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boltzmann-brain

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About boltzmann-brain

yeah, I just made this account. I've been off HN for a while.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49251402

    Location: EU, overlap with US East+West Time Zones Remote: Yes Relocation: No Technologies: Claude Code, Rust, C++, Python, Go, Zig, Haskell, TypeScript, JS, Nix, K8s, Terraform Em…

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    Comment #49034259

    I've originally asked for it two weeks ago on the Ghostty github discussions page [1], and it turns out someone decided to just go ahead and develop it. It looks awesome. What's mo…

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    Comment #48861887

    > However, we do not consider those as farces as well Speak for yourself. A lot of people do.

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    Comment #48861868

    It's very usual to name famous people by their first name. like John, Ringo, George, or Paul. Or Steve and Bill. Or Sam and Dario.

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    Comment #48858342

    Location: EU, overlap with US East+West Time Zones Remote: Yes Relocation: No Technologies: Claude Code, Rust, C++, Python, Go, Zig, Haskell, TypeScript, JS, Nix, K8s, Terraform Em…

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    Comment #48522201

    Location: EU, overlap with US Time Zones Remote: Yes Relocation: No Technologies: Rust, C++, Python, Go, Zig, Haskell, TypeScript, Nix, K8s, Terraform Email: damianjobsites+hn@gmai…

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    Comment #48136901

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    Comment #48136886

    Location: EU, overlap with PST Remote: Yes Relocation: No Technologies: Rust, C++, Python, Go, Zig, Haskell, TypeScript, Nix, K8s, Terraform Email: damianjobsites+hn@gmail.com CV: …

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    Comment #47244219

    > Our implementation is up to 2x faster than optimized speculative decoding baselines and up to 5x faster than autoregressive decoding with open source inference engines what about…

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    Comment #47244208

    Speaking of battery, veeeeery soon phones will have mandated replaceable batteries in the EU. I'm just hoping my current moto (a $99 job perfectly adequate for absolutely everythin…

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    Comment #47244153

    with the advent of AI assists, I can't wait for people to start hooking up SoCs, GPUs, and other components burdened by proprietary driver and firmware to logic analyzers, and lett…

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    Comment #47244092

    The biggest issue is that with colo you're building a skill pool that can be used forever, with AWS you're building a skill pool centered around a corporate entity's business strat…

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    Comment #47238789

    As opposed to talent to manage the AWS? Sorry, AWS loses here as well.

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    Comment #47238755

    8086K, actually. I still run one inside one of my PCs!

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    Comment #47238742

    Helped a friend make a difficult career decision (cozy job vs something hard and new + moving to a new city) that ultimately ended up with him working on the project. Glad that hap…

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    Comment #47238713

    Main tech skills: AI/ML: LLMs, RAGs, predictive models, machine vision; MLops (K8s, Airflow, Kubeflow, Flyte, Seldon, KEDA, ELK, Kibana), end-to-end systems (algorithms, data pipel…

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    Comment #47238706

    Location: EU, overlap with PST Remote: Yes Relocation: No Technologies: Rust, C++, Python, Go, Zig, Haskell, TypeScript, Nix, K8s, Terraform Email: damianjobsites+hn@gmail.com CV: …

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    Comment #47039458

    That's very deep water to dive into. I suggest something simpler, like an ancient irc client that asks you to sign up, or an archive extractor.

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    Comment #46943564

    > The "money goes to the repo part" is the problem here, as it incentivizes maintainers to refuse legitimate pull requests. That's not true. The issue is that the system the commen…

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    Comment #46943416

    pay-to-commit has been discussed in the article linked here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938811 escrow is a more complex system, and there are multiple possible implement…

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    Comment #46939100

    GitHub has never been a good method of clout chasing. in decades of being in this industry, I've seen some stuff on your GH.

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    Comment #46938833

    Vouch is a good quick fix, but it has some properties that can lead to collapsed states, discussed in the article linked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938811