jochem9

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by jochem9 5mo ago
I used to do lots of data engineering in Python, then started doing all kinds of engineering in primarily Go. The Go ecosystem for data is very limited. There are no widely supported dataframe libraries (like the og pandas and the newer pol
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by jochem9 5mo ago
If you're at a stage where code doesn't compile and doesn't do what you want, then that's really easy to improve. - let the llm (agent) compile the code and iterate until it does. - state your intent more clearly.
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by jochem9 5mo ago
This implies that the government respects the rules or at the very least pretends to do so. To me it's pretty clear that the US federal government has moved beyond that.
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by jochem9 5mo ago
One does not rule out the other. In the end it's nerds messing with hardware. Lots of computer culture is rooted in anarchism, anti-capitalism and a fight for fairness. E.g. early internet culture, the open source community. Imo it&#x2
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by jochem9 5mo ago
To me these all sound pretty plausible? You have browser extensions that allow AI to control it. There are apps that create a virtual microphone for text to speech. All pretty easy to get going if you allow an AI to control a computer. Gene
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by jochem9 5mo ago
Says a lot about the state of society when parenting is outsourced to technology, so that the parents can be further enslaved (because almost no one chooses to work two jobs).
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by jochem9 5mo ago
EU severely reducing its fossil fuel imports from Russia in 2022 cut down natural gas usage by 17% and overall energy consumption by 3%. So yeah, increased price due to scarcity help a lot in shifting around the energy mix. It's a bit
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by jochem9 5mo ago
I'm on a very similar train. You cannot dump all the data into an LLM (for many reasons) and we also already have clearly defined rules that an LLM doesn't have to figure out. So keep organizing data (LLM powered, of course), so t
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by jochem9 5mo ago
I'm also doing openspec for a few months now and it's really good if you invest enough in the specs (in the beginning I skimmed over much, now I pay attention to all details and fix anything that's wrong or where I see a gap)
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by jochem9 5mo ago
Not the original commenter, but I share the same sentiment. The harm done is that there is less human interaction outside one's bubble. Before deliver-anything-at-home you were forced to be in environments where you'd interact wit
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by jochem9 5mo ago
Most products you consume are probably not software. Pretty much all products you consume are created by companies that use software. If those companies don't keep up with software, they might not have a competitive edge that their com
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by jochem9 5mo ago
Yes. Your message needs to find other people. The how is irrelevant, it just shapes and transmits it.
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by jochem9 5mo ago
Oh, I thought it was opium.
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by jochem9 6mo ago
This is the crazy part with LLMs. It knows much more than you as a single user will ever realize, as it only shows the part that matches with what you put in. I was building a tool to do exploratory data analysis. The data is manufacturing
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by jochem9 6mo ago
You could build (code, if you really want) tools to ease the review. Of course we already have many tools to do this, but with LLMs you can use their stochastic behavior to discover unexpected problems (something a deterministic solution ne
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by jochem9 6mo ago
It's all kinds of patterns. What stood out in this one is that almost all subheadings start with "The". I notice that I'm even changing my writing style the moment I feel like I'm writing how an AI might write. Does
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by jochem9 6mo ago
I think my sweetspot is having one (30min+) features a day. And then after spend synchronous time iterating on it to fix edgecases or tweak stuff. The rest of my time goes to prepping those big features (designing, speccing, talking, think
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by jochem9 7mo ago
ASML has a near monopoly on the most advanced chip machines. They maintain that by 'just' being the most advanced and having lots of patents. They haven't branched off into making chips themselves. They keep their focus on se
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by jochem9 7mo ago
Why do you bring up communism? It's not true that a society either has to organize as capitalist or communist.
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by jochem9 8mo ago
So far in my career I have always had more requests coming in than implementations going out. If I can go 3 or 10 times faster, than I will still have plenty of work. Especially for the slew of ideas that are never even considered to put to
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by jochem9 9mo ago
In the US people take on personal debt for something like a car. In the Netherlands (where I live) this is very uncommon: people save up, then buy it.
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by jochem9 9mo ago
The US is considered to be a flawed democracy for about 10 years now[1]. Europe, especially the powerful west, has the most healthy democracies. It's absolutely not a given that the European democracies will survive, people here need t
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by jochem9 9mo ago
In the Netherlands we call that a razzia. Very popular in the early 40s.
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by jochem9 10mo ago
Vinyl is populair, inconvenient and doesn't have crisp audio quality. Cassettes are also inconvenient and have poor audio quality, plus they are cheap and portable. So I definitely also see them stick around. I also see plenty cassette
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by jochem9 1y ago
The Dutch government just explicitly denied any foreign involvement, while at the same time acknowledging that a few years ago the export restrictions for ASML were implemented because of US involvement. Tbh, I don't know what the trut
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by jochem9 1y ago
One thing that I don't see mentioned but that does bug me: data engineers often use a lot of Python and SQL, even the ones that have heavily adopted software engineering best practices. Yet both languages are not great for this. Python
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by jochem9 1y ago
Last time I worked with Databricks you could just create branches in their interface. PRs etc happened in your git provider, which for us was azure devops back then. We also managed some CI/CD. You're still dealing with notebooks.
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by jochem9 1y ago
In the Netherlands there was a brief spike of inflation, but that was due to rounding up, definitely not converting 1 NLG to 1 EUR. The inflation did correct itself the years after (aka lower than usual). The perception with many people sti
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by jochem9 1y ago
All EU countries are required to join the euro. This was agreed in the 1992 Maastricht treaty when the EU was founded (and the EMU, which was the starting point of the euro). Only Denmark and the UK negotiated an opt-out at the time. Only p
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by jochem9 1y ago
Solution: reduce CO2 emissions to carbon neutrality. This has been agreed multiple times, most notably the Paris agreement of 2015, which set deadlines for countries to achieve carbon neutrality. The plan failed in e.g. the US because polit

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