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winrid

4,701 karmajoined hace 8 años
I manage databases "at scale", and also run some services:

fastcomments.com sidewaysdata.com watch.ly dirtforever.net govscent.org

https://github.com/winrid

Chat with me: winrid aaattt gmail

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FastComments Automatic Routing Transport System

blog.fastcomments.com
3 points·by winrid·hace 3 meses·0 comments

FastComments Is Ready for Space

blog.fastcomments.com
2 points·by winrid·hace 3 meses·0 comments

FastComments is Now Globally Distributed (and more rusty)

blog.fastcomments.com
3 points·by winrid·hace 10 meses·1 comments

comments

winrid
·hace 22 horas·discuss
My fun ancedotal story about US healthcare:

Kaiser transported me 4hrs in a ambulance to get surgery and I think I just paid the $200 ER fee

But then they would never cover an MRI for an issue with the same leg.

It's like we're almost done with this project guys, come on.
winrid
·hace 23 horas·discuss
oh for sure! I think in some ways LLMs have raised the bar in terms of what you an expect from software (once we get past the hurdle of increased bugs, but that seems to be getting better)
winrid
·ayer·discuss
Yes, because now your competitors do the same. The winners: inference providers
winrid
·hace 5 días·discuss
Pretty proud that after six years fastcomments is still only about 30kb

I should probably work again on getting that down some :)
winrid
·hace 6 días·discuss
post-ban I've even had Opus 4.8 say it cannot let me continue (I was analyzing a nodejs heap dump)
winrid
·hace 8 días·discuss
So basically if you have queries that are hard on the query planner, that constant fan out has higher CPU cost than the alternatives.
winrid
·hace 10 días·discuss
Today I tested GLM 5.2 by giving it an example stylesheet and told it to change the background color of a submit button.

It then hallucinated the submit button class...
winrid
·hace 12 días·discuss
Your ISP will eventually require a new protocol that can hold your digital ID in every packet to access certain content and you'll have to upgrade/migrate your OS if you want to view p0rn etc.
winrid
·hace 12 días·discuss
It's not about the kids.

It's so Facebook can prove to advertisers the views are not bots/AI.
winrid
·hace 13 días·discuss
Next we'll be putting smart people in jail for being too dangerous.
winrid
·hace 13 días·discuss
You mean what companies used to do before we decided to import cheap labor instead?
winrid
·hace 19 días·discuss
This is AI right?
winrid
·hace 20 días·discuss
Friendly reminder this is lobbied into existence by advertising companies since the advent of AI they aren't sure what is real traffic anymore, tying all traffic to a government ID solves that.
winrid
·hace 21 días·discuss
None of my LLM created rust code has unsafe, or unwrap and must pass clippy checks..
winrid
·hace 21 días·discuss
Python isn't even that bad, I have python desktop apps that use 50mb of memory. More than needed but not 1-2gb realm people complain about with electron stuff.
winrid
·hace 24 días·discuss
At the end of the day it's a battle of competence of who runs your company.

Sure you might be able to have PMs deal with the easy stuff for a short while.

But will the company that can hire more competent people pull ahead? Probably.

I can tell you one thing: I haven't worked with a PM for like 5 years.
winrid
·hace 25 días·discuss
Which does technically distribute wealth to thousands of people
winrid
·hace 25 días·discuss
I had a feeling this was all related to someone trying to run a database on networked disks.

every fucking time
winrid
·hace 25 días·discuss
The teeth ones "stretch" to grab different sizes, too, but they won't support as large a range as a chain or band one for sure.
winrid
·hace 26 días·discuss
It's possible it has been fixed in the last couple years but for a while it was the case.