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yukinon commented on AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it siddhantkhare.com/writing... · Posted by u/sidk24

parpfish · a month ago

I love the flow state, and I’m pretty sure it’s fundamentally incompatible with prompting. For me, when the flow state kicks in, it’s completely nonverbal and my inner dialogue shuts up. I think that’s part of why it feels so cool and fun when it hits.

But LLM prompting requires you to constantly engage with language processing to summarize and review the problem.

yukinon · a month ago

This really goes to show that everyone's 'flow state' is different.

My inner dialogue is always chatty; that doesn't stop when I enter a flow state. It just becomes far more laser focused and far less distracted. LLMs help to maintain the flow because I'm able to use it to automate anything I don't care about (e.g. config files) and troubleshoot with me quickly to keep the flow going.

yukinon commented on Show HN: uvx ptn, scan a QR, get a terminal in your phone github.com/lyehe/portermi... · Posted by u/yxl448

reimuwu · 2 months ago

> I wanted to vibe code from bed.

In this case, I think using Termux + SSH would be more convenient and compatible with all devices running sshd.

yukinon · 2 months ago

I don't know if "more convenient" would be the words I would use. Setup on this project is very easy, it has very straightforward instructions. Meanwhile, I did a quick 5 minute pressure test of what you suggested and found myself with more questions than answers. I am not saying one way is better than the other, I am just thinking that for those that don't breathe SSH/VPN/Wireguard/Terminal Emulators/etc.. this project is actually far easier to understand.

Also, funny enough on compatibility, but "Termux" is not on iOS, so it fails that basic check. But there's alternatives, of course. Just an observation.

yukinon commented on GHC now runs in the browser discourse.haskell.org/t/g... · Posted by u/kaycebasques

lrvick · 4 months ago

Unfortunately there is still no way to actually bootstrap haskell (or anything based on it) which makes it impossible to put anything written in Haskell near any high trust linux distribution or environment.

I guess sandboxing the untrusted binary in a browser is -something- to let people play with haskell in a lower risk way for the moment at least but it is hard to take a language seriously or trust it with no way to bootstrap it from source.

yukinon · 4 months ago

For someone like me that is less versed in these things, could you explain why bootstrapping a language is a required check for taking a language seriously? My criteria is far less stringent (is it stable? is it popular enough? is the toolchain mature? etc..), so I wonder what I am missing here.

yukinon commented on Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them allvpv.org/haotic-journey... · Posted by u/signa11

stackskipton · 5 months ago

SRE/Sysadmin/DevOps/Whatever here, while blog didn't talk about doing anything difficult but setting ENVVAR standards, I will point out all replacements are just as frustrating especially when talking about secrets.

Anything involving vaults where Application reaches out to specific secret vault like Hashicorp Vault/OpenBao/Secrets Manager quickly becomes massive vendor lock in where replacement is very difficult due to library replacement and makes vault uptime extremely important. This puts Ops in extremely difficult place when it becomes time to upgrade or do maintenance.

Config files have problem of you have secrets, how do you get them into config file since config files are generally kept in public systems? Most of the time it's some form of either "Template replacement by privileged system before handing it to application" or "Entire Config File gets loaded into secret vault and passed into application". Templating can be error prone and loading entire config files into secret manager is frustrating as well since someone could screw up the load.

Speaking of config files, since most systems are running containers, and unless you are at Ops discipline company, these config files are never in the right place, it becomes error prone for Ops to screw up the mounting. Also, whatever format you use, JSON/YAML/TOML is ripe for some weird config file bug to emerge like Norway problem in YAML.

Getting secrets from Kubernetes Secrets API I've seen done but lock in again. I'd strongly not recommend this approach unless you are designing a Kubernetes operator or other such type system.

I will say I've seen Subprocess thing bite people but I've seen less and less subprocess generation these days. Most teams go with message bus type system instead of sub processing since it's more robust and allows independent scaling.

yukinon · 5 months ago

I am not sure if this considered an anti-pattern, but in one of my teams, we wrote a lightweight generic Secrets library with configurable/pluggable backends (such as AWS Secrets Manager). It had a configurable local cache, with per-parameter overrides to bypass the cache. It meant vendor specific fetch logic was in the pluggable backends, while the app and the secrets lib remained vendor neutral.

