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telliott1984··on Show HN: isometric.nyc/snow
Spectacular! I'm morbidly fascinated by the variance in how well different streets have been plowed.
telliott1984··on I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
Does this remind anyone of pranking the new hire? "Go to the hardware store and fetch some rainbow paint"
telliott1984··on Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door
This is fascinating! Did the attempts start as soon as you started up the server, or did it take a little while to get going?
telliott1984··on Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
There's no TLD for the latter.
telliott1984··on Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users
This is wild. Not sure if it's more of a reason not to use ClawdBot, or not to get into crypto.
telliott1984··on OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again
I went to install "moltbot" yesterday, and the binary was still "clawdbot" after installation. Wonder if they'll use Moltbot to manage the rename to OpenClaw.
telliott1984··on Heathrow scraps liquid container limit
Sad to see no mention of Manchester airport in this. Seems like they flag every third bag for manual screening.
telliott1984··on How I estimate work
A lot of this felt very familiar. Having multiple plans does seem like a good way to hedge against the unknown, but I can also see that you'd end up with the "secret 5th" plan when all of those unknowns eventually stack up.

Planning is inaccurate, frustrating, and sadly necessary.

telliott1984··on Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
I got a classic and obvious 419 scam email today. Kind of felt like I'd gone back to a simpler time.
telliott1984··on Are we all plagiarists now?
I really don't know how I feel about that Ctrl/Control joke.
telliott1984··on How I protect my Forgejo instance from AI web crawlers
I'd see this as coming down to incentive. If you can scrape naively and it's cheap, what's the benefit to you in doing something more efficient for git forge? How many other edge cases are there where you could potentially save a little compute/bandwidth, but need to implement a whole other set of logic?

Unfortunately, this kind of scraping seems to inconvenience the host way more than the scraper.

Another tangent: there probably are better behaved scrapers, we just don't notice them as much.

telliott1984··on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
Given they've been essentially subsidizing self-hosted orgs for a while, I'm kinda surprised they didn't do this before now. Probably wanted to lead with the price cut for everyone else.

It'll be interesting to see how this affects third party companies providing GitHub runners.

telliott1984··on Dagger: Define software delivery workflows and dev environments
Interesting approach! I can see promise in the vet tooling assuming the module keeps up with GitHub's schema well.

If you had to pick, what's the "killer" feature for you with this module?

telliott1984··on Hack a Day "YouTube over Dial Up"
That change in the definition of broadband is wild.

YouTube is a great proxy for speed testing, when I was building remote desktop applications it was one of my go-to performance tests.

telliott1984··on Traefik's 10-year anniversary
Congrats on a decade! Time flies. I think I first heard about Traefik from a GopherCon talk, and it quickly became a default for me when working with Kubernetes.

Still not entirely sure how to pronounce the name though...

telliott1984··on YAML document from hell (2023)
I think I've tried to start using anchors at least once every year or so when I get annoyed with a particularly repetitive file. Never managed to get my head around it. Just seems so shoe-horned in and if anything makes the document harder to follow.
telliott1984··on For the Founders: What are your launch strategies?
Can't really speak to any successes so won't share specific strategies, but from what I've seen there is very much no one-size-fits-all. The best options vary a lot depending on the target audience, differentiators and even the temperament of the founders themselves.

Try everything and keep doing what works for you, I guess.

telliott1984··on The energy cost of your AI query
Nice to see such a broad range of comparisons, easy on the eye too.

The oven example is an interesting one, seems a lot more "real life" than the others. Almost makes me want to use my oven less...

telliott1984··on Getting AI to work in complex codebases
There's also the more insidious gap between perceived productivity and actual productivity. Doesn't help that nobody can agree on how to measure productivity even without AI.