roncesvalles

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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
This will remove a non-insignificant chunk of Tor network capacity. Many of those OCI free-tier instances were set and forget Tor relay nodes, especially since they're de facto unmetered.
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
Nukes don't "destroy the planet", they're just really powerful bombs. Nuclear munitions have been detonated 2058 times already. https://www.atomicarchive.com/almanac/test-sites/testing-chr...
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
And the best part is, I don't spend more than $20 a month on LLMs. Going manual and constantly branching keeps the contexts super lean.
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
Also, the correct way to LLM is to constantly trial-and-error in new/branched contexts. Remember the LLM is not a human employee. You don't have to say "yes and" to whatever crap they produced so as to not hurt their fee
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
>At Ashby, your compensation is market-rate indexed to your level of performance. FYI, "market rate" refers to the highest compensation that someone would be willing to offer a person with that profile. When you sell somethin
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
>We've seen plenty of examples of apps successfully vibe coded by non technical people, including apps making real revenue. Have we? Or is this just something that people say now, without citation?
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
Actually, you are right. We are working with different definitions of quality of life. The QoL improvement from LLM is somewhere in the ballpark of going from dumb phones to smart phones for an average person (able-bodied, local to the area
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
>In fact the only way I know about their existence is through watching news reports of what happened in Canada in 1985. Since you know about it, the label doesn't apply to you, regardless of how.
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
>Does one need to know a variety of dishes from each of the 193 UN-recognized states' cuisines to not be uncultured? No, but you should know the top 5 dishes of the 10-15 most popular cuisines of the world, at least. That's on
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
1. Jamaican cuisine is fairly popular globally. 2. Patties are popular within Jamaican cuisine. It's not something very niche. I think my comment was perfectly fair. It's like not knowing what empanadas, samosas, shumai, or takoya
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
That's why when people like Pieter Levels tweet "I cancelled and then vibecoded 100% of my SaaS subscriptions", you need to take it with a huge grain of salt because you're not Pieter Levels, you cannot vibe code you
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
It has had significant quality of life increases for me. I use LLMs for everything from: - travel and restaurant recommendations. my last few outings have been entirely LLM-advised and they turned out excellent. LLMs seem to have ingested e
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
Sorry, but you're just uncultured if you don't know what Jamaican patties are. This is like saying "never in a million years would I think 'butter chicken' is a red, spicy Indian curry instead of chicken roasted in
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
Category error. Self-driving cars are still meticulously coded by humans.
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
The Claude plugin for VSC is amazing and basically "solves programming" for me. It's the primary way that I write code now; I even stopped using Claude Code.
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
Cursor Tab is nice when you're hand-editing stuff. Not sure it's worth $20 though. I'd totally buy and forget a $5 Cursor subscription just for Cursor Tab. The $20 price point is just too competitive now and I'd rather u
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
The time scales are long enough for evolution itself to play out. It's very plausible that the percent of the human gene pool that has the "restless builder" genes simply increased over time. Just consider how much of an adva
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
The current pace of technological progress means that you cannot just sit and wait for the crops to grow. You need to constantly be learning a new skill on the side, diversifying your income streams, thinking and researching about how to op
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
1. English transliteration has its own cultural inertia. It's not just about what's most phonetically sensible (that too only for some particular English region: how an American phonetizes non would be different from how a Brit
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
Microservices exist because of the limitations of a single human brain in being able to wrangle with that much logic at a time. It is perfectly conceivable that an alien species with different brain characteristics would draw their microser
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
I almost prefer Opus 4.8. Opus 5.0 has the overly scholastic tone of Fable but without the intelligence.
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
Language is a reductive and lossy serialization of "thought-stuff". Sometimes you need this information-shedding to clear your working memory to make room for more things. Sometimes it's literally just a way to communicate. Y
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
I remember when cable TV used to be "addictive". Now I can't watch even 10 minutes of it without getting bored and pulling out my phone. Also something I learned recently: checking your phone at the movies is no longer the fa
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
The role of a software engineer is foremost about the ownership of software systems, and secondarily about modifying them or developing new ones. Software development is a continuous operational undertaking, like having a garden, and not
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
You don't even need to pay a 5% hit. Just paste Fable output into Gemini Flash and it will rewrite it in more accessible language.
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
Imagine all the times this has already occurred somewhere in the world.
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
In a way, new companies like Flock entering such domains are a boon because they probably maintain tight audit logs and alerting mechanisms. Traditional look-up software is probably being misused by cops all the time (à la the old noir trop
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
Usually, the longer the AI works on something the crappier its output because that means the context is getting filled up. If my AI prompt takes more than 5 minutes to execute, I'm almost certain to stop it and break up the task or be
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
Your comment has nothing to do with the comment you replied to. I almost suspect it's satire.
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
There is no inherent value in having reports or the title of "CTO". Compensation (broadly considered) is the only objective marker of where your career stands*. We primarily work in exchange for money, not for titles or responsibi

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