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sharts··on Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS
I’m surprised still that there hasn’t been a port of the classic old old Windows screensavers.
sharts··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
Just run a linux vm
sharts··on Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027
I’ll be surprised if devices ship after December 26, 2027
sharts··on A simple fix for LLM tail latency
Is there a way to do this automatically when using claude/codex?
sharts··on Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
Frankly yes. Do it in a way that doesn’t violate outright or cover your tracks. Customers deserve to know the truth of the type of company they are dealing with.
sharts··on Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
I would take what C-level execs say with a grain of salt. Remember these folks hire people with plenty of system design experience. They likely also have the money for hardware resources.

If load was an issue these things would have been solved already. Or they are purposely causing millions of dollars of productivity loss daily by not solving this.

Something more serious is at play. And I want to hear from the actual underlings.

sharts··on Incident with Github.com
Fax. Those falling for the load/capacity excuse are gullible.
sharts··on Incident with Github.com
Even Claude could have caught and addressed most of these scalability issues long ago. This can’t be due to load or capacity. This is something else.
sharts··on Incident with Github.com
It has nothing to do with load.
sharts··on Incident with Github.com
Question to those who work at Github…what the heck is going on? Why?
sharts··on Every Fucking Website (2020)
Pressuring works. But some is distasteful, tho legal as discovered via MeToo
sharts··on Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out
HN these days is like the tech chat-rooms of old internet.
sharts··on Understanding is the new bottleneck
The best managers make it such that underlings don’t need to go to BS meetings and keep others from interrupting you with inane nonsense.
sharts··on How Gödel's Proof Works (2020)
Kind of annoying that literally every article or link shared about this always goes on with some massive introduction of the past instead of just getting to the point.

2+2=4 without 7 paragraphs about humanity wanting numerical representations of quantities and the various number systems devised throughout history before they actually gloss over the actual facts and details.

sharts··on Google AI Overview thinks Sam Altman has died
Google’s AI is so wrong so often about even the simplest of things. Making up facts and what not. Sometimes it’s faster to just search
sharts··on As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
What are these ways of using search that yield nom-garbage?
sharts··on Everything you do is being recorded
Can they see you dropping a deuce?
sharts··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
Same as car accidents I guess. Not your problem if you're not involved
sharts··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
Did the good thing come from and for good intentions? Probably not. It's a strategic move. And merely words.

Let the results speak after all is said AND done.

sharts··on Pentagon gives contractors 21 days for plans to boost weapons production
Somehow we can’t manage to do that for domestic problems.
sharts··on I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won
What clouds exist? And are they all electron?
sharts··on Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
To some degree CIA also infiltrates private orgs to manipulate from inside out. It’s like a private-public partnership /s
sharts··on Meta CTO told employees AI gains should go into more work
Why does anyone care anymore what Meta execs say?
sharts··on Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)
Problem is those taxes just get funneled to things taxpayers don’t even support.
sharts··on GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
That’s no excuse. Particularly if it affects people self hosting their workers.

These are folks that routinely make it a point to press on system design and scalability during interviews.

Now they suddenly can’t scale or design systems but we should accept that?

sharts··on Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there?
Nobody will risk violating NDA and lose their vesting of $$ to answer to the people.
sharts··on Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
Indeed and once the funding comes in with more chefs in the kitchen the startups start losing touch and focus on funneling users to a platform instead of just improving the core product.
sharts··on Severance
COBRA is simply the law that says you pay the full price of your previous employers group rate. Maybe your employer had an excellent group rate and you didn't qualify for subsidies.

I suspect for the average American the math goes the other way.

Source: Tried COBRA many times in the past decade (lots of startups) and it was never worth it. I wish health insurance wasn't tied to employers at all.

sharts··on GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
They are known are engineers pushing features that bloated product management folks keep pushing so they can justify their jobs on LinkedIn.

I'm not sure why this particular industry is so abysmal at making things even semi-reliable after decades of research, educated workforces, and loads of cash.

sharts··on GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
It sucked with a CEO as well
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