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shortlived··on Apple's Meeting That Led It to Take AI Seriously
https://archive.ph/j3kRp
shortlived··on Letta Code
I'm very interested in trying this out! I run Claude Code in sandbox with `--dangerously-skip-permissions`. Is that possible with Letta?
shortlived··on Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility
Do we have Windows support yet?
shortlived··on Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts
I also recommend listening to the drum history podcast which has episodes with Zildjian and Sabian family members.
shortlived··on Git Bash is my preferred Windows shell
Clink + windows terminal + Git tools is the perfect setup IMO.
shortlived··on Masterclass with Steve Albini
First 10 minutes are quite interesting. Analog vs digital, longevity of music, “open” formats.
shortlived··on Hetzner switches to new billing model
Any recommendation for a provider with dedicated servers in the US?

I’m with a provider now who is phasing them out.

shortlived··on Scrum Sucks
Yeah, it won't work without a stable team. And that may be okay in a true agile environment but I've always had a manager who wants some type of estimate/high level schedule.

We do T-shirt sizes mapped to numbers, because recording effort in numbers lets you get an avg etc...

shortlived··on Scrum Sucks
Yeah, you are doing it wrong if scrum is deadlines. I've worked with people who had to pull all nighters to get all sprint content done before the sprint closes. I'm using it more as a window to do some cheap analysis on our progress.
shortlived··on Scrum Sucks
The things I've taken from scrum and use at every team:

- plan in 2 week chunks

- estimate in points (relative size to something you've already done), emphasis on consistent estimates for each dev.

- make sure you define what 'done' means, and make sure it relates to what exactly you are trying to measure (Eg just coding effort, work till feature can ship?, etc). This is probably the most tricky bit.

- capture total velocity every 2 weeks and eventually use the avg for future planning

- review the entire process and modify things that take a lot of time for devs.

shortlived··on Show HN: exaequOS - a new OS running in a web browser
Pretty cool! How do you persist storage?
shortlived··on Death by a Thousand Microservices
> And did you know that you can deploy a monolith to Lambda and still get all the benefits of Lambda without building services

I did not know. Does anyone have pointers or examples on this?

shortlived··on Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago
Bingo.
shortlived··on Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago
Yup, that’s the example I cited above.
shortlived··on Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago
Even more “insanity”:

z/OS (aka OS360 aka MVS) supports programs going back to the 60s and I just talked with a DE at IBM who is still using a program compiled circa Apollo 11 mission.

shortlived··on One can scarcely help clarifying him: on the Brothers Karamazov
Crime and punishment was riveting. “Brothers” was a slog. Maybe I didn’t make it far enough through. This comes from someone who lived in Russia and enjoys Russian culture.
shortlived··on Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018)
> We had so little capacity that we had decided to reimage all our existing servers and then reprovision them in the new software stack.

That's terrifying!

shortlived··on Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users
I’ve used backblaze for a decade on Mac and windows. I’ve done selective restores and also used their mail you a hard drive option.
shortlived··on Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users
Yes but read about restore time first - https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/issues/333
shortlived··on Learn Vim (2021)
I used to have crazy IDE-like setups but have realized that Vim is great for straight text manipulation (writing bash scripts, log parsing, etc) and VS code or eclipse is great for heavy duty programming. Now my vimrc is less than 50 lines and no plugins.
shortlived··on Learn Vim (2021)
I was lucky enough to really learn *nix via Solaris where Vi was the only option.
shortlived··on Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API
Why are people downvoting jmeister who is just quoting Musk. Don’t shoot the messenger.
shortlived··on International domain names: where does https://meßagefactory.ca lead you?
Anyone else seeing this behavior in Safari mobile?

  Safari cannot open the page because the server cannot be found.
shortlived··on Fentanyl vaccine tested in rats
> but addiction is not a certain outcome

Not certain but chances are very high with the new class of opioids.

shortlived··on 22-year-old is trying to save us from ChatGPT before it changes writing forever
I had to drop the leading “This” from the title as it was too long.
shortlived··on Show HN: Otterkit – COBOL compiler for .NET
Mainframes aren’t legacy, they’re just different and not well talked about that much in public. They have a full Unix subsystem with modern ports and lots of integration via VS code extensions.
shortlived··on History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today (2022)
Has anyone tried to make a browser using the MS Word engine? It would be horrible but also kinda neat.
shortlived··on Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT
+1 for the Sleep reference.
shortlived··on Sourcehut will blacklist the Go module mirror
Since GH requires login to see minimized comments, here it is:

  ddevault on Feb 15, 2019
  "EFAIL" is an alarmist puff piece written by morons to slander PGP and inflate their egos. The standards don't need to change to fix the problems it mentions. The proposals help... marginally. The problem is not and was never with OpenPGP, it's with poorly written email clients (e.g. all email clients).
shortlived··on Microsoft is preparing to add ChatGPT to Bing
That’s in the press release but it’s more than just infra.

“Microsoft is teaming up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3, allowing us to leverage its technical innovations to develop and deliver advanced AI solutions for our customers”

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