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cagenut

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About cagenut

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    Comment #49024663

    and flying. beef and flying are the two most impactful personal choices you can make (nearly everything else has a 'over a decade'/difficult-life-tradeoff factor). beef and flying …

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    Comment #48706360

    the downside is it allows us to continue to avoid solving the real problem ideologues will tell you this is that all mankind suddenly lost their ability to exert self-discipline a …

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    Comment #48074517

    there are dozens of us!

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    Comment #47888930

    similar enough that i'll share, I think i learned this from an HN comment, you can put the code for a page in the url (with obvious limits): this works as a "url" in both chrome an…

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    Comment #47553963

    honestly, look internally. after the plane from qatar. after the son-in-law's real estate dealings. after the visible-to-everyone kalshi and oil futures bets frontrunning the admin…

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    Comment #47364636

    sorry thats too far left wing an opinion in america today

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    Comment #47356460

    really? or is it just that you don't like the answer so you keep trying to find another one. what historical examples of this very common pattern did you read up on?

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    Comment #47202868

    is there anywhere good to read/follow to get operational clarity on this stuff? my current system of looking for 1 in 1000 posts on HN or 1 in 100 on r/locallama is tedious.

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    Comment #47115649

    so is love this level of reductive thought termination goes nowhere

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    Comment #46865813

    spacex is one thing but xai accomplished what? the most racist csam prone llm?

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    Comment #46809326

    it was basically a mindless loop, very prime for being agent driven: - observe error rate uptick - maybe dig in with apm tooling - read actual error messages - compare what apm and…

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    Comment #46800684

    after a decade of follow-the-sun deployments by php contractors from vietnam to costa rica where our only qa was keeping an eye on the 500s graph, ai can't scare me.

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    Comment #46799206

    obviously you're not a devops eng, I think you're wildly under-estimating how much of business critical code pre-ai is completely orphaned anyway. the people who wrote it were cont…

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    Comment #46678703

    it has been amazing to watch how much of agentic ai is driven by "can you write clear instructions to explain your goals and use cases" and "can you clearly define the rules of eac…

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    Comment #46305919

    People Make Games did a mini documentary on almost exactly what you're asking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PHT-zBxKQQ Its three years old so things have slightly matured.

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    Comment #46129465

    you could stuff the racks full of server-rack batteries (lfp now, na-ion maybe in a decade) and monetize the space and the high capacity grid connect most of the hvac would sit idl…

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    Comment #45731765

    everybody read 'bullshit jobs' and basically agreed at first that just meant many of us adopted a middle-aged-coasting career strategy after covid and/or having kids but now manage…

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    Comment #45600823

    hmmm thats 200g in the wrong direction

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    Comment #45111230

    wag that dog

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    Comment #45111209

    almost, what you're seeing there is the too cute by half smug nugget of wisdom tone, which is really the trademark of the self-styled "writer", but because self-styled writers wrot…

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    Comment #44845835

    it was only ever a distraction/cover-story for cutting medicaid it worked

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    Comment #44816733

    real devops pro contrarian move "what if I broke DNS so hard it actually made me better at my job"

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    Comment #44784566

    daycare used to be an extended familiy or village thing, now its on the ~1.7 parents per kid to earn enough to pay a commercial supplier.

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    Comment #43803640

    it is cruel. the cruelty is the point.

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    Comment #43732963

    you're committed to the username bit