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bdcravens

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About bdcravens

Director of Technology for Refund Retriever. Fancy title, but I'm just the Chief Nerd that runs code, architecture, ops, etc... Used most languages the serve up web traffic since 1999, but mostly Ruby, Javascript, and ColdFusion/CFML.

Whatever opinions I express here are mine alone, and don't reflect those of my employer.

My HN username is how you'll find me pretty much everywhere else.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49247424

    They make it up by making you walk through the store to get to them

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    Comment #49235978

    Correct, never has been. It's marketing in the vein of "serverless" and "wireless".

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    Comment #49235966

    Even if you're under the limit, if they have a way of knowing when you were not there (eg, camera footage), they use the rate of alcohol metabolization to determine what your BAC w…

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    Comment #49219102

    If it hadn't died, you'd still be running it.

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    Comment #49217379

    > A lot of code is being written and a lot of it is going to be a real future burden. This assumes that the models of the future won't find it easier to just throw the code away an…

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    Comment #49212343

    It's satire, because this is an expansion of the border wall. "....the Trump administration's plans to expand the president's border wall across one of the country's most remote na…

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    Comment #49212311

    A majority did, but Texas isn't unified politically. There's actually more blue voters in Texas than in many "blue" states. (And the inverse is true in California)

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    Comment #49149726

    I wonder if there will be any funny data issues that happen because companies keep track of such requests in a table named "drop"

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    Comment #49133553

    Happy to see they have a selection from the location (Ramen Tatsu-ya, in Austin) that started my love of ramen https://ramen.haus/united-states/austin/tatsu-ya-the-og/

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    Comment #49128335

    Nice app, though the naming is very close to others https://github.com/termix-ssh/termix

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    Comment #49119324

    Some of our biggest wins were in a legacy code base, where changes would require a lot of archaeology. I feel like Claude (and probably most coding LLMs) really shine when optimizi…

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    Comment #49117137

    I recently handed off a prompt to redesign our customer site and give me 10 potential designs. I did it in Claude Opus 5 and Fable (on $200 plan), and then on Codex using 5.6 Sol. …

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    Comment #49116758

    I'm probably in the 5x-10x range, but we are a very small team, and we've been accumulating a backlog of ideas over the years. I drive the architecture, and have almost complete au…

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    Comment #49087821

    Additionally, the loan program was administered by Citizens Bank, not Apple.

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    Comment #49087709

    I have the same dual 32" LG setup at home and the dayjob, and have never had any issues or any requirements to install anything for them to work. That said, they're QHD, not 4k or …

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    Comment #49042727

    Ruby is .rb, but .ru is affiliated with Ruby via rack (config.ru, where "ru" stands for "rack up")

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    Comment #49042530

    Code is the easy part.

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    Comment #49025697

    "federal authorities had put him on a terrorism watchlist because of his alleged association with the movement against Cop City" Talk about burying the lede

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    Comment #49021293

    I'm seeing 8.43% for GOOG.

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    Comment #49020989

    True, but I think it's the difference between doing it for a single $200 subscription vs spending $200 a day in tokens.

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    Comment #49020819

    I choose to believe this comment is satire.

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    Comment #49020720

    They're keeping a foot in the game with their own offerings, but I believe they're biding their time to see who to buy.

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    Comment #49010379

    There are many consuming APIs for Hermes.

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    Comment #49006471

    I think it's the other way around. They're not talking about CEO ability, they're talking about CEO performance, which aren't the same. Money follows performance (based on outcomes…

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    Comment #49001317

    The Grok ones are amusing, almost comically bad. However, whenever I've tried to pass an image creation request to any of the Opus models, it's been far worse, like first week of u…