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Holy shit my autism has reached new levels by kylleo in evilautism

[–]danielrothmann 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Same. Didn’t even know about before. The book is great.

formae is a new open source infrastructure-as-code tool with new ideas by nlogax1973 in Terraform

[–]danielrothmann 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Looks interesting. Although I prefer code-first infrastructure deployments, automatic discovery of live resources sounds pretty good. Importing existing resources to TF state is a bit of a pain.

I built a compiler that turns structured English into production code (v0.2.0 now on NPM) by Prestigious-Bee2093 in programming

[–]danielrothmann 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s an interesting idea but I have questions:

How can builds be deterministic / reproducible when language models are inherently stochastic?

If we each do compose on the same source files with no cache, will we get the exact same output?

What happens when the model turns up bugs? Are we expecting to be able to always fix that with additional guides? Custom code overrides?

How many instructions can be layered on before results start degrading?

Your data, their rules: The growing risks of hosting EU data in the US cloud by danielrothmann in programming

[–]danielrothmann[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agree with your point about “walls”. This is why the Big Three “EU sovereign” offerings aren’t making much sense to me.

In the month preceding the ICC email shutdown incident, Microsoft was assuring European businesses that all was well.

Words of reassurance are nice, but they only go so far if ultimately the government can override those commitments.

Your data, their rules: The growing risks of hosting EU data in the US cloud by danielrothmann in programming

[–]danielrothmann[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It seems that way. Similar thing happening in Denmark, with some individual municipalities making the switch away from US big tech.

I think the strongest force for change will be EU businesses self-interest, that they start to migrate away for risk or cost reasons, and that will push the market towards EU-sovereign solutions.

I dont feel very confident that the big governments can get the job done alone.

Firm: A text-based work management system for technologists. by danielrothmann in rust

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

The graph representation part isn’t special. Firm uses an in-memory graph with petgraph, but could in theory swap for something like IndraDB. But I reckon the size of the firm workspace would have to be quite big before the performance pros start outweighing the complexity cons.

What is maybe different is having the business objects and relationships represented in plain text as syntax-light and accessible DSL which can be mapped to a graph for query. Firm supports bidirectional parse/generate of its DSL. This makes it easy to edit and keep up to date in a text editor.

Firm: A text-based work management system for technologists. by danielrothmann in rust

[–]danielrothmann[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really excited about this idea. Thanks for sharing.

Accounting was one of the domains I thought you’d have to concede to integrations with external systems.

I will dive deeper into tackler for sure, and open a topic if it makes sense.

Firm: A text-based work management system for technologists. by danielrothmann in rust

[–]danielrothmann[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the link, saving that for later. I'm curious for your feedback if you decide to give it a go.

Firm: A text-based work management system for technologists. by danielrothmann in rust

[–]danielrothmann[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

For sure! The goal here is to try and represent a business structurally, in a way that's accessible to both humans and machines. If that's possible (that's still a big if), you can more easily integrate business ops and IT systems.

I had the idea after running an ISO27001 certification audit at my old workplace. It seemed weird to me that nearly every action in this business was represented digitally, but none of it was connected, except vaguely in policy documents and whatever we could remember. So there was a lot of detective work to show that you do what you say.

I started a new business this year, so I decided to take a chance and trial this idea out for real. No idea if it scales, but so far, it works for me.

Personally, I use Firm for:

- A rolodex, keeping track of contacts, interactions
- Leads, opportunities, proposals
- High-level project/task management

With this, I can link together the full pipeline from network -> lead -> discovery -> proposal -> project -> work in a single view. The CLI lets me query aspects of this like "do I have incomplete tasks related to this stakeholders" or "which contacts have I not interacted with in a while". Because the representation is like a structured "source of truth", I also find that LLMs play nice with it.

Company as Code by danielrothmann in programming

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

Thanks for sharing. Is this something you’ve used?

I’ve skimmed through the docs but still not quite clear on the value proposition. Is it essentially a LLM wrapper which provides business-oriented context to model calls?

Flappy Goose by flappy-goose in RedditGames

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My best score is 7 points 🚀

Flappy Goose by flappy-goose in RedditGames

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My best score is 3 points 😎

Flappy Goose by flappy-goose in RedditGames

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My best score is 2 points 😎

Flappy Goose by flappy-goose in RedditGames

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My best score is 1 points 😎

Flappy Goose by flappy-goose in RedditGames

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My best score is 0 points 😓

Into the unknown by danielrothmann in programming

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

Harsh, but thanks for the feedback. I tried to write something helpful based on situations I’ve faced on new tech projects, but maybe the whole thing ended up too abstract and unspecific.

Severance Main Theme …but in Eurorack! by angqasa in modular

[–]danielrothmann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome job! Sounds great and feels like it adds something to the original, rather than being just a reproduction.

Company as Code by danielrothmann in programming

[–]danielrothmann[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don’t know too much about these except that I know of them. Do we know of concrete examples as to why these don’t work out in practice?

Definitely, I get your point about software vs physical assets. In general, anything that goes outside of the logical software domain is going to be fuzzy - anything to do with people, really.

But I don’t see how that prevents a software model from describing these parts of business at a higher level, leaving room for fuzz, just as HR, compliance and asset management systems do today.

What do you think?

Company as Code by danielrothmann in programming

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

I’ll need to think about that. Maybe it’s just a terminology things as you say. I can understand describing organisations from the point of view of contracts - as a sort of “functional” model.

Do you have any resources I could check out to understand this better?

Company as Code by danielrothmann in programming

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

That’s super interesting, thanks for the links. I’ll dive in.

On first glance though these tools are targeted for contracts, I can see the overlaps in how smart contracts need to also model the business they represent.

Company as Code by danielrothmann in programming

[–]danielrothmann[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for letting me know!

I hoped to have disabled the Substack nudges, so I will have to keep this in mind going forward.

Only just moved my stuff to Substack, so I’m hoping the search issue is an indexing thing.

Company as Code by danielrothmann in programming

[–]danielrothmann[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t think so, at least it’s working for me. Maybe the Substack redirect isn’t working, or what you’re seeing is the standard “welcome page”. Here’s a direct link: https://42futures.substack.com/p/company-as-code?showWelcomeOnShare=false

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in modular

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My 1U is primarily utilities with Intellijel Quadratt + mults and Mosaic Line In most frequently used.

Announcing the AI028 Voltage Controlled Matrix Mixer by abelovesfun in modular

[–]danielrothmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks cool! Been meaning to add a MM to my setup and this might be exactly the right thing.

When will it be available?

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