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hey textlog! first few days of a new online community always feel magical. hope the magic persists here for a long time

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hi ! welcome :) it does feel magical, i hope it persists as well. Thank you for the wishes.

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"Your outie can use Claude."

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is where all the linux fortunes get injected with new electrons, new spins, new universe fairy dust to have a second eternal life?

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One benefit of everybody freaking out about the death blueberries is that blueberries are cheap for the rest of us rn

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brings so many issues. It really accelerates. Not only the good parts but also the bad parts. Combine this with a product person that doesn't even know what a refinement is. I'm 41, maybe I'll study to pivot, maybe I'll get into trading. I can't handle it anymore.

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what is a refinement? honest question - I'm restructuring our refinements now. Like having group of people discussing 5 items in an hour gives little chances any one of them will be addressed properly, unless they are trivial.

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Architect/lead have a pre-refinement with product to clear 80% of the obvious questions. We share an agenda, devs can ask questions async. In the refinement product presents, we design a solution draft. 15 minutes/item. This doesn't work if product is incompetent and everything is AI-slopped.

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Thank you, like!👍

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I finally bit the bullet and have started to use dictation software more often, even outside of just my prompts. I really like it. Hopefully, computer use becomes much smoother soon. I would love to be able to control my computer with just my voice.

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weekend plans are:

attend to the pending work that I am avoiding around home
improve my understanding of using agents in claude code and codex cli
dig into navier stokes equations from the first principles (I am excited for this)

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I hate crawlers that don’t advertise they’re crawlers. ’n badly written. They don’t respect the canonical URLs so they keep getting themselves into a loop instead of actually crawling the site properly. They make the logs really hard to read. Can’t block them they’re distributed.

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I am curious what an actual solution to this problem could be. Everything I've read about it feels like a bandaid — from robots.txt to cloudflare turnstile — there has to be a better way!

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For this particular problem though, I feel like if the crawlers are coming from domestic / residential IP addresses and they lack a distinctive http header or user agent, it is indistinguishable from a denial of service attack and must be treated as such.

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It would require permaban on IPs which would require permalogging of IPs in order to track them, and we are currently obfuscating them before hitting the DB with daily rotating salt so an anonymous user can’t be tracked. So we’d have to give up privacy/security :/

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But as long as people can still use the site it's OK, right? Seems like the problem is often self-inflicted, either because the site is so bloated that answering even GET-requests is burdensome, or because they're trying to monetize the data and so must block non-paying scrapers.

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My solution was to add an env var to disable logs from anonymous. At least now will be able to read the logs.

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After months of hardly any rain, I’m really enjoying a cozy day stuck indoors just listening to the downpour; getting on with doing some house cleaning. Is it too premature to declare this autumn⁇

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I arrived Seoul, now. Stay for 5 days.

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Football > Liverpool Research behind Liverpool’s last minute veteran-substitute-provided-draws and the talented but uncompetitive players they replace.

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Best OS?

Windows0%

MacOS38%

Linux63%

16 voted

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Results are back! 16 voted, Linux won! 🥳

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What is this? I Like It

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The most elegant code I've ever written, is of a , using a tribool return (null, undefined, boolean) to denote status. I find it perfect.

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Is it just my phone or is HN down? I haven't been able to access at all today

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Just your phone. Works for me. Try

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That works. About time for a new phone though

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"Everything worth doing is worth doing badly." Meditate even if you have the time, even if you can only do two minutes. Train even if you're tired and you're not gonna do it well. Start that project even if you're not ready. Don't wait for perfection.

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(defun textlog-post (beg end) "Publish the region between BEG and END to `textlog-url'. Interactively, requires an active region. Returns the URL of the new post when the server reports one."

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I'm making a Kakoune version of this for sure.

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Damn, is it popular or is this one hell of a coincidence?

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Ah, no, I meant meow, the Kakoune-inspired emacs plugin.

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You have , there is no need. I tried Emacs out a while ago to see whether it could replace Kakoune (I wanted to draw arbitrary stuff like images, 3D views, etc., in the editor) but honestly, Kakoune makes everything so easy to integrate that it was hard for it to compete.

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Yes, meow is the second-most popular modal editing package, after evil (vim).

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That's pretty neat.

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