felix-the-cat

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by felix-the-cat 2mo ago
I'm working on a self-hosted open source system for monitoring and alerting on stalled / crashed / overdue asynchronous workflows. I had some weird things I needed to monitor and log analysis was kind of a PITA for dealing wi
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
I'm working on a self-hosted open source system for monitoring and alerting on stalled / crashed / overdue asynchronous workflows. I had some weird things I needed to monitor and log analysis was kind of a PITA for dealing wi
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
“Do you expect me to code?” “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to prompt!”
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
You’d think that, right, but even cities that welcome businesses are having a hard time. Even Dallas is at like 30% empty office space. I’m sure the factors are different for every city but I think remote work and companies preferring to bu
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
I totally agree on the healthcare thing, a few years ago I was working as an independent contractor and my health insurance premiums were almost $25k a year, for a plan with a $6.5k deductible. It’s bananas if you need to buy private health
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
I'm still in the prompt response loop of learning how to be more effective with it, but I've found that what works for me is to approach a project the same way I would if I was writing code by hand. I'll decompose the project
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
> I read somewhere that almost every very successful person’s results can be attributed to 2-3 tricks that they consistently apply to great effect. This entirely. I've been CTO at a handful of startups, most recently one that sold f
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
Some of this old stuff is really interesting - I used to live in Wisconsin and there was this place called “Crex Meadows” near my house which was a wildlife area but the name seemed so weird I looked it up and it used to be a grassland wher
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
It was more like some kind of credit thing, not tokens.
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
Within a few weeks of telling people at our company that if they don’t use AI they will be replaced by someone who does, they just announced that their allocation with ChatGPT has reset and are now panicking as they blew through their milli
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
Not to mention all the great deals on expresso machines, lmao.
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
I miss the whole dot-com boom era - that was the best. I was working in Austin at the time and would drive to work down a road that was lined with all the latest dot-com goodness like DrKoop.com, Living.com, et al. And who can forget readin
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
I'm curious how they would know - can't someone just tell Claude not to use excessive comments and write code that matches the style and conventions of the codebase it's being used against?
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
I'm in that boat - my current employer recently announced that they are tracking AI usage across the company and if you're not using enough AI you will be "replaced by someone who does".
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
The weirdest insects I've seen in real life are these ones called Burying Beetles - they have chemoreceptors that allow them to detect the odor of a dead mouse from as far away as two miles. Then a male and female fly to it, dig a big
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
But this too shall pass, it used to be you were dependent on a subscription to just have access to a computer itself (mainframe) and now we all have one in our pockets. I’m sure some day we will be able to run something as good as Claude at
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
This looks amazing, we've been using Postgres in production for the last two years on a fairly high-volume system and it's been fantastic.
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
I have a Lenovo Legion and a Macbook Pro - I've had to restart the mac a couple of times due to VPN issues with work, but the Lenovo has probably been running for a few months.
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
Thanks, appreciate it!
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
I just finished building an open-source project using SQLite, and this makes me a little nervous. Is SQLite generally considered a reliable system? I've only had one experience with the DB becoming corrupted and that was because I used
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
Right, I find that AI tools combined with solid domain knowledge are incredibly effective. Yeah, if you try to one-shot a complex distributed system you'll end up with a mess, but the same thing would happen if you tried to do it yours
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
"They cluster around exactly the parts of engineering that take sustained operational experience, the idempotency key that keeps two racing requests from corrupting state, the backoff and jitter that keep a retry from turning into a st
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
I needed to quit drinking caffeine and my wife decided to just start transitioning me onto decaf without telling me, each week mixing a little more into the regular coffee bean cannister until it was basically 100% decaf. It worked really w
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
I'm not sure - like I said, it's just a friend's speculation, but when you consider how far AI has come in the past four years it's not hard to believe that it will simply continue to improve. It seems to already be havi
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
How will the customers know? And if it does what they need it to do, then why would they even care?
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
A friend who is a psychologist was telling me he thinks in another year or two insurance companies will insist people see an AI therapist first before being willing to pay for a real person.
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
It does work a little, but it's even more effective to just get some chickens. I did find permethrin works great on clothing - when I used to go hunting a lot I'd get ticks on me every time, and the thing is they climb off of your
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by felix-the-cat 3mo ago
I had a neighbor when I was a kid who had a TV in every room in their house, including the damned kitchen. And they were always on.