rustyboy

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by rustyboy 1mo ago
This is basic empathy. It's one of the key differences between a bad and good teacher. People who can see where you're coming from and grasp how your mind is working and correct that train of thought. Meanwhile the bad teacher
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by rustyboy 2mo ago
This is a great point, one that I think is reinforced by the fact that these models (at least so far) arn't being trained and benchmarked on "good writing". Which in and of itself is going to be, to your point, a moving targ
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by rustyboy 2mo ago
as a consumate obsidian note taker i've found that as asking questions to a quick model and have it challenge me with leading questions has helped me refine my writing to be more useful and driven. when my note is done, i'll pass
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by rustyboy 7mo ago
That would be awesome to see! If there was some prize pool like $5,000 to build an operating system through vibe coding tools only and then people could stream themselves on twitch and you could have "sorts desk" type commentators
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by rustyboy 8mo ago
What about it has burnt you out? That should direct where you go next
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by rustyboy 9mo ago
At my very large enterprise, a managers job is not to "promote and demote" it's to "get you where you want to be". That requires you to know your direction (to the article) but importantly, when they say "based
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by rustyboy 10mo ago
These takes feel like a failure compared to my daily usage, which is literally non-stop for ten hours a day. Want to construct a niche jq, curl, or find linux command? Can't remember the parameters for a function? Don't want to le
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by rustyboy 1y ago
Amen - As a SWE and i've come to realize that no one pays for me to treat code as craftman quality so I don't. The whole agile mindset is get something out that demonstrates value and fix it things while you go. And in ten years
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by rustyboy 2y ago
can I get a ELI10 on this - If I host a mastodon server, would I need to run this software along side it then and then everyone on my server could see these other platforms posts and such?
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by rustyboy 2y ago
i find tech hobbies fun because so may of the hard skills are transferable so i'm never starting from scratch, aka the hardest parts of a new hobby. however, this is the trap i always fall into - i have these vague targets like "l
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by rustyboy 2y ago
do you find that the side projects are for: fun, learning, or some external pressure like the parent suggested? what I find is that picking up a new hobby causes me a lot of mental anguish. there's a lot of very basic elementary blocks
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by rustyboy 2y ago
this is really insightful, i am nearing ten years as SWE - i've always loved passion projects and learning outside of work. This has historically got me really far in my career. However I just started a new role as a team lead on k8s
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by rustyboy 2y ago
I completely agree with the sentiment. The catch here is that, unlike software in the past, there's (at least in America) ALOT of money on the line with software these days that attracts strategic and outgoing people which are "pl
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by rustyboy 2y ago
Do you have any tips for practicing this? I feel like I often "take the oxygen out of the room" when I offer suggestions or get talking. Conversely when I bite my tongue (or just unplug my mic) most people don't talk or off
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by rustyboy 2y ago
as someone who spent a few years really addicted to stims but eventually got clean, when I started having problems at work with focus and attention, I decided that I didn't want to get diagnosed because - at some fundamental level - st
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by rustyboy 2y ago
Out of curiosity, given it is a spectrum, what's at the other end of "really" autisitc (if that's even the right word) or does that just go from 0 being "normal" to 1 being that "really"?
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by rustyboy 3y ago
Curious at how people are using vectordbs at an enterprise level. Let's say you have a team of 5 data scientists/developers who are working on a collection of GenAI features/tooling. Does it make sense to have one single vect
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by rustyboy 3y ago
I notice a lot of XY problems with GenAI if you're not careful. Thus I can picture more senior engineers writing (with GenAI) really specific business requirements as unit tests with intermediate and junior engineers (with GenAI) writ
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by rustyboy 3y ago
I've really been playing with the idea of getting into trying to mod Valheim.
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by rustyboy 3y ago
do you have any reading material on that? I just finished a two month deep dive into kubernetes for work and i'm really curious on what's next.
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by rustyboy 3y ago
> my disillusionment with work, deteriorating relationships and steady decline in my ability to carry out daily tasks weren’t signs of a personal lack of interest or effort, but an inevitability resulting from the position I had put myse
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by rustyboy 3y ago
So... I should buy a house now despite how "terrible" the market is? 8% interest rates seem like a terrible time to buy. But it sounds like they're going to keep increasing.
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by rustyboy 3y ago
> imagine all the time you'd spend working on your craft in your own free time to better yourself and learn new skills now imagine using that time to do all those things and learn all those things but being able to get paid for it w
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by rustyboy 3y ago
This is sarcasm right?
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by rustyboy 4y ago
Someone already pointed out the obvious, meat tastes good, but has some ethical baggage. Ala - fake meat. But I think as you're pointing out, people around the world have made amazing dishes for centuries that are completely vegetaria
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by rustyboy 4y ago
Because data "is the new oil" and those titles are considered cost jobs not revenue jobs. source: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...
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by rustyboy 4y ago
DE's at my company actually spend all their time making easy to use interfaces ontop of these tools (Github workflows, IaC/CI-CD solutions, Dev/SecOps features, etc.) so that DW/BI/DS Developers, or even analysts in
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by rustyboy 4y ago
This is a pretty bad comparison. Not only are doctors trained for years through a mentorship process, go on to teach others, and are tested against standards; every surgery they perform for the rest of their lives is subject to review which
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by rustyboy 4y ago
> Big corp jobs, especially at non-software companies will tend to treat people as isolated cogs in the big machine, a machine you're told by everyone is "someone else's job" to understand and steer. In my experience
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by rustyboy 4y ago
as an RVer I use my hotspot for working, and 5G CHUGS through my limits in a week or two so not ideal

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