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Google is actively, and directly helping companies continuously train use-case specific models based on Gemma 4 foundation. The company gets a model they fully own, trained on inte…

The interesting part is that agents are good at adding the safety layers (type safety) that exist for Ruby, but which add developer/cognitive overhead (such as Sorbet). I actually …

I'm not sure where the original poster is from, but where I'm at (Canada) my local library has a large gaming collection, including Switch 2 games. The bigger games you have to wai…

Thanks for the clarification, I see where you are coming from and definitely agree it's a real problem. I'm proud to say for myself that devices never leave the home now (and mine …

The only thing I'll add is that you never know what people are going through. Both of my children have pretty intense ADHD, and when I went through my divorce I definitely leaned i…

Coming from another stressed out startup CTO, I'm curious what your daily meditation routine look like now?

I do like the approach Basecamp took to Kanban ("Card Table") - very very simple and clean ( https://basecamp.com/features/card-table ). We moved off of Basecamp but we found it su…

Only things he has asked for, this is not driven by a need for academic improvement or anything, but a chance to learn tools to improve a known deficit with ADHD that can negativel…

Interesting. I've often considered an Apple Watch for my 9 year old, who struggles with (and benefits from) ADHD and thus would benefit from specific features such as the reminders…

Not the greatest UI, but you can show 2 conversations at the same time by command-clicking on a person/channel (or right clicking on a second person/channel and choose "Open in spl…

Your question caused a likely ludicrous and unoriginal idea to pop into my head - I wonder if it would be possible to purposefully engineer and release a mutated form of a virus li…

A couple of friends of mine are the co-founders of one of the big gif sharing sites. I've heard some pretty interesting, and very funny, stories about the sticker shock on S3 as th…

Personally, this post made me aware there are existing alternatives to Codespaces. Codespaces is very cool, but it also adds to an ever-growing single point of failure, which is de…

There's an interesting book that discusses this, "To Sell is Human" by Daniel Pink that I think is worth a read.

We migrated a high-traffic, complex site with a huge amount of data to MariaDB about 5 years ago as well, and it's been solid so far. We use Galera as well, which has performed and…

I used Fellow briefly, but it was so incredibly slow. Glad to hear you are putting a big focus on performance! Submitted myself to the beta.

To preface this, I would love to see oil sands production halted. However, evidence seems to suggest it is far too idealistic to imagine a world where the oil manufacturers / count…

PathWhiz is pretty general ( https://smpdb.ca/pathwhiz ) and covers most of that. Give it a go! You can sign in as a guest and start creating pathways. All of the gene information …

Even outside of SPA apps and new magic, Rails is still faster to develop a prototype or website in than React or dare I say any modern SPA tools. We tested this for fun with some v…

Interesting, I pointed it at my son and it immediately accurately described "a child sitting at a white table doing a jigsaw puzzle". I pointed at one of his Lego creations, and im…

There is a common fear (and I have to admit I irrationally feel this fear) that your ranking will be impacted negatively by not using Google Analytics. Maybe not intentionally, but…

Not sure when you used ActiveRecord, but slow query logging helps a lot to identify these issues. I also appreciate that in the docs for ActiveRecord they make it very clear that j…

It's actually a legitimate phenomenon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15643663

As a long time Rails developer, pushing products and prototypes out the door quicker than peers, it's heart-warming to see messages like yours more often on Hacker News lately.