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mixologic

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About mixologic

Multi disciplinary generalist. Fullstack Developer + DevOps + IA + Consultant.

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    Comment #48729166

    US States aren't allowed to have permanent DST, but they can have permanent standard time.

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    Comment #48709255

    Its a nightmare because it erodes trust. Doctors are not "always right" which is why "always get a second opinion" is codified in culture. But AI's problem is that its completely f…

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    Comment #48704295

    Read up on the "chicken tax" for how long the auto industry has navigated weird assemvly games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

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    Comment #48633487

    "killed" is a bit of a stretch. High prices on all gear is here to stay. This is the new normal. Unless that simply means that nobody buys consoles/pc's. But you cant compare the p…

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    Comment #48406373

    Never, ever put a form into a popup. Ever.

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    Comment #48348981

    Privacy and Bot defense are opposite ends of the same fulcrum. If you permit privacy, the site/service has to trust users to behave and follow the rules. If you track users, then t…

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    Comment #48241631

    Right now the only codebase I care about them fixing vulnerabilities in are the 3800 repositories that got stolen from GitHub. "Vulnerabilities in the software that makes the inter…

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    Comment #48194722

    Heh, you mean the railway that was part of the whole "my production db got deleted in 9 seconds" story? That company sounds a lot like one that doesn't focus on the right things.

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    Comment #48186189

    For me the big question with something like Zed is how/when does it get monetized? How does Root/Ventures, V1.VC, Matchstick, Redpoint, and Sequoia get paid and what does that even…

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    Comment #48183312

    yet . The hallmarks of enshittification are there. We've all been through the cycle of "this product is too good to be true, and provides considerably more value than it costs" "Cu…

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    Comment #48130286

    This makes me wonder when we'll start trading memory on the commodities markets.

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    Comment #48080699

    https://signpath.org/ is about as close as you can get.

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    Comment #48080690

    Theres two different steps, there is signing and there is notarization . You sign with the developer certificate using productsign/codesign, and then there is notarization, which y…

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    Comment #48017380

    The meme investors can stay irrational long before gamestop gets a growth story. If they haven't given up on their get rich quick scheme that's lasted over five years now, I really…

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    Comment #47914250

    Yeah, thats FUD. Cloudflare hasnt called anybody demanding huge sums of cash and holding your domains hostage. As a registrar they're fine, dont play scammy scum upsell games (beca…

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    Comment #47792843

    DMARC isn't really that big of an issue to wrestle with, and I don't see how it gives anybody influence or power.

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    Comment #47415440

    Worth noting that mcollina is a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee

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    Comment #47145718

    This is already true if you want to run a piece of software on an iPhone, on MacOS, on Windows, on any video game console.

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    Comment #47134440

    I find it amazing that skills are essentially excellent tools for humans to understand too.

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    Comment #47068109

    pretty sure I've had slack show me whole web pages without kicking me out to the mobile browser.

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    Comment #47036584

    A friend of mine has also been working on a Ghidra MCP: looks like theres a few of them: https://github.com/themixednuts/GhidraMCP

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    Comment #46992700

    Yes, Linus Torvalds is famously agreeable.

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    Comment #46968119

    Doesnt the tooling already exist? i.e. you could use `git notes` to attach agent state as checkpoints to Trees, Commits, Tags etc.

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    Comment #46968081

    what about using git notes to stash the summaries? ( https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes )

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    Comment #46962934

    *I'm so excited about landscape design. Can't wait to do more. Employing a gardener to do the gardening for me is really making me enjoy landscape design again!