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ramblurr

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About ramblurr

Father. Clojurist. Independent software consultant. Activist street band musician https://casey.link

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    Comment #49262831

    Coffi is a great library that makes Panama FFI/FFM painless without interop. https://github.com/IGJoshua/coffi For example look at this arc from sqlite4clj https://github.com/ander…

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    Comment #49142345

    Is this ruling related to https://keepandroidopen.org/ at all? It's not clear to me..

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    Comment #49041454

    Ironically as a Clojure developer I would really love a JDK native JSON library that we could wrap to avoid having to ship 3rd party JSON deps. Sort of like how java.net.http made …

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    Comment #48875661

    Stagnant? Both are alive and well. It's never been better to be a clojure+datomic dev.

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    Comment #48848218

    > TLS certificates for internal services* done right * "internal services" = on a single server that is publicly routable

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    Comment #48602670

    > their cost of operation is still something most people can afford: approximately $30/mo now. Your definition of "most people" must be very different than the literal meaning.

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    Comment #48544066

    Don't forget these price increases are only for new purchases. Old rentals keep their price.

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    Comment #48541335

    This is the second company (that I know of) that got acquired shortly after an AI pivot and re-brand. See: OpenAI to acquire Ona https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491821

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    Comment #48540435

    > > The bottleneck is compute and data, not the model. > I disagree. It is not the model alone. It needs a system which capitalizes on it. And this is very complex. Hardware, softw…

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    Comment #48540313

    > > The Kobos don't limit what you can do with them either, you can sideload alternative e-reader software like KOReader that improves on the built-in reader functionality. > This …

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    Comment #48536997

    Yes, it is widely known in the epub space that targeting 3.1 or 2 is the more sane option. With EPUB compatibility issues CSS should always be suspect number 1. Using "modern" CSS …

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    Comment #48519881

    But a message about your Door dasher also likely wouldn't be justified.

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    Comment #48503814

    That is false for AWS. There are no spending limits that stop usage and cost after some threshold.

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    Comment #48496369

    Ona used to be GitPod. They renamed about 9 months ago. Looks like the AI pivot paid off! Congrats.

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    Comment #48373559

    Have you tried jeep? https://github.com/pyrmont/jeep/ It let's you vendor deps and easily install modern Janet bundles without jpm.

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    Comment #48368444

    Always nice to see janet getting some attention. shout out to one modern feature: sandbox "Disable feature sets to prevent the interpreter from using certain system resources. Once…

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    Comment #48279721

    Gosh. I am very interested in the story here. But I find that I can't engage with the text, because all my attention is going to is noticing the AI-isms. The way in which a message…

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    Comment #48278922

    What document? Do you have any sources to back these claims up?

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    Comment #48157734

    This link is clearly an AI laundered version of the long running joke from Xe Iaso. Shame. https://xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/CVE-2024... https://news.ycombinator.…

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    Comment #48124981

    Is y'alls collective memory so short? Copilot just a few years ago was auto complete on steroids that was entirely first party and trained by GH on users' code.

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    Comment #48054224

    Postgres, MySQL, all of them, they write to files (binary, not text) on your disk. What happens if your postgres VM dies? (Hint: whatever your answer is it'll apply to SQLite too)

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    Comment #47593582

    Emacs totally supports this! Mixing monosoace and proportional fonts can be a little strange, but there are some 3rd party packages or guides (prot has one iirc) to workaround it.

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    Comment #47527381

    Interesting! I was looking for discussion of LCM and found your comment. Something I am seeing in my impl is that the agent isn't using the retrieval tools enough to make it useful…

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    Comment #47355327

    ...and all the HN comment replies too! Egh.

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    Comment #47332681

    It seems like there's a missed use case: web archiving. I don't see any mention of WARC as an output format. This could be useful to journalists and academically if they had it.