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Wonnk13

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About Wonnk13

Go and Python hacker. Xoogler. Databases and Rust for fun.

Working primarily in presales engineering.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49187812

    not that it really matters, but is he leaving Google?

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    Comment #48953306

    I'm not surprised. K shaped economy, any sector that isn't high tech / AI is stagnant. It's rough out there. I've been saying since Covid, retailers have figured out some consumers…

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    Comment #48479156

    I wish them all the best. Supabase, Timescale, etc etc. there's a whole cottage industry of extending postgres to whatever you need.

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    Comment #48112509

    I don't know what it is about Chicago, but I find I have an insatiable curiosity about everything. I've never thought much about bridges, but when I'm in the loop I just stare at t…

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    Comment #48112460

    Chicago in February is indistinguishable from Hoth.

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    Comment #47567240

    yea I'd +1 this. It's a real blindspot in the author's writing. I don't think you can write about meditation in the US without mentioning IMS. Headspace and all the other mcmindful…

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    Comment #45726089

    When I think of LLM / Agent observability I think of some combination of open telemetry and like Influxdb, but I don't think that's what your asking for?

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    Comment #45415459

    nothing more than a n=1 anecdote, but I'm noticeably more depressed when my wife is in the office and I don't go in to a coworking space and/or do something with my friends after w…

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    Comment #45366729

    wow; I'm not a gamer at all. never owned a console since my parents bought one for my brother and myself over two decades ago. I might (5-15% chance) pick up a ps5 just for flights…

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    Comment #45319601

    Maybe I'm overstepping, but I think 1. you're right 2. that it's driven by insecurity. I've experienced many instances of people trying to "protect their knowledge" so to speak by …

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    Comment #44963649

    I was a refugee of the Great Digg Migration to reddit some 14 or so years ago. old.reddit and adblockers as well as very aggressive curation of subreddits have kept it to an overal…

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    Comment #44905521

    This is why I'm not a consultant. It's a generalization, but there's a kind of learned helplessness almost in the culture of the big4. Client has a new requirement, and someone say…

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    Comment #44883618

    come back in the winter and ski Tucks! if ya aint freezin and dying it aint fun yet

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    Comment #44868932

    I love big stupid stuff like this. I didn't realize Ski the Whites has rebranded into White Mountain Ski co. Everyone shits on little 'ol new england, but the presidential range wi…

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    Comment #44815763

    Man I miss Buganizer... Even in 2017 Google was starting to smell like Accenture and Oracle. Glad i left before Jira was shoved down my throat.

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    Comment #43975890

    I'm not sure I actually want to know, but what the hell is "goblin mode"?

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    Comment #41333721

    Interesting- I have an OM-1 mk1 and similarly I've never found a decent use case for that mode.

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    Comment #41226481

    36 y/o male with stage 4 colon cancer. Diagnosed in 2016. Lifelong triathlete / healthy eater. I think it's easy to write this off and just better screening, but I think that's cer…

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    Comment #40431069

    Be Here Now: Ram Dass Avadhuta Gita The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh Open to other recs for non dual meditation / spirituality without a lot of religious dogma.

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    Comment #40310532

    Seems to be the nature of the beast sadly. Huberman, Attia, Ferris, to me all started in super niche subjects and now it's like anyone can come on. I've lost interest in almost all…

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    Comment #40234715

    The Emperor of all Maladies

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    Comment #40200444

    I would love to integrate my lsp setup into Org babel and get completions when writing code in org babel blocks.