DONT YOU PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH Kickstarter Update #2: We funded and now it's just about packing in all the words we can so the output is ever more and more unique and challenging!
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How does For You do this
I finally got around to using ~1/3rd of my favorite new toys from Re:Invent.
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I still haven't found a reason to use tenant-isolated Lambdas thjough.
I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS
If you get this and bsky.app/profile/retr..., you may be experiencing chronic hyper-connectivity and may be entitled to compensation
I know switching VCS is a pain, but I was wondering if agents might benefit from Fossil building an issue tracker directly into source control: fossil-scm.org/home/doc/tru...
I wrote a post over the break about using executable specs & containers to isolate LLM's to shipping feature branches for review.
@dollspace.gay has a better take on adversarial development, I'm optimistic about formal methods finally becoming cool!
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The meme where a sweating guy, labeled "AWS NAMING A NEW SERVICE", cant choose between two buttons. One is labeled "THREE LETTERS TWO OF WHICH ARE E AND S" and the other "UNCOMMON FEMALE NAME"
As I continue to teach my AWS Certification Webinars over at O'Reilly, I grow closer and closer to completely appreciating AWS; but as my students ask me questions, the more confident I am that if I ever meet the person there who names services, I am giving them a wedgie.
Frog and Toad illustration edited to say: Frog put the value in an option. "There", he said, "now we will not deref any more null pointers". "But we can unwrap the option," said Toad. "That is true", said Frog.
on type safety
Qobuz and Bandcamp are both nice. Qobuz has a streaming option as well that I haven't confirmed, but heard pays artists better than Spotify.
ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file
UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file
async await async await async await async await
in the function, the mighty function, the child thread sleeps tonight 🎵
Somebody on LinkedIn asks why their senior devs won't adopt AI developer tools. Bill's response: There is a reason that your most senior engineers are reluctant to consistently use AI developer tools and model their use to the engineering team. It's because we are informed enough to see the gaps and weaknesses and mistakes, and when we do use them as labor-savers, we very much must exhaustively proof the results for correctiveness, which adds a lot of labor back. (Sometimes it's still a positive deal, so I do use them intermittently. Maybe 40% of the time). In the late 2000's, there was a popular series of games called Guitar Hero, where people who didn't play the guitar could access the feeling of what it was sort of like to play the guitar. Pressing a single fret (button) and hearing whole chords come out is still pretty satisfying. But the sentiment below is like going to the talented, shredding lead guitarist of your local power metal band, who fully knows every little chord and harmonic and arpeggio, and asking them why they won't play Guitar Hero with you.
Today's LinkedIn shitpost I felt was worth cross-posting here, it has an analogy I am proud of. 🎸
Alert: your number of active feet has decreased by 50%
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A journey of skill, grit, and community.
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Inside you there are two wolves:
- fitness wolf
- AWS wolf
They fight eternally about whether you must do undifferentiated heavy lifting.
I'd be interested - I think I have an OTel span for inits so I could look for these too. Honestly, I'll just take the occasional 0.00000013 so that I don't have to subsidize other people's exploiting free INIT.
The only (minor) wrinkle is for proactive initialization: if AWS decides to INIT my function but turns out to be wrong about it being needed, I would be charged $0.00000013
In the "we shape the tools, then are shaped by them" news:
Because of that feature I have trained myself to say "the attached X" or "see X, attached" to make sure I trigger it, but still somehow I forget the attachment about 10% of the time and need the popup.
There are 2 environments:
testing and ✨spicy testing✨. Some people erroneously call ✨spicy testing✨ "prod"
jjithub
Absolutely incredible piece about a font you've seen everywhere:
💌 AWS Valentines Thread 💌 (1/?)
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS: "k" means one thousand and twenty-four
STORAGE MANUFACTURERS: "k" means one thousand
DISPLAY MANUFACTURERS [thinking hard]: "K" means nine hundred and sixty
I'm sure The Orange Site has very normal opinions on homeschooling.
I always assumed it stood for Javascript Advocate General
End RTO now!
Remotely, Lee could have worn the ugliest footwear imaginable and happily hacked away. Nobody would have to know.
But now officemates will have to be actively antagonized by this style choice.
As a non-expert: local LLM on consumer hardware is still relatively new, I'd expect different approaches until we figure it out, and maybe they'll converge someday.
I just looked at the recent release notes and LMStudio supports MLX since I last checked them out.
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I love Ollama because the localhost API makes it so easy to hook up to other flows and have ambient local models ready to rock.
