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Comment · 8 hours ago
Is anthropic ok with using their models in non claude code harnesses?
Comment · 12 days ago
I have a similar issue, my router won’t reboot without a monitor plugged in to the hdmi port. Displayport worked fine during the installation. It was clever enough to not work with a dummy hdmi dongle either.
Comment · 1 month ago
I would love all the NukeTheStars matches in 4k, his commentary was fantastic
Comment · 1 month ago
> we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models.”

implied the humans sessions could have been (and probably were, why wouldn’t they be?) in the training set?

If I was trying to make a model smarter and I had transcripts from the smartest mathematicians in the world I’d make sure the model trained on them.

Comment · 2 months ago
Ive built data warehouses and job queues on postgres. The DW got replaced with bigquery when we started doing more tracking. We still run postgres as an app-facing cache of the aggregated data from bigquery though.

The job queue runs on the cache db, scheduling jobs to move data from bigquery into postgres. It’s pretty neat.

Now we’ve run into near-real-time requirements so clickhouse is getting thrown into the mix.

It’s pretty funny the lengths we go to to implement user facing analytics that’s basically just “you are visitor number X” from 1995.

Comment · 2 months ago
This is really cool. I'm interested in getting into 3d printing parts to help with my wood working but I can't find the time to get productive in CAD software. Something like this feels like it might tip the balance into having a 3d printer actually save me time instead of becoming another black hole of tinkering time.
Comment · 2 months ago
Yeah I sold my apple watch after about 6 months and got a good old F-91W instead. The most useful thing about it for me was having an animated memoji unicorn on my wrist to amuse people. Wasn’t really worth the trouble of charging it every night. I just want to know what time it is.
Comment · 3 months ago
I recently switched my router from pfsense to OpenBSD. I wanted a “vanilla” OS as opposed to a specific router OS like Opnsense.

The setup on openbsd was very straightforward. I had to read up a bit and claude helped getting ipv6 and vlans up. Had I ignored ipv6 it would have been ready in half an hour from just reading man pages and official docs. The only reason ipv6 took longer is because I had no idea how it works.

I researched the equivalent setup on linux and it was much less straightforward. In openbsd I only used software in the base install. For linux there were a lot more choices to make, which for me just made setting it up more difficult. I don’t want to pick a firewall, I just want to configure the simplest possible one.

The only issue I had was the system hanging when no monitor was connected to the hdmi port. I use an old apollo lake mitac pd10ai itx board. Displayport worked fine during install but black screened before I got a shell and crashed. Tried setting some kernel options to disable some display driver without success. Opted to get a dummy hdmi plug instead for reboots without a monitor.

Comment · 4 months ago
Great job on getting the fixes merged!
Comment · 4 months ago
How could an agent bypass file permissions?
Comment · 4 months ago
I came back from 6 months of parental leave in march 2026. When I left no one serious was using the tools for more than casual rubber ducking. When I came back my best colleagues were spitting out clauded PRs faster than I could review them, and they were all nice.
Comment · 5 months ago
Nice. Would you mind explaining your current config?
Comment · 5 months ago
> Enabled IPv6 autoconf (SLAAC) by default.

Sweet! I’m just about to replace pfsense with openbsd on my router. Smoothly setting up ipv6 is a bit of a headscratcher atm, mainly because i’ve never had to understand it before.

Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
I’ve only had their platforms explained to me by them (palantir) at a conference but the mental model that stuck with me was more of an operating system than a single tool. Think AWS managed services + databricks + whatever library of ready made intelligence software they have already built for others.

They also have “forward deployed engineers” to help organizations actually use the platform. It looked complicated enough to probably be completely useless without these specialists, even in a “self hosted” setup.

The managed hosting also seems like a major selling point so many deployments that probably should be self hosted probably aren’t because muh managed services added value.

And the backdoors of course. There is no way it isn’t full of plausibly deniable “metrics endpoints” that helpfully spew out all the internal data if the right key comes knocking. There’s no way it’s auditable at the level of detail you would need compared to the value of the data and the sophistication of the potential attacker (NSA).

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