Why “public” is being discussed
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Why does it matter. It's pretty normal to do a bunch of dev locally and then at some point create a public gh repo and then push
by indigodaddy · Oct 31, 2026
maybe this is what will get people to use grok or chinese models. At some point they're too restrictive. Claude refused to help me scrape a public website they themselves have g…
by anothereng · Oct 31, 2026
The contra is that “stable” releases are now a liability, because it takes longer for upstream fixes to be back-ported. Recently, for bugs that are quickly exploitable in the wi…
by jgraettinger1 · Oct 31, 2026
Since the library claims to be postgres compatible, I wonder if its developers ran the existing postgres jepsen suite against it (possibly with some adjustments). Or why not. Es…
by CodesInChaos · Oct 31, 2026
Is/was ParticleDB open source? There is a Github link on their website, however the only public repo in their org seems to be the Golang client library.
by _bohm · Oct 31, 2026
> Before jaywalking was a thing ... jay driving was a thing first. I would suspect safety had more to do with it than anything else. The closest I've ever personally come to hit…
by rootusrootus · Oct 31, 2026
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