mycentstoo

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by mycentstoo 2mo ago
My unsolicited thoughts: * AI will drive additional features as development accelerates * There will be a window where fast adopting AI companies can deliver features faster than peers * Those fast adopting AI companies will be able to garn
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by mycentstoo 2mo ago
We should design a specific language to make sure that we can encode the exact requirements that we want. Something that has a limited set of keywords that are explicit. Wait a minute...
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by mycentstoo 6mo ago
I'm genuinely curious what a good survival strategy is for people at different levels within tech - junior, mid-level, senior, staff, etc.
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by mycentstoo 1y ago
I believe choosing a well known problem space in a well known language certainly influenced a lot of the behavior. AIs usefulness is correlated strongly with its training data and there’s no doubt been a significant amount of data about bot
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by mycentstoo 1y ago
I am just not having this experience of AI being terribly useful. I don’t program as much in my role but I’ve found it’s a giant time sink. I recognize that many people are finding it incredibly helpful but when I get deeper into a particul
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by mycentstoo 1y ago
The market value of software diminishes as it becomes significantly easier to write.
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by mycentstoo 1y ago
And to add-on, isn’t there some market dynamics we are avoiding here with this example? If I’m an AI company and really produced a principal level engineer, why would I sell it for less than the labor market is willing to bear? Wouldn’t I p
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by mycentstoo 1y ago
I’m genuinely curious on the point about reducing headcount because AI will be more efficient. I’ve seen it articulated here but other places too that a company will be able to have less engineers because each would be more productive. What
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by mycentstoo 2y ago
Oh I know, I live very close to there. I just wanted to add insight for those that might not be familiar with those being two separate things.
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by mycentstoo 2y ago
Additional Context: The Getty Villa which is on the border of Malibu and Pacific Palisades was the structure that was threatened by fire directly. This article is about the Getty Center which lies in Brentwood and fires did not reach it. Ce
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by mycentstoo 2y ago
I don't think I've personally ever been as disillusioned with technology more than with the recent rapid adoption of AI. I think AI is massively negative on the environment via increased energy consumption to train large LLMs, on
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by mycentstoo 2y ago
EC2s are provisioned with Terraform or if you want to bypass that, click-ops. Nothing custom is needed. You can define a small shell script that is known as userdata that runs when the EC2 boots. That's standard and used everywhere tha
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by mycentstoo 2y ago
Oh definitely that happens and from my experience I don’t think there’s a lot that can be done unless there’s strong faith in engineering leadership to push back on the complexity.
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by mycentstoo 2y ago
As an SRE who’s moved between a few companies recently, I’ve noticed a trend towards simpler infrastructure options rather than k8s. Most places I interviewed at used AWS with just fleets of EC2s managed through ASG and instance refresh. De
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by mycentstoo 2y ago
A few infrastructure things: - Serve traffic behind a load balancer that has a WAF - Network segregation for database (separate subnets) - Make sure you serve https and have a cert that’s valid. Redirect to https if http - Restrict ports on
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by mycentstoo 3y ago
These aren’t really things but it was nice to self reflect on what’s important: - Piano music, specifically listening to and playing the greats like Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Beethoven, etc. - The feeling you get when learning something totally
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by mycentstoo 3y ago
Seems like we’re recreating the Middle Ages financially a bit here doesn’t it? Mobility is linked to previous generations more than your own. Wealth is more important than income because there are so few jobs that can actually build enough
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by mycentstoo 3y ago
I think Americans workers are willing to tolerate conditions of exorbitant wealth disparity for at least two reasons. First, because Americans believe someday that they will be wealthy and they do not want to eliminate their chance to join
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by mycentstoo 3y ago
How much is the average person's exposure to commercial real-estate holdings versus the VC class' exposure?
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by mycentstoo 3y ago
Aren't there too many variables to reduce stock movement to a single individual?
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by mycentstoo 3y ago
I wish I understood why so many options are granted in the first place. If they offered 10,000 fewer options, would performance be any worse? Wouldn't a lot of people be vying for that same position and couldn't the company use th
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by mycentstoo 3y ago
I started using simple work books. RCM books were pretty good since they have technique, theory and pieces to play that work for each level. https://shopus.rcmusic.com/
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by mycentstoo 3y ago
Ha - maybe one day!
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by mycentstoo 3y ago
Piano and coding. One pays the bills, but I love both. I learned to play piano and currently play through sheet music. I use MuseScore and can play most "normal" music at roughly 70-80% tempo just sight reading. Then I supplement
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by mycentstoo 3y ago
Not an expert, but I would expect that these sorts of events are used as training.
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by mycentstoo 3y ago
When you say move into management, is that something that an individual can really control? I'm an IC and I've performed well but I've never thought of management as something I could actually go into. Instead, I've alwa
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by mycentstoo 4y ago
A few suggestions: 1. Application / service to service secrets should be handled either by Vault or AWS Param Store. Both are good. AWS Param Store is easier but less feature rich. Ideally, your Vault instance would have the database e
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by mycentstoo 4y ago
I won't speak to wokeness as a whole (I think the concept is way too slippery and politically charged), but I find the specific example of providing for puberty blockers for children particularly frightening.
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by mycentstoo 4y ago
Have you tried adding yourself to the Sudoers file? My work didn’t see that workaround and now I always have sudo permissions.
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by mycentstoo 4y ago
Totally agree. This is my personal barrier towards returning to an office in a "tech city." If I could live a reasonable distance and commute, I'd have no major objection to going to an office at least part time. However, aff

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