rongenre

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by rongenre 3mo ago
I applaud Kimi and the open weight models - for the simple reason that they provide a price ceiling for AI.
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by rongenre 6mo ago
I've found minimax to be quite good
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by rongenre 7mo ago
Location: SF Bay Area (commutable from Berkeley) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, but I'll travel Technologies: Java, Python, Relational Databases, Microservices, Queues, Temporal, LLM orchestration packages Resume/Email: Che
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by rongenre 9mo ago
@book{Kuhn1962, author = {Kuhn, Thomas S.}, title = {The Structure of Scientific Revolutions}, publisher = {University of Chicago Press}, year = {1962}, address = {Chicago}, note = {Often cite
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by rongenre 10mo ago
I was screwing around with gemini-cli and vibe-coded (or vibe-engineered?) a git extension to turn commit history into a pandas dataframe. Curious if anyone would find this useful: https://github.com/rbagchi/git-datafra
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by rongenre 1y ago
Sharpe ratio is just the start: it gives you a metric on your portfolio. If it gave an interpretation of what that means, or give guidance on how certain actions would adjust the Sharpe, that might add a lot more value.
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by rongenre 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox If AI is roughly where IT is in the 60's, we might see actually decreased productivity for a while until people (yes people) figure out how to use it effectively.
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by rongenre 2y ago
I love SICP, but in industrial software I'd point to "The Mythical Man Month".
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by rongenre 2y ago
There's a couple uses cases (beyond the obvious) that I like with the chatbots 1. Brainstorming building something. Tell it what you're working on, add a paragraph or two of how you might build it, and ask it to give you pros and
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by rongenre 2y ago
Fundamentally a dev owns the code they write - it doesn't matter if it's copy/pasted from search results or filled in via an LLM.
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by rongenre 2y ago
The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed..
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by rongenre 2y ago
I'm on a 6 year old XS. When I upgrade, I get 5G and USB-C, and a chip that's now ahead of the OS.
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by rongenre 2y ago
I had a GSD who remembered everyone who threw a tennis ball for her. To the point that I had to warn people that if they tossed it once, she'd be dropping a tennis ball in their laps for the foreseeable future. I miss that girl.
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by rongenre 2y ago
There needs to be a pattern for including AI-generated code, recording all the context which led to the generation.
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by rongenre 2y ago
EVs are the clear choice if you've got an ICE car as a backup. I mostly do commuting, grocery runs, etc. EVs are great for that. But then I do road trips about once a year, and an EV just adds to the complexity of planning currently.
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by rongenre 2y ago
I'm sort of dreading the next year or so at big corps, in which engineers will hear from their management: "We've made a big investment in AI, and need you to make this work".
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by rongenre 2y ago
I had an A1000 - even worked in high school at a Commodore/Amiga dealer. What they really didn't understand is that software sells hardware: The OS was so far ahead, but in terms of basic productivity software? Even the Mac was
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by rongenre 3y ago
The awesome cube, which apparently didn't look good when faxed...
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by rongenre 3y ago
I played with SGI machines in college and they felt like.. the future. I really hoped they would hire me when I graduated. Incredible, though, how the relatively cheaper Windows NT machines and 3dfx cards and graphics software just killed
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by rongenre 3y ago
Location: San Francisco / Berkeley / Oakland Remote: Yes, will travel within 30-45 minutes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Java, Spring Boot, Relational Databases, Kubernetes, public clouds Résumé/CV: ask me Ema
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by rongenre 3y ago
We use this at my ginormous employer in order to give devs limited access to production data.
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by rongenre 3y ago
PDF of GEB: https://archive.org/details/GEBen_201404
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Elon Musk makes moves to shift Tesla to be incorporated in Texas(businessinsider.com)
5 points by rongenre 3y ago|0 comments
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by rongenre 3y ago
Jason Lemkin's advice for startup SaaS businesses is to heavily invest in customer success: you need to give a shit. Otherwise your customer churn numbers are going to be high, and it makes failure increasingly likely. When I was bei
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by rongenre 3y ago
Wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_Rome
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Thousands of teen boys are being extorted in sexting scams(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by rongenre 3y ago|0 comments
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by rongenre 3y ago
This makes me think of my experiences in Europe. In my native language (English), I can twist and weasel with the language to keep from committing to... anything. It has -- too many degrees of freedom available to me. With German, though [
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by rongenre 3y ago
https://archive.ph/hfNgR
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Why is division so much more complex than other arithmetic operations?(scicomp.stackexchange.com)
112 points by rongenre 3y ago|93 comments
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by rongenre 3y ago
I've had a huge amount of success using sqlite to collect and analyze logs. The obvious approach would have been to dump enormous csv or json files, but doing in sqllite gave me (a) much better reliability, and (b) the ability to come

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