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Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:59PM (#50008420)
> comp for was comparable anyone else on the team at their same level

You're so close to getting it... keep going...

the gen ai image on this page has a "shut off" label for the base of the human plumber's neck. To say nothing of the amusing drainage schematics (water flows up?)...
heave to
Re:Botfile – Dotfiles for Agents on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @04:16PM (#48482024)
botfile is a symlink farm like Stow. It's goal is to bring some structure to the sometimes chaotic internals of popular agents by enabling users to extract, persist, share, and sync the skills (https://agentskills.io/home) and instructions (https://agents.md/) they use.

Specifically, it solves the problem of managing standard skills that a team shares, alongside private skills you want to use across your devices and agents.

It also works in the same way with instructions, things like AGENTS.md that exist as ambient guidance injected into the harness lifecycle.

It works with all the major agent harnesses, and is quite opinionated about following the UNIX philosophy of doing one thing well. In botfile's case, it'll only ever be a symlink farm with support for the agent component kinds (skills and instructions so far) that fit its model.

If you: - dont have skills or instructions at the user-scope, or - don't find yourself wanting to share skills or instructions across agents, or - don't share skills or instructions with a team.

It's probably not for you. If you'd like to try and start doing one, all or just some of these things it's a good place to start.

It does.
I'd be amazed if ai companies like openai respect robots.txt or any other good faith mechanism.
Re:LSD: Not Even Once. Really. on Sunday April 23, 2023 @06:50PM (#35681504)
Also count me in. Excited to see others with the same experience.

I got to the point of rationalizing this as actually being some kind of memory of being born / memory of that trauma. The lack of all proportion to the sensation, along with the incredible stakes, feeling of pressure (literal and figurative) etc…

Also curious to know projects, email in profile
Re:Nebraska retiree uses earths's heat to grow oranges in snow on Saturday December 10, 2022 @01:08PM (#33934977)
Subject of the video has a website: https://greenhouseinthesnow.com/greenhouse-kits

Quotes: $211 per lineal foot.

Further info is also in the description of the video:

> Finch sells a "Citrus in the Snow" report detailing his work with his "geo-air" greenhouses and says anyone can build a market-producing greenhouse for about $25,000 or "less than the cost of a heating system on a traditional greenhouse."

Re:Learn C and build your own Lisp (2014) on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @06:46AM (#27602963)
I found this book, it's approach and tone to be really engaging, it answered a bunch of questions I didn't know I had and allowed me to understand and engage with my work as a web dev on another level. Parser Combinators for example are fascinating. I find Daniel Holden's work similar to many ways to Brian Lonsdorf's... Honestly surprised there are haters for this type of thing!
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2020) on Monday February 03, 2020 @12:39PM (#22226609)

  Location: Detroit, Michigan
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: React, Typescript, Elixir, Rust, Python, WebGl, PyTorch, TensorFlow
  Résumé/CV: resume.listfold.com
  Email: [email protected]
Bio: Front-end focused full-stack developer with 4+ years experience, currently building beta.steemit.com. Interested in continuing to lead teams building applications for mobile / the web. Would also love to hear from anyone who can offer me an opportunity developing my skills working in Rust or Elixir and joining a team where I am challenged to learn and grow as an engineer.
Re:Roam: Why I Love It and How I Use It on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @10:11AM (#22107564)
What data structure would be best suited to implementing this set of features?
Re:The Society of the Spectacle on Monday December 16, 2019 @09:12AM (#21803070)
I would also add that 'The Dialectic of Enlightenment', is perhaps a more thorough precedent to 'The Society of the Spectacle'... if you're at all interested ... the chapter 'The Culture Industry' is good. https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Max-H...
Re:The Society of the Spectacle on Monday December 16, 2019 @09:02AM (#21803013)
He made a movie of this text, which is available online, it's low resolution and some of the subtitles are hard to read. There's an updated version that's more legible but which stays true to the original in all the important ways: https://youtu.be/irdHSmRrdh0
Re:Algorithmic Justice Could Clear Convictions in California on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @06:22AM (#19253426)
The Digital Regime of Truth: From the Algorithmic Governmentality to a New Rule of Law - https://www.iainmaitland.com/pdf/Rouvroy-Stiegler.pdf
Presumably one octopus must be caged in order to prevent them from harming one another.
Funnily enough when government funding for sex/sexuality research gets constrained - normally during a Republican tenure - researchers move to Canada https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/the-big-b...