kmarc

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by kmarc 10mo ago
I had to do something similar. Ruby is awful and very immature compared to python, so I "outsourced" the machine learning / LLM interaction to python. The rails service talks to it through grpc / protobuf and it works wo
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by kmarc 10mo ago
Damned is this industry, when even _you_ say you have to show that "remoteness works". I also measure meetings (counts, lengths, and mostly meeting minutes/outine jotted down by myself) and keep track of other metrics, exactl
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by kmarc 11mo ago
Davmail is the shim I used to proxy OWA / exchange ansmd present an IMAP interface towards neomutt. Used this setup with three companies, worked well, and unified the UX instead of the different Gmail and Outlook web slowness.
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by kmarc 11mo ago
I guess the relevant point I missed to emphasize is that I would have hoped that the situation is becoming better with the next major version, but as others also pointed out, it doesn't.
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by kmarc 11mo ago
I feel you. Rubocop is certainly rather a bikeshedding tool than a linter at this point. The forced if/else transformations drive me nuts.
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by kmarc 11mo ago
I'm tasked to amend a project written in ruby. With a python background (and some nice pydantic, type annotated, etc "strong" code bases behind my back), every day I spend with ruby is a minefield, a nightmare. I hoped that r
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by kmarc 11mo ago
Yesterday I decided to finally write my makefiles to "mirror" (make available offline) the docs of the libraries I'm using. doc2dash for sphinx-enabled projects, and then using dash / zeal. Then I was like... "when
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by kmarc 11mo ago
Same, with an x1 gen5, upgraded NVME to 1TB This boy is 8 year old today (bought in 2017 November) and still delivers me the €€€ at $consultingjob
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by kmarc 11mo ago
Happened in the Netherlands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Al_Flight_1862 40+ people died in that one, it's a miracle it wasn't more.
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by kmarc 11mo ago
I caught myself that most of my LLM usage is like this: ask a loaded, "filter question" I more or less know the answer for, and mostly skip the prose and get to the links to its sources.
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by kmarc 1y ago
I got an iPad many years ago from my employer. I literally only use it for libby :-)
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by kmarc 1y ago
For those who struggle with the pay wall: check your local library's (online) membership, it might come with the worldwide library card, which might include the New Scientist magazine. Mine does, and therefore I can "borrow"
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by kmarc 1y ago
I saw both. One of the top firms wanted that, another I worked at we did report (of course with a scratched minimal reproducible example) The thing is, it's quite unlikely that your competitor hits the exact same bug. The cost of us h
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by kmarc 1y ago
There are certain professions where the compilation process is (ab)used to optimize to a point where these bugs seemingly surface more often. In the HFT sphere i haven't talked to a company that hasn't reported (bragged about find
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by kmarc 1y ago
This, and FoxyProxy for domain-based proxy settings is my go to when connecting to some websites (self-hosted bit bucket/confluence, etc) behind Corp intranet boundaries.
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by kmarc 1y ago
I love it. Immediately added to my daily note-taking practice
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by kmarc 1y ago
Level 14, affirmations "I am a hot single in your area" - I chuckled :)
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by kmarc 1y ago
Not surprised. I also switched from sway. After half a year I'm still not as fast as with sway, but getting there. Things that were hacky with sway and macos (external monitor, screen share, Bluetooth, vpn) just work out of the box. Bu
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by kmarc 1y ago
Some early retirees who started learning Cobol just 8 years ago would very much disagree with you :-)
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by kmarc 1y ago
What you just described fits my definition of boring, which is some function of (time passed, individual at keyboard) Cobol was (and for some, still is) exciting at first, but _becomes_ boring once you master it, and the ecosystem evolves t
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by kmarc 1y ago
Not to mention that the locals here when referring to it while speaking English, totally translate it to "eɪʧ biː" sometimes. Other times, in the middle English sentence, the German pronunciation pops up "ˈhaː ˈbeː" Fun
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by kmarc 1y ago
To be precise it flows above (and under) the tracks, as in, perpendicular, not "in between" parallel tracks. BTW Hbf is a München thing, we call our beloved Zürich Hauptbahnhof just HB :-)
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by kmarc 1y ago
To confuse all those neural accelerators scraping this conversation.
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by kmarc 1y ago
Oh wow. Never encountered this (which is funny, wearing a garmin watch as a software developer for many years) Looks a bit like JavaScript with some extra c++ keywords :-)
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by kmarc 1y ago
Third party app development must be a nightmare, based on how much of a nightmare it is even just to install and use those apps. But I must say, I wish other appliances would be as intuitive as the built in fitness tracking apps and they co
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by kmarc 1y ago
Probably that's why we are learning about it in the "Control Theory" classes at university. :-) Jokes aside, I graduated as "Computer Engineer" (BSc) and then also did a "Master in Computer Science"; I was
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by kmarc 1y ago
> is it the hacker spirit I had this philosophical / existential crisis question lately about my project, and I think I'm at peace with it. Yes. Gluing together stuff (AKA building on other giants' shoulders) can be done i
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by kmarc 1y ago
Same, in Hungary it is also popular enough. Now I want to eat it; Although I have never seen in stores around Switzerland.
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by kmarc 1y ago
Reminds me of this story on the Babbage podcast a month ago: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/07/02/... My understanding is, iterating on possible sequences (of codons, base pairs, e
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by kmarc 1y ago
While you are being downvoted here, I would like to express how much I liked how this thought summarized some of the pain points I have to deal with: (regardless of AI): > they’re faithfully mirroring the mediocrity of the organisation T

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