captainkrtek

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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
> The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me. It's gimmicky and it seems the only people "impressed" or &qu
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Add "Private Equity's New Venture: ..." to the list of sentences that scare me.
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
This too. Also the amount of group think between the tech CEOs is evident in this and other trends.
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
IPv6 is almost fully adopted, for reals
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
It feels as if every CEO used ChatGPT once and said “wow this is incredible, pivot hard to make our product use AI”, and that’s about all the thought has matured to.
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
It feels like AI investment and product focus is now a religion or cult. You have to be so fully invested, blind from any data, and throwing billions of dollars at it, otherwise you’re not “in”. Meanwhile, no one in my sphere of tech and no
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
When the baby passes through the birth canal, the pressure forces any fluids (ideally) out of the baby's lungs, then the contact with air, the temperature drop, and other physiological changes trigger the first breath/inspiration.
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
> So by definition, if a service is large enough to serve a zillion people, it is probably big and bloated and complex. Totally agree with your take as well. I think the unfortunate thing is that there can exist a "goldie locks zo
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Something like a major telco going out, for example the AT&T 1990 outage of long distance calling: > The standard procedures the managers tried first failed to bring the network back up to speed and for nine hours, while engineers ra
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
I believe they mentioned ClickHouse
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Reflecting on the last decade, with my career spanning big tech and startups, I've seen a common arch: Small and scrappy startup -> taking on bigger customers for greater profits / ARR -> re-architecting for "enterprise
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
hard yes, all of the technical discussion aside, the constant advertising deluge of every company touting AI is mind numbing.
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
It’s true. My girlfriend and I both have ADHD and are medicated. I will run laps around her tidying up her place, but struggle at my own place.. its so hard to understand
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
This sounds interesting, do you have this written up anywhere?
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Been happily working in Go since 2014. My career has spanned C, Python, C#, Ruby, and a smattering of other languages, but am always quite fond and preferential towards Go.
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
AI as a word now even puts me off. Every podcast ad read, every news story, every linkedin post. It’s exhausting I can’t roll my eyes any harder when I hear some ad like “How can agentic AI reshape CRM for your workforce?”
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
> Possibly-imperfect knowledge is being self-censored for legal concerns It’s not out of legal concern. I do not know how one tests an allergy, I’m not an MD.. Im sure google could suggest some options or maybe a test.
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Id encourage you (generally, outside of hn) to lookup the symptoms of a heart attack and aortic aneurysm. A aortic aneurysm can present with a pulsating mass in the abdomen, and is more common in older people and smokers. The inner lumen of
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Yes! These patients are critical and we would not let them ambulate themselves to the ambulance, we would insist on loading them and moving them ourselves to limit exertion. Extra exertion could tip them into cardiac arrest.
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
There is a chain of things that need to be done - early recognition - early administration of aspirin and/or nitro if indicated - activation of, and transport to, a hospital with catheterization capabilities. If medics can show up and
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
As an EMT, I’d say to ask your primary care provider :-) Don’t want to suggest you do something and end up with anaphylaxis.
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Depends on protocols, but hence why EMS’ job is recognition of the right issue (the best we can do), there are things we can evaluate to determine if we think its an aortic aneurysm even at the emt level to rule that out before making the d
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Certainly protocol dependent, and likely more in the paramedic realm.
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
I’d say no if it were my family, and I know the response times in my area, but the story in the blog is a nightmare scenario. People can go from heart attack to cardiac arrest quickly, and you don’t want to then tell medics you’re on the fr
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Yes you could (assuming no allergies or gi bleeds) and just inform the incoming EMTs
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
My condolences, very sorry for your loss. I work as an EMT (911) and resourcing is certainly a problem. In my small city, our response time is around 5 minutes, and if we need to upgrade to get paramedics, that’s maybe another 5-10. However
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Its very depressing that we’re almost quite literally converting money into BTUs via GPUs and not even making a buck, meanwhile the ocean gets hotter
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
I’ve done this when I remember too, but the fact I have to also feels problematic like I’m steering it towards an outcome if I do or dont.
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Id have more appreciation and trust in an llm that disagreed with me more and challenged my opinions or prior beliefs. The sycophancy drives me towards not trusting anything it says.
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Nearly nothing left unexploited in the pursuit of profits.

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