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by elgertam 6mo ago
I set up a VM on Hetzner a few weeks ago. I've been quite impressed so far, and was able to orchestrate everything with Terraform without a problem.
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by elgertam 6mo ago
Math, physics, and chemistry RLHF freelancing is typically north of $40/hr. Even competence at simply reading & writing English prose earns at least $20/hr. I've never seen an offer for less than that, and I lived off of
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by elgertam 7mo ago
I have a nearly total opposite take. I can't tell you how many times I've read a book, a paper or something else and been confused by some ambiguity in the author's prose. Being able to drop the paper (or even the book!) into
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by elgertam 7mo ago
I built an MCP server to speak WHOIS/RDAP so I could have Claude give me better domain name suggestions that weren't already taken. It can also be used in LLM-enabled applications (provided that the model is "tool calling&quo
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by elgertam 7mo ago
Yeah, semantics is extremely important. Just no way around it.
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by elgertam 7mo ago
Well that's another use I have for LLMs: asking questions about these informational or architectural impedance mismatches. LLMs get it wrong sometimes, but with proper guidance (channel your inner Karl Popper), they can be quite helpfu
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by elgertam 7mo ago
Every time I request the wrong OAuth scope that doesn't have the authorization to do what I need, then make a failing request, I hear Jim Gaffigan affecting a funny authoritative voice saying, "No." I can't be the only o
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by elgertam 7mo ago
MCP connects the LLM to the APIs, which can be consulted with "tool calls." I'm talking about integrating the software I produce (with LLM assistance) to APIs. Traditionally, this is a nightmare given poor documentation. LLMs
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by elgertam 7mo ago
You know where LLMs boost me the most? When I need to integrate a bunch of systems together, each with their own sets of documentation. Instead of spending hours getting two or three systems to integrate with mine with the proper OAuth scop
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by elgertam 7mo ago
We spend a ton of money per capita and get bad outcomes.
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by elgertam 7mo ago
I mean isn't that why they ask for name and DoB each time? I get that they want to ensure they're working with the correct patient. I just don't love trying to recall on command the litany of symptoms I've experienced an
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by elgertam 7mo ago
> Assuming uniquely American selfishness got us in this mess, I don't buy that rugged individualism is the route out. You'll just get that classic pattern of those with enough resources to manage criticizing the resource manage
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by elgertam 7mo ago
I see a lot of the comments operating from an empirical framing. This is valid analysis and is good; we should want to understand the waste in the system as it stands. However, that isn't enough. US healthcare is wildly inefficient bec
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by elgertam 7mo ago
Montana is both cold and sparely populated, so I figure data centers would be good there. Also, I figure Zefram Cochrane could use all that compute for his warp theories in a few decades.
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by elgertam 7mo ago
I think one can only hope to reveive such an offer
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by elgertam 8mo ago
I used to read it daily. Even continued for a few years after the acquisition. But at this point, I haven't looked at it in years. Even tend to skip the articles that make it to the first page of HN. Of course, most of the original wri
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by elgertam 9mo ago
Introducing JobbyPasta, the service that will hand-complete and mail in job applications for a small fee of $9.99 per application. Add on a transcription of your cover letter for an additional $4.99, or have us generate one (with your appro
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by elgertam 10mo ago
I do something similar. I write markdown, then render it and copy-paste that in
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by elgertam 10mo ago
It's interesting and you should keep iterating. My critiques: it requires a scroll container with sufficient margin to move the top and bottom elements (or I guess left and right) past center; the "place" button is quite unin
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by elgertam 11mo ago
But the "rule" in this case is that political appointees can have the polygraph waived at some senior leader's discretion, up to the president.
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MCP for Domain Analysis (WhoisMCP) 0.3.8 released(github.com)
2 points by elgertam 1y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: I made an MCP Server to check whether domains are available(github.com)
4 points by elgertam 1y ago|0 comments
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by elgertam 4y ago
This is right, though I think we should be clear that the MBSs lost value because they are normally like bonds, and bond prices decrease when yields increase. MBSs tend to remind people of '08 when MBSs lost value because too many had
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by elgertam 4y ago
> (Yes, this is a gross over-simplification) This isn't really an over-simplification as it is wrong. When someone deposits $1m in the bank, the bank's assets increase by $1m in cash, while liabilities also increase by $1m and
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by elgertam 4y ago
Many commends are (correctly IMO) pointing to JSON as superior to YAML given YAML's problems, but these ignore JSON's problems due to its lack of semantics. When moving JSON between systems, the JSON parser makes certain assumptio
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Preserves: An Expressive Data Language(preserves.dev)
9 points by elgertam 4y ago|1 comments
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by elgertam 4y ago
> I try to use depersonalized language for this reason. Instead of saying "you" did this (yeah that's right, YOU), I'll tell someone that their account is doing something, or that their comment is a certain way. This
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Fifty Years of Smalltalk Livestream at the Computer History Museum(youtube.com)
8 points by elgertam 4y ago|0 comments
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by elgertam 4y ago
I've been playing around with Synit & Syndicate a bit already, and it's an impressive system. I've told Tony that Syndicate is the "missing session layer" for the Internet, since Syndicate enables multicast &amp
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Syndicate: A Session Layer for the Internet(syndicate-lang.org)
4 points by elgertam 5y ago|0 comments

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