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technics256

2,074 karma · joined December 14, 2016

I'm a cloud infrastructure & devops engineer, focusing on healthcare and compliance, and Kubernetes on GKE or EKS. I love Terraform, k8s, and am very fast at architecting and deploying new infra.

I also like to surf and do analog photography.

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technics256··on Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness
The first quote is not even a quote from Aristotle but from Will Durant’s book, The Story of Philosophy (1926)
technics256··on French musician Kavinsky found dead
Same here! Any recommendations for newer french electro artists?
technics256··on John C. Dvorak has died
hahaha that made me smile, well the era of napster and such it wasnt so far fetched i suppose
technics256··on Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025
How would one get around this if they found themselves in such a situation?
technics256··on Low cost mmWave 60GHz radar sensor for advanced sensing
What about for things like moving objects? I’ve used the AD pluto system but looking for something more affordable
technics256··on Launch HN: Vocera (YC F24) – Testing and Observability for Voice AI
This is the first thing I thought too, the name confused me with the company and brand Vocera, I thought it was from them.
technics256··on Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot
You can do this yourself with Shortcuts app.

Create a timer function to run a shutdown on a time interval you order. Change shutdown to "restart".

technics256··on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
A second day!

I can't believe the full up and down owning of the communications supply chain.

Makes Hezbollah look like a clown show.

technics256··on Structured Outputs in the API
How can we enable the text reply with a function call? Usually the message returned is a tool call only when it calls a tool?
technics256··on Taking Risk
I live in Munich, totally agree.
technics256··on Ask HN: Can Devin genuinely replace the roles of developers?
I have preview access to devin, and I can tell you that it's the real deal. It's making PRs to our codebase daily, and acts as a junior engineer.

It frees us up from doing menial tasks and is a great help for stuff like that.

It's not perfect, but it's a glimpse of the future that definitely needs to be noticed.

technics256··on H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread
Milk is pasteurized
technics256··on Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI
Looks like he went to crypto

https://x.com/sreeramkannan/status/1771340250801127664?s=46

technics256··on Claude 3 model family
I am curious on this. can you share more?
technics256··on Launch HN: Delve (YC W24) – HIPAA compliance as a service
If it's only compliance then, why not go with the other vendors like Vanta etc?
technics256··on Launch HN: Delve (YC W24) – HIPAA compliance as a service
Interesting, haven't heard of this. Always figured aws and gcp were ahead of azure in terms of Healthcare
technics256··on The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input
The real frustrating thing about this is how Gemini 1.5 is a marketing ploy only.

Not even 1.0 Ultra is available in the GCP API. only for their "allowlist" clients.

technics256··on LlamaCloud and LlamaParse
LlamaParse looks nice. Is there way to return page numbers also with the markdown? This is important for our use case.
technics256··on Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
Gemini is named that way because of the collaboration between Google brain and deep mind
technics256··on Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
Does anyone actually have access to Ultra yet? It's a lame blog post where it says "it's available!" but the fine print says "by whitelist".

Ok, whatever that means.

OpenAI at least releases it all at once, to everyone.

technics256··on YC: Requests for Startups
The primary requirement outside of the necessary JS skills would be a security clearance I assume, correct?
technics256··on Pushing ChatGPT's Structured Data Support to Its Limits
Do you have any examples of this? Curious how this looks in practice. We are just adding function calling ourselves but not sure how add CoT
technics256··on Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2023?
A great episode, but not released in 2023
technics256··on Fireworks: Function Calling Model and API
This blog post is literally unable to be read due to the medium spam that blocks you from reading the moment the page loads. I have no idea why people use medium still
technics256··on Partnership with Axel Springer to deepen beneficial use of AI in journalism
This makes me worried that you will only see news that is paid for in ChatGPT now.
technics256··on Gemini AI
This also jumped out at me. It also seems that they are selectively choosing different promoting strategies too, one lists "CoT@32".

Makes it seem like they really needed to get creative to have it beat GPT4. Not a good sign imho

technics256··on GitHub is investigating an incident with Pull Requests, Issues and Webhooks
I came here to check why my merge status wasn't updating and yep, HN breaks news the fastest still.

With all of the GithHub Universe AI announcements, it's sad to see the main github product being ignored.

technics256··on Claude 2.1
It's listed in the graph titled "hard to answer"
technics256··on Terraform Cloud Pricing Changes Sticker Shock
At the hashi conf last month they started talking about adding terraform features that would only work on terraform cloud.

It was very sad to see

technics256··on NilAway: Practical nil panic detection for Go
Is there any movement in the language spec to address this in the future with Nil types or something?
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