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Show HN: Write agent skills instead of blog posts

https://github.com/pandemicsyn/fafo

I wrote this long post https://neonronin.sh/blog/learn-to-write-evals/ about learning to write good evals. Halfway through, I realized I wouldn't read this. Partly because it got sloppy, but also because of how I like to learn.I learned about evals by asking my bot a billion questions and feeding it a bunch of links, and then taking a FAFO approach.So for longform posts, im trying to ship a...

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> "UNA is currently a non-submersible device due to its innovative modular design. So, swimming is not something we offer as an activity, nor do we advise it. UNA is IPX5 rated, which means it is splash & showerproof to a high degree."

If I had a dollar for every time some project that was ipx5 rated failed after getting caught in the rain one too many times...I'd have enough to buy another Garmin Fenix.

Re:Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183B post-money valuation on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @09:14PM (#45111191)
Sure Amazon was a big established co at the dawn of the cloud, and a little bit of an unexpected dark horse. None of the managed hosting providers saw Amazon coming. Also ran's like Rackspace and the like where also pretty established by that point.

But there was also cool stuff happening at smaller places like Joyent, Heroku, Slicehost, Linode, Backblaze, iron.io, etc.

> no bidirectional power, no integration with solar or smart home systems, and no ability to manage home energy dynamically. They tend to be boxy, ruggedized, meant to be moved around, not seamlessly integrated into your living space. On top of that, many use e-mobility battery chemistries, which are great for delivering high power on demand but wear out faster when cycled daily for home energy use.

I already use an Ecoflow as quasi-UPS in my networking closet and one for a chest freezer and its worked great for that. They advertise a ~25ms switch over. I think (could be wrong) they also have features like scheduled tasks to managed recharge/discharge schedules.

Is the main difference between an Ecoflow and this basically the form factor?

2027 is the date by when Xi wanted the military modernized and ready for an op, 2027-2030 is the optimal time frame for them to try it:

https://media.defense.gov/2023/Apr/24/2003205865/-1/-1/1/07-...

Re:All Garmin Connect services are down on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @09:27AM (#42634597)
I could swear I've also gotten data sync's while in limited connectivity situations, but to be fair could be that occasionally it was just able to phone in enough to do its thing.

Service is back up, so just testing real quick, at least on IOS , turning off wifi/cellular (not airplane mode) - my fenix at least seems to still be streaming heart rate data to the app. Not entirely sure what else will update from local data though (if anything).

Re:A Knife Forged in Fire on Thursday December 19, 2024 @09:35PM (#42467760)
Same! (but more side gig for me) It was pandemic hobby. Started out just making a chefy with a custom handle for my wife from a premade blank. Did the next one by hand with a file and a little home made forge, then went all in on a belt grinder, evenheat kiln etc.

The material science side of the blade is a blast - but one of my favorite bits is actually all the variety in handle materials. https://gcarta.bigcartel.com/products has some amazing patterns.

Re:Hetzner Object Storage on Monday October 07, 2024 @11:44AM (#41767144)
Its Ceph.

> Our S3-compatible Object Storage provides you with storage capacity for saving data in "Buckets". Any data you save in your Bucket is saved in a Ceph cluster.

from https://docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/overview#obj...

Her and Adam Savage would get a long great I bet. He had an entire live stream sorting a box of knobs and handles he picked up at an estate sale, that he was super excited about.
Re:It's always TCP_NODELAY on Thursday May 09, 2024 @07:29PM (#40313978)
I was gonna say its always lro offload but my experience is dated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyKtxsdI0z8 but even they're using relatively old engines as the starting point. Because they're simple and well understood.
Re:Pornhub Blocked in Texas on Thursday March 14, 2024 @05:30PM (#39709211)
Cato's a pretty well-known libertarian think tank. Not saying they are right or wrong or that your choice of words was intentional, but calling them "The conservative Cato Institute" feels a little iffy.

"Libertarian think tank says Texas sucks for personal freedom" has very different vibe than "Conservative think tank says Texas sucks for personal freedom"

but also, never trust Cato - https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/10/never-trust-the-cato-...

Re:Basic Gerrit Walkthrough โ€“ For GitHub Users on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @11:05AM (#38697300)
Gerrit was ok, the openstack gerrit web ui was kinda iffy (at least circa 2013/14). Its been long enough that i don't really remember any details but it was bothersome enough that a couple of us wrapped the ssh gerrit commands in a cli: https://github.com/pandemicsyn/fgerrit
This will be interesting. I wonder what will happen to Dr Larrin Thomas (https://knifesteelnerds.com/about-me/) he's been able to bring some new knife steels to market while working for US Steel by day. Wonder if Nippon allows side gigs.
What's a good pet insurance carrier/plan, that's not just a straight up scam that just cover's the yearly stuff and some select things? Legit asking because with two super active GSD's I'd sign up in a heart beat if I found one.
Re:TSMC warns AI chip crunch will last another 18 months on Friday September 08, 2023 @10:35AM (#37434039)
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Re:Walt Disney Pictures VFX Workers Move to Unionize on Monday August 28, 2023 @06:42PM (#37301327)
This is "Walt Disney Pictures" not Walt Disney Studios as a whole. Walt Disney Pictures is just one of a bunch of their production companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_Studios_(division)

Re:Mailgun: Public Security Disclosure on Thursday August 17, 2023 @11:52AM (#37163596)
Didn't you already post this under a different alias a month ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36678348 ?
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite sci-fi books? on Sunday May 21, 2023 @01:06PM (#36022846)
Solar Clipper series by Nathan Lowell. It's not a grand epic space opera - its more like a grand "learn what life on a space freighter is like" opera. The books are strangely relaxing and calming.

Love throwing on an "ambient spaceship sounds" youtube and re-reading these.

This was also the topic of the first 20-30 minutes of last weeks Wan Show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSOF8RFrihM) where he also shared some anecdotes from his interactions with political folks in Cananda.

(For folks that might not be familiar - Linus runs a pretty popular set of youtube channels and is based in Canada)

Re:Ask HN: What software was used to make 90s cutscenes? on Monday January 09, 2023 @10:11AM (#34311163)
Yea, I spent ages getting warez copy of 3dsmax so I could start playing around with making maps for Rogue Spear.
Re:Why does a football arc through the air and not tumble? on Thursday October 13, 2022 @04:24PM (#33196049)
> Never harms to have an accurate title when international audience is involved.

But this does not _only_ apply to "American" Football balls but also to Canadian Football balls...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_American_and_Can...

Re:ClickHouse Cloud is now in Public Beta on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @07:09PM (#33088411)
Not affiliated with Clickhouse, but fwiw they've been working on this for a while (I recall coming across it like +2 years ago in an old Altinity blog post):

https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/integrations/s3/s3-merge-tree...

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2022) on Monday October 03, 2022 @01:07PM (#33070438)
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Our public company handbook (https://handbook.meltano.com/) has all the details on our values, all-remote work, where we hire, compensation, benefits, and what it's like to work with us in general.

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Re:Plasma Bigscreen on Thursday September 15, 2022 @09:24PM (#32860841)
Its not like it doesn't have cons:

- 60Hz refresh rate - 8,000:1 contrast ratio with local dimming on - 500 cd/m2 brightness and "HDR compatibilty" - 86% DCI coverage

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