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Don Finley

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I’m a lot of things to a lot of people but most of all, I am. Podcast: thc.findustries.co

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Idiocracy wasn’t supposed to be a prophecy…

29.08.2025 18:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wonder how the speech and debate clause plays into this.

24.06.2025 17:02 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

People are hurting, the world feels of chaos, whether you’re ideas are any good doesn’t matter, you’re an easy target because the perception of you is someone who has a bit of security that many of this world do not.

As a somewhat passive user here, discovery has of my tribe here has taken longer

09.06.2025 16:59 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Really depends on the use case and your comfort with xlsx. For me, it’s insane. Xlsx can be finicky to work with and starting a project with SQLite would be easier… but hey, if it works for this person and it solves a problem, fantastic.

13.12.2024 23:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Few, glad I’m not the only one lol

13.12.2024 23:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Completely agree, we all do it. What I’ve found is that the thing I desire and the thing I’m putting off, are two sides of the same coin.

13.12.2024 19:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh the library thing has bit me many times lately, so much that I’m reminding the LLM about the library in every prompt and pointing it to the source code.

Also, docker, LLMs hate remembering to build the containers

10.12.2024 17:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reminds me of a Buckminster Fuller quote, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete”

So yeah, I’m with ya, let’s focus on creating the new

09.12.2024 02:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations, that’s an awesome accomplishment!

07.12.2024 23:30 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I paint, and I code. Personally, I find traditional realistic painting to be difficult… tho I also find digital to be difficult too. So yeah, it’s all hard and however creativity gets expressed is a win.

06.12.2024 17:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I agree that foundational models are not accelerating like they have, tho I think we’ll continue to seem implementation benefits of what we have today for the next few years.

06.12.2024 17:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What do we call these? Tweets? What’s the sound a butterfly maker? Does a blue sky have a sound?

05.12.2024 20:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes! This 100%

04.12.2024 23:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Anyone enjoy working with ai coding assistants? Or does the magic wear off?

04.12.2024 22:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

First rule of podcast club…

04.12.2024 22:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Same stages for coding.

04.12.2024 19:47 👍 38 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Honestly, this gives me hope for the future.

04.12.2024 16:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0