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relistan

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About relistan

30 years in tech. 10 startups. Live in Dublin, Ireland

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    Comment #48344434

    Are you in middle school?

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    Comment #48344065

    Yep a bunch of people who often exhibit swarm behavior.

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    Comment #48343939

    Sure, but you cannot deny the hypocritical swarm behavior, which is the point.

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    Comment #48343927

    Hacker News: “It’s unfair the burden put on maintainers of the core pillars of open source software. Show some respect for the maintainers, and do your best to contribute.” … littl…

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    Comment #48333768

    This is now the word

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    Comment #48333692

    They did say "everything I can find" which, while not citing references, you would also have found it you tried to Google this at all. Here's one https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24…

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    Comment #48159089

    Having built two production, scaled evented systems over the last decade, I don’t see the need for this. Properly designed events flatten to a table schema in a regular DB quite ea…

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    Comment #48158040

    I am a Go dev, too. I consider Go my main language. The BEAM has a very, very similar architecture to the M:N scheduler in Go. Goroutines are not dissimilar to BEAM processes. You …

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    Comment #48158025

    At least they can patch all of them to fix it at once. 16 year old new drivers are harder to patch.

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    Comment #48157965

    Elixir and Phoenix is a better production platform than Django.. I’m not throwing shade on Django, many production systems use it happily. I’m saying that Phoenix/Elixir is better,…

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    Comment #48157890

    Contrast that with my personal experience of items from the UK ( specifically the UK , my experience is different elsewhere) where “untested” almost always means “I tested it and I…

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    Comment #47907744

    And, thank you for that! Still my favorite site on the internet.

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    Comment #47327793

    I found a similar (though much smaller! 1GB) Kingston drive from about 2008 that had been in storage since I moved overseas. 14 years later it still had all the data on it.

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    Comment #47099003

    It’s not clear to me from this, but I hope that the “removability” component of this means the end of “disposable” vapes with a fixed lithium battery installed. I can’t even count …

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    Comment #46991760

    While some things are doing great, there's a not insignificant amount of inertia in government for the last decade. This is actively being discussed in the Irish press. And Ireland…

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    Comment #46989323

    Alternatively, it's successful and is expanded to support more artists in the future. Cynicism with governance not unjustified in Ireland, but here we are looking at some actual pr…

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    Comment #46343482

    These things work well on the extremely limited task impetus that we give them. Even if we sidestep the question of whether or not LLMs are actually on the path to AGI, Imagine ins…

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    Comment #46180393

    Way back, Perl got off the ground really because, in contrast to the C compilers of the era, code written on one Unix ran on the others, usually unmodified. In my first jobs, where…

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    Comment #44743950

    My guess is that you're letting the context get polluted with all the stuff it's reading in your repo. Try using subagents to keep the top level context clean. It only starts to fo…

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    Comment #44743913

    I actually had Claude and Gemini both do it and revise each other's work to get to the final doc. Worked surprisingly well.

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    Comment #44743355

    To a certain extent you are probably still not using it optimally if you are still doing that much work to clean it up. We, for example, asked the LLM to analyze the codebase for t…

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    Comment #44613395

    As AI tools become more dominant, businesses are going to want their documents to be fully read by their AI in whatever format they are in. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a fight o…

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    Comment #44571183

    All of this is a mess. But it should never even have been possible for it to fall to a single developer to screw up and commit a key like that. If there were anything like proper p…