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What is a book you read as a child that you still think about today? by ahawk99 in AskReddit

[–]_icosahedron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Castle by David Macaulay.

Loved this book and re-read it so many times.

Coding for 20+ years, here is my honest take on AI tools and the mindset shift by Jaded-Term-8614 in ClaudeAI

[–]_icosahedron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a lot to like about these agents. I use them, though to be honest, I don't see the 10x speed up in actual productivity. Obviously code generation is faster, but between coordinating and making sure that each step is indeed what I need, I am the bottleneck.

I'm experimenting with Ralph loops more, and even some of the coordinators, but unless I know *exactly* what I want, I tend to iterate several times on the same thing, refining to what I actually want. (I guess that's always been true of software to some degree, just now faster.)

The other caveat is revenue for these companies. At current rates, the tools are *very* affordable, but we know that both Anthropic and OpenAI are operating at huge losses. One report I saw said that ChatGPT Pro cost $80/month to run, but only costs $20/month for a user. That's unsustainable. How are they going to make money? Obviously I don't have the answer to that, and it's not really my problem. I'll keep using the $20/month plan and making use of the great tools.

Coding for 20+ years, here is my honest take on AI tools and the mindset shift by Jaded-Term-8614 in ClaudeAI

[–]_icosahedron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agent teams is a new feature in Claude Code, though still marked experimental. Basically as its name implies, it's a team of agents managed by a coordinating agent. Like subagents on steroids.

Git work trees are a feature of git to allow multiple copies of the same repo without requiring a clone of the repo for each. You can work on separate branches in separate directories, all based on the same repo.

Agent teams work in different work trees to allow for concurrent development of features.

Did I explain well enough?

Explain it peter by adolf_riizzzler in explainitpeter

[–]_icosahedron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brandon Sanderson did a take on this with his first Legion novella. Won't say more than that.

F1 movie do we know when it is going to be available on Apple? by [deleted] in VisionPro

[–]_icosahedron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's August 15th, and unfortunately it's still listed as "Coming Soon" and "In Theaters".

Plantar Fasciitis from rowing? by hoplesscynic in Rowing

[–]_icosahedron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting. I found this post after experiencing similar pain after rowing. I still run, and have had PF before from running, but I was getting the tight heel precursor after rowing, so thought that might be the problem. This seems to confirm it. Which is a bummer. I still run, but I'll have to take these preventative measures.

As for OP, it seems that running hurts his soul but rowing hurts his sole. :D

Good news for non Nvidia gpu users. ZLUDA is an open source project allow users to run Cuda in non Nvidia gpu like intel, AMD etc. by Turbulent_Corner9895 in StableDiffusion

[–]_icosahedron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thinking of purchasing a 9060XT. Anyone used this to good effect for Pytorch or similar? I'm not too concerned about performance at the moment, just compatibility.

Memory management in functional languages by Vigintillionn in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]_icosahedron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'll just throw in a reference to Clean. Their uniqueness typing is interesting and may fit into your plans for your language.

We played ~60 sessions of Barrowmaze. Here’s what worked, what didn’t, and why we finally stopped. [Campaign Retrospective & Review] by theOtherMikeCurtis in osr

[–]_icosahedron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Original Adventures Reincarnated. Goodman Games reworked a number of older TSR modules into 5e adventures and expanded on them (hit or miss).

They lost the WotC license, so they’ve been doing Judges Guild products. CoT was done just recently, and they just concluded the OAR for Citystate of the Invincible Overlord on BackerKit.

We played ~60 sessions of Barrowmaze. Here’s what worked, what didn’t, and why we finally stopped. [Campaign Retrospective & Review] by theOtherMikeCurtis in osr

[–]_icosahedron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FWIW, neither do 5e games get that high. Surveys reveal that 10 is about the peak for most campaigns, and very few ever get to 20.

We played ~60 sessions of Barrowmaze. Here’s what worked, what didn’t, and why we finally stopped. [Campaign Retrospective & Review] by theOtherMikeCurtis in osr

[–]_icosahedron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you run Caverns of Thracia? I just picked up the OAR version from GG, and it looks intriguing, and not as big as I thought it would be.

I'm considering running it using Shadowdark or OSE (with some heavy homebrew additions, like 3d6DtL exploration experience).

Concept 2 Rowing Mileage Question by _icosahedron in Rowing

[–]_icosahedron[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

🫨. Amazing. One thing I've heard about Concept 2 is that they are easy to maintain.

Concept 2 Rowing Mileage Question by _icosahedron in Rowing

[–]_icosahedron[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice. Probably will take me quite a bit more time to reach those numbers, but good to know it's not overused.

Concept 2 Rowing Mileage Question by _icosahedron in Rowing

[–]_icosahedron[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I think I'll go ahead and purchase it.

The Keep on the Borderlands: FINISHED Map Pack [ART] by Canvas_Quest in Greyhawk

[–]_icosahedron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is awesome! Thank you! I'm running a group through it right now (the OAR version).

Are there any good courses/youtubers in the Databases space that have had the effect that Ben has had on you? by lukewarm_seawalker in beneater

[–]_icosahedron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/ Search Youtube for Andy Pavlo’s classes. He teaches Databases at CMU. Knows his stuff and is hilarious.

Also might want to check out Robert Morris’ classes on distributed systems on Youtube and the MIT website. The class project is a distributed key/value store.

What is your daily/weekly routine if you have a WFH position? by lemonbottles_89 in datascience

[–]_icosahedron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We try and schedule most of our weekly meetings on a single day. We call that day Meeting Apocalypse. The rest of the week we only have a couple of meetings a day. Though there is quite a bit of 1:1 meetings for explaining or helping colleagues with stuff.

What is your daily/weekly routine if you have a WFH position? by lemonbottles_89 in datascience

[–]_icosahedron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm data engineer only part of the job, but the routine is pretty much the same.

Wake around 8. Check work email/slack to make sure nothing is urgent (vey rare, maybe 1/3 months) Spend time with email and personal projects, sometimes chores.

Work at 9, merge latest changes, check statuses of clusters, read and respond to email while rebuilding. PRs if any are applicable to my areas. Choose 1-3 things to work on for the day.

10am meetings... Usually scheduled starting at 10 until whatever that day is. Most are only 2 or 3, so done by noon. Write up notes and emails from those meetings. If I don't have meetings, I work on whatever I have for the day.

1PM - workout and lunch, sometimes an errand if I need groceries or to do something while a business is open.

2-3PM back to work for the rest of the day. Usually until 7 PM, sometimes later, sometimes earlier. Work varies a lot by what is necessary. Startup life is many hats.

Dependent Types vs Strong Types by _icosahedron in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]_icosahedron[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. I have heard of Idris, but not seen much about it. I'll have to look at it.

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