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GitHub introduces Agent HQ, a unified workflow for orchestrating any agent

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3 points·by emddudley·il y a 9 mois·1 comments

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emddudley
·il y a 26 jours·discuss
I checked out your app but I'm not sure what it is for. I see that it has a map with tourist destinations in Toyko and an itinerary feature. But since I already have Google Maps and Calendar, I don't understand what new benefits this app brings. It is not very convenient to browse through the suggested tourist sites on the map or the explore list -- you need filters and categories.
emddudley
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
For others like me that didn't know the term Sherlock:

It means "To obsolete a unique feature in third-party software by introducing a similar or identical feature to the OS or a first-party program/app." The term stems from Apple's 2002 release of Sherlock 3, which made a popular third-party app named "Watson" irrelevant.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sherlock#Verb
emddudley
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
Well shit, I feel betrayed. This is exactly the opposite of what I thought Charlie's goals were. I thought he was focused on making the Python ecosystem better.
emddudley
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
Why is x-amz-bucket-namespace header needed when creating a new bucket in the account regional namespace? Is an account blocked from creating a bucket in its own namespace if it doesn't specify that header?
emddudley
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
I was an intern at Fisher Price when they introduced the Pixter Color. I did QA on some of the games, the Dora one comes to mind. You can imagine the torture playing a level over and over.

The games were developed overseas (India I think?). I would send them bug reports in Mantis and overnight they would send a new build. Sometimes they would even fix the bugs. I would burn the builds on to EEPROMs and verify them the next day. The EEPROMS had a little round window so they could be erased in a UV box before programming.

Fisher Price used a video codec from Actimagine to fit video clips onto the game cartridges. That's how I learned about Virtualdub. I remember editing clips from a show called Winx.

The big competition was the Leapster LeapPad and they were trouncing us.

One fun thing the engineers did periodically was a toy teardown to see how competitors saved on cost. Cost was critical. They told me how Walmart basically dictates toy cost because they controlled the shelf space.
emddudley
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
Looks like it has been deleted. Does anyone have a copy?
emddudley
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
Pyrefly vs. ty: Comparing Python’s Two New Rust-Based Type Checkers (2025-05-27) https://blog.edward-li.com/tech/comparing-pyrefly-vs-ty/

HN discussion of above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107655

How Well Do New Python Type Checkers Conform? A Deep Dive into Ty, Pyrefly, and Zuban (2025-08-29) https://sinon.github.io/future-python-type-checkers/
emddudley
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
There's an old XML one called Data Format Description Language (DFDL).
emddudley
·il y a 10 mois·discuss
Short form video is tailored for the fast, instinctive, emotional brain. Not the slower, deliberative, logical brain.
emddudley
·il y a 10 mois·discuss
Ironically, PFAS levels have been found to be higher in wealthy people. People with money own more furniture and clothing with stain resistant treatments, for example.
emddudley
·il y a 8 ans·discuss
It's an important term in computer science. There is a good explanation on StackOverflow which I found by searching for "define: idempotent":

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1077421/111327

> In computing, an idempotent operation is one that has no additional effect if it is called more than once with the same input parameters. For example, removing an item from a set can be considered an idempotent operation on the set.
emddudley
·il y a 12 ans·discuss
Various people have been claiming for years that the "notability" requirement is a threat to Wikipedia. Yet the project is still around and is still the go-to source for encyclopedic information.