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gberger··on Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md
You mean symbolically?
gberger··on I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
https://xkcd.com/1425/
gberger··on What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)
It's a question from 2011...
gberger··on Buckets and objects are not enough
S3: Simple Storage Service. It's a building block, and it's only natural other abstractions are built on top of it.
gberger··on MongoDB Server Security Update, December 2025
Why did it take them 4 days between publishing a CVE for the vulnerability (Dec 19th) and posting a public patch (Dec 23rd)?
gberger··on Unit Tests for LLMs?
You want to do evals, yeah.
gberger··on Microsoft tops $4T in valuation: Great news for MSFT, not so great for workers
If I place a grain of rice on the first square of a chess board and double the amount on each step, I'd have 18 quintillion grains of rice.
gberger··on How does fentanyl get into the US?
We can, though? A sugar tax.
gberger··on Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living
I have the same browser and versions as you and it plays on my phone. Pixel 7 Pro, if that matters.
gberger··on What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch
27 is just the EU. The whole of Europe is more like 50, which is even wilder!
gberger··on I Stopped Using Kubernetes. Our DevOps Team Is Happier Than Ever
Paywall
gberger··on Making a trading Gameboy: A pocket exchange and algo trading platform
Interesting project! The kid is only mentioned at the beginning, I wonder if they participated further in the project, or if they enjoyed playing the game?
gberger··on Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada
Canadian citizens can still be brainwashed even if their data is stored within Canada.
gberger··on Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing
Sometimes you have to kill orphans too!
gberger··on Unoffice Hours (2020)
Other people's mouses and text selection is very distracting.
gberger··on Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?
One would be quite concerned to learn they are eating cheese made from bufalo milk, as the custom is to make the cheese from bufala milk instead.
gberger··on Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless
Much like a roulette, in Twitter the house always wins.
gberger··on My $2.2k laptop can't drive two screens
Vote with your wallet
gberger··on LG washing machine sending 3.7GB of data a day
It's 12 bytes per second, or less than 1kB per minute. Doesn't seem like much.
gberger··on The Seamless Communication models
What if the predicted verb was incorrect, but the model has already translated the incorrect prediction? How does it tell you about a mistake?
gberger··on Sqids – Generate short unique IDs from numbers
fxck
gberger··on World's largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley
What would it be used for?
gberger··on Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024
Not to be confused with Visual Studio Code, the text editor, which will remain supported.
gberger··on Playing Pokemon Red with Reinforcement Learning
It's not a job, it's a toy. This most likely was a learning experience or hobby for the author.
gberger··on Oxford 'explosion' after lightning strike seen from A34
Brave Browser + Pihole ensured I didn't see any. I'd recommend setting those up if you are annoyed by intrusive and abusive ads.
gberger··on I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
Sergey Aleynikov (born 1970) is a former Goldman Sachs computer programmer. Between 2009 and 2016, he was prosecuted by NY Federal and State jurisdictions for the same conduct of allegedly copying proprietary computer source code from his employer, Goldman Sachs, before joining a competing firm.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov

gberger··on GPT-4 is not getting worse
That looks like a timeout configured on the web servebr
gberger··on I fixed a bug the other day
> 8) Put in line items for Vacations, Holidays, etc. If your schedule is going to take about a year, each programmer will probably take 10 to 15 days of vacation.

That's so little vacation. America is wild.

gberger··on Show HN: Search Jira issues using natural language, from Slack – no JQL needed
Does it work with on-prem Jira?
gberger··on Free Public WiFi
If they're on the guest network, how do you control them? Over Bluetooth?
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