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by pdimitar 1y ago
About sums up my last job. Desperation leads to micromanaging the wrong indicators. The results are rage-inducing. I am glad I got let go by the micromanagers because if not I would have quit come New Year.
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by pdimitar 1y ago
I don't think we need to bring languages and frameworks into this. Some of them make things worse, others -- much better. Furthermore, the microservices craze only made things worse regardless of PL / framework. IMO we have an ent
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Well, to me "use AI studio" is just a pretentious thing to say, as if we are all expected to know they have "studio"... on the web. Can't quite put my finger on it but initially I was very put off by it. You do have
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Since I have only used Gemini Pro 2.5 (free) and Claude on the web (free) and I am thinking of subbing to one service or two, are you saying that: - Gemini Pro 2.5 is better at feeding it more code and ask it to do a task (or more than one)
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Well I am not sure Gemini or any other LLMs respect `.gitignore` which can immediately make the context window jump over the maximum. Tools like repomix[0] do this better, plus you can add your own extra exclusions on top. It also estimates
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Well if you have even a smidgen of decision power, please tell somebody that Google's AI products are all over the place. They are confusing, we are bombarded with information from all sides (I would not use the word "revolution&q
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Eh, modern OS-es indeed have loads of problems still, of which non-transactional access to the filesystem is in my top three, but to put those problems on Rust is a bit uncharitable. It's not Rust's fault that zero kernel devs hav
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by pdimitar 1y ago
I've been considering bcachefs multiple times. What's stopping you from using it?
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by pdimitar 1y ago
I have to wonder whether PCIe devices that do hardware encoding / decoding might be the more viable path going forward? Wait, I just discovered GPUs, nevermind. [giggles] Still, the ability to do specialized work should probably be off
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by pdimitar 1y ago
She did not offer any alternatives. That was also a very funny element to her preaching. She saw a class of students and thought she can signal her virtues. She was, shall we say, disappointed with the response. Also this was some 15 years
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Valid, thanks. But to what degree? The light bulb that runs 18h a day in the kitchen likely draws the same power that my mini form factor Optiplex 3060 does. To me arguments like "2W vs 10W" are fairly meaningless. I am much more
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Pretty cool, thank you. Those things have been not on my mind for a while, thanks for the reminder. I was commenting in the context of why people choose them for servers but I recognize that I did not make that clear.
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Ah, education, right. I never had interest in the whole GPIO thing but I'll admit life has been pulling me in very different directions, hence this dropped off my radar. Thanks for the reminder. Thing is, I was aiming at servers. I&#x2
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by pdimitar 1y ago
I'm uncertain of why $40 vs $300 is even a point of debate on HN. The latter is a one-time investment and you likely can expand it a bit i.e. add a 2.5" or M.2 drive later. What's the gain of running 12 RPi, exactly? Do you d
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Oh, I see. It's about fleets of easy-to-manage / predictable-to-support machines. That's valid, thanks for making me aware. And indeed I was wondering about homelabs. RPis were never good there, not even when they got out for
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by pdimitar 1y ago
I don't know why people love Pi-s so much. They filled a niche, once, years ago, and were quickly outcompeted not even a year and a half after. Get some old i7 or Ryzen, get a big case, put 12-18 HDDs, spend a little extra on quality c
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Not a business, just a library for other devs. Finishing up https://github.com/dimitarvp/xqlite -- an Elixir library for working with SQLite, with the FFI code written in Rust via the `rusqlite` crate. The Elixir ecosy
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Ah, I see. True. In my case I am looking forward to setting up a Linux workstation where I will severely limit random access to my system (and $HOME) via various means i.e. Flatpak and others. $HOME/.ssh is definitely first on the list
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by pdimitar 1y ago
What exactly are you talking about? Interested to learn more.
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by pdimitar 1y ago
This only happens if you want it to one-shot stuff, or if you fall under the false belief that "it is so close, we just need to correct these three things!". Yes I have encountered it. Narrowing focus and putting constraints and g
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by pdimitar 1y ago
> Creating a software product was seen not as a goal in itself, but as a means to make money. You mean to tell me there are companies where creating software by itself is not frowned upon?! Where do I apply?
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by pdimitar 1y ago
I literally almost got an injury from using my iPhone 12 Pro Max while laying on the side on the bed for the last few years -- it's too heavy. I had to do various therapies to stop feeling pain. It's almost 230g and I also have an
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by pdimitar 1y ago
It's definitely a bad idea but people hate being coerced into spending $500+ just to continue doing what they already do. A lot of us the techies can be strong-armed via FOMO and other tropes but good luck convincing the elderly neighb
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by pdimitar 1y ago
> The demand for high-power AI still exists, the products that Apple sells today do not even come close to meaningfully replacing that demand. Correct, though to me it seems that this comes at the price of narrowing the target audience
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by pdimitar 1y ago
> The dm layer gives you cow/snapshots for any filesystem you want already and has for more than a decade. Some implementations actually use it for clever trickery like updates, even. O_o Apparently I've been living under a r
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Do you have experience daily-driving it? Any prominent negatives?
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Always found that take fascinating -- are you sitting at a sofa or those inflatable chair-like things in the coffee shop? Are you changing your body's position multiple times, like, significantly so? At least from my side, if I have
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Can you share your entire Threadripper configuration, please? I am looking to build a Linux workstation in the next 12-18 months and started weighing my options. Weirdly, the choice pool seems to have shrunken in the last few years.
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by pdimitar 1y ago
> Chrome doesn't let you suspend tabs, and as far as I could find there aren't any plugins to do so Auto Tab Discard exists and works fine, but I am not sure it's what people call "suspending tabs". They need t
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by pdimitar 1y ago
I don't disagree but Mac Studio is also way too expensive. I can build a professional Linux workstation for 70% of the price of a non-minimal Studio, and I'll get a lot of goodies in the package (and future-proofed configuration t

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