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devonbleak··on Tesla Roadster
my quick search says LPG-installed cars run at 5-10 bar. the roadster apparently at 350 bar. by comparison one is on the scale of car tires and the other is like 35x that.
devonbleak··on Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model
I started getting prompts about "how is claude doing?" as a separate thing in Claude Code, that I noticed yesterday. So they're (also?) soliciting direct feedback about satisfaction with the session.
devonbleak··on VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)
it does the reverse direction also. there's a security note indicating such on the remote ssh vscode extension page https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...

Security Note Using Remote-SSH opens a connection between your local machine and the remote. Only use Remote-SSH to connect to secure remote machines that you trust and that are owned by a party whom you trust. A compromised remote could use the VS Code Remote connection to execute code on your local machine.

devonbleak··on VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)
it's worse than that, last i looked into this - there's functionality in the protocol that allows the remote system to modify files and execute code on the local/frontend system. it really is bananas.

Edit: there's a security note (still) on the remote ssh extension page:

Security Note Using Remote-SSH opens a connection between your local machine and the remote. Only use Remote-SSH to connect to secure remote machines that you trust and that are owned by a party whom you trust. A compromised remote could use the VS Code Remote connection to execute code on your local machine.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...

devonbleak··on I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB
Typing is absolutely a noisy source.
devonbleak··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
What you're actually going to see is seniors inundated by slop and burning out and quitting because what used to be enjoyable solving of problems has become wading through slop that took 10 minutes to generate and submit but 30+ minutes to understand and write up a critique for it.
devonbleak··on Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work
I think that's overly generous. OpenAI already has a track record of going back on what they say with the whole non-profit/for-profit thing.

I give it a year with how fast they're lighting cash on fire.

devonbleak··on All praise to the lunch ladies
As someone who lives near a school I can say school buses are very much a necessity and they are getting modernized. I see an electric one consistently going through the neighborhood. And I much prefer them to hundreds more cars or pedestrians going through the neighborhood (people drive like maniacs through the residential streets here).
devonbleak··on Essential Coding Theory [pdf]
Essential as in "the essence of" not as in "necessary".
devonbleak··on California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters
It wouldn't have been budget-neutral without a bunch of tax increases along with it which they don't have the spine to implement.
devonbleak··on AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser
Yeah, the graphs make some really big assumptions that don't seem to be backed up anywhere except AI maximalist head canon.

There's also a gap in addressing vibe coded "side projects" that get deployed online as a business. Is the code base super large and complex? No. Is AI capable of taking input from a novice and making something "good enough" in this space? Also no.

devonbleak··on Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death
Our pest control put in a bucket called In2Care that has a little net with some powder suspended above the water - mosquito lands on the net, gets the powder on 'em, carries it to the next site and that site gets neutralized. They're designed for commercial campuses but for ~$200/yr it's well worth it for residential also.

They do take a while to take effect, and they do take maintenance, but my experience so far is that they're super effective.

devonbleak··on Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome
I have a cousin with DS. You have to be committed and have the means to raise a child with extreme needs. Many of them will live with their parents their entire lives and will not develop cognitively beyond their tweens (hence the Britney Spears anecdote above). The ones that do move out tend to have to go to a place that specializes in assisting them. They can also have pretty extreme health issues.

Yes, they can be beautiful people that bring light to others around them, but those others also don't typically get exposed to the behind the scenes struggles of the entire family to cope with this.

Some people are prepared to do this; I don't judge the ones that decide they're not. I would hate for someone to go into it not understanding what they're signing up for.

devonbleak··on Mini robots detect and fix water pipe leaks without digging
You can pop the handle off that Ridgid one and there's a hex bit you can hook up to your existing drill. It's admittedly a bit wonky to operate like that, but for a single family home it's mostly workable.
devonbleak··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)
Fox | Staff Cloud Engineer | Los Angeles (Century City) | Hybrid | Full Time

We're a broadcast company.

Hiring two positions:

1. https://www.foxcareers.com/Search/JobDetail/R50028756/staff-...

2. https://www.foxcareers.com/Search/JobDetail/R50028808/staff-...

devonbleak··on 37signals Says Goodbye to AWS: Full S3 Migration and $10M in Projected Savings
All the times I heard about lock-in was a vendor trying to get me to avoid locking into their competitor and lock into them.
devonbleak··on Show HN: Checking Pope's election results with smoke test script for chimney
Alternative version: check for dings on my phone from every news outlet sending a notification about it.
devonbleak··on Arizona laptop farmer pleads guilty for funneling $17M to Kim Jong Un
Farm to table laptops
devonbleak··on Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015)
To add on to this I like things organized as: - things you need my action on - things you need my input on - things you think I need to be aware of that may need my input/action later
devonbleak··on 'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket
I had the same thought. Closest I can tell there's screenshot that looks like s3 console listing csv files if you click over far enough in the carousel.
devonbleak··on Chocolate intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort studies
Eight ounces by weight or by volume? /s
devonbleak··on Ask HN: Which hard skills can I learn to become a better programmer?
You haven't mentioned which hard skills you've already mastered.

* Abstract reasoning - everything in programming is abstraction

* Critical thinking - is the first way you've thought of to solve something actually an optimal way? how could you improve it?

* Problem decomposition - solve large problems by breaking them down into smaller component problems

* Multiprocessing/multithreading and IPC - at some point one process/thread isn't enough

* Networking fundamentals - may not contribute directly to better programming per se but will for sure help with debugging/troubleshooting

devonbleak··on Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI
It's Go. 25% of the code is just basic error checking and returning nil.
devonbleak··on California bans sell-by dates
From a consumer standpoint, yes.

From a company-who-abuses-best-by-dates-to-sell-more-product standpoint it's very controversial.

devonbleak··on California first state to ban 'sell by' 'best before' label to reduce food waste
It's not about confusion/clarification it's about legal definition. Currently, because there's no legal definition around it, companies can throw any arbitrary date on a "best by" label on a product. And what we've found is that it's being abused as an artificially short faux expiration date to drive consumers to discard the still-fine-to-consume product and buy another one. This is good for the company who increase their sales but bad for pretty much everybody else because it increases food waste and the energy/resources that were consumed to create it.
devonbleak··on The Intelligence Age
You're assuming health insurers will give a shit about phone robots/agents' hold times.
devonbleak··on FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video Streaming Companies
It makes me irrationally angry that I suddenly started getting spam emails from Experian. Like motherfucker I never consented for you to have my data, then you leak it all, now you're sending me unsolicited junk email? It's just such bullshit that I'm literally forced to have a relationship with these companies to freeze my credit or else I'm at the mercy of whoever they decide to release my information to without my authorization.
devonbleak··on Ask HN: How different is AWS/GCP/Azure in everyday work
Depends on the position and appetite for re-training you. In some cases I have the luxury of being able to do something like that for the right candidate. In some cases I need someone that can more immediately be up to speed and jumping into things to add value.

More concretely, in my experience hiring folks that would be focused on working with EKS, folks that have GKE experience can mostly pick up EKS easily. Folks with AWS experience working on GCP IaaS and hybrid networking or vice versa those folks need to mostly re-learn everything because they're pretty wildly different.

devonbleak··on Ask HN: Got my first iPhone. What should I know?
Long/force-press the space bar to move the cursor around in text boxes like a touchpad.
devonbleak··on [dead]
They have the same logic about "autopilot"
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