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> This is why I have always said, that a degree in CS is useless without some degree of passion towards it. I would add I don't know how anyone can do any degree and career without…

I still have my HP 48G and love it. I don't use it much and take the batteries out so they don't corrode in the case. Every time I use for more than a couple of calculations I thin…

This is me to a big extent. Sometimes I feel like I to learn for learning's sake. Which is okay, or at least that is what my therapist tells me. I struggle with the fact that I "th…

I used pg vector chunking on paragraphs. For the answers I saved in a flat text file and then parsed to what I needed. For parsing and vectorizing of the GCP docs I used a Python s…

I tried scripts but got blocked. I used wget to download tthem

Everything I run, even the small models, some amount goes to the GPU and the rest to RAM.

Hmmm...now that you say that, it might have been the 20b model. And like a dumbass I accidentally deleted the directory and didn't have a back up or under version control. Either w…

> I'm not his target demographic Me either and I am a dev as well > He's a good presenter and his advice makes a lot of sense. Agree Not that I think he forms his answers on who is…

> Zero trust in remote systems run by others with unknowable or questionable motives. This all day long. Plus I like to see what can be done without relying on big tech (relying on…

gpt-oss-120b is amazing. I created a RAG agent to hold most of GCP documentation (separate download, parsing, chunking, etc). ChatGPT finished a 50 question quiz in 6 min with a sc…

I loved Compute!'s Gazette. I miss good print magazines

I know exactly what you mean, same but different I did start early at 12 y/o with a C64. Then trying to get drunk or laid took over and I only dabbled with it here and there. Got m…

> "paralysis by analysis" is a form of perfectionism > it can also mean DOING NOTHING because you dont see a way to do it perfectly. I had a professor point this out to me while in…

Lots of truth to this. However, I have difficulty in doing a personal site just for my own benefit and pleasure. I enjoy learning, I enjoy the THOUGHT of building and doing but my …

Excellent point

Virtual hat tip to ya! I finally have four ideas that I think worthy to build that I would like to monetize. All would be well within my abilities to build. No vision of grandeur t…

Correct, there