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Heroku Vibes

ChrisBland — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 02:12:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.heroku.com/blog/turn-ideas-into-apps-heroku-vibes-pilot/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45522755

Points: 2

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New comment by ChrisBland in "I Went to SQL Injection Court"

ChrisBland — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:37:48 +0000

There is no way you get Wilmette to change zoning. They've fought with Small Cheval about the size of their sign for like 9 months. I doubt you'd get any village in the NT district to rezone - the Optima project was pulling teeth, everyone is worried about overcrowding NT, which as a single HS is pretty packed now

Get Started with the Model Context Protocol

ChrisBland — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:04:06 +0000

Article URL: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43013559

Points: 1

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Storecraft – Commerce App as Code

ChrisBland — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:54:10 +0000

Article URL: https://storecraft.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42482202

Points: 1

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New comment by ChrisBland in "NASA releases Hubble image taken in new pointing mode"

ChrisBland — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 03:37:41 +0000

The hardest part of this is actually grappling the satellite. Shuttle had the arm, how will spacex capture?

New comment by ChrisBland in "Ask HN: How much to charge for an API call?"

ChrisBland — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 14:25:20 +0000

How much value are you providing to your customers? Thats how you figure out what you are worth.

New comment by ChrisBland in "NASA loses contact with Ingenuity Mars helicopter"

ChrisBland — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 20:13:48 +0000

It has lost contact before and come back online. Sometimes the communications signals can get blocked, expect the rover to more closer to get a visual and attempt to establish contact. If the helicopter lost signal it goes into an auto land mode similar to what drones do when they lose signal.

New comment by ChrisBland in "Columbia and NYU Would Lose $327M in Tax Breaks Under Proposal"

ChrisBland — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 20:09:43 +0000

At some point we do need to look at the hedge funds that have a school attached as well. The endowments at some of these universities is astounding.

New comment by ChrisBland in "Microsoft is unbundling Teams from Office in Europe to address regulator concern"

ChrisBland — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 12:54:10 +0000

It is a plus to have them integrated, I believe the issue is m$ was basically giving it away for free for anyone who has the office suite. As a CTO faced with reducing spend on SaaS, do you cut slack for essentially a free clone of it? Not a hard call, but that becomes anticompetitive behavior. Similar to the shipping of IE with windows back in the day.

New comment by ChrisBland in "How the Kentucky Cave Wars Reshaped the State’s Tourism Industry"

ChrisBland — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 15:14:25 +0000

Sad that your town keeps electing the same leadership with no long term vision on how to improved the community. Sad to see towns stuck in their ways to move forward

New comment by ChrisBland in "SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas"

ChrisBland — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 15:12:05 +0000

NASA's budget peaked in 1964–66 when it consumed roughly 4% of all federal spending. I wish we were spending this much on science now

New comment by ChrisBland in "SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas"

ChrisBland — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 14:07:58 +0000

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New comment by ChrisBland in "Command line functions around OpenAI"

ChrisBland — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:41:51 +0000

Writing code is the basic 101 of our industry. Anyone can write a loop or an if statement. With todays computing power, for most applications even poorly written code will run and will execute quite fast. What makes someone a 10x (and i hate that term) is the ability to take requirements, or better yet, a vague idea given to them by the business and turn that into software that benefits the end user and makes the company money. The 10x engineer gets to the 'why' that you are building something, not the 'how'.

New comment by ChrisBland in "San Francisco is spending $1.7M on one public toilet"

ChrisBland — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 14:21:21 +0000

If you think about some of the really interesting architecture of San Francisco, do you think they could be built now? Imagine trying to get the golden gate bridge built today. At some point you have to accept that not everyone is going to like every aspect of your plan and tell them to go pound sound or nothing will ever get done.

New comment by ChrisBland in "Prediction that Kyiv falls to Russian forces by April 2022 goes from 90% to 26%"

ChrisBland — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 19:31:32 +0000

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard

New comment by ChrisBland in "Americans are rethinking where they want to live"

ChrisBland — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 16:54:52 +0000

This makes sense; as generations come of age in this country there has always been a shift in where people live based on the advancements in technology. From the early days of trains allowing living outside city centers, to the invention of the automobile and subsequent suburban sprawl with the interstate system, it would follow that the internet and remote work would change how we live. As demographics change, so does the politics based on who stays and who goes in each city.

New comment by ChrisBland in "The Blue Hole in the Red Sea is the deadliest dive site in the world"

ChrisBland — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:50:18 +0000

Resort Diving is mostly safe, the dive profile helps keep you safe. At 30ft, a lot less can go wrong. You can easily survive a rapid ascent from 30ft, heck you likely don't need to actively blow bubbles unless you took a huge breath or are ascending super fast. OP who hasn't dove in a while shouldn't make their first dive on vacation a 120ft bottom. They will likely not remember how to breath, how to swim and will consume too much air and blow the dive for everyone. I refuse to dive with strangers on dive boats, I have never once had a dive buddy physically verify my secondary and some of them get weird when I ask them to verify their primary and secondary with me. The 'I know' eye rolls when i show them where my weight release is, where things are on my BC. Honestly thats what pushed me in to technical diving, everyone takes it serious. If we do our math wrong and the drop tanks aren't sufficient or if the trimix was off we were all dead. When we did cave dives, knowing each exit, knowing the routes we were going to navigate. Rehearsing the transitions between lines. Even with the best planning, things go wrong. Read up on the Diepolder II and III caves - scary stuff

New comment by ChrisBland in "The Blue Hole in the Red Sea is the deadliest dive site in the world"

ChrisBland — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 13:04:00 +0000

I'm an avid diver; got certified as soon as I turned 12 years old and have had some great adventures and life lessons diving and continuing my training and education. After many many conversations and encounters on dive boats with others (some seasoned, most tourist / rec divers) - I believe that 90% of the industry sees diving akin to a roller coaster ride instead of Skydiving. The risks with scuba are there for you to see and the situation can get deadly very quickly, but most people don't see the inherit risk or shrug it off. I've watched countless divers who are renting their bc/reg/tank/computer not even go through the most basic safety checks prior to diving. They simply trust the operator and jump in. This is not a "batteries included" sport. It is that lack of preparedness that leads to fatal accidents, people who don't respect the sport for what it is and the dangers that come with it. If you don't plan your dives, understand the dive profile, then you are going to panic of make a stupid decision when you shouldn't. When I was younger, technical dives; cave and deep, where my two favorite things to do, the amount of planning it took to pull off the dives was enjoyable and I enjoyed pushing myself in to those situations and the focus it required. Now that I have kids, I won't do those dives anymore b/c I understand that when you plan them, there is a greater than 0 chance that you don't come back and its not worth it to me to take that chance.

New comment by ChrisBland in "Money Creation: 344% in the Last 12mo (Fed, M1, $)"

ChrisBland — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:20:05 +0000

Higher Unemployment = More people chasing fewer jobs = salary should fall Lower Unemployment = More jobs chasing fewer people = salary should rise

If the cost of labor does not rise due as it absorbs the previously unemployed workers in to the labor force, it blunts the inflation effect for goods and services as those costs don't get passed on to the consumer

New comment by ChrisBland in "Abe, IOC agree to delay Tokyo Olympics by one year"

ChrisBland — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 15:10:28 +0000

Of course; we just can't say that part out loud otherwise there would be a run on masks and the healthcare workers would be in such a shortage it would further exacerbate the strain on the healthcare system.