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ivanvanderbyl

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About ivanvanderbyl

Co-Founder Ensignia. Previously founded Flood IO (Acquired), Early engineer at DigitalOcean, and did a bunch of other things.

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    Agreed, ADK is really well designed. We’ve used it as the harness for our main product since about January and it’s been solid. Instead of writing a Go converter to use it with AI …

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    Comment #49089558

    Do you guys provide ZDR? We’ve been waiting for someone to offer inference in Sydney on decent GPUs for a while but we’ve got strict no logging or retention requirements.

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    Comment #48604689

    Official press release from ASIC (no paywall) https://www.asic.gov.au/about-asic/news-centre/find-a-media-...

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    Comment #48433163

    I bought a FujiFilm X-E5 recently, which is an amazing camera for size and money, but I shocked at how miserable their iOS app is. It takes several minutes per photo to transfer. T…

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    Comment #48275061

    It’s too “load bearing”

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    Comment #47547410

    I did, they asked me to open a support ticket, which I did, and the last response I got was: > We've reviewed the details you provided and updated your case with the necessary info…

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    Comment #47547114

    Has anyone here used Telnyx? I tried to build a product against their API last year and 3 weeks after signing up they banned my account and made it impossible to get an answer as t…

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    Comment #47163472

    This is VERY new, like nothing more than some AI written docs and a readme.

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    Comment #45556035

    The last time I applied for a credit card (about 4 years ago) in Australia, the bank used an app that read the photo page and chip of my passport to verify that it was a real docum…

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    Comment #44071582

    I’ve been playing around with Zed, supports local and cloud models, really fast, nice UX. It does lack some of the deeper features of VSCode/Cursor but very capable.

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    Comment #44017528

    I’m curious to see if this exists on O2 in NZ. I switched to them last week because they do free roaming in Australia, and VoLTE calls.

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    Comment #43884411

    Service account file vs API Key have similar security risks if provided the way you are using them. Google recommends using ADC and it’s actually an org policy recommendation to di…

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    Comment #43843737

    1Password’s CLI op does a reasonably good job of this

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    Comment #43702502

    Not available in Australia?

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    Comment #43620228

    You really don’t need this much to build an MCP server in Go. I built one in a single file: https://github.com/Alcova-AI/perplexity-mcp/blob/main/main.g...

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    Comment #42483462

    I’m incredibly excited about using this, thanks for the excellent write up.

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    Comment #42407027

    Get this in the hands of James Hoffman, I’d love to hear his take on it

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    Comment #42299889

    This happened to me in Bali a few months ago, I ordered a plate of tacos, they came with a side of lime. When I squirted the lime some of it shot out the side and got me right in t…

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    Comment #42068247

    Congrats on the launch! I’m curious to hear more about your pivot from AI workflow builder to document parsing. I can see correlations there, but that original idea seems like a mu…

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    Comment #41924429

    What would you call it? Source available?

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    Comment #41145355

    I was working on a project where GitHub copilot refused to work in a currencies.go file because it contained “Vietnamese Dong”. Removing that line made it work.

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    Comment #40795612

    I don’t live in America so WealthFront and other robo-advisors aren’t available to me