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This is solved by the agent having its own identity and credentials. Why would you share your login and identity with your AI agent? Access control and permissions should be handle…

I’ve solved this by keeping my laptop keyboard uncustomized, while using Colemak-dh and home row mods on my desktop split keyboard. I’m proficient enough that I can work on anyone …

If your scale is large enough and you don’t care about identifying individuals, synthetic data does this fairly effectively.

Vietnamese also has it.

The spec requires negotiation between the devices to deliver any nontrivial amount of power. A data connection is necessary to enable charging.

Author here. I agonized over the dates in the post when I was writing it. It’s correct to the best of my knowledge, but details fade with time. I’m glad you had an easier time than…

Author here. At the time, Angular relied a lot on the AOT compiler and tree shaking to keep bundle sizes down. No idea if this is still the case. If we built the app with the stabl…

Author here. That’s the takeaway I was going for. It could have been any technology. The silver bullet is choosing the right tool for the job. I don’t have an attachment to any par…

Author here. It’s actually my Dad!

Author here. It was a gamble, but I was fighting against a very strong sunk cost fallacy in leadership at the company at the time, and there was a general lack of trust in the enti…

Author here. This was a key element of our success. The team knew exactly what they had to build, because they had already built it once. We wouldn’t have been able to hit such an …

This was 13 years ago in a small business with no significant investment. No “cheap money” was involved, just the realities of a small business with chronic NIH syndrome.

Ha, no, that was a far more mundane issue. The CMS I'm using requires double opt-in to subscribe, meaning you need to enter your email address and click the confirmation link. It a…

1Gbit symmetrical. That’s the standard residential connection in my part of Japan. In theory I could get up to double that with a different ISP, but my router doesn’t handle those …

I’m reminded of PGP signing parties where people built a web of trust via key signing. There may be a resurgence of this kind of thing as people use social heuristics to decide if …

Ghost is ridiculously good out of the box. Part of that comes from the opinionated stack it demands - support for only one database server, very specific and minimal config options…

This is a really good addition, and something I wish I’d thought to cover. I’ve added a link back to this HN thread to the post so that people who find it from other sources can be…

This is a really great point, and it’s awesome when a team strikes the right balance. In my experience these engineers tend to be rarer than the group I talk about in this post, bu…

That’s a false dichotomy. You can absolutely have two ISPs, one of whom is CF.

I’m not the author, but I’ve gone down the same path as them (Plex + ripped CDs.) My breaking point was when - as a premium subscriber already - Spotify insisted on promoting their…

I’m basing my feedback on Will Larson’s Staff Engineer archetypes ( https://staffeng.com/guides/staff-archetypes ) so read that first if you’re unfamiliar. It sounds like you’re in…

Jones has a rabid following who engaged in a campaign of stalking and harassment - including death threats and harassment by mail to their homes - against the plaintiffs. It went q…

This is the difference between correctness and fitness for purpose.