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nubskr

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    Won't something like scyllaDB be a better choice for such workloads ? as long as you're fine with eventual consistency ofc

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    Comment #46656477

    Seems like sometimes the best tech stack is the one that refuses to die :))

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    Comment #46656468

    I've been using Claude Code for my research notes and had the same realization, it's less about perfecting prompts and more about building tools so it can surprise you. The moment …

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    Comment #46656436

    Mandiant releases rainbow tables for a 25 year old broken protocol because enterprises still won't disable it. It seems like sometimes the best security tool is just making the ris…

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    Comment #46656423

    That's actually the state of autonomous coding in 2026, scale the output, skip the verification.

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    Comment #46600749

    Until I saw this, I thought my weirdest infrastructure decision was using NFS for swap. Now I'm wondering if I can mount my browser tabs over UDP.

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    Comment #46600721

    Finding out "computer" was a job title because precise calculation was so hard to find makes me feel less bad about needing a calculator for basic arithmetic.

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    Comment #46600693

    so they already queried the DB to know your link is broken, but chooses not to spend more compute telling you why?

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    Comment #46599370

    It's fully how Max Brod saved Kafka's work by ignoring his dying wish and prague repaid him by turning Kafka into a hummus cafe.

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    Comment #46599360

    Temporal being immutable alone is worth whatever migration pain we're about to endure.

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    Comment #46599356

    The 'break it and it's gone' constraint seems weirdly empowering compared to cloud magic :/

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    Comment #46586249

    Spent the last month building a FUSE mount and now I can't stop thinking about what else I can filesystem.

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    Comment #46585979

    So negative temperature makes LLMs output their "forbidden words" i.e. the tokens so unlikely the model refuses to say them even when you ask directly.

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    Comment #46527237

    Another day, another MCP server. Wake me up when we stop needing a new protocol for every AI tool to talk to every other AI tool.

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    Comment #46527195

    Helping my mom recover from OneDrive's "cleanup" was the closest I've come to negotiating with terrorists.

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    Comment #46527154

    Turns out the best GPU optimization is just being too scared of graphics drivers to do the fancy stuff, 10-15x faster and you can actually debug it.

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    Comment #46524437

    I keep telling myself I'm using the sea approach but my git history says hammer and chisel

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    Comment #46524394

    most of the financial systems are just as hackable as computer systems, but most "security" startups just build compliance checkboxes and culturally appropriate hacker ethos for VC…

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    Comment #46524370

    The holy trinity of modern hardware: update servers, firmware locks, and abandoned devkits

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    Comment #46513151

    'Most code I don't read.' The 2026 senior dev: a product manager with commit access and a really fast intern.