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geekoneon The ways we contain Claude across products

>rig for local inference for a home agent (powered by four RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Qs)

can you elaborate at all on what sort of rig you went with, beyond the big $$ GPUs?

geekoneon GitHub and the crime against software

would a self-hosted all-in-one solution be a viable alternative that doesn't split these all up into separate cloud hosted apps? it's been years since i've explored anything other than github/gitlab/etc.

geekoneon Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

would you rather it phrased they are guilty and associated with the same religion? what's the gripe here?

geekoneon CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices

looks like they can request your passcode to unlock the phone so anything local and/or cached before they disable network connectivity would be there.

geekoneon Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality

I'd guess the semantics is along the lines of she was still arrested, and any legal recourse she may have will take time and money with likely zero repercussions to the police dept.

geekoneon Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda

seems to mostly be one person with multiple accounts, but they are getting rightly buried.

geekoneon Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP

maybe tangentially related but i've found cloudflare's email routing useful to just send emails to blah@customdomain.com sent to blah@myemail.com. i'm not sure if it's limited to domains registered with them though.

geekoneon Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit

most local tv news stations being owned by two right-wing conglomerates doesn't help either

geekoneon Cisco workforce reductions

XCOM (Executive Committee) was my least favorite at one of the soulless corps i worked at years ago.

geekoneon VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

You say in another comment this slipped through testing. Can you elaborate on exactly what was caught in internal testing?

geekoneon Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with

Looks like according to the PEP it may eventually be default in 4-6 releases down the road: https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/#python-build-modes

geekoneon Big Ball of Mud (1999)

Yeah that's pretty much how I've observed this happening, though I've found this scenario to be so much more common in teams that are overloaded with competing priorities they have no control of because of (usually) poor and/or naive management. To the point where even at 5-8 occurrences you kick the proverbial can down the road to focus on the "important" work items.

geekoneon Kafka is dead, long live Kafka

What was used to generate the diagrams in the post?

geekoneon Show HN: FFmpeg Command Visualizer and Editor

This is so useful! Would you consider adding some way of linking a filter to the ffmpeg documentation/reference for it? Or maybe some way of embedding it on a sidebar when a node is selected?

geekoneon Kronos hit by ransomware and warns customers to engage biz continuity plans

"Given that it may take up to several weeks to restore system availability,"

that's a huge hit to end of year payroll operations for many companies

geekoneon Functools – The Power of Higher-Order Functions in Python

do python lambda expressions not qualify?

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/controlflow.html#lambda-e...

geekoneon LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

I don't think the inaccurate title has much to do with the added color that the tweet could be a lie

geekoneon Security.txt

why is there no expires field on https://securitytxt.org/.well-known/security.txt

geekoneon My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how NYPD impunity works

Are you implying Floyd was resisting while he was being suffocated for 10 minutes?

geekoneon Medium-hard SQL interview questions

Do you have suggestions on how to get real with this?

geekoneon Show HN: Get a Hand LA

The text does seem pretty huge:

mobile: https://i.imgur.com/TJ7tnsG.png pc: https://i.imgur.com/423b2oU.png

geekoneon Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month

I didn't expect to see Pep Boys as an example. Do/did they have their own data centers?

geekoneon Waterfox sold to System1, an ad company that bought a majority of Startpage

Sure looks like they acquihired him: https://www.system1.com/press/system1-welcomes-waterfox

Also, Alex appears to have stepped down as director of Waterfox and a co-founder of System1 became director: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08071145/filing-h...

geekoneon Time.gov was upgraded today

Thanks! And you fixed FL :)

Really great refresh from the old version of the site.

geekoneon Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming

Can you provide some source to this truth you're asserting?

geekoneon Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT

Wow yeah I was not aware. Definitely not a good look and those older comments are completely reprehensible and nonsensical to me.

geekoneon Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT

Which ones were troubling? I don't see anything that stands out on the page linked.

geekoneon Software Architecture Guide

Looks like it is criticism of America's "at-will" labor laws to me too.

geekoneon Introducing nushell

Do you have any examples of stderr errors being impossible to catch in PS, and/or a basic script that is very easy in Bash but cumbersome in PowerShell?