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Hey, Vlad! History did not sync between Orion on my MacBook and Orion on my iPhone. Bookmarks synced, however. I was running the latest version on all devices. Perhaps it's PEBKAC; I'll give it another go, as using Orion was an excellent experience otherwise.

exe.dev VMs have nice domain names: vm-name.exe.xyz. When we start a new VM, we add a CNAME entry or three. Easy, right?

But our VMs start fast, so fast that even if we created the DNS entries before creating the VM, our users still had to sit around waiting for DNS to propagate, which occasionally took minutes, not seconds.

We did the obvious thing: We wrote our own DNS server, so that DNS always immediately matched the source of truth. And life was good.

But latency matters, so we added regions. And just like that, DNS became the long pole again, because all DNS was served out of Oregon. Also, deployments caused tiny DNS outages. To fix this, all we needed now was a geographically distributed but fully consistent DNS server.

We did what a sensible engineer does when faced with a hard problem: cheat. We vibe-engineered a distributed DNS server tuned to our specific needs.

I'm sure they have already considered this, but what problem does this solve that couldn't be solved by using dnsmasq, unbound or something like that? Why reinvent the wheel?

This will matter A LOT more after Apple gets serious about integrating AI into the OS.

I really enjoyed reading this.

This might be a simplistic take, but my biggest worry with depending on Chinese models (and, by proxy, open-weights model development) is that the US can deem them a national security risk at basically any time, and Ant/OAI have minimal interest in making frontier-level models open-weights.

Regulated companies prohibit Chinese models in anticipation of the ban-hammer from the feds, so for data-sensitive work, they're stuck with LLaMa, gpt-oss and Gemma models (which are good and serve as a good-enough base for sft, but seemingly not as good or as expensive as Chinese models)

I suppose the USG can do the same thing that China is doing and bankroll/subsidize that effort; whether they will is for fate to decide.

Nonetheless, this article made it clear that nVIDIA is the real winner in all of this. Shovel selling to the extreme.

Tried Orion again two weeks ago. It's almost there for me, but the lack of history sync between devices and its battery consumption are dealbreakers for me. I love it otherwise!!!

Bowling by itself isn't coming back, but bowling with other entertainment activities has been trending for a few years now. These lanes are usually low(er)-maintenance string lanes.

This is all extremely interesting.

Lanes have been switching to Brunswick all-in-one string pinsetter/scoring systems due to, in large part, operational cost and lack of options. (Many bowling alleys still rock A-2s or GSX pinsetters whose part costs are sky-high due to not being in production anymore). The ones that are trying to not become Bowleros or Punchbowl Social type establishments might be interested in this!

Have you posted this to /r/bowling yet?

This is the paranoia talking, but given that Claude is going to be doing its own thing, I would put this box in its own VLAN or behind deny-all firewall rules to protect against network escapes.

If you needed a cheap, light laptop at the time, this was your only option. The MacBook Air came out two years later.

Not directly related to the article, but I've got to give it up to Tesla for continuing to eek out every last ounce of performance from the Atoms they used for 2018-2021 Model 3 car computers. They still push updates to the UI for these cars nine years later, albeit with some stuff feature flagged out.

Consumer electronics, yes. For defense, though, American companies very much still make electronics.

Wow, this one really highlights the collapse. Basically no new questions have been asked this year while unanswered questions climbed unabated.

ML was always marketed separately as AI/ML, with AI being things like CNNs/RNNs/BERTs and such. Always felt like a distinction without a difference.

With all due respect, this is a bit disingenuous coming from you.

GitHub's exponential growth in number of commits and PRs answers your question.

Before AI, if you wanted to contribute to OSS, you had to have _some_ idea of what the code did. At least enough of an idea to compile it so that you could test your changes.

That was the bar. Sure, lots of low quality PRs existed, but that gate kept the influx somewhat manageable.

Also, the diffs were a lot smaller, as bigger diffs meant bigger effort, a risky gamble for a PR that might not get merged. You've lived that life, so you get it.

Post AI (post Opus, really), any hooligan with $200/mo to burn can "land" a Heisenberg sized PR into any project with green tests without having the slightest bloomin' clue what their diff does or how the codebase they're integrating into works. That's impossible for humans to keep up with.

For every SQLite cathedral, there are a hundred corporate projects whose employers are mandating 100% AI generation with manual PR/MR merges.

Some people never really liked writing code. They liked the result and the paycheck much more. Those folks are having the time of their lives now. Well, until the fall happens and software development is assmebly-lined.

Much better name for this well-designed product. I do wish they made it easier to pull in emails. For the one notebook I needed to make, I had to use gyb and mhonarc to retrieve the emails (from GMail), convert them to text and split them in a way that the Notebook would accept.

Man, I flippin loved the OnePlus One. Such a bold device. I still miss that sandstone back all these years later. It made the phone a breeze to hold.

SA is sales. DevRel is usually technical marketing.

I don't think Zitron's argument is that AI is useless so much as that AI in it's current form is unsustainable and maligned with what's good for society long-term (which I agree with).

I've spun up Azure accounts with a cc several times fwiw

Zoom ran on OCI some time ago; not sure if they still do. (They got a shitload of free credits iirc)

Many companies use OCI for their Oracle DBs, as I believe they get some sort of discount when run this way.

Bogleheads would say to stick to a three headed portfolio, maybe a bit more biased towards bonds. So that's what I'm doing.

I mean that's basically 1984 except we now have the technology for telescreens and minitruth at scale

I love churning out crazy Bash scripts, though. The first scripts I wrote sucked, as it always goes with a new language, but Bash is an awesome swiss army knife now that I know how to really push it. It sucks that doing this by hand now is so heavily discouraged because so many people see this as drudge work (that they never cared to learn).

Honestly, if Flock forces people to enforce speed limits and follow the rules of the road, its expansion can't come fast enough. I realize how contrarian of a view this is to the mainstream, but car accidents are a leading cause of death worldwide, and it's my belief that many of them wouldn't have happened if driving rules were respected.

Literally had this happen to me not three days ago. You get hung up on if you try to use the Operator trick.

https://news.uga.edu/classic-georgia-accent-fading-fast/

Fascinating! Thanks!

I asked for this a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296731

I'm glad the idea is picking up steam.

IMO, the post title should get "[AI Generated]" at the end if enough people flag the content as AI.

The end credits to PHM had A LOT of people credited for graphics!

Buying direct and not using the app is an option!