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wrxd

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About wrxd

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    Comment #49225731

    > I actually think everyone should be forced to 5 day RTO for their own good Fine. Let’s also break up companies that have offices in multiple cities and pick the maximum number of…

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    Comment #49148753

    Would you say that the generated video is good? Better than I would have expected? Sure. Impressive that it got that far? Definitely. But is the end result good?

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    Comment #49148724

    How many more millions of tokens do you need to spend to get something of acceptable quality?

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    Comment #49138384

    The fediverse has a very vocal group of BSD users. Many of them hang out here: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/public/local

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    Comment #49137781

    Seconded. I still like the forum format and I’d like to join a good one

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    Comment #49102128

    Another example of the galaxy brain people who like employees to go to an office but then are happy to have offices all over the world, some of which have 8 hours of timezone diffe…

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    Comment #48899836

    An alternative is to use ssh keys stored in the Secure Enclave with tools like https://secretive.dev/

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    Comment #48847621

    I use the acme dns-1 challenge on my public domain. That gives you certificates you can use as you see fit, without needing to expose anything else to the public internet. I also u…

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    Comment #48817867

    This is why you should install an ad blocker

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    Comment #48816192

    > asks Claude whether birds are present I would ask Claude to write some computer vision code to detect birds and save a lot of money

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    Comment #48796925

    Or it will stay the same as the efficiency gains will be eaten up by bigger models

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    Comment #48772386

    It doesn’t even need access to nix config. It could use nix shell to grab the tools it needs.

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    Comment #48760157

    https://www.fastly.com/about/careers/current-openings?depart... doesn't seem to show any engineering remote position, let alone any position in the UK/EU

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    Comment #48721300

    On macOS I settled for Nix + HomeManager rather than going fully nix-darwin

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    Comment #48721284

    The majority of these commits are to keep packages up to date. Easy to get an incredibly high number of commits when nixpkgs is a monorepo containing the definition of 140000 packa…

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    Comment #48721234

    I have NixOS installed on a 2009 MacBook Pro and it works well enough every time I pick it up. I'm probably also going to install it on a 2019 iMac once macOS stops getting securit…

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    Comment #48721198

    I also really like that Nix (both on NixOS or as a package manager for Linux/macOS) can temporarily fetch packages with `nix shell` removing entirely the need to install something …

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    Comment #48720454

    My point wasn't really about the capability of a phone compared to a computer. I have thoughts on that but it's not the point I was making. Assigning tasks to devices can be done d…

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    Comment #48718882

    The sad thing about phones being he primary (and in many case the only) computing devices for most people is that they lose the possibility of separating the tasks that the do on t…