bob1029

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by bob1029 4mo ago
> We will reduce management layers to no more than 5, and where possible, 3. This reads like something from The Office.
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by bob1029 4mo ago
> Computer science is neither about computers nor is it a science. https://youtu.be/-J_xL4IGhJA
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by bob1029 4mo ago
I pitched this to management as a way to get a very expensive fine tuning job done for free. They're not quite across that line yet but we're getting closer every day.
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by bob1029 4mo ago
I'm struggling with the assertion that these models cannot provide reasonably deterministic guarantees. I am using gpt to populate JSON objects conforming to a list of natural language constraints for purposes of generating fake custom
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by bob1029 4mo ago
> I shot down similar arguments in favor of outsourcing overseas for years. Outsourcing any critical logic to an LLM is even worse. Outsourcing to another continent of humans and supplementing workflows with LLMs are entirely different o
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by bob1029 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_bollard
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by bob1029 4mo ago
> graph-memory research The problem I have with graph representations relative to LLMs is that you can never directly apply the concept. Everything that speaks to an LLM must ultimately be serialized. There's no getting around the t
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by bob1029 4mo ago
The biggest problem with diesel engines is that they tend to last nearly forever by virtue of their design (tolerating high compression ratios). I see a lot of ancient big trucks on the road today that are completely legal in Texas but woul
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by bob1029 4mo ago
ORMs are a horrible fit for OLAP scenarios. I've got a situation where I need to load ~40 tables with a total of 100k+ rows and I need it to happen at user-interactive speeds (less than 10 seconds). There is nothing that an ORM can do
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by bob1029 4mo ago
I've noticed that cooking with gas is easily the worst thing for CO2 levels. Even with lots of ventilation my kitchen will hover around 1200ppm until it's over with. I swear I can feel the 430ppm already. I was born into a world w
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by bob1029 4mo ago
I learned some nuance. Small context is important if the context isn't cachable. If most of it is the same prefix every time, the situation changes pretty significantly.
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by bob1029 4mo ago
A lot of the crazy ideas seem to have melted away in the face of massive context sizes. Today, I can put roughly a megabyte of utf8 text into my system prompt before things start to get weird. That is a massive amount of information even
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by bob1029 4mo ago
8" is not a huge driver. The point with these is to avoid the need for a separate subwoofer for most program material.
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by bob1029 4mo ago
I've been working on inverting the control theory for the agent loop. Instead of the user initiating everything, the agent runs automatically in the background and calls the user for feedback as part of tool use. The end game for me is
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by bob1029 4mo ago
> In the United States, if you’re lucky enough to have fiber, you might get 1 Gigabit. But often it’s shared with your neighbors. And you usually have exactly one choice of provider. I've got 5gbps symmetric right now and I can bare
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by bob1029 4mo ago
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/964752-REG/yamaha_hs8...
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by bob1029 4mo ago
> the files that are removed will be going to single-layer (non redunant) storage. I'd consider DIY tape library if I had a cold storage scenario like this where I don't really need the kind of guarantees that iron mountain and
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by bob1029 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)#/media/Fil...
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by bob1029 4mo ago
This is a good example of another thing you get in the box when you simply pay the man. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/r...
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by bob1029 4mo ago
This paper reads like a high school science fair project with zero treatment for the concern originally presented (oil system pressure transients).
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by bob1029 4mo ago
> Presence of oil is critical here as it creates conditions for hydrodynamic lubrication. You can hear this effect in some vehicles at initial startup time for a few seconds. I know of certain Ford engines where it actually causes issues
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by bob1029 4mo ago
The ego thing is a spectrum and the most powerful treatment I've experienced so far is watching someone with a substantially larger ego trip operate right in front of me. I think this one of the best possible cures. To see yourself in
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by bob1029 4mo ago
One of the biggest advantages is that a lot of people in the business are already comfortable with the ecosystem. I know that from the perspective of HN that SSMS, pgAdmin, DBeaver, DB Browser for SQLite, et. al. are mostly isomorphic, but
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by bob1029 4mo ago
SQLite and MSSQL are my two solutions for relational storage problems. If I am going to use a "free" provider, SQLite is impossible to beat. They cover a majority of use cases today. SQLite starts to fall apart with backup, replic
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by bob1029 4mo ago
Variable electricity rates are the best way to encourage the user base to actually do this. I was on Griddy for 2 years and had a system where I'd run my AC hard up until 4pm and then I'd set it to 78F until the rates came back do
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by bob1029 4mo ago
I've been in a lot of situations where I could step gpt5.x through a big refactor if I spoon feed it one type name at a time. If I let it try to do the whole thing at once it will refuse or get stuck in apply patch loops. Planner &#x2F
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by bob1029 4mo ago
There are quite a few homes in my area that still use gas lamps at night. The HOA is pretty good about sending letters to people who install 100w 5500k led cannons in their exterior fixtures.
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by bob1029 4mo ago
This is so vague in practice. The only thing I can see working out is banning creators who are so obvious with their use of AI that they directly forward watermarked content to the platform and we can establish cryptographic guarantees that
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by bob1029 4mo ago
The problem with solar (at least in Texas) is that the buildings store heat long enough that the peak of the HVAC demand curve coincides with when solar begins to taper off really hard. 5-6pm is when maximum HVAC demand occurs around here.
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by bob1029 4mo ago
I am curious about the power grid situation in Europe. Assume the rate of AC usage was as high as the US (or god forbid Japan), how far behind is the grid infrastructure from where it needs to be? ERCOT (Texas) has daily swings of up to 50

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