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by wespiser_2018 6mo ago
Thanks for the feedback!
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by wespiser_2018 6mo ago
I agree, and a big practical reason I walked away was that I was spending my weekends and nights doing this, and there were other hobbies/interests I wanted to pursue. After so many order, it was also getting pretty boring to print the
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by wespiser_2018 6mo ago
I would start with one printer, only print PLA, then talk to your neighbors and family about it and focus on printing things they want and use. The card stands were a lot of fun, but most of what I print now are dog toys and gifts for my ni
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by wespiser_2018 6mo ago
I did not write this with AI. The "trick" was finding a weight that would work, which needed to be purchased for cheap and installed easily.
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by wespiser_2018 6mo ago
That's the same conclusion I ran into, and why I stopped. $25/hour could probably be increased, but my market was really niche: people selling trading cards via online auctions who wanted custom branded card stands. In terms of p
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by wespiser_2018 6mo ago
Yes, exactly. It was through a neighbor. He had a functioning trading card business to start with, I sold my first order to him, then his clients started asking for prints. I'd argue that's a "business", there were sales
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by wespiser_2018 6mo ago
Author here: I wrote this article after realizing there's a gap between how people are talking about the future of AI, and the needs of the systems they are trying to adapt to. I'd interested to know, are folks seeing the same thi
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AI Tool Blindness(wespiser.com)
3 points by wespiser_2018 6mo ago|1 comments
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by wespiser_2018 6mo ago
I wrote this after running a small 3D printing side business for ~8 months. It worked in the sense that I got steady orders and revenue, but every part of the process required me (design, printing, assembly), so it never really scaled beyon
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I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months(wespiser.com)
144 points by wespiser_2018 6mo ago|129 comments
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The System Around the Code: Five Forces That Drive Engineering Work(wespiser.com)
1 points by wespiser_2018 6mo ago|0 comments
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by wespiser_2018 6mo ago
The comparison feels off because it treats Switzerland and the United States as interchangeable test cases for “free market vs. not,” when they operate under completely different constraints. Switzerland is a small, highly cohesive country
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by wespiser_2018 6mo ago
Author here - Curious if others have run into DNS problems at work, or struggled with DNS migrations and ran into unforeseen issues.
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by wespiser_2018 7mo ago
Very good points. My current model for understand for how AI will scale out is that we'll move through the following choke points: AI chip makers -> Data center infra and construction -> regional power companies Right now we&#x27
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by wespiser_2018 7mo ago
Me too! I'm really interested in seeing an LLM coding platform treat those documents (spec, architecture, decision logs) as first-class objects: collaborative, persistent, and outside the codebase itself. Right now they live in repos a
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by wespiser_2018 7mo ago
Author here: I wrote this peice after trying to use AI to build an internal tool and running into a failure mode I didn't expect. Curious if others have his the same "expansion without convergence" issue with using LLMs for c
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The more AI I used, the worse my code got(wespiser.com)
7 points by wespiser_2018 7mo ago|7 comments
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by wespiser_2018 7mo ago
I've heard this feedback from a number of users: "If this AI agent is just doing a bunch of API calls, and I know how to do the calls myself, why would I use this?". I don't have a great answers to that, besides, "w
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by wespiser_2018 7mo ago
Author here. I wrote this article after working on chatbots over the past year. The pattern I kept seeing was that the hard part wasn't getting agents to work, but getting busy people to use them. Curious if others have similar experie
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Why AI agents can reduce productivity(wespiser.com)
3 points by wespiser_2018 7mo ago|2 comments
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by wespiser_2018 7mo ago
Author here. I wrote this after working with AI systems over the past few years in an enterprise environment. The main idea is that the limiting factor isn’t model capability or even features, but the tools impact on human attention. Intere
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Show HN: The Attention Debt of AI Tooling (AI tools can increase attention cost)(wespiser.com)
1 points by wespiser_2018 7mo ago|1 comments
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by wespiser_2018 1y ago
It's possible that the "functional" aspect of non-coding RNA exists on a time scale much larger that what we can assay in a lab. The sort of "junk DNA/RNA" hypothesis: the ncRNA part of the genome is material t
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by wespiser_2018 1y ago
You never go on vacation. Your family gets sick. Your friends need your help. You want to travel. You want to go to funerals for people who aren't in your direct family. You want to explore hobbies. Idk, a few?
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by wespiser_2018 1y ago
I'm not opposed to business books. It's true that most of them are in narrative form and try to extract anecdotal lessons into broad strategy, but I've found them useful for framing my own thinking about teams, strategy, and
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by wespiser_2018 2y ago
The other issue is the heating element. As the nozzle size gets larger, the rate limiting factor is no longer the motion system and whatever adaptive control, but how fast you can melt the plastic. Most consumer 3d printers can't reall
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by wespiser_2018 3y ago
I'd like to think karma. Nothing with spoil your perception of a company faster than a toxic waste dump of GE manufactured PCBs in your hometown. I'll never be able to understand the "Genius of Jack Welsh", but I don&#x2
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by wespiser_2018 3y ago
If you ever try to get a knuth check, you'll receive back a printed copy of your email, along with his hand written notes and a response. Really cool!
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by wespiser_2018 3y ago
It doesn't surprise me 75% of SWEs report retaliation based on my experience in tech, but credit to 100% of people with integrity that spoke truth to power and risked paying the price. The world would be a lot better place (in my humbl
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by wespiser_2018 3y ago
I've both worked with infrastructure as code, Pulumi, and was a grad student researcher in bioinformatics for several years, and I've developed the following take: Biology is messy, tangled, and sloppy system built over a billion

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