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cyounkins

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    Comment #48467542

    Gotta love the word 'sanction'. It is it's own antonym! "The committee sanctioned the new policy." (approved it) "The committee sanctioned the rogue nation." (penalized it)

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    Comment #44832001

    Could anyone compare this with Claude Code and aider?

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    Comment #44504466

    > Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for their content. It …

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    Comment #43921644

    How does Astral plan on making money?

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    Comment #43408749

    Why is glibc malloc() not more performant? Are tcmalloc/mimalloc making tradeoffs that maintainers are unwilling to make in glibc?

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    Comment #43163438

    I don't yet see it in Bedrock in us-east-1 or us-east-2

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    Comment #42892906

    I switched an agent from Sonnet V2 to o3-mini (default medium mode) and got strangely poor results: only calling 1 tool at a time despite being asked to call multiple, not actually…

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    Comment #40755023

    Is there a lighter weight solution that abstracts the interfaces so I can swap GPT4 with Claude, including function calling?

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    Comment #40241419

    Do you mean that you did the research, or your AI product did the research? How are you assessing whether a death was plausibly murder? So strange that the one example you find is …

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    Comment #40006266

    I ran into this before! https://medium.com/@cyounkins/encrypted-dns-ntp-deadlock-9e3...

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    Comment #39533529

    I tried a few PFAS-free dental flosses that were horrible. I settled on Reach Waxed - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005IHMXEQ

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    Comment #39348470

    Interesting that you say you worry about re-creating the cluster from scratch because I've experienced exactly the opposite. Our EKS cluster required so many operations outside Clo…

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    Comment #39323389

    I've climbed the mountain of learning the basics of kubernetes / EKS, and I'm thinking we're going to switch to ECS. Kubernetes is way too complicated for our needs. It wants to be…

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    Comment #37084924

    Anyone else have experiences with Ruckus APs? I have Unifi right now. edit: RUCKUS R760 - $1800 - Wi-Fi 6E 4x4:4 RUCKUS R560 - $950 - Wi-Fi 6E 2x2:2 RUCKUS R750 - $820 - Wi-Fi 6 4x…

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    Comment #36885069

    BBC thinks it is "aerobic and weights"

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    Comment #36884496

    Yep! The isometric leg extension is more commonly known in the US as a plank. Pictures here: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-66303982

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    Comment #36669813

    I was surprised to learn that PFAS are in dental floss, used to help in glide between teeth easily. This study linked using such floss and higher blood concentrations of PFAS: http…

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    How well does OPNsense deal with bufferbloat in a home networking situation? It appears to implement fq_codel for traffic shaping, but not the newer cake algorithm. Test: https://w…

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    Comment #35847424

    High fructose corn syrup is a very poor example. It is composed of fructose and glucose, both very familiar molecules to our bodies.

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    I set up an account with the public DNS provider and it doesn't appear to support multiple entries per record type. For example, time.cloudflare.com has two A records but the UI on…