When we moved it to Vault, it was seamless. Just meant adding our Vault backend wrapper as a dependency and updating the config to use the Vault backend.

yukinon commented on Self-employed, self-exhausted theisolationjournals.subs... · Posted by u/furk

reactordev · 7 months ago

This is why I highly suggest every once in a while go on a cruise. Specifically a cruise. You’re trapped on the boat. Forced to face the moment, forced to let it go, and party until you get back to reality.

Positive vibes where you have no choice but to shed the stress. It’s worth it. Even a cruise to no where for 5 days.

yukinon · 7 months ago

Thank you for this, what a great perspective! I've never been on a cruise because I always figured "but what is there to do?". But you're right, that's the point. I might actually book one now.

yukinon commented on Ask HN: Is anybody building an alternative transformer? · Posted by u/taiboku256

cshimmin · a year ago

Yeah, it's literally the most important practical development in AI/ML of the decade. This is like reading an article (or headline, more like) on HN and saying "please define git".

yukinon · a year ago

Not everyone is aware of the details of AI/ML, "transformer" is actually a specific term in the space that also overlaps with "transformer" in other fields adjacent to Software Development. This is when we all need to wear our empathy hat and remind ourselves that we exist in a bubble, so when we see an overloaded term, we should add even the most minimal context to help. OP could have added "AI/ML" in the title for minimal effort and real estate. Let's not veer towards the path of elitism.

Also, the majority of developers using version control are using Git. I guarantee the majority of developers outside the AI/ML bubble do not know what a "transformer" is.

yukinon commented on How to Cure Acid Reflux with Simple Exercise: An Anecdotal Study pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/arti... · Posted by u/oneturkmen

shafyy · a year ago

I don't snore. What do you mean by "post-nasal drip"? I do have allergies to environmental stuff like dust and hay fever, and my nose is running / sneezing from this. Some weeks more, some weeks less. But it's not new, I've had that for years. Do you think this could be related?

yukinon · a year ago

I am not an anything, but allergies can cause inflammation in your nasal passages, which results in post-nasal drip. Post-nasal drip is where you get a lot of mucus being produced that drips down the back of your throat, which can make you cough or get a sore throat. It's pretty bad when you're lying down and asleep.

For me, when I have to deal with seasonal allergies, if I am feeling particularly bad that night, I will take an allergy pill to make sure I don't wake up with a sore throat.

yukinon commented on How to Cure Acid Reflux with Simple Exercise: An Anecdotal Study pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/arti... · Posted by u/oneturkmen

shafyy · a year ago

Slighly related, but maybe somebody here has some tips: I've had a sore throat for months. And initially they thought it's from GERD, but it does not appear to be. Checks showed no other issues wiht my oesophagus or stomach. Did anybody experience something like this before?

yukinon · a year ago

Do you snore? Alternatively, do you have post-nasal drip from a new allergy?

yukinon commented on The Fastest Redis Ever redis.io/blog/redis-8-0-m... · Posted by u/lsferreira42

reissbaker · a year ago

What do you think doesn't belong in Redis? I've always viewed Redis as basically "generic datastructures in a database" — as opposed to say, Memcached, which is a very simple in-memory-only key/value store (that has always been much faster than Redis). It's hard for me to point to specific features and say: that doesn't belong in Redis! Because Redis has generally felt (to me) like a grab bag of data structures + algorithms, that are meant to be fairly low-latency but not maximally so, where your dataset has to fit in RAM (but is regularly flushed to disk so you avoid cold start issues).

yukinon · a year ago

> that has always been much faster than Redis

Do you have some reliable recent benchmarks comparing the two?

yukinon commented on Trump wins presidency for second time thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba

totaldude87 · a year ago

For many this ended up with

"Have i felt better over the past 4 years" .

Imagine coming out of covid, without a recession, only to be hit with inflation (both parties to blame) and sky high interest rates coupled with all other stuff like illegal border crossing to lack of majority support from Women to Harris to Harris being a silent VP for 4 full years and thrown to lime light.

yukinon · a year ago

I don't disagree with your message, but-

> coupled with all other stuff like illegal border crossing

I've seen a few comments talk about this, but this doesn't affect my day-to-day literally at all. This never crosses my mind because there aren't illegals I come across or maybe just don't ever cross paths with. Is this primarily a border state thing? If so, wouldn't that limit it to just CA, TX, NM, AZ? And only one of those is a swing state.