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Have you written or posted publicly about your agent environment? It sounds really interesting.

It definitely can. By default it ships with the normal Tailscale DERP map but it also ships with a default-off DERP server. You can turn that on and set your DERP map to only include that one server (or you can fan out a couple if you want). At that point you're not using Tailscale assets at all.

"Do this not that" lists are always contextual and situational. Some of this makes sense in the context of a professional or business site, but make sure your goals align before taking the advice.

If you're writing on your personal blog then take all of this with the size of salt crystal you feel it deserves. Personally, that's about the size of an Acme safe hanging over a cliff waiting for an unsuspecting listicle writer^h^hcoyote.

IMO the value is in the thinking. Other people reading my non-professional writing sometimes the goal but most of the time it's a bonus.

There aren't any restrictions anymore on who you can invite to your team. I added a passkey admin account and added other users via email invites. The account owner is still my GitHub account but I pretty much don't use it day to day.

Real talk I have a M-x unfuck-this-buffer. All it does is toggle the Unicode input mode that I sometimes accidentally trigger but have never figured out how.

Eh, sorta. Fifty years ago was 1976 (I know, right?!). The 747 debuted in 1970 with high bypass engines. The A320 came out in 1988 with fly-by-wire and all Airbus aircraft since have been the same.

The biggest change from then to now is probably the amount of solid state electronics onboard. That's ridden roughly the same curve as other industrial and commercial applications.

What are you using for automations? I've been running HA for a long time but I keep trying to explore different options.

Yes, and the attached Schedule C will have the EIN at the top.

Sure. If you absolutely need one of those services then you do the thing. Most of the time there are alternatives, IME.

Example, since you edited to add examples: I have several business bank accounts and far too many Stripe accounts all registered as sole prop. I haven't had to take a loan but I do have a sole prop credit card. My understanding is that even with an LLC a bank is going to require a personal guarantee for a loan.

Sure. If you find yourself needing ARIN services and that's what they need to move forward then that's what you have to do. All I'm saying is that it's not a thing to set up preemptively.

> or EIN

Anyone can get an EIN for their sole proprietorship business (just one, though) and use it on tax forms.

Nobody said consumer fintech? You can just operate as a business. "Sole proprietor" is a real thing that almost every service knows how to deal with, and if one can't there's a competitor willing to right next door.

I feel like a lot of people (not holman) are looking for permission, as if having an LLC is a marker that says "I am a serious business doing serious business things." You don't need permission. You can just do things.

A formal business structure is good (but not required!) if you have employees and/or business partners, or if your attorney tells you you need one. IME as a solo entrepreneur an LLC (or two, in my case) just invited more paperwork into my life.

You know what actually functionally limits liability as a solo business? Good contracts backed up with business insurance.

He owns RailsWorld.

Omarchy is funding mise. Make of that what you will.

"Naturally gifted writer" is not a thing. The way to get better at writing is to write a lot.

Developing a voice comes naturally as you go through the pain of being a terrible writer to eventually being mediocre. Accepting the LLM's words is actively harmful to that process because it lets you skip over the part where you read over what you wrote and rewrite until it doesn't suck as much.

I mean, you do you. I'm not your dad.

Note: NATS the UK airspace manager, not NATS the pubsub system.

"Everybody knows foul air causes sickness."

"Duh, of course Mars has canals."

Testing the "obvious", "duh" things is incredibly valuable science. It provides a more solid foundation on which to build because it reduces the assumption space.

Disagree. RMS has unapologetically crossed some pretty bright societal lines. Being neurospicy doesn't absolve him of any of that.

(also I don't think Tourette's is fair to include in that set but whatever)

From the accounts I've read, RMS is a deeply unpleasant and problematic person.

Doesn't mean he's wrong.

Sure. Just don't go too big! One can only use so much hot water, after all.

True, but you're only ever drawing from the buffer tank into an operating hot water heater that brings it up to the correct temperature.

Let's say your GPU uses a constant 300W. It takes approximately 1.16 Wh to heat a liter of water 1 degree celsius under 100% efficiency. This setup won't be 100% efficient, so let's round up to 1.5 Wh per liter per degree (roughly 80% efficient). A typical domestic water heater in the US 40-50 gallons, so roughly 160 liters.

Let's say your incoming water temperature is 18C and you want it preheated to 50C, which is 32C degree differential, which means you'll need 32 * 1.5 * 160 = 7680 Wh, or 25 hours straight to heat the buffer tank from scratch.

You'll need to purchase a small water-to-water heat exchanger ($50), two pumps ($100 each), a power supply for said pumps, hose and/or copper pipe and fittings, and various other sundries, plus the cost of a buffer tank ($600ish), so figure all in roughly $1000, plus the cost of electricity to run the pumps.

At $0.22/kWh you're saving roughly $450 a year with this setup in foregone water heating, but because it's not 100% efficient you're spending $500 in electricity to run your GPU 24/7/365, and that's the maximum you can possibly save with the above assumptions. Scale up for more GPUs and down accordingly for less usage as you see fit.

Alternatively, use air as the heat conductor by placing the GPU laden machine in the same space as a hybrid heat pump water heater.

The proposed rule will apply to E-1, E-2, E-3, H-1B, H-1B1, L-1, O-1, and TN (copied directly out of the document).

I haven't tried it personally but my understanding from friends is that Pangram is very accurate, at least for now.

https://www.pangram.com/

The first few Discworld books explore this a little bit too. I think pterry dropped the concept after that, I don't really remember it later in the series.

That does make more sense, thanks for the clarification.

> A worker reads the tail of the log, performs exactly one step—either inference or tool execution—appends the result, and forgets everything. It holds zero session state between turns.

My current understanding of an agent session is that the entire session (modulo compaction, reordering tools, etc) is sent to the stateless inference engine every time inference happens. The quoted section doesn't seem workable unless "read the tail of the log" actually means "read the entire session log".

There are ways to make that work but workers being completely stateless makes it hard.

Too late to edit, but a few other things to note: I minmaxed the draft config. On my typical coding workloads it gets around 70% acceptance, more variable on prose.

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