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by koliber 2mo ago
I’ve been mulling a congruent idea. When we think about goals we usually imagine a static end state. 75 kg body weight. 1,000,000 USD in my bank account. A happy life. We try to define the goals using units and aim for them. This is fine in
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by koliber 2mo ago
I read a while back that our brains produce roughly 0.3 mg of melatonin when signaling us to go to sleep. When I occasionally do use melatonin I split a 1mg pill into half or thirds. I find that it works well enough to help me fall asleep.
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by koliber 3mo ago
In theory, you're right. But she talks about how it happens in practice. We can all sit around and talk about how this or that should work in theory, until one day we get a chance to do that one thing. And then most of us shut up becau
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by koliber 3mo ago
When you are judging something you are judging the whole thing. If the first part is bad that puts the book behind every other book. Even if the rest was decent the chance of it being the best overall is small. Think about judging a 3 cours
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by koliber 3mo ago
Vistulo | Sr. Java Backend / Sr. React Frontend / Sr. Network Engineer / Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer | REMOTE, must be based in Poland or Romania | $110k-$160k / year All roles are for a large N. American bank work
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by koliber 3mo ago
It would be relatively easy to build the logic for on-call rotations, and to build the API endpoints for consuming alerts. But add to that the work of also building mobile apps, working with SMS and email infra, and this becomes a non-trivi
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by koliber 3mo ago
I was trying to make a different statement. Everyone will need to become a manager, even ICs. But in the past, many engineers shied away from management, for various reasons. Now, it will need to change. Managing people is hard because of a
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by koliber 3mo ago
Anyone know of resources like this but for capital markets? Things that would allow engineers new to trading equities, options, FX, bonds, and commodities to learn about different flows, market structure, common architectures, and other th
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by koliber 3mo ago
Every software developer will be a manager of one or more AI agents. Managing AI agents will turn out to be surprisingly similar to managing people, except for the drama, illness, and tragedy.
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by koliber 4mo ago
No. The cost of one programmer’s hour of work compared to the increase in price of RAM is not very big. One is a variable cost one is fixed.
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by koliber 4mo ago
It’s a funny comparing commutes back then to commutes now. But it does not take a lot of imagination to see that back then people did not isolate themselves with newspapers while buying food at the grocery store, standing on the crosswalk o
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by koliber 4mo ago
How much RAM did the local machine have?
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by koliber 4mo ago
I was not thinking about real $ costs, but rather the cost of the hours of the people who had to deal with this BS.
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by koliber 4mo ago
Over the past 9 months I've been advising one small client of mine on AI adoption, and engineering maturity in general. They have a team of 5 engineers. One very capable lead and 4 ICs. They did not use AI at all before. It was a whirl
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by koliber 4mo ago
I'm being a little facetious when I write this, but bear with me: Let's say I have daily backups, and get 10x done each day by being reckless and risking an "rm -rf", and let's say there's a 1% chance of an &qu
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by koliber 4mo ago
I wonder how much money this agent wasted on the DN42 side? I know it's a volunteer org but these people had to deal with the bs of managing this agent's blast radius instead of learning, experimenting, or doing whatever they norm
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by koliber 4mo ago
The problems with inheritance tax is that they can be avoided through trust structures and insurance schemes. In theory it's a good tax, but in practice many wealthy people figured out how not to pay it.
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by koliber 5mo ago
I own a domain and have a catch all email. I routinely get emails from Microsoft and Google's official email addresses telling me that some account will be closed, or some other account notifications. I never created these accounts, an
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by koliber 5mo ago
Supporting is a word that means many different things. It’s ok to stop providing updates to old software and hardware. It’s OK to not support ancient devices when writing news software. It’s not ok to make old devices inoperable if they are
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by koliber 5mo ago
I’m not an accountant and what you’re saying is probably right. However, if you hire an engineer to do R&D, build systems, and take R&D tax credits, it “feels” like capex.
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by koliber 5mo ago
Replace “Claude code” with “programmers” and you get what we’ve had up until now. It’s all just moving quicker now.
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by koliber 5mo ago
You don’t need to teach anyone about this. The wealth tax should apply to extremely wealthy people, not everyone. If you accumulated a fortune, there was some skill at play. There was also considerable luck and some exploitation. The wealth
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by koliber 5mo ago
Is it capex of training new models and hiring people for 250mln pay packages? Or is it opex running inference?
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by koliber 5mo ago
Absolutely right. I had a "math moment" myself. I was thinking margin instead of markup.
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by koliber 5mo ago
EDIT: [ IGNORE THIS COMMENT -- IT IS WRONG - I had a "bad math moment" myself ] The math seems off. How is 7.8 million vs 4 million 95% more expensive. Article makes good points but I doubt the numbers as they don’t add up. Still
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by koliber 5mo ago
You’re right and that’s intentional. Japanese companies don’t optimize for efficiently but for longevity. Sometimes those things go hand in hand. Sometimes they don’t.
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by koliber 5mo ago
The article makes a good point, but it's based on a polarized view that people make good judgement and AI is incapable of making good judgement. I've worked with people who demonstrated below-average judgement, and I've seen
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by koliber 5mo ago
Now given the logic that you can't be dependent on any one service to run your SaaS, how does Railway convince its customers to run their SaaS on a single service?
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by koliber 5mo ago
You can have an offboarding doc even if you don’t have employees. It will apply in the future once/if you do. It will be silly and useless now, but you can check it off as a YES.
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by koliber 5mo ago
How will you know that it produced correct code if you don’t know how to write it yourself?

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