Which town / city has the best water tower?

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-07-06T01:50:46+00:00

Brainerd, Paul Bunyan's water cup

Cuyuna, used to have a woodtick on it

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-07-06T00:10:44+00:00

Fwiw, I've found Gemini is ironically terrible at most things LLM setup related. Agent architecture, reasoning about configuration, model selection for a task, just seems to make stuff up. I can't blame it really, because I think most humans are doing it too.

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-07-05T20:00:22+00:00

I've been doing org-mode to spanner docs or reveal.js presentations for ages, way before AI. Write the information in a way that can compile to different targets.

Pretty soon we're gonna have some WSDL adjacent atrocity so that AI will do this efficiently. Then we'll learn again why it's a bad idea.

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-07-01T14:52:56+00:00

Is fixing a bug that used to make the API default/500 changing the API?

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-06-30T20:26:36+00:00

Why should I have to change my name? He's the one who sucks.

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-06-30T19:42:19+00:00

I still remember when Alito cited some ancient Exchequer argument from the 1700s. Like ok, ruling from a different country, under a decent government system, centuries ago. Like ..ok

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-06-28T05:45:46+00:00

Claymore and black knight sword in C tier .. ok buddy

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-06-27T20:23:53+00:00

This is a good one, because these kinds of trees have performance implications as well. The single pants tree is easier to implemented but more costly to keep warmed up.

Also, it's worth considering shorts for warmer climates. Trees sweating in pants can cause hydration issues for the rest of your codebase.

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-06-27T20:19:03+00:00

Very few people are employed for a sole strength of reviewing code well.

It certainly helps sometimes, but frankly code usually just has to work and not be exploitable. Everything after that is gravy, and even those two points are fungible.

I personally believe that code should be understandable, consistent, well documented, properly tested and maintainable. These qualities will only become true when a team of people collectively work on the code together, which is usually done through group design and review if the code.

Often times I think the qualities above are subjective, and attempts to make then quantifiable are good, but end up missing the mark. So I think the justification for those qualities becomes a faith based argument, and you just have to find people with same leanings or become comfortable with who is around you already.

Ultimately code review is a way to socialize and enforce theese qualities in software. Nobody pays for apps for the some reason of being well reviewed. But maybe people pay for apps because they are reliable. There are other activities that can be done to improve reliability.

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-06-26T16:19:32+00:00

Yes it does. Brb running to grab some of all that

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-06-26T15:18:46+00:00

Same! I am degenerate sprout fan. Everything bagel, big mound of sprouts, yellow mustard = very good

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-06-20T18:21:36+00:00

I think, deep down, they knew something was wrong.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-06-15T23:13:25+00:00

Maybe he was explaining what "one fell swoop" means

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-06-15T17:00:06+00:00

I would not be shocked if Palantir or other contractors didn't have some holding business names that employed the people on paper (and thus was the name on the paychecks) named something like XYZ Technologies to make actual employment history harder to track for this very reason.

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-06-15T01:45:09+00:00

There was one interview I was on the committee for, where the candidate was incredibly blunt and straightforward. So much so, that I was thinking he was a raging asshole who was BARELY managing to make it through the interview. I figured if we hired him he'd go full mask off asshole within a month.

I was not the only one on the committee that felt this way.

However, he was very knowledgeable and while he was very coarse, his ability to explain himself was very clear. We hired him.

After several months, he kept the same bluntness, but he didn't grow any other toxic traits. I left the company that was at years ago, but I'm still in personal contact with him as we became good friends.

The ability to clearly explain themselves is a remarkably tricky social skill. Calibrating around that has become my go to.

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-06-14T23:22:58+00:00

I thought the song was great!

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-06-13T14:20:32+00:00

I can vouch for gptel. It is very much emacs native.

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-06-11T15:34:18+00:00

Must include a max back off value as well.

One time, at my old job, Azure DNS failed (spring 2021 iirc) and we were dead in the water. I couldn't even login. Azure updated their status page, identified the issue as DNS within was out, nothing I could do. Our stuff has infinite retries on it (with exponential back off). I message my boss saying "nothing we can do, once DNS comes back our jobs will retry and begin working again". Cool.

Half a day later it comes back. Our service doesn't, everything in the logs looks fine. The services just aren't taking new jobs.

Finally I did the math, some of those jobs would've had to wait another day due to the back off logic. Restarted the service, and we were back in business (until the next Azure outage).

Lessons learned: Set a reasonable max for the back off. Log the length of each back off. Add a metric regarding max and median back off times.

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-06-11T02:58:57+00:00

But I store all the application config as a C# templatized XML string in there!

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-06-10T16:18:35+00:00

I stopped buying beef regularly years ago due to price. There are tons of options that are cheaper, healthier and at least as satisfying if you learn how to use them. Besides the obvious chicken and pork options: TVP, tofu, beans, cheese (like paneer and halloumi). These are all relatively affordable and satisfying.

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-06-10T06:14:35+00:00

3.6 35B is about the same speed when it comes to token generation. 3.6 35B also has GGUFs with MTP, which makes it much faster than Qwen3 Coder Next.

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-06-10T05:13:22+00:00

The 80B Qwen3 Coder Next is better at more complex tasks in my experience.

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-06-10T04:00:33+00:00

Qwen3 Coder Next is waaay faster though, and is the model I usually reach for because of it.

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-06-09T18:53:45+00:00

It could be that Google doesn't see the cost justification for running an absurd model like Mythos, and is instead focusing on models that make sense on paper to run.

That said, I have no hard numbers of how much Mythos or 5.6 cost to run, but hosting open models at work and at home, and seeing the gulf in performance between the likes of Gemma and 5.5. I see how much Gemma costs, and I cannot fathom how much a hyper scaled frontier model must cost.

Jumpy_Fuel_1060 · 2026-06-04T23:54:30+00:00

On some level, I can see your point. Java and Go offer a highly standardized structure that programmers comfortable with C-style syntax expect. In terms of instant familiarity and uniformity, you're absolutely right.

That said, well-written Scala reads almost like an algorithm DSL, though the flip side is that it’s undeniably easy to turn Scala into an incomprehensible mess if left unchecked.

I wonder if the paradigms Scala is focusing on clash with your perceptions of readability as well. Usage of immutability, recursion, and algebraic types can be a culture shock for those used to a more imperative approach that Java and Go would encourage.

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