aomix

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by aomix 1mo ago
The social contract of accepting scraping for visibility was always tenuous and is now fully dead. But it’s shocking the number of people who are essentially victim blaming here. You should spend YOUR time to optimize your free website so M
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by aomix 2mo ago
I got curious one Saturday and ported our monorepo to use Nix for build and test and release. It was a very pleasant process. I had to put aside to tackle more pressing things but I'm all in on using Nix in that capacity.
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by aomix 2mo ago
If you listen closely you can hear the thousands of CI jobs that just pull latest UV failing all at once.
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by aomix 2mo ago
What good timing to spot this. I've been reading more and more people talk about bringing TTS into their prompting toolkit and wanted to give that a try. The idea of rambling brain dump into a doc -> edit pass -> send to the robo
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by aomix 2mo ago
Not responsible for those systems. The last time this came up I thought “smearing” the second over the course of a day kind of solved the problem a discrete +/- 1 second suddenly appearing on the clocks.
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by aomix 2mo ago
In my experience this has an obvious answer (yes). LLM’s yes-and whatever patterns are present in the code base no matter how insane. If you don’t tend to your code garden it will be overcome with weeds in an instant. At work we had largely
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by aomix 3mo ago
James Duane, the lawyer from the famous video about never talking to the police, wrote a book called You Have the Right to Remain Innocent. It’s a great read if you want to feel very sad.
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by aomix 3mo ago
I credit randomly deciding to take Latin in high school as a huge change in the trajectory of my life. It didn’t even happen all at once. Just a little different perspective on how words are formed. Oh they’re often combination of simple ro
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by aomix 4mo ago
Talking the problem to death with the AI before implementation is a nice zone for me. I feel productive, get good results out of the AI, and still largely understand the code. That’s the part of the AI revolution that I feel has made me a b
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by aomix 4mo ago
It started looking a whole lot like OpenBSD’s random number system. Private entropy pool from good system entropy seeds a ChaCha20 stream with random reseeds for forward secrecy in case of compromise. I think Linux is even more paranoid in
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by aomix 7mo ago
The Wire's eternal wisdom "You start to follow the money, you don't know where the fuck it's gonna take you"
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by aomix 8mo ago
I haven't had a chance to do embedded work but people damn near fall to their knees and weep when talking about how nice the experience is using embassy. Which makes me want to give it a try.
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by aomix 8mo ago
I find it interesting that the same process that played out in the forums to feed transition also took place in video games with dedicated servers to matchmaking. I joined a random Counter Strike server in 2005 and ended up becoming close f
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by aomix 8mo ago
I’m not even an athlete but I hike fairly often and walk 3-4 miles a day with my dog. If I get a pair of so-so boots they’ll last less than a year. I got recommended boots by a friend that lasted me 6 years until I finally had to replace th
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by aomix 9mo ago
I keep believing there’s a web of trust type future for social media but I can’t articulate it.
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by aomix 9mo ago
"I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time." is my favorite quote for that
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by aomix 9mo ago
I want Netflix to lose. After living with their binge release schedule for however long now I think we're all worse off for it. So I want less of the industry to use it.
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by aomix 10mo ago
I never watched the widescreen version of The Wire they put out years ago but now I'm curious again. That show was a bone deep 4:3 product and the show plays with it constantly. Here is an interesting breakdown that made me really appr
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by aomix 11mo ago
I was coming in with the Walmart example too. The onboarding meeting told us he overheard it at a Korean manufacturer and liked it.
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by aomix 11mo ago
I’m afraid to upgrade from my ~6 year old LG OLED with a damaged corner because I pair it with an Apple TV and only see Apple ads occasionally on the Home Screen. I don’t know if a newer tv would give me the same experience.
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by aomix 1y ago
While driving through upstate New York on a camping trip I found a maple syrup shop run on the honor system. Leave the money in an unlocked box. It was shocking. I bought a gallon.
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by aomix 1y ago
I’ve been agonizing over getting the Framework Desktop for weeks as a dev machine/local LLM box/home server. It checks a lot of boxes but the only reason to look at the Framework Desktop over something like a Minisforum MS-A2 is f
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by aomix 1y ago
I wonder if you plotted layoffs cycles you’d see a big gaps for tech companies for the last couple years since RTO orders will have the same effect. Reading about the different RTO rebellions is interesting. I know multiple people who have
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by aomix 1y ago
I saw someone describe python as “stressful” for this reason and I couldn’t agree more. It’s difficult to have confidence in any change I make or review. I need to sit down and manually exercise codepaths because I don’t get the guarantees
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by aomix 1y ago
We had serious reliability issues with USB versions that were only solved by switching to the D457 model with GSML connectors. Those needed other hardware vendors to build in support for it to work but once that was all done we never had an
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by aomix 2y ago
I was working in a college job for a pharmaceutical distributor when the New England Compounding Center outbreak happened. I think that dropped a nuke on the whole industry. We stopped dealing with compounding pharmacies after that because
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by aomix 2y ago
I didn’t appreciate this until covid and wfh. I’m an introvert and am in my happy place sitting in front of a computer or with a book. But I was losing my mind and had to be actively social for the first time in my life. I can see a decade
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by aomix 2y ago
Falling off the cognitive cliff after retirement is something I think a lot of people are familiar with in their own lives.
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by aomix 2y ago
Everything I've read about pledge and unveil really admire the approach and the results but it didn't seem to have a big impact outside of OpenBSD. It took ~20 years for OpenBSD's CSPRNG to be re-implemented everywhere else m
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by aomix 2y ago
I’m more bearish about LLMs but even in the extreme optimist case this is why I’m not that concerned. Every project I’m on is triaged as the one that needs the most help right now. A world when dozen projects don’t need to be left on the cu

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