MikeNotThePope

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by MikeNotThePope 10mo ago
Transmeta did try to enter the server market. There was a company called RLX Technologies that wanted to use Crusoe chips in blade servers. I remember them demoing a 3U rack server w/ 24 blades in it. 1 CPU per blade. Wikipedia: h
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by MikeNotThePope 10mo ago
My job was essentially playing videos games for two years to stress test the chips. I was pretty good at Diablo 2 by the end of my run :) It was one of my better jobs!
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by MikeNotThePope 10mo ago
I worked at Transmeta. I remember for the launch of one of the Crusoe-powered laptops, there was a bug that prevented the BIOS from booting Linux. Since the laptop was only going to run Windows ME, they didn’t fix it. Of course when Linu
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by MikeNotThePope 10mo ago
I'm experimenting with how to code w/ LLMs. I used an AI assistant for about a month w/ a React app, prompting it to do this & that, and I learned almost nothing in that month about React itself. Then I prompted it to
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by MikeNotThePope 10mo ago
Hey, I’ve done recruiting since 2005. Here’s the most basic advice I can give you. It’s much more important to have stuff to put on your resume than is it to obsess over how the resume is formatted. Showing what you’ve done and what you c
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by MikeNotThePope 10mo ago
My recommendation is don’t internalize negative feedback from people who won’t make the time to work with you to improve. Absorb knowledge on people who invest in you.
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by MikeNotThePope 10mo ago
The hiring manager can set the expectation with a recruiter that all candidates submitted must meet a certain standard. If the hiring manager let's the recruiters send garbage and/or fails to guide them, that is 100% a hiring man
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by MikeNotThePope 11mo ago
>> the majority of recruiters barely read past company name and job title This is a failing of the hiring manager. If the recruiter can't tell who is and isn't a good fit, the hiring manager should have corrected the situat
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by MikeNotThePope 11mo ago
Do you have any blog posts or something you could share on how facial recognition works? Specifically what a "face compare" is. That sounds interesting!
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by MikeNotThePope 11mo ago
Investors can & do make mistakes. “Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” ― John Maynard Keynes
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by MikeNotThePope 11mo ago
How about this? “This PR is really long and I’m having a hard time finding the energy to review it all. My brains gets full before I get to the end. Does it need to be this long?” Force them to make a case for it. Then see how they respo
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by MikeNotThePope 11mo ago
I’m glad civil engineers can’t vibe build a dam.
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An LLM Is (Not Really) a Black Box Full of Sudoku and Tic Tac Toe Games(mikenotthepope.com)
2 points by MikeNotThePope 11mo ago|0 comments
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by MikeNotThePope 11mo ago
Reminds me of https://howfuckedismydatabase.com/mssql/ .
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by MikeNotThePope 11mo ago
As a business, ideally you'd want to avoid unnecessary exposure to risks you didn't need to take. A job applicant may divulge whatever the like.
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7 Things I Learned Building a Rate-Limited MCP Server in Elixir(mikenotthepope.com)
1 points by MikeNotThePope 11mo ago|0 comments
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I found the missing 6GB on my Mac (APFS, recovery partitions, and GB vs. GiB)(mikenotthepope.com)
3 points by MikeNotThePope 11mo ago|0 comments
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by MikeNotThePope 11mo ago
Essentially, yes. It's a narrow use case. I just thought it was interesting, so I wrote up a short summary. Not worth a deep analysis.
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by MikeNotThePope 11mo ago
You can sort records by ID, retrieve the last N records by ID, etc. It's just easier than using a timestamp.
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by MikeNotThePope 11mo ago
Exactly. I wrote about that a few days ago. Primary keys using UUID v7 are (potentially) an HR violation. https://mikenotthepope.com/primary-keys-using-uuid-v7-are-po...
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by MikeNotThePope 11mo ago
At least they don't make you pay for the postage!
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by MikeNotThePope 11mo ago
The IRS actually knows everything, too. They just make you tell them what they already know.
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by MikeNotThePope 11mo ago
I didn't want to get into fractional reserve banking & reserve requirements, I just wanted to share what I learned about money creation. But to answer your question... it's called a bank run! When a bank (in the USA) doesn&
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How banks create money (with your money)(mikenotthepope.com)
2 points by MikeNotThePope 11mo ago|2 comments
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by MikeNotThePope 11mo ago
This is fun to watch. Question... For 5, 7, and 9, how did you get the right most golf tee to levitate?
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by MikeNotThePope 1y ago
For some things there's no obvious unique identifier other than a something random. Out of curiosity, do you maintain separate IDs, one internal and one external?
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by MikeNotThePope 1y ago
Although it could become risky enough that the cost mitigation becomes untenable. For example, I wouldn't want to live in a neighborhood so dangerous that I have to pay to cover my house in thick armor plating just to avoid being col
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by MikeNotThePope 1y ago
Practically speaking, an applicant's resume/CV will say more about their age than a UUID v7. I think the risk of someone's minimum age being leaked is low, but it's not zero, so I went with UUID v4. Mostly I just thoug
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Primary keys using UUID v7 are potentially an HR violation(mikenotthepope.com)
21 points by MikeNotThePope 1y ago|16 comments