun··on Three American climbers solve the 'last great problem in the Himalayas'
gyms are typically softer to give their clientele a feeling of progress. this makes people feel better and want to come back. if you're stuck at v3 for several months you'd be more likely to give up telling yourself you're not cut out for climbing... at least that's my(and many others') theory behind soft gyms
dsauerbrun··on Three American climbers solve the 'last great problem in the Himalayas'
the hell kind of gym are you at that Smith Rock grades feel comparable? that place is sandbagged as hell.
dsauerbrun··on Three American climbers solve the 'last great problem in the Himalayas'
climbing ropes are typically measured in meters and come in increments of 10(ie. 50, 60, 70, 80). that's likely the reason they used metric for the rope length... however I will agree with you that it's a weird choice given this is meant for a mainstream audience
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