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kyrra
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About kyrra
The opinions stated here are my own, not necessarily those of my employer.
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Comment #49232565
Piper only works with CitC. Which is effectively a virtual file system when mounted locally. And when you have a monorepo that big, standard tools that want to scan an entire direc…
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Comment #49232108
The problem with many of these tools is they are built on lots of other tech, like S3 dev called out: https://x.com/haipingfu/status/2084880266858995990 Piper is built on lots of o…
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Comment #49231591
It's really the case that Git is terrible at scale. Honestly most source control is. When you have teams of 10,000+ people working on code, if you wanted to shard it, it will be lo…
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Comment #49118667
Have those leads that left said why they left? Could it just be money?
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Comment #49006115
My general take is all of The GPU design efforts are going toward Enterprise / datacenter graphics cards. They are just skipping a generation or two of consumer.
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Comment #48690509
It seems like this was entirely caused by Dario (and Anthropic as a whole)? When you run around marketing something as a "super weapon", the government may actually take you seriou…
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Comment #48632382
input latency. the time from pressing a key to showing on-screen is much lower with ghostty (I can't find exact number, but it seems to handle input 2-4x quicker. So around 15ms in…
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Comment #48631739
I think it's not just the answer you get, but using AI as a stochastic search engine over the rules to point you to potential answers.
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Comment #48614153
It also locks up things for homeowners that want to DIY a solution fixing a house. Obviously people fix things without looking at the codes (and there are plenty of horror stories …
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Comment #48612454
Construction codes are still pay walled. NEC (electric) is $170: https://www.nfpa.org/product/nfpa-70-national-electrical-cod... IPC (plumbing) is $130: https://webstore.ansi.org/s…
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Comment #48586782
Store page: https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/network-storage/products... $3999
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Comment #48560023
JWT used to be bad due to libraries with poor defaults. Downgrade attacks were fairly common a number of years ago. Since most of the common libraries across all languages have got…
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Comment #48556660
Googler, opinions are my own. My understanding is they're doing this in the name of security, though it obviously has some benefit to ads. this policy more closely aligns with what…
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Comment #48436683
It's also nice that this has been solved for Blu-ray as well. You just have to buy the correct kind of Blu-ray drive, and there's custom firmware out there to flash on the drive an…
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Comment #48417806
The BCB in Brazil does very little to operate Pix. It's effectively a P2P system, where the BCB forces all the banks to interop with one-another (and all the banks directly call ea…
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Comment #48401738
Looks like the dude got suspended for being a bot: https://piunikaweb.com/2026/05/28/x-suspend-accounts-ai-repl... (direct link: https://x.com/nikitabier/status/2059789636885790911…
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Comment #48393825
A point that can be made is that just throwing money at something that doesn't produce meaningful results can be good to cut. having a bunch of data for data sake doesn't make it u…
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Comment #48376935
Potentially predicated on anti-dumping rules.
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Comment #48375829
Settings -> All Settings -> Smart Features -> Turn on [off] smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet... If you disable that feature, all AI everything goes away (including sorting b…
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Comment #48314250
And Obama did this. See his famous pen and phone quote: "We are not just going to be waiting for legislation in order to make sure that we're providing Americans the kind of help t…
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Comment #48235128
I'm a googler, opinions are my own. My take is that it's a fancy wrapper around the CLI tool. It's there to organize multiple conversations and see all the related output and gener…
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Comment #48230843
There's a new setting rolling out in the YouTube app. Go to settings > time management > shorts feed limit. Turn that setting on, and you can select how many minutes you limit to. …
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Comment #48212443
the Railway PM doesn't say they weren't told. It just sort of glosses over this. I would be interested to know if they were told (or not).
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Comment #48085775
Saas code hosting seems to be the problem here. If companies self hosted, they could deal with the scaling problems themselves.
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Comment #48083634
Google has ~190k employees. You can't have total collaboration across that many people. Teams will cross collaborate, but they have to be for specific projects with specific people…