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reactordev

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About reactordev

I’m not the droid you’re looking for, move along.

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    Comment #49243271

    I bought a sailboat in 2022 and sailed all over the caribbean from florida from 2022-2025. I came across a lot of funny boat names. My boat was not among them sadly as I was seriou…

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    Comment #49230489

    Microsoft was big enough as they were already selling DOS and DOS software.

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    Comment #49226348

    Experience curves are just as important. However, this article reminded me of this meme https://imgur.com/gallery/eve-online-learning-curve-jj16ThL

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    Comment #49222365

    On the other hand, it's the only time I have a few minutes to actually check my phone...

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    Comment #49213728

    wait what? You're joking. Some rando just picked a fight, walked it back, then gave you his HN account?

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    Comment #49212864

    It’s also entirely ok to manage something for a long period of time and reach your end. No shame in walking away.

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    Comment #49212335

    https://github.com/Wyzer-Lang/wyzer#3-control-flow Is mut a thing? looks like rust.

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    Comment #49212221

    for one-shots and non-developers, it was useful. Simply because you found no utility in it doesn't mean there isn't one.

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    Comment #49209448

    This is the word smithing they are known for. By labeling “common sense” means anyone who argues against it is against “common sense” because every argument is a strawman argument.…

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    Comment #49195633

    I think you are taking things way to literally. Walking around in GTA and in RDR2 was a NN trained in bipedal locomotion (Dynamic Motion Synthesis - NaturalMotion Euphoria). LLM ap…

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    Comment #49188383

    Now you’re getting into the realm of old SOA… where data exchanges are just as stochastic as services on the pipe.

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    Comment #49173728

    I had a 50/50 chance. :)

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    Comment #49173259

    sounds like you need to move west of 8-mile... If you live in a community that can't police, then sure, flock is your answer. Everyone is under surveillance now. Except you are inn…

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    Comment #49173206

    https://www.kcrg.com/2025/12/24/cedar-rapids-police-cameras-... https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/colorado-news/dougl... https://www.wabe.org/cobb-county-youtuber-documents-…

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    Comment #49172787

    Flock data can be accessed by anyone. Literally. anyone. at anytime. Go see for yourselves. https://measuredcollective.com/flocks-ai-surveillance-camera...

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    Comment #49172775

    Small towns don't want people spying on them. Small towns also are prime targets for pushing over with your federal approvals to force them into giving you their tax money in the n…

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    Comment #49171546

    coming... What you have today is the result of 5 years ago of decisions. Give it time to catch up. There's a couple on the horizon that are going to blow you away. However, there a…

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    Comment #49168123

    That is such an old school way of describing dialog trees. This isn't how it's done anymore. You're going to see more NN's making the decisions than fuzzy matching. That said, I th…

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    Comment #49156501

    yes, I average 80-120 tok/s on my RTX 3080 with gemma 4 and faster with Qwen 3.5. The main use-case here is just code-monkey agents. I'm not looking for architectural guidance, but…

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    Comment #49155355

    that's because most people's intro to CS was how to build a webpage.

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    Comment #49135869

    The biggest misconception here is that the client or requester is responsible for the keys. They aren’t. They can be but ideally a signed response from the service with a key is id…

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    Comment #49133517

    You aren’t wrong. That’s why recruiters and placement agencies exist. The statement is still true though. It’s just mostly deferred now onto another entity.

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    Comment #49130880

    So is the recruiting pipeline. Kill that and you kill the company. Agents and AI can only do so much, the rest is people power. Sadly too many companies have broken recruiting proc…

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    Comment #49129937

    It’s cat and mouse game. Australia blocks sites, sites move urls. If you don’t keep up, then they have caught you too. Streaming sites can just delete your purchases whenever they …

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    Comment #49116083

    This. If truck drivers have to maintain safety records, if firefighters require certification and training, cops do too. To hell with this implied immunity bullshit, either they ar…