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My projects have specific build/verify steps as well, and after a certain point Claude forgets to run them. I’m going to try a “No brown M&Ms” hook to halt Claude if it tries to ru…

You don't need your own rooftop solar. You can time your charges for when power is cheap (i.e. renewables are highly represented in the grid mix). In many locations you can get an …

LLMs are not a security barrier. LLMs cannot be a security barrier. They cannot form part of a security barrier. You must place the security barrier between the LLM and the backend…

In American homes, cables are typically stapled to the wood frame construction, not run in conduit. You have to cut open the finished wall surface to change them.

I don’t take on huge IT projects anymore, or ones that have potential to require lots of changes over time. Used to do this as an agency principal and it involved a lot of time spe…

Clients for this work have come almost entirely by referral. See my other comments in this thread. For ongoing things I do fixed rate or usage based pricing. For custom one-off stu…

I work mostly in the travel industry. First client 10+ years ago came from a friend who worked as a manager in a large company and needed some special software built to improve his…

I run small outsourced IT systems for SMBs. Web scrapers, reporting, stuff like that. Baisically private bespoke SaaS. About $10k/mo gross revenue and takes a few hours of work a w…

Significantly more than $200, but we had motorized external screens & shutters put on the bedroom windows. I flashed Tasmota onto some cheap Sonoff modules to control the motors an…

Seems to be a lot of stuff flapping right now. I was able to load a client site that was behind Cloudflare, and now not. cloudflare.com was returning Connection Refused, then error…

Did you file a CA tax return? If not, it sounds like they "estimated" one for you based on your past earnings and when you didn't pay it, they seized the funds. You should be able …

Does anyone know how to tell the FB "pixel" to stop sending the query string to Facebook? Facebook now alerts you if you're sending what looks like PII to them in the query string,…

Your co-founder's code is mostly worthless at this point without the continuing involvement of the co-founder. Developers have their own idiosyncratic coding styles, and without a …

I once negotiated my rent up . In the tight rental market pre-COVID, I needed a place for my family while we waited six months for the purchase of our house to close. Our current l…

An overboost would have been catastrophic for the mission. JWST has thrusters on only one side, and to correct for an excess of velocity it would have had to rotate such that its i…

The Netherlands may not be an English-first country, but something like 95% of the Dutch speak English, a higher percentage than in Canada(!). In central Amsterdam, the default lan…

One of our border collies comes from a working line; both of her parents were working sheepdogs on a farm in Ireland. We once walked her through a field in Scotland that had a coup…

Disclaimer: I'm not a tax advisor and this is not tax advice. It might not even be correct. Do your own research and consult an attorney about your specific situation. For entertai…

This is kind of a lazyweb question because the "why marriage?" question has been discussed many times before on HN. https://www.google.com/search?q=marriage+site%3Anews.ycombin... …

We opted for a moissanite. Partly because of the ethical problems with diamond mining, and partly because my wife didn't want to carry something with the replacement value of a sma…

Geolocation databases are frequently inaccurate, even at the country level of granularity! I use a ISP in the Netherlands that was founded only recently, I and frequently encounter…

First Republic's customer service is top notch. My accounts can't possibly generate much revenue for them, but they still treat me like royalty whenever I call/email them or walk i…

Bunq was happy to open an account for me (US citizen). They asked for my US SSN and Dutch BSN at the time of account opening.

Major enterprise vulnerability scanner author here (15 years ago). Yes, we scanned the port, and yes, we ran a lot of fingerprinting rules against it until we figured out what it w…