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+1 to LM Studio. Helped build a lot of intuition.

Seeing and navigating all the configs helped me build intuition around what my macbook can or cannot do, how things are configured, how they work, etc...

Great way to spend an hour or two.


I also like that it ships with some cli tools, including an openai compatible server. It’s great to be able to take a model that’s loaded and open up an endpoint to it for running local scripts.

You can get a quick feel for how it works via the chat interface and then extend it programmatically.


Todoist. Unaffiliated but love the product and believe they deserve a shotuout.


Sharing my quick personal anecdote here.

- Past: ~8 years in big tech as an IC - Currently: ~4 as CTO a < 10 person startup.

I always hated doing and conducting coding interviews. When I became in charge of the interview process, I swore to myself not to have them.

I had to let go of a person after ~3 weeks in because he just didn't write any code. This was about 1 year post the ChatGPT moment.

He had lots of experience. Great communicator. Culture fit (or so I thought). Etc...

Interviews can provide a signal, but nothing trumps a month of working with someone. If both parties are open to it, a well paid short term contracting gig goes a long way.


That sounds terrible for all parties. You have to conduct the entire interview experience twice, the candidate has to conduct their job search twice, they may have declined another offer to accept yours, they may have had to relocate to accept your offer, if you're in the US they may have gone off health insurance and their new health insurance didn't start yet, etc.


Reminds me of some Twitter lore from 2012. I was just an intern....

This is back in the Rails days, before they switch to Scala.

I heard that there was a fail-whale no one could solve related to Twitter's identity service. IIRC, it was called "Gizmoduck."

The engineer who built it had left.

They brought him in for half a day of work to solve the P0.

*Supposedly*, he got paid ~50K for that day of work.

Simultaneously outrageous but also reasonable if you've seen the inside of big tech. The ROI is worth it.

That is all.

Disclaimer: don't know if it's true, but the story is cool.


If a half day fix from a former employee costs that much, it’s likely because the company deserved it for some reason.


I keep track of nuclear related news.

An easier (more fun) version of this with some context is here: https://x.com/olshansky/status/1892069988707729614


> x.com

I'm not clicking that shit


You might be interested in:

    * https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/twitter-to-nitter/
    * https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/nitter
Those Firefox extensions automatically redirect any link that points to Shitter.


While that avoids directly engaging with Twitter, I'd avoid even indirect contact. That said, I'm confident that most Twitter enagement is indirect anyway, via embeds, screenshots, and services like these.



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Musk is part of the administration that has threatened to take European territory by force. He's meddling in—and funding according to some sources—extremism in Germany.

Neither he, nor his administration, have been overly bothered to characterize themselves as friends of Europe, and Europeans are returning the feelings.


> Noticed there is some serious anti Trump/musk campaign going on there.

And Americans should be very concerned about Trump's coup as well - because that's what it is. There is no level of sugar coating that can cover that up.


Your logic is that someone has to be brainwashed by woke European media to dislike musk or trump?


As if right wing media have a legitimate place in a democracy. It was and will only ever be a vehicle for fascism. Maybe we Europeans enjoyed proper schools with history lessons and remember how Faschism played out last time? Besides following US media is enough to know what Musk is about.


It's unfair to say that no right wing media has a right to exist. Media that is hostile to democracy should be stomped out, but because its hostile to democracy (or secretly a propaganda machine run by foreign influence), not because it's right wing.

If anything, that the classic right wing still exists, however much you might disagree with the ideology, is something to hope for.


My dad laments that "Caring about the environment used to be a Conservative position" and "We just need to take the effort to care about people who are different from us" and "I think the gun rights people take it too far and it's fine to have regulation on gun ownership".

But he didn't vote for a classic conservative. He voted for Trump.


Yeah, it wouldn’t surprise me if the vast majority are more moderate than the two-party system can account for. And that consequently, the White House might be overestimating what they have popular mandate to do.


As somebody from Europe.. it is. The media is extremely biased and left-oriented. As soon as something is slightly more right leaning it immediately gets labelled as extreme-right here.


Wildly untrue, European media is very diverse, and where it sits on average from an American point of view varies from country to country. It may turn out to be not right-leaning enough for your personal tastes, but that doesn't mean it isn't from the PoV of that particular country.


As someone from Europe.. it is not true. There are lots of media outlets with different angles. Certainly lots of Murdoch funded garbage here.


We need to recalibrate the overton window. Anything remotely based in reality is immediately labelled far-left these days.


You do this by knowing the talking points and asking the right questions. Many questions cant be answered easily. And this leads to Rethinking.


Name a question that the right hasn't utterly defeated with thought terminating cliches? They handwave away clear nazi salutes


Ah that's just the right trying to see the positive in everything. That is how they roll. If an immigrant murders someone they also wave it away as a bad apple that doesn't spoil the barrel.



Wanted to also give this product a shout out ($1/month): https://onedollarstats.com

drizzle.team is alway delivering.


Added this to the performance tuning section: https://github.com/Olshansk/postgres_for_everything?tab=read...


I'm surprised that both this list and the linked 'very comprehensive list' are missing pgbadger.


This is going to make a great addition to my e-ink collection: - Remarkable Tablet - SOL Reader - Kindle


Wanted to share a repo I created last week to help add support for new RSS feeds: https://github.com/olshansk/rss-feeds/

Add support for Paul Graham's outdated RSS Feed. OpenAI research. Etc...

Leave a request or a star!

Also wrote a full blog post about it here: https://olshansky.substack.com/p/no-rss-feed-no-problem-usin...


I used Claude Projects, Claude Sync and GitHub Copilot Workspace to assemble this project in about 3 hours.


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