beardedetim

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by beardedetim 23d ago
I think of this and the book the author wrote Computer Power and Human Reason every time I try to talk to product about the short comings of LLMs
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by beardedetim 1mo ago
It's a ~year old product that started on GH. So this is the first time this team has had to think through "okay, so this isn't as reliable as it was at $oldjob."
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by beardedetim 1mo ago
We're starting to have the conversation of "do we need to replace GitHub as our CI/CD pipeline?" No idea if/when we decide to pull that bandaid but I think once we can't merge a hot fix into main because of GH
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by beardedetim 2mo ago
Tinfoil hat time but I think they definitely did _something_ at that time that "changed" the system. It's the Cambridge Analytica/Trump time and I believe that FB definitely "changed" at the same time.
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by beardedetim 6mo ago
This is what I don't understand about this policy. There's no way a senior has enough spare capacity to be the gate keeper on every PR made by AI below them. So now we are just making it so the senior people use more AI to keep up
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by beardedetim 6mo ago
Early in my career I tried very hard to "be concrete, cold, and direct" because that's what I thought a good communicator would do. It was seen as attacking to anyone below me and confusing to anyone above me. I was naive an
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by beardedetim 10mo ago
This feels like such a valid solution and is how past $dayjobs released things: send to the free users, rollout to Paying Users once that's proven to not blow up.
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by beardedetim 11mo ago
I've become a huge fan of A.E. van Vogt and have been slowly collecting all of his pulp books.
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by beardedetim 11mo ago
This is the reason I left the "main" social media and what keeps me from engaging too much with Reddit/HN or any of the other new hotness like Mast, nostr, BlueSky, etc: it's just rage baiting or karma farming
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by beardedetim 1y ago
This is a good callout/distinction you're making. How we view the goal of the experience determines our experience itself. The guitar analogy is really good because if your goal was to learn guitar, it's definitely not wasted
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by beardedetim 1y ago
they have concepts of a product
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by beardedetim 2y ago
I am getting > "error": "Text to speech is not available. Please set Azure speech credentials in .env"
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by beardedetim 2y ago
Cannot agree more to this sentiment. I call it "throw away code" and it's always seemed like the easiest to change in the future, and we all know everything is gonna change in the future.
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by beardedetim 2y ago
BM25 is definitely a big deal when you're doing FTS. It's one of the reasons I've switched to Arango as my DB for the project I'm working on that needs FTS. The fact it also comes with graphs means I don't need to b
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by beardedetim 2y ago
Oh this brought back memories! Getting a PS file, using px for everything to "match the designs", random jQuery snippets to get a hamburger menu. Not a damn clue what I was doing but loving every minute of it.
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by beardedetim 2y ago
We played tag or hide and seek at a school one time after dark. We were probably 16 or 17 since at least some of us could drive by then. Cops called all of our parents and said we'd go to jail if it happened again. The funniest thing t
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by beardedetim 2y ago
For the right price, I'd sell every bit of data I produce!
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by beardedetim 2y ago
I really like this concept of `flex-grid` because that's exactly what this display would be.
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by beardedetim 2y ago
I was making music in the early 00s and those indie Internet radio stations were the only place I ever got played. Made me feel like a hot shot!
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by beardedetim 2y ago
What if you try to treat people the way they want to be treated instead of how you want to be treated? I think the "golden rule" has been often misinterpreted as " treat people how you want to be treated" which leads to
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by beardedetim 3y ago
I read somewhere long ago that there's some chemical released when you talk about your plans, similar to the chemical that gets released when you complete your plan. So when you talk about your ideas, you feel like you've already
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by beardedetim 3y ago
I can definitely second janus. At previous job, we used that for video calls/streaming mixed with FFMPEG for some transformations along the way. Really reliable stuff.
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by beardedetim 3y ago
I 100% agree with this. Have always called it `throw-away development` where you build a prototype just to understanding what it is that you are actually solving/building. Then, once you understand, implement the _actual_ thing you nee
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by beardedetim 3y ago
> while providing nothing of value you can't get from a game that's not for stakes. When I play poker, I don't get the same fun value when it's for nothing but the clay chips or even if it's for $2 total win (_wh
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by beardedetim 3y ago
It is all hevel, vapor. There is no sense to anything, no _meaning_ to anything. It just _is_. Eat, drink, and find satisfaction in your lot.
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by beardedetim 3y ago
Three Scientists and their Gods is such a good book! Almost anything by Robert Wright has been a must buy for me ever since!
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by beardedetim 3y ago
I think, if I'm recalling it correctly, that the component that is defining it in the docs can be either client or server and by marking the functiom as server only, Next knows to do magic.
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by beardedetim 3y ago
Fellow Volunteer here so totally empathize with the summer sun making the runs even harder! I used to be far more systematic with my life many moons ago, in my late teens and early 20s. That helped immensely and I credit a lot of my persona
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by beardedetim 3y ago
Really good way to say it! In my experience, there's something to do with starting a "flow" that I as a human get stuck into. If the "flow" is doing things that I don't want to do but I _need_ to do for whateve
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by beardedetim 3y ago
100% agree here. In my younger days, I used to think that "willpower" was an unlimited resource but totally agree that there _are active limits_ to it and even more so you _cannot change things outside your control_. Someone once

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