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It sounded like a temporary situation until they get a second EU datacenter.

This is how we used to grade labs when I was a TA in college. Students worked in groups of two and showed up with a working project to get graded. Afterwards, we'd ask the two stud…

You are quite incorrect. I make a living off a website and 99.9% of my traffic is from bots. Literally hundreds of millions of requests from bots. The cost of bots is worth the cos…

I suppose it would depend, yeah. I find having paying customers being blocked to be completely unacceptable. Not only is a bad customer experience, but they tend to be very vocal a…

There are false positives. Every time I've used a tool like this, I get reports from my users about it blocking their access. It's especially bad for users who use privacy oriented…

Yeah this is one of those things that hurts some real users and AI scrapers have figured out how to bypass. Not worth it IMO.

I was wondering when something like this would happen. It's been relatively simple to do for a while now.

It's not abnormal for people to disrespect robots.txt Meta not only ignored my robots.txt but they hit me with 1k requests per second sometimes. BingBot is doing something weird. B…

I've got my old Intel MacBook in my workshop. It works great for Fusion 360 which is fairly intense. I don't code on it anymore though. Having run massive code bases on average lap…

No idea. When I was looking it up, I did see that advanced searching has to be enabled in Algolia for it to work.

I was happily doing all my coding on the $20 plan. I had to upgrade to the $100 plan once I started using Claude Design. I was spending $20-50/day on extra credits while on the $20…

HackerNews search respects double quotes around your terms as an exact match, as do many other search engines. For example search for "Amerca" with and without quotes. Without quot…

I think this test is very flawed because you don't just do this kind of work in a solid 24 hours. You plant a few growth seeds, wait a while, see how it performed, learn, try somet…

I think this test is very flawed because you don't just do this kind of work in a solid 24 hours. You plant a few growth seeds, wait a while, see how it performed, repeat.

Opus has been great for me on building simple features or adding new things. Fable has been significantly better for things like "there are subtle bugs in this complex interface I …

Max 5X. I have plenty of headroom coding using Opus all day so I figured I may as well use Fable a bit. I have found Fable to do a much better job of understanding a codebase and a…

I've been using Fable for planning and Opus for coding

I've banned China and Singapore traffic, then seen that traffic pop up from various countries globally. I assume they detect the block and move to rotating proxies.

Is anyone using something like this? I'm skeptical of scrapers paying and, if paying, paying enough to make it worthwhile.

I had a very similar setup in my college apartment. The main difference is that I had two shelves of plants in shallower tubs. I grew a ton of micro tomatoes and herbs. It was awes…

Yeah, I would call your boat a yacht too because of the sleeping cabin.

You get access to Amazon's product API only after showing a certain level of success as an affiliate.

What's the definition of a yacht? I used to talk about small yachts like yours until somebody called me out and said boats that small aren't yachts. I looked it up and I'm pretty s…

I'm not entirely against it either. I want everyone everywhere to have the best opportunities. I'm ok with things adjusting a little bit globally even if that means my own earnings…