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trailrunner46 commented on AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents   agents.md/... · Posted by u/ghuntley
ivanjermakov · 6 days ago
I'm still not convinced that separating README.md and AGENTS.md is a good idea.
trailrunner46 · 5 days ago
One reason to consider is around context usage with LLMs. Less is generally better and README.md files are often too much text some of which I don’t want in every context window.

I find AGENT.md and similar functioning files for LLMs in my projects contains concise and specific commands around feedback loops such as testing, build commands, etc. Yes these same commands might be in a README.md but often there is a lot more text that I don’t want in the context window being sent with every turn to the LLM.

trailrunner46 commented on Why does a fire truck cost $2m   thehustle.co/originals/wh... · Posted by u/Guid_NewGuid
waste_monk · a month ago
I have heard that the problem with ex-emergency services vehicles is they tend to have low distance on the odometer but drastically higher engine hours, particularly idle hours. That is, they may sit with the engine idling for hours at a time to maintain power to the lights, radios, and other vehicle systems, and are generally closer in wear and tear to a vehicle with several times the mileage.

Another problem I have heard of is that while the actual mileage may be low, the miles that are driven tend to be much "harder", in the sense that an emergency services vehicle may be accelerating and stopping rapidly, and generally being thrashed without regard for the vehicle, leading to increased wear on the engine and transmission.

It reminds me of the saying attributed to Jeremy Clarkson, about the fastest car in the world being a rental.

trailrunner46 · a month ago
Yes, trucks typically are running with the generator constantly on scene. Also many pumps are run on a PTO system where the transmission is put into a pump gear, further wearing on it since pumps can be run a lot on scene.
trailrunner46 commented on Why does a fire truck cost $2m   thehustle.co/originals/wh... · Posted by u/Guid_NewGuid
trailrunner46 · a month ago
These numbers for trucks paired with the 3+ year wait times are very real. It hits small communities the hard because they have a small tax base but still need a certain amount of trucks. You can only consolidate so much before you are to far to respond.

Another good point called out in the article are the floating costs. The manufactures do in fact increase the costs after the fact so not only do you need to order a truck years ahead of time with a budget you don’t have (borrow money) but then you have to cough up an indeterminate amount of money years later. A real sad time for first responders.

trailrunner46 commented on Tesla Semi fire in California took 50k gallons of water to extinguish   cnbc.com/2024/09/13/tesla... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
johnea · a year ago
Lithium fires obviously need some form of chemical dousing.

Pouring tons of water is just not a good way to put out the fire.

trailrunner46 · a year ago
There very well may be something more effective than water but the economics are probably a barrier here. Water has some pretty amazing at absorbing heat considering how abundant it is. Moving to anything else becomes pricey quickly in a serious quanitiy. Heck, even the foam used is quite expensive in much smaller quantities.
trailrunner46 commented on Tesla Semi fire in California took 50k gallons of water to extinguish   cnbc.com/2024/09/13/tesla... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
gottorf · a year ago
To put in context, 50k gallons is about the size of the largest in-ground pool you might see in the back yard of an upscale suburban home. A normal tanker trailer you see on the highway carrying gasoline or whatever has a 7,500 gallon capacity, so over six of those. Quite a bit of water to dump on one car.
trailrunner46 · a year ago
It's also worth keeping in mind that rural fire departments that all have tanker trucks typically carry only 1,500-3,000 gallons and need to continuously fill up from a pump site, drive to the scene, dump in a pond, and continue. Typical gasoline car fires will take less than 1,000 to extinguish. EVs are challenging from this perspective, and departments are just now starting to learn how to deal with them, it's a whole new ballgame.

Source: Firefighter in a rural dept

trailrunner46 commented on K8s Service Meshes: The Bill Comes Due   matduggan.com/k8s-service... · Posted by u/zdw
trailrunner46 · a year ago
This was a good read, as someone using K8s a lot in the last two years but not service meshes yet, it gave me a lot to think about.

I understand there are various advantages like metrics, etc, but the encrypted traffic between pods and services is the one that I can see many orgs demanding. If not a service mesh what other options are there?

trailrunner46 commented on Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?    · Posted by u/plemer
trailrunner46 · 2 years ago
Might seem like and odd one to some but I became a volunteer firefighter and it has been very rewarding for many reasons but the connection with the community is a big one (most members grew up in the town and a central part of it).
trailrunner46 commented on Silicon Valley Bank Failure [pdf]   am.jpmorgan.com/content/d... · Posted by u/jhonovich
chewz · 2 years ago
This is rather silly explanation of what happend, especially from JP Morgan...

Everyone who have ever managed bond portfolio knows that he must hedge interest rate risk. And every bank is doing that. SVB didn't.

Since April 2022 till January 2023 SVB had vacant position of Credit Risk Officer.. And the explanation is simple - SVB's former head of risk, Laura Izurieta had left after 1Q2022 when looses from bond portfolio started to grow. She has probably already realized the final outcome as this is ABC of risk management (and in April 2022 the path of rate increases had been already set in motion by FED).

Now look at the timing of insiders selling shares of SVB...

trailrunner46 · 2 years ago
100% agree, taking huge unhedged duration risk and then loading up on negatively convex MBS again unhedged is so crazy.
trailrunner46 commented on Silicon Valley Bank Failure [pdf]   am.jpmorgan.com/content/d... · Posted by u/jhonovich
trailrunner46 · 2 years ago
The chart titled “Impact of unrealized securities losses on capital ratios” really shows just how inadequate the tier 1 capital ratio is (what regulators use). Ignoring the impact of unrealized losses in assets marked as held to maturity is crazy. Seems like a regulator problem to me, no bank taking deposits should be able to make high duration and negatively convex (from high MBS holdings) without hedges.
trailrunner46 commented on Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?    · Posted by u/TekMol
eloisius · 4 years ago
I don't have a side project to recruit for right now, but I've wanted this very thread in the past. My current projects all revolve around reducing my dependency on commercial SaaS products. A hypothetical project I'd be interested in contributing to would be an ActivityPub Strava/Ride with GPS clone.
trailrunner46 · 4 years ago
I like the goal of reducing dependency on SaaS product. I use these Strava/Garmin apps a lot and while Strava was cool for a while it hasn’t progressed and doesn’t feel worth the money. Curious to hear what you had in mind, I am in the geospatial space and work with routing tools, etc.

u/trailrunner46

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