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Got really excited for a minute that the long-standing [Hy]( https://hylang.org ) project had had a release, but it's just some confusingly-named LLM. Shame.

modelines allow you to put a special comment in your file (typically on the first or last line of the file, and [for vim] of the format `# vim: set ts=2:`) to configure a subset of…

The important thing to remember is that for a large number of people (in the US), "work" is a place where they do things that they hate for eight hours a day, for people they hate …

That's absolutely not true. The places that have embraced "agentic engineering" are mostly garbage factories, and lots of places, including plenty of startups and fast-moving compa…

So what's going to happen in 3 years after these startup bros have left government, none of the frameworks they're using are supported any more, and nobody in the office that they …

DCR is cool, but I haven't seen anyone roll it out. I know it has to be enabled per-tenant in Okta and Azure (which nobody does), and I don't think Google Workspace supports it at …

Some API questions/observations - I don't see an idempotency key in the request to authorize a charge; that might be something nice for people looking to build reliable systems on …

I think this is ignoring a lot of prior art. Our deploys at Yelp in roughly 2010 worked this way -- you flagged a branch as ready to land, a system (`pushmaster` aka `pushhamster`)…

For most users, that'll just result in them going to Google, searching for the name of your business, and then clicking the first link blindly. At that point you're trusting that t…

It's really "cool" when you get vendors like 6sense that combine browser fingerprinting with semi-licit data brokers to do full deanonymization of visitor traffic. Why bother doing…

It does seem like there's something wrong with that data; I find it somewhat implausible that the average parent was only caring for their child for 1.7 hours a day in 1985; even i…

I mean, ~90M people live in one of the top 10 metro areas, which is about ¼ of the country. Not sure that I'd necessarily call that an "exception".

> *Up to 15–50% slower decision-making in offices with high flicker (and high CO₂) just throws me right off the argument in an article when the fine print notes that a cited study …

Running a parser for a network protocol as root seems like a pretty unnecessarily dumb thing to do. I can't really imagine why any part of airplay would need to run as root; maybe …

It's been a bit more than that; about four years ago they started using machine-analyzed satellite photos to override street geometry in my neighborhood and decided that a parking …

As I understand it, no. Most counties require that you have an EMT license to be a firefighter, and many people with conviction histories are barred from getting EMT licenses (Titl…

I'm optimistic SAML will be dead soon. ActiveDirectory/EntraID/whatever Microsoft wants to call it now supports OpenID Connect. Okta, OneLogin, Google, and all the other post-turn-…

This is the same problem as `malloc`, right? I imagine the answer depends on exactly what queries you need. If you have a bunch of different standard event sizes, then managing mul…

Missing one of the key reasons: most SMBs are sharing seats (usually in violation of the license terms for the products they're using), which is rather harder with good SSO product…

I love that they named the cloud document sync daemon `bird`; people who've been using Apple's cloud services for a while may remember that MobileMe had a "Back to my Mac" feature …

The usual solution is to just do a stored value system; give people a wallet in your system that they can top off in $20 increments, then the actual microtransactions are just a da…

"Our work leads to a disruptive technology that can accelerate the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) with HADAR-based autonomous navigation and human–robot social interac…

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