moojacob (u/moojacob)

moojacob commented on Thoughts on Omarchy tedium.co/2025/10/13/omar... · Posted by u/raybb

adriand · 2 months ago

I’m curious if anyone has heard an explanation for why Omarchy is pronounced “omar chee” instead of “omar key”. To me the word looks like monarchy, hierarchy, anarchy, etc. I’m not sure if words ending in -archy are always pronounced with a hard c but it seems like it.

moojacob · 2 months ago

My guess is it's based on Arch Linux. Om-arch-y.

moojacob commented on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss techinasia.com/news/opena... · Posted by u/breadsniffer

lbreakjai · 3 months ago

Do people at large even care, or do they use "chatGPT" as a generic term for LLM?

moojacob · 3 months ago

They call it chat.

moojacob commented on Rails Needs New Governance davidcel.is/articles/rail... · Posted by u/romellem

moojacob · 3 months ago

The author can't fork Rails because "the amount of work that goes into maintaining this ecosystem is enormous and expensive."

Rails IS FREE TO USE. If you want to improve test driven development, do the work yourself. Or start a company and dedicate 40% of your extremely well paid engineers time open source code others can use for free.

37signals and Shopify make the decisions because THEY DO THE WORK. I am happy to sit back and free load off of their contributions even if I disagree with DHH and Tobi's political opinions.

moojacob commented on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes bmj.com/content/390/bmj-2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

bluefirebrand · 4 months ago

I was diagnosed with ADHD in my early 30s and prescribed Concerta to help manage it

For a few years being medicated for ADHD was a godsend. I was finally able to be more productive and focus on work, my career took off in a huge way, I've literally tripled my income since I started medication

Now I'm incredibly burned out, I've been having pretty severe memory problems, I'm on medical leave from my job to try and course correct a bit here. I don't think this is purely caused by the medication, I think it is stress related as well, but my doctor's only course of action right now is to reduce and re-evaluate my meds

On one hand, being medicated was incredible for me. It felt like it finally let me overcome my demons and be the person I wanted to be and always knew I was capable of being

On the other hand, if it led to my current situation it's probably one of the worst choices I could have ever made. I hate having massive holes in my memory like this, and being burned out this way is extremely difficult to bear

So... If you can balance things better than I could, it's still probably worth being medicated. I don't regret it I just wish it hadn't burned me out like this

moojacob · 4 months ago

This happened to me over a decade ago. Medication was a godsend, and then I burned out. I remember sitting down to do work and not being able to start anything so I would pull up a dumb io game.

So I went off, and for the next 5 years I still couldn't focus. It got worse actually. I did a lot of caffeine. After COVID I started to work out and then suddenly for the first time ever I could focus. As long as I don't do caffeine, workout, and sleep I am sharp. I've done great work in the past couple years but I do feel cheated that Adderall stole time from me. I wonder where I would be with my career if I hadn't burned out.

moojacob commented on What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes? seangoedecke.com/model-on... · Posted by u/ingve

jebarker · 4 months ago

Optimized small model training is not only important for availability but also for the scientific study of LLMs. It’s like the use of simple organisms like yeast for biological studies - we also need to study the simplest possible transformers that exhibit behaviors of interest from the larger models if we hope to ever understand LLMs and have more control over their behavior.

moojacob · 4 months ago

Enough with big data! Who's working on small data? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDr6_cMtfdA&pp=ygUKc21hbGwgZ...

moojacob commented on Perplexity makes bold $34.5B bid for Google's Chrome browser reuters.com/business/medi... · Posted by u/voxadam

moojacob · 4 months ago

I think it's fun that they always get in the media like this. They know how to play the game.

moojacob commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025) · Posted by u/david927

moojacob · 5 months ago

I've been working on an app that writes customer emails so small businesses can focus on what energizes them.

It makes answering customer emails 10x easier.

The magic are training templates which are templates that get suggested (and eventually auto-selected) and personalized by LLM for every reply.

Every reply sent trains it to auto select that training template for future similar customer emails.

The stack is Ruby on Rails and Postgres hosted on DigitalOcean. The LLM currently is Kimi K2 hosted on Groq.