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conroydave··on Tesla Roadster
you have to take into account that reddit in general is completely Anti-Elon. He could cure cancer and folks on that site would find a way to blame billionares.
conroydave··on Midjourney Medical
this is why i always come to hacker news for the expert opinions. thank you for being critical yet optimistic.
conroydave··on Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication
i try to keep my comments on here positive, but man, my experience using this product has been awful.
conroydave··on GitHub Actions down again today
github actions themselves can be self hosted, its quite nice actually to be able to keep your same patterns as cloud hosted actions and with one line change to the yaml have it running on your own hardware. I do this for actions that take 6-7 hours so I am not burning through the 3000 minutes that come free with my account.
conroydave··on Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
thank you for your commitment to open source.
conroydave··on Hacking a Casio F-91W digital watch (2023)
i love this and its something i had always wanted to try. I am actually kind of ticket off at chatgpt as i asked it about 6 months ago how something like this work and it told me it physically wasnt possible. maybe i need to improve my prompting.
conroydave··on Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public
that wework s1 was gold
conroydave··on Most Stable Raspberry Pi? Better NTP with Thermal Management
love this line FTA: "Is It Worth It? For 99.999% of use cases: absolutely not."
conroydave··on Tell HN: Azure outage
cost cutting attempts
conroydave··on Show HN: hcker.news – an ergonomic, timeline-based Hacker News front page
i like this a lot. any chance you can do the settings in as a url parameter so we can bookmark our preferred configuration?
conroydave··on Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
if you are based in the USA, most stores have 30 day return policies. perhaps order them, try at home, and return if you they arent a fit for your situation
conroydave··on Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader
this is why HN is the best
conroydave··on Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
Agreed that they wanted to fully understand the extent of the hack before disclosing
conroydave··on It's getting harder to die
Thanks for sharing. Helps a little bit
conroydave··on It's getting harder to die
Watched my grandfather pass in the same way. Didn’t seem right to let him pass of basically lack of food and hydration after 95 years even though also terminal. I just wanted to see him comfortable and he was far from it.
conroydave··on Ship Something Every Day
A side benefit from this is that there is now a prerequisite that your ci/cd pipelines are always operational
conroydave··on 1Password detects "suspicious activity" in its internal Okta account
would be just as effective with .05 btc
conroydave··on Let's Encrypt Acme API Outage
this is why i will always love hacker news. thank you
conroydave··on Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years
i feel as though these days prices fail to return back to normal after sharp spikes like they have in the past, anecdotally
conroydave··on Gordon Moore has died
do you mind elaborating?
conroydave··on A taste of Brazil: How guaraná soda became a national icon
Ctrl+F, Yerba Mate, zero results. I'm ashamed of you all HN!
conroydave··on Runlike: Given an existing Docker container, prints the command line to run it
i see this as more of 'quick and dirty' type approach, which there is often still value in
conroydave··on Mainnet Merge Announcement
Thank you for all your work on Ethereum.
conroydave··on Ask HN: Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around
Id recommend either some time off, or change of scenery as best paths forward. While not a complete solution, it will may help with - stagnant salary - work life balance - isolation

And on the "rock star" comment, I wouldn't sweat it. Been in software 20 years now and wouldn't consider myself elite either. Plenty of opportunities out there for experienced and reliable programers that dont require you to cram for LeetCode or DS & Algos. Oh, and we all piece code together from multiple sources and there is no shame in that.

conroydave··on Cat Printer
great now make it print github issues
conroydave··on Man given genetically modified pig heart dies
top comment currently references he was near multiple organ failure prior to the transplant.
conroydave··on Some tiny personal programs I've written
I'd like to add that OP has some incredible easy to understand "zines" that help explain technical topics like http, dns, containers etc.
conroydave··on Some tiny personal programs I've written
id love to get their honest opinion on the 'no hard feelings' part
conroydave··on Watch: NYPD Arrests Amazon Union Organizers at Staten Island Warehouse
im pro workers rights but it does seem like this person was trespassing right?
conroydave··on Did I just lose half a million dollars?
are you sure the deposit function isnt automatically called?
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