Hey everyone!
My current gig might be wrapping up soon, so itโs time for me to figure out whatโs next.
If you or someone you know could use some help with software tools or systems โ architecture, implementation, deployment, operations, data pipelines, CD, DX, etc โย maybe get in touch? Iโve been doing this a while and Iโm pretty flexible.
Iโm open to short-term or long-term, part-time or full-time. Iโm US-based (NYC area) and a US citizen.
General CV: http://aviflax.com/resume/
Energy-specific CV: http://aviflax.com/resume/energy/
Thanks in advance!
Steve Jobs loved the metaphor โA bicycle for the mind.โ So do I. Itโs redolent with implications, all of them positive. It speaks to leveraging the power we already have.
And then thereโs AI. At no time has AI ever promised to leverage my creativity or intellect. Above and beyond my objective misgivingsโฆIt doesnโt capture my imagination. It doesnโt motivate me. It simply feels likeโฆ โDig where the money is right now.โ
What paucity of human ambition.
๐จโ๐จ Clement Mok
YAML really is the gift that keeps on giving.
@simon Iโve been pretty skeptical of LLMs and have used them very little for my own work as a programmer. But lately your output, and the steady decline of Web search engines, has me thinking itโs time to give them a real try to help me with my programming.
I think I understand the basics like models, prompts, etc. But Iโm unsure how to get started with the mechanics of it all. So Iโm curious: do you use any LLM integrations in your code editors? Or do you mostly copy and paste to and from your llm CLI? Or a Web chat UI?
Iโm thinking my starting use case is: I have a file open in my editor in a language with which Iโm either a beginner or rusty, like C# or even SQL. And I want to ask a question about how to do something specific in the context of the code I have.
For example if Iโm working on a sophisticated DB migration in SQL, and I canโt remember the syntax for creating a variable and storing an ID in it. How would *you* ask that question today? I mean mechanically, what steps would you take?
Thank you in advance!
Iโm looking forward to the YIMBYs for Harris call in a couple of hours!
Google: Whether tripe is kosher depends on the religion of the cow.
Lisa: They can't seriously expect us to swallow that tripe.
Developers: โLisps are unreadable!โ
Also developers:
http://fuckingblocksyntax.com/
Wife & I are eating more beets recently.
Kroger-owned supermarket: sad, ugly beets for USD$3.99/lb ($8.80/kg).
Asian supermarket: glorious, ugly beets for USD$1.69/lb ($3.73/kg).
Tell me again about consumers "feeling the pinch" and avoiding rapacious, predatory businesses when they can.
Begging leftists who would never consider themselves to be antisemitic to make sure they donโt accidentally sound that way when criticizing Josh Shapiro, the only Jew in the running to be Kamalaโs VP. Support for Israel is the Democratic Party position and all the potential VPs have the same basic position. So if youโre only screaming โgenocideโ at the Jew, well, thatโs something you should maybe sit with for a minute and think more deeply about. Your Jewish friends might appreciate it.
I see the sports folk are getting upset that a bimodal distribution doesn't neatly map to a pair of disjoint sets. Nature be awkward like that.
The idea that CEOs have to be evil racist assholes in order to succeed is a myth perpetuated by evil racist assholes. In reality, being an evil racist asshole is very bad for business.
I hope in 2024 we can stop caring what right wing attention freaks say about things. Oh, some guy hated the olympic ceremonies? Who fucking cares? It was beautiful, surprising, and joyful.
I'm done opening news apps and seeing stories about "the backlash" to popular things when you dig down and find out it's one weird christian complaining on instagram. That's not a real backlash!
Stop caring what random jerks think. Stop broadcasting their bad faith readings of everything.
โThe remote meeting isnโt the cause of the problem: rather, the unwritten caucus rule is the cause of the problem, and remoteness happens to exacerbate that problem to the point that even people with high caucus scores notice the friction.โ
โ Chelsea Troy
https://chelseatroy.com/2018/03/29/why-do-remote-meetings-suck-so-much/
Via @joeposaurus
https://chaos.social/@joeposaurus/112761864696365799
โWhen I start an artwork, I forget Iโm in prison,โ says Moath al-Alwi, presumably recorded from within Guantรกnamo Bay. A short documentary zeroes in on the incarcerated artist's elaborate ship sculptures. Watch it now on Colossal:
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/a-ship-from-guantanamo/
After 18 years at Red Hat, itโs time to move on. Tomorrow, July 4 is JRubyโs Independence Day! Iโm going to need your help to keep the JRuby project going. Sign up for a sponsorship or contact me about commercial support today. JRuby needs you and so do I! โค๏ธ
I enjoyed this rant that Rui Carmo just posted:
โA Short Rant on the Current State of Computingโ
> Amazingly, the iPad may remain the best hardware option for many years, which, despite my love for the device, is disappointing as Apple still treats it as fancy hardware for children.
Aww man, this house is for sale, but the contract says in order to buy it you MUST agree to build humanoid robots encased in living human flesh ๐
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/410-Trousdale-Pl_Beverly-Hills_CA_90210_M28472-09646
Hey folks, you may not be tuned into this unless youโve got issues with regulating depression & anxiety, but please put content warnings on posts/re/quote posts about current events.
Yes, there are perfectly valid reasons for feeling depressed/anxious about the state of the world, but some people have trouble with regulation, and try to use this space to find community
Your disregard for norms about content warnings donโt help
WBEZ just had a pledge drive and didn't meet their goals.
NPR has its problems, but your local station does really valuable journalism for your area and it's accessible to all.
If you haven't listened to your local affiliate or checked out their website, see what you think of their work. If you find it valuable, and you have the means, I think it's good to support such work. Especially now, good, accessible journalism covering your local area and not just national news is important to preserve
Woe is me; my 11-year-old is a slob, and is completely uninterested in my how-to-not-be-a-slob training, even though it is absolutely FREE. ๐ญ
It took so many years to develop effective birth control for men but I'm so glad the cybertruck finally arrived
I just recently realized that what I truly hate about LLMs is that it devalues language. I love language, I love using it very intentionally, I love how different people wield and work language differently. A well forged phrase can cut right to the soul. Language is literally magic. It can do things where man and machine all fail.
But now with the press of a button you can get sugary pink language goo in any shape you like. And this is sold as an equal replacement to real human language. The insult! The depravity!
I think it might say something about how far language is already devalued. We live in a morass of content marketing and business process documentation and terms and conditions and propaganda and spam. All soulless language that nobody asks for but that people are compelled to create. We can't imagine not creating such language goo. And so we're grateful for the pink goo machine.
You know those stories about how there was once magic in the world but it was lost? This is it. This is how it happens.
My talk from the local-first conference is up! In it I discuss the difference between local-first and offline-first, and propose a direction for the community in the coming years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMq0vncHJvU&list=PL4isNRKAwz2O9FxP97_EbOivIWWwSWt5j&index=2
Watched โBatteries Not Includedโ with my 11-year-old last night. It holds up!
Went to a fantastic car show this morning with my kid and our dog. Caffeine & Carburetors in New Canaan, CT. Good times!
Happy Fatherโs Day!
Holy shit, Radiolab just dropped an episode on aphantasia โ the obscure neurological quirk that makes me me!
https://radiolab.org/podcast/aphantasia