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crad

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About crad

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/gmr; my proof: https://keybase.io/gmr/sigs/PyqEORoodyr0HEsnKcYrV9D_QY61uwiWlGsDyyQQpUc ]

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    Comment #48363125

    Perhaps this should be "People don't understand how to implement good MCP servers" as opposed to MCP is dead. MCP shouldn't be 1-1 to API. It should empower users and LLMs to perfo…

  2. story
    Show HN: Claude Status

    Claude Status is a native macOS app that includes a Menu Bar status indicator and desktop widgets tracking all of your open Claude Code sessions across terminals, tmux, and IDEs. I…

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    Show HN: Imbi-Automations

    At AWeber our move from GitLab to GitHub demanded a tool that could migrate hundreds of repositories and automatically transform CI pipelines. That effort produced imbi-automations…

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    Comment #35236933

    Should try out AWeber.com

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    Comment #34546460

    Erlang vs OTP

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    Comment #33233921

    Is too bad they didn't look to see that there was another popular project called pgq: https://github.com/pgq

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    Comment #31102849

    You and I both

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    Comment #30778329

    Have run into this multiple times with them in multiple companies. For those asking, it's about the "VitualBox 6.1.32 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack" - it's free to install bu…

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    Comment #30767599

    Looks like the name of one of the open source projects in the platform: https://github.com/boxyhq/jackson

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    Comment #30265061

    I've never had to configure yapf, even though I could... "yapf -i --style=pep8" works great.

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    Comment #30261470

    What's wrong with configurable? Too much opportunity to bikeshed? I figured yapf was not "new" which is why black won. Starting about 5-6 years ago there was a push in the Python c…

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    Comment #30261408

    yeah, it's just too bad that black violates PEP-8.

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    Comment #30261388

    I'll take yapf --style=pep8 formatting over black any day.

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    Comment #29798465

    I think of the VW Bug / Beetle when I think of frunks, is it mainly a Tesla thing now?

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    Comment #29725440

    My company went full remote in response to Covid in March of 2020 and things continued to work well for us, so much so, we decided to stay that way. As a result, my wife and I were…

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    Comment #29650555

    Great writeup, lots of detail and links off to reference material. I wish more posts were like this.

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    Comment #29568876

    So my take-away from browsing the site: It's the team who built an open-source editor at GitHub and they are building a new editor. Cool... I want to check it out. Signup for a wai…

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    Comment #29514882

    Which was already a solved problem.

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    Comment #29514279

    pipx is a solution without a problem. pip worked well. setuptools was fine. pypa is breaking packaging by making it more complex and less usable IMO. pip + setuptools using setup.c…

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    Comment #29474690

    Been in us-east-1 for a long time. Things like Direct Connect and other integrations aren't easy or cheap to move and when you have other, bigger priorities, moving regions is not …

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    Comment #29473992

    We make heavy usage of Kinesis Firehose in us-east-1. Issues started ~1:24am ET and resolved around 7:31am ET. Then really kicked in at a much larger scale at 10:32am ET. We're now…

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    Comment #29188553

    "Try for Free" with no info about what I would pay... no thanks.

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    Comment #28790651

    I've been involved in open source for a long time (well before GitHub). My experience is that there are different groups with different motivations wrt open source. As someone who …

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    Comment #28766403

    > It is still a walled garden that limits hardware access, preventing the user from getting full performance out of the device. That's not been my experience, but I guess in such c…

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    Comment #28766394

    I understand you see it that way, but... > ... there's no placating the Apple horde with the truth. Pretty much summarizes what's I was suggesting as hostile.