Tony_Delco

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by Tony_Delco 4mo ago
Minecraft and the Civilization series.
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by Tony_Delco 4mo ago
One thing I rarely see discussed is that AI cost is not just dollars per token. There’s also latency, dependency on external infrastructure, privacy and compliance concerns, energy usage, and just the general predictability of the system it
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by Tony_Delco 1y ago
It’s never too late to learn something new, not even to start in software. Age can bring a different way of looking at problems, shaped by past experiences in different situations and environments. The path can be tough at the beginning, bu
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by Tony_Delco 1y ago
This is amazing work. Most people don’t realize how much effort and depth there is behind writing a TCP/IP stack and plugging it into xv6 with virtio-net and sockets. Huge respect for making it public. Projects like this are gold for t
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by Tony_Delco 1y ago
To me, the real cost of context switching isn’t measured in minutes lost, but in the break of rhythm. Productivity isn’t about squeezing every second, it’s about getting into a state where your brain runs smoothly, like a warm engine. When
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by Tony_Delco 1y ago
Congrats on your progress! Looking back, in your earlier projects, what concrete signal would have told you to stop sooner and save time?
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by Tony_Delco 1y ago
With AI, the question isn’t if there’s going to be a bubble… it’s which startups will still be alive when it bursts. Good luck with that.
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by Tony_Delco 1y ago
Review bots are the autopilot. Humans are the pilots. The autopilot will keep getting better, but you still want a human in the cockpit when something truly unexpected happens.
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by Tony_Delco 1y ago
It’s quite a philosophical question. Working eight hours a day for someone else can, in a way, be seen as outsourcing your own will: you think, decide, and act—but always within the framework of what someone else needs. Self-employment, on
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by Tony_Delco 1y ago
Fantastic opening line (“Memory oppresses me.”). If this article was written by an AI, it’s the best AI I’ve seen in months. Seriously though: I already knew the “don’t mix allocators” rule, but I really enjoyed seeing such a careful and ha
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by Tony_Delco 1y ago
I learned to program in C, and even though I use other languages more often these days, I’m very glad C was my starting point. It forced me to understand memory, resource management, and what actually happens when you call a function or acc
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by Tony_Delco 1y ago
No degree. I began as a wildland firefighter, later worked as a private investigator. During a break, I taught myself programming and got drawn into low-level systems. Today, I work as a software engineer, building things close to the metal