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ilovetux

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About ilovetux

I am a software developer and entrepreneur located in the great commonwealth of Pennsylvania. I specialize in automation and system administration tools written in Python.

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    True, I tried to convey that.

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    Thanks. That actually makes it make more sense, chevron doctrine applied to courts and what they can/can't do. Edit: made applies past tense

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    Comment #49201217

    Didn't the supreme court recently overturn the Chevron Doctrine? Doesn't that mean agencies like this are not free to set their own rules when a law is ambiguous? And isnt the cap …

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    Comment #49173388

    First, I would like to preface that this is alpha and should not replace anything in prod at the moment. What I like about how SIEMatic is built: * Django (personal familiarity) * …

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    Comment #49172814

    Author here: Thanks for the upvotes! I built this so I could have an analytics, observability and security stack in my back pocket. Individuals, nonprofit and educational users are…

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    Comment #48977959

    I struggle with this. A kind of premature optimization. I get around it by taking really messy handwritten notes in a notebook (I guess this is called a dirt notebook, but I just c…

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    Comment #48412804

    Fair enough, I suppose. While Tesla has (in some years) avoided traditional marketing, the ceo is known for spending ridiculous amounts of money on publicity stunts like having a s…

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    Comment #48411929

    I would agree with you if we were just talking about the abstract idea of marketing. But like everything else, the devil is in the details. The marketing industry in the US is buil…

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    Comment #48312300

    > "Anthropomorphic" means "human shaped". In a literal, ancient Greek sense for sure, but in modern English Anthropomorphic would describe the act of attributing human characterist…

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    Comment #47397654

    I like the approach outlined in the article. These days having a roadmap for yourself while cruising at highway speeds helps make sense of the chaos. One big pain point that has ex…

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    Comment #47078216

    I think some AI companies are just now starting to feel the pressure to profit. Soon, I predict we will see a pretty significant jump in price that will make a 10% productivity gai…

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    Comment #46732624

    I would push back on that because I have some experience writing marketing copy. It's just not my primary competency. If the proverbial marketer that you were referring to had some…

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    Comment #46731931

    It's my opinion that AI can help a lot when it is supporting you when expanding beyond your core competency. For instance, as a SWE, I get just a little help with boilerplate from …

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    Comment #46311869

    I've always heard "slow is steady and steady is fast." Same thing, but from the trades instead of the military.

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    Comment #46168548

    The insurance company is not a charity. You will (or already have) pay the full price.

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    > FYI for anyone who isn't familiar with the wacky US insurance situation: Nobody in the US actually pays $800 for the drug. That's the "list price" for insurance companies to pay.…

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    Show HN: LogSieve – A Client-Side Log Viewer (No Back End, No Build Step)

    I built LogSieve as a small experiment: Can I build a small, completely client side application to parse and visualize logs. It turns out the answer is Yes. Drag and drop a .log or…

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    Comment #45449943

    YouTube offers an ad-free subscription called YouTube premium. It's reasonably priced and includes access to YouTube Music. I like the hybrid approach of being able to be ad-suppor…

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    Comment #45041049

    Granted, all of that is true, but GP specifically differentiated between ASCII and ASCII Extended, then GP went on to say that after choosing the ASCII option and pasting the text …

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    Disclaimer, I just pulled this quote from Google ai which probably took it from somewhere else, but I just wanted to provide a little context. ASCII encoded text is also valid utf8…