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HorizonXP
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About HorizonXP
xpatel at pulsecode [ca]
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/xpatel; my proof: https://keybase.io/xpatel/sigs/_RARdgo-3d3utxegiCdJ9gKGJEuonzfxARZJjCoYj5w ]
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Comment #48818835
Here's a video to highlight why Dua Lipa is not a typical "celebrity book club" type person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN1rULxGHCA I've actually really been a fan of her, and…
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Comment #48435400
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Comment #48435312
Have you built any tooling or products around all of this and deploying it somehow? I’d love to learn more and share notes, because we’ve been doing this too. About 3100+ PRs merge…
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Comment #47557892
Also helps we were all batchmates in W15, so the serendipity is even higher.
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Comment #47435243
This is awesome! I just came back from Cancun with my family, and I was on a WestJet flight. I was taken aback by a) free Wifi and b) how fast it was to support everyone streaming …
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Comment #47392589
Not wrong at all, that’s why I’m building my own platform for this. That’s also why I haven’t publicly done much on First Cut yet. I’m using my platform to actually build the produ…
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Comment #47391695
I am having the greatest time professionally with AI coding. I now have the engineering team I’ve always dreamed of. In the last 2 months I have created: - a web-based app for a F5…
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Comment #47208547
Having incorporated libghostty into my current web-based project, I can't say enough thanks. I've lived in the terminal since 2003, resisting IDEs, VSCode, everything because I'm a…
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Comment #47074604
So I know these are just benchmarks, but apparently Elixir is one of the best languages to use with AI, despite having a smaller training dataset: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i…
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Comment #46969333
You know, I love this comment because you are where I was 15 years ago when I naively decided that I wanted to do my master's in medical biophysics and try to use NVIDIA CUDA to he…
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Comment #46955578
If folks are interested, @antirez has opened a C implementation of Voxtral Mini 4B here: https://github.com/antirez/voxtral.c I have my own fork here: https://github.com/HorizonXP/…
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Comment #46878666
Is this BSD jails' time to shine?
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Comment #46825536
This is actually a really good description of the situation. But I will say, as someone that prided myself on being the second one you described, I am becoming very concerned about…
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Comment #46761631
Even for Neovim!
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Comment #46760586
I’ve been doing Vim + aider, and now Claude Code. Those tools I understood. I never got into Cursor because I’m too old to give up Vim. Clawd.bot really annoyed me at first. The se…
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Comment #44951138
Amazing project and write up, very good timing too! I’ve been into amateur astronomy since I was 13, owning a few telescopes and spending many hours with family at star parties. Th…
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Comment #44140800
Can you link to Sayal? Because I’m in Toronto, grew up here, have lived in SF/Bay, back when Fry’s was around. Sayal in Toronto was my go to electronics store. I didn’t realize the…
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Comment #43743782
Which we now know is suboptimal. Humans need more protein than we’ve been eating on the SAD. This is especially true as you age and you start losing muscle mass. I aim for 1g per l…
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Comment #43743692
I’m in Toronto, so sun exposure is only improving now. We did Mexico in March, and Miami last week, and both were _amazing_ for mood and health. I’ve never measured body temperatur…
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Comment #43743679
I’ve thought the same, but then my food intake would truly be just plain chicken breast, fish, protein shakes, and green veggies. Which is basically what it is now, but I’d have to…
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Comment #43743626
This is great advice. Unfortunately, most people you’re going to encounter don’t have the depth or maturity to be good interviewers. Some do though, and they know the truth. There …
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Comment #43721233
I have had a slow metabolism since I was a teenager. I don't think I've ever experienced a day in my life where I haven't thought about my weight, body composition, or felt guilty …
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Comment #42098699
My wife is Guyanese, is that close enough?
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Comment #41716108
This was really good. The Hassan version was “better.” It picked up the background behind me and commented about how cool my models looked on the wall, and mentioned how great they…
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Comment #41714401
Bah! Humbug! I use this all the time. Thanks for making it.