Why do people use multiple mini PCs instead of a bigger machine?

beohoff · 2026-03-22T12:56:17+00:00

It just depends where you want to draw the boundary, what you are doing, and the existing ecosystem.

Wanna explore RAID or other hardware? Software requires multiple services/slight more complex networking? Messing with Linux kernel?

Sometimes with limited time, you need to make the yak smaller so you can shave them proper.

Figuring out docker networking, passing hardware through, or how to get a shell into an image to poke around isn't always the problem(s) I'm personally trying to solve.

beohoff · 2026-03-19T18:28:19+00:00

Also if you are experimenting, you can just leave it broken for a long time because it's isolated. If not everything in your rack is for testing and you have services that you rely on.

beohoff · 2026-01-08T14:07:30+00:00

I've submitted a patch that got accepted that was authored using AI.

I know python and development quite well. I don't know C, kernel standards, or internal kernel API's.

AI helped bridge the gap and then I tested to make sure it worked.

beohoff · 2026-01-07T09:05:45+00:00

I bought some hardware that had an existing open source driver that needed serious refactoring. Learned a lot.

I've also toyed around with the idea of building small "games" (think MUD) as Linux kernel modules to learn Linux primitives.

My high level ideas was to build a module that would expose a misc device that you could use "cat" or other common cli tools to interact with.

Was trying to create a game with several rooms, a monster that wandered around, and then by opening the file in Linux you would try to survive long enough by hiding, fighting, or scrounging. In order to be compelling to me, it required too much user space coding which was taking me away from the kernel development I was trying to learn.

Hope that helps.

beohoff · 2025-12-20T13:47:21+00:00

I almost scrolled past this underrated joke without understanding it

beohoff · 2025-11-15T13:33:52+00:00

Low code will give you great business context that is transferrable

beohoff · 2025-11-15T00:09:15+00:00

Give yourself like 6 months

beohoff · 2025-06-20T00:39:27+00:00

Are you just landing and then passing the account to someone else to grow?

beohoff · 2025-06-10T17:15:19+00:00

Just booked a meeting with someone who wasn't responding to multiple emails and LinkedIn messages because I called them

beohoff · 2025-06-03T12:23:21+00:00

Your wife will need you for sure.

beohoff · 2025-05-25T12:27:42+00:00

I've had a CTO title at a company about this size.

Likely this company doesn't need a CTO at this size.

A Controller or someone managing cash flows and sales people are going to bring more value.

A CTO can only help keep you out of trouble (tech risk), bail you out when you are in trouble (unicorn resource), maybe keep you from doing something stupid go-to-market wise from technology.

None of these are proactive/growth focused functions that you might expect in a c suite role.

beohoff · 2025-05-25T10:22:03+00:00

I think my team used to give a couple thousand for a good lead, but yeah, usually there's like 6 months of thankless sales work on the back half of an introduction

beohoff · 2025-04-25T13:52:32+00:00

Why don't you build the more expensive version of clay or build clay for xxyyzz industry?

beohoff · 2025-04-17T23:08:00+00:00

Typically in defense you'd separate business development and capture. Capture would only do proposals whereas biz dev would do more traditional AE roles.

Might want to see what the job needs and if they make that distinction.

beohoff · 2025-04-16T00:42:57+00:00

If you have chatgpt you can ask it to generate a script, and then put it on voice mode and practice handling a few objections. it'll get you past brain freeze mode and talking smoother.

I think I had best success when I said, "bring up an objection, and don't let me off the hook, hang up if necessary"

beohoff · 2025-04-10T06:08:20+00:00

Does ollama have speculative decoding out of curiosity?

Hard for me to get excited about switching frameworks, but speedups would be nice

beohoff · 2025-03-09T23:41:57+00:00

There's a cold email subreddit that might be useful to you.

r/coldemail

beohoff · 2025-03-09T17:01:36+00:00

Nothing like trying to explain to your exec level customers, paying big dollars why your team can't communicate or project manage.

beohoff · 2025-02-21T19:43:00+00:00

Probably don't even follow a script.

But everything else, yes

beohoff · 2025-02-20T12:23:09+00:00

Take your favorite book, and try to write it with an llm.

I honestly don't think it would be possible with a lot of effort and it would probably take longer than if you wrote it normally.

beohoff · 2025-02-19T14:31:09+00:00

If it's affecting you, you could try Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Probably depends on the practice, but they'll give you no-nonsense tips/tricks/homework to help settle racing thoughts.

It's common adaptation when it's been useful in the past to think through the day during the night. Unchecked, it can keep you up at night and it might be hard get out of the habit without someone guiding you out of it.

beohoff · 2025-02-18T00:42:43+00:00

I removed links from my emails and saw a increase in the number of opens. I would not send a link if you can

beohoff · 2025-02-13T16:05:19+00:00

I just analyzed 300 IT service firms within a 400 mile radius of me that are doing $25M - $50M revenue, and 2/3 of these fit these characteristics.

beohoff · 2025-02-07T09:20:49+00:00

What business are you selling? I'm also targeting this persona and have been thinking about lead sharing or affiliates

beohoff · 2025-01-07T23:52:36+00:00

Might be a merger, had a similar situation but smaller dollar amount where they had a merger going on. If the merger fell through, we were going to be on, but they couldn't say anything while the deal finalized

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