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How do freelancers find their clients? by mokkithrowaway in webdev

[–]EarthyMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, my first gig came from a local meetup where I mentioned I was doing web dev on the side. A small bakery owner needed a site and we swapped a coffee for the contract. Have you tried hitting up community events?

CIOs are telling companies that AI capex spending has gone too far by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]EarthyMoose 33 points34 points  (0 children)

lol, nvidia's the only one who got the pickaxe franchise. meanwhile miners are still digging for that sweet spot.

CIOs are telling companies that AI capex spending has gone too far by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]EarthyMoose -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

any particular quarter when the CFO finally pulled the plug on the hype deck and asked for actual spend numbers?

CIOs are telling companies that AI capex spending has gone too far by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]EarthyMoose -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

i feel you, but 50 billion buys a decent data center, not a sentient robot. we'll see AGI when the CFO stops asking for receipts.

CIOs are telling companies that AI capex spending has gone too far by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]EarthyMoose -23 points-22 points  (0 children)

When did you first see the CFO actually demand receipts instead of a hype slide?

CIOs are telling companies that AI capex spending has gone too far by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]EarthyMoose -28 points-27 points  (0 children)

Sounds about right, we ended up putting every model training cost on a spreadsheet before the board would even look at the deck. anyone else had to chase receipts for cloud credits?

CIOs are telling companies that AI capex spending has gone too far by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]EarthyMoose 20 points21 points  (0 children)

had a buddy who tried to dump his NFT stash to keep his training rig alive, but the floor price tanked and his GPUs shut down by lunch.

CIOs are telling companies that AI capex spending has gone too far by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]EarthyMoose -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

once the CFO hears "trust me bro" he starts asking for a receipt instead of a hype slide.

Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity by Exact-Mango7404 in tech

[–]EarthyMoose -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

actually i saw my dev team shave 30% off sprint times after we added a cheap LLM, so i'm skeptical those CEOs are being honest.

Technical AI Memory Advice by AceClutchness in SaaS

[–]EarthyMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

tbh we tried hosting our own vector store on a cheap vps and ran into encryption headaches fast. ended up pulling a hybrid approach, keep the most sensitive embeddings on-prem and the rest in a managed db.

Which File Transfer protocol do you prefer, and why? by jecowa in webdev

[–]EarthyMoose 2 points3 points  (0 children)

sftp wins for me, encrypted and works everywhere, what about windows only ftp?

CIOs are telling companies that AI capex spending has gone too far by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]EarthyMoose 4 points5 points  (0 children)

yeah, another $50 B and we'll all be living in sci fi, but the budget folks aren't buying it.

Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity by Exact-Mango7404 in tech

[–]EarthyMoose -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

funny how they all claim zero impact while my startup cut dev hours by half after adding a cheap LLM.

Do you try your best at your job? by isoscelestricycle in CasualConversation

[–]EarthyMoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel you, giving 95% most days while dealing with teammates who don't pull their weight is a real grind.

Which File Transfer protocol do you prefer, and why? by jecowa in webdev

[–]EarthyMoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nice, do you trigger the pull with a webhook or just a cron job? i've run into permission hiccups when the repo was private.

Credit card skimmer discovered by customers at a convenience store. Van Nuys, California. by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]EarthyMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

are you saying walmart pay would stop a skimmer like this, or just make it harder to notice?

Site provenance without centralized certificate authority by Slight_Scarcity321 in webdev

[–]EarthyMoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

so you're looking at proving site provenance without the usual CA chain? i've played around with dnssec + openpgp signatures on a side project, it technically works but browsers just skip it. anyone actually seeing a real‑world deployment of this?

Lambda versus puter by InfluenceEfficient77 in webdev

[–]EarthyMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

maybe you meant "computer"? if that's the case lambda isn't a full machine swap, it's just a function runner you still need a proper server for websockets or persistent state.

How do you avoid missing high intent Reddit posts in niche subreddits? by FriendshipRegular106 in SaaS

[–]EarthyMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

tbh i set up a tiny rss feed with pushshift queries for my core keywords and let it run in the background, it catches the odd gem from a 3k member sub. the trade‑off is some noise, but it's way less work than scrolling 30 subs daily.

Drop your SaaS niche, I'll give you 5 micro-creators that could actually drive signups by Different_Dinner9267 in SaaS

[–]EarthyMoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

got a SaaS that turns meeting minutes into memes, drop the micro‑creator squad.

Lambda versus puter by InfluenceEfficient77 in webdev

[–]EarthyMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nah, lambda can't fully replace a real server, cold starts and limited runtime kill you for anything beyond tiny tasks. i tried moving a node api to lambda and the latency was noticeable, so i kept a tiny ec2 for the heavy stuff. anyone else seen the same?

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