fm2606

9 ms·

1.
by fm2606 6mo ago
> This is why I have always said, that a degree in CS is useless without some degree of passion towards it. I would add I don't know how anyone can do any degree and career without some sort of passion for it. For me personally, not
2.
by fm2606 10mo ago
I still have my HP 48G and love it. I don't use it much and take the batteries out so they don't corrode in the case. Every time I use for more than a couple of calculations I think how much I prefer a RPN calculator.
3.
by fm2606 10mo ago
This is me to a big extent. Sometimes I feel like I to learn for learning's sake. Which is okay, or at least that is what my therapist tells me. I struggle with the fact that I "think about doing" vs actually doing. My work
4.
by fm2606 11mo ago
I used pg vector chunking on paragraphs. For the answers I saved in a flat text file and then parsed to what I needed. For parsing and vectorizing of the GCP docs I used a Python script. For reading each quiz question, getting a text embe
5.
by fm2606 11mo ago
I tried scripts but got blocked. I used wget to download tthem
6.
by fm2606 11mo ago
Everything I run, even the small models, some amount goes to the GPU and the rest to RAM.
7.
by fm2606 11mo ago
Hmmm...now that you say that, it might have been the 20b model. And like a dumbass I accidentally deleted the directory and didn't have a back up or under version control. Either way, I do know for a fact that the gpt-oss-XXb model bea
8.
by fm2606 11mo ago
> I'm not his target demographic Me either and I am a dev as well > He's a good presenter and his advice makes a lot of sense. Agree Not that I think he forms his answers on who is sponsoring him, but I feel he couldn't
9.
by fm2606 11mo ago
> Zero trust in remote systems run by others with unknowable or questionable motives. This all day long. Plus I like to see what can be done without relying on big tech (relying on someone to create an LLM that I can use, notwithstanding
10.
by fm2606 11mo ago
gpt-oss-120b is amazing. I created a RAG agent to hold most of GCP documentation (separate download, parsing, chunking, etc). ChatGPT finished a 50 question quiz in 6 min with a score of 46 / 50. gpt-oss-120b took over an hour but g
11.
by fm2606 11mo ago
I loved Compute!'s Gazette. I miss good print magazines
12.
by fm2606 1y ago
I know exactly what you mean, same but different I did start early at 12 y/o with a C64. Then trying to get drunk or laid took over and I only dabbled with it here and there. Got married, had kids, did other things and might as well s
13.
by fm2606 1y ago
> "paralysis by analysis" is a form of perfectionism > it can also mean DOING NOTHING because you dont see a way to do it perfectly. I had a professor point this out to me while in undergrad.
14.
by fm2606 1y ago
Lots of truth to this. However, I have difficulty in doing a personal site just for my own benefit and pleasure. I enjoy learning, I enjoy the THOUGHT of building and doing but my execution sucks.
15.
by fm2606 1y ago
Excellent point
16.
by fm2606 1y ago
Virtual hat tip to ya! I finally have four ideas that I think worthy to build that I would like to monetize. All would be well within my abilities to build. No vision of grandeur that I'd retire from any of them and if I made $100 fr
17.
by fm2606 1y ago
Correct, there is no public IP address exposed to my home. Right now my "servers" are Dell micro i5s. I've have used RPI 3 and 4 in the past. My initial foray into self-hosting were actual servers. Too hot, too noisy and t
18.
by fm2606 1y ago
Yeah, that is a good idea and as I have been doing a little bit of studying Kubernetes I thought about that too (overkill for sure).
19.
by fm2606 1y ago
I'm right there with you, except at times I have thrown caution to the wind and made my sites available. My current setup is to rent a cheap $5/month VPS running nginx. I then reverse ssh from my home to the vps, with each app on
20.
by fm2606 1y ago
At my org they are trying to move away from programmer/analyst to sowftware engineer. I told my manager call me what ever you want, just don't call me late to dinner. As long as it never gets to "grokker" (I've nev
21.
by fm2606 2y ago
Hoosiers is probably my favorite movie of his.
22.
by fm2606 2y ago
Email sent
23.
by fm2606 2y ago
Thank you
24.
by fm2606 2y ago
Thank you. Luckily for me my current manager didn't have a code test. I received a timed coding test for another position within the same org but a different manager and bombed the hell out of it.
25.
by fm2606 2y ago
I did actually. I created a custom dashboard with basic stats of type of calls ran, how many calls were run by each station, how many were EMS and how many were fire calls. Then I started doing some more automation stuff. Nothing super int
26.
by fm2606 2y ago
I have a BS degree in Aerospace Engineering and from 1999 - 2006 I was job jumping quite a bit because I was miserable. All the jobs were boring. I took a EMT Basic night class because my wife and I were getting into scuba diving and I wan
27.
by fm2606 2y ago
I switched into software dev full time at 50 and took a new software job at 52. I'll be 55 y/o this year and I highly doubt I will switch jobs again, I like the org and the work. Prior to that, starting at 45 y/o I was a par
28.
by fm2606 2y ago
That makes sense.
29.
by fm2606 2y ago
Thank you for posting the follow up
30.
by fm2606 2y ago
I would like to see a before and after. For example, #3 too many concerns. The author states "the solution is to split up a busy diagram into multiple diagrams, each focused on one or two concerns at a time" . I understand that

More ›