sbrother

10 ms·

121.
by sbrother 2y ago
I've done this in a lot of projects -- it works great. Protobuf is nice in a lot of ways and pretty simple, while gRPC is overkill (imo) for a simple web server that doesn't see tons of traffic.
122.
by sbrother 2y ago
I’ve also been doing exactly that for 20 years and will probably do it for 20 more years :) it works everywhere and is perfectly adequate and flexible!
123.
by sbrother 2y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who has had awful luck with that IntelliJ Elixir plug-in. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it just doesn't work for me. I've been using emacs + elixir-mode + alchemist since Elixir
124.
by sbrother 2y ago
Yeah I would agree with this. I wish more effort would be put into production use-cases though, as it's incredible how flexibly and concisely you can implement complex ideas with it.
125.
by sbrother 2y ago
I can't tell if the signature on that post is a parody or not: > Jay Nagendran, P.Eng., FCAE, ICD.D, FEC, FGC (Hon.)
126.
Ask HN: Is anyone running Mathematica/Wolfram Language in production?
5 points by sbrother 2y ago|2 comments
127.
by sbrother 2y ago
I can see doing this for a nanny, but surely no one is jumping through all these hoops for ad-hoc, hourly babysitting? Any of the random highschoolers or college kids I've used would look at me like I was crazy if I tried to set them u
128.
by sbrother 3y ago
100%, and I have a ton of respect for how he thinks about work. While I can't bring myself to do the multiple FTE positions thing, I've spent half my career doing freelance/consulting work for multiple clients at once, and I
129.
by sbrother 3y ago
Nah. I know a guy who does this, he views it as a game and all the money coming in is his score. Tripling his salary would just raise his high score and he'd keep playing as hard as ever.
130.
by sbrother 3y ago
Do you know why there aren't any PHEVs with a more reasonable electric range? Something like a 100 mile range with backup gas tank would let my family do most of our driving on the electric battery while still being a usable car for ro
131.
by sbrother 3y ago
I did the same thing in the Netherlands. And promptly studied the local road signs after that terrifying experience.
132.
by sbrother 3y ago
All that users do when they get hit with restrictions like that is repeat their password again, or fill it out with exclamation points. Not a lot of entropy getting added.
133.
by sbrother 3y ago
HN seems to be struggling too, but that could just be everyone here to talk about the outages.
134.
by sbrother 3y ago
They don't? I've worked in ad tech at some smaller places and we absolutely refunded spend during outages.
135.
by sbrother 3y ago
I've worked with both extensively and I agree that Elixir's rebinding is a bit of a wart. FWIW you can get the Erlang behaviour by using the "pin" operator: iex(1)> x = 4 4 iex(2)> ^x = 3 ** (MatchError)
136.
by sbrother 3y ago
I haven't looked at the other two, but DuckDuckGo's salaries are in no way competitive in the US market.
137.
by sbrother 3y ago
Thanks! That is really fast for personal use.
138.
by sbrother 3y ago
Can I ask how many tok/s you're getting on that setup? I'm trying to decide whether to invest in a high-end NVIDIA setup or a Mac Studio with llama.cpp for the purposes of running LLMs like this one locally.
139.
by sbrother 3y ago
Wait, what is the meaning other than "Low-Rank Adaptation"? It's hard to google the difference.
140.
by sbrother 3y ago
Well, this is one of the reasons you charge more as a freelancer. It's ~$2k/mo for a family; even if I charged exactly the same as my market rate as an FTE, that would be less than the tax benefit I get from operating through a pr
141.
by sbrother 3y ago
This is why the logical conclusion of this culture change is for anyone who can to move toward independent contracting. Like I mentioned in a different comment, I’ve had my best clients longer than any single job. But for the ones that didn
142.
by sbrother 3y ago
The easiest way to follow this advice is to take it to its logical conclusion and just offer your services on a contracting basis, as a single member LLC or a small partnership. At this point in the US tech industry the relationship between
143.
by sbrother 3y ago
Not really, because I always maintain at least a few clients so I'm not too worried about losing one. Once you have a solid pipeline, losing a client becomes just part of the business, not the scary emotional experience of "gettin
144.
by sbrother 3y ago
Actually #1 is my favorite, as I'm better at technical sales and rapid prototyping than I am at slow, FAANG style politicking, planning, risk mitigation and eventual development. I've done both at various points in my career and c
145.
by sbrother 3y ago
It’s probably my favorite gift I have ever received, even though I did have to rearrange my office to store it properly lol. The curation is incredible, as is the sound quality, the packaging… everything.
146.
by sbrother 3y ago
Deutsche Grammophon produced something similar recently, which I was lucky enough to get for Christmas last year: https://www.bach333.com/en/ It is stunning in every way; I highly recommend it for any Bach fans!
147.
by sbrother 3y ago
It's not about the button color, other than the fact that a green bubble means your group message is degraded and a bunch of expected functionality stops existing. It's hard not to feel some annoyance if someone is added to a grou
148.
by sbrother 3y ago
We did? No, we didn't. Source: had young children during the pandemic and just finished paying back debt I accrued from having to quit my job.
149.
by sbrother 3y ago
> iMessage is not the leading messaging app in any market. Really? I haven't seen anything approaching it in the US, except maybe Facebook Messenger? But iMessage is definitely ubiquitous enough across the US (I've lived on bot
150.
by sbrother 3y ago
I assume people are working on bringing a MLX backend to llama.cpp... Any idea what the state of that project is?

More ›