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!
Turns out Iโm **extremely** rusty with SQL โ especially with DDL. ๐
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.
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YAML really is the gift that keeps on giving.
@dougburns @avi @simon thanks yโall! Super helpful!
@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.
@Retcon congratulations! Iโll be subscribing within a day or two.
Developers: โLisps are unreadable!โ
Also developers:
http://fuckingblocksyntax.com/
@plexus some of these ideas are present in Appleโs Numbers and they are the reason itโs been my favorite spreadsheet app for over a decade now.
@plaindocs huh, thatโs too bad!
@octothorpe seems to be working for the Bear? Iโve only just started s3 but the first two really worked.
@rekiwi Iโm glad youโre OK!
@superbetsy wow super interesting!
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.
@nicole my pleasure!
And yeah, that resonates. I think maybe I might do that pretty frequently. ๐ฌ
@nicole sometimes Iโll preface something like this with โjust so you knowโ and it does seem to help sometimes
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.
@Mark this is relevant to my interests!
(I live in White Plains NY and Iโm pondering maybe getting another Miata at some point. So I appreciate the reminder that there are fun roads nearby.)