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> I'm very intrigued by AI note takers, but I'm absolutely unwilling to expose me or my clients to this exact problem Unfortunately it’s mostly not up to you. It’s a weakest-link p…

How do you debug SSE messages since they don’t show up in chrome dev tools with Datastar?

> having a high signal-to-noise ratio for (open source) projects is a desirable goal? It’s not obviously true. A higher number of attempts, a larger talent pool, typically doesn’t …

> It would absolutely end 95% of crime It might solve much of existing crime, but that’s not the same as a net reduction in crime. Bribery, blackmail, and coercion would just fill …

> You already have an agent freely doing stuff on your machine No. Agents run in VMs. Assume anywhere you’re running an agent will be compromised, because eventually, it will be. T…

Is anyone working on rewriting Rust in Bun?

Have you done iron infusions? My wife has to get these once in a while. She had gastric surgery years back and has issues with absorption of oral supplements.

The job will run the next time a worker runs (in both cases). And doesn’t that mean the job potentially runs twice? Yes. In DBOS there are two kinds of “things that run”: workflows…

> Programming is ultimately the work of constructing a mental model, and that mental model is inherently personal So that’s why we now have as many different tech stacks as we have…

The most surreal part of this from the Wired article [1]: > The records sit in Airtable A secret cabal running the world. On AirTable. [1] https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-…

> What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence What’s your evidence for this claim?

This is ironic. They didn’t say they believe. You offered your belief that you know something that happened long ago (extraordinary claim), and they are naturally curious how you c…

Hudson Rock has a free domain lookup tool for affected domains: https://www.hudsonrock.com/fortinet

Oh no a coronal mass ejection has taken out the power grid

Except for the bitlocker vulnerability that lets someone with the physical computer bypass it. Other than that, it works flawlessly.

You don’t have to login with the online account. Before you install: - Disable the network cards in the BIOS - Install - When prompted to setup the network press Shift+F10 - Type: …

> Who is doing package management right these days? Who is doing it securely? QBASIC. When you need a package you type it in from a magazine. Virtually anything you could ever need…

One difference is, when the business hits a tough patch, the bank starts asking questions, and whether or not the bank lets it all continue depends primarily on whether there’s a C…

Can you clarify the point you’re trying to make? C-level people are forced out all the time. Even the CEO reports to the board.

There’s at least one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mockapetris

The body can know more than it can tell.

Containers were never a security boundary

DBOS is much less complexity compared to Temporal. That’s the benefit. Main tradeoff is lower performance. Or at least, you’re going to be limited to what you can push through Post…

> we are transferring value from our current standard of living to pay for retirement checks Isn’t this just what happens when you have an inverted pyramid (older population is lar…

How would one even know if the port of 100k LOC was successful? Are there language-agnostic tests (CLI STDIN/STDOUT) or similar involved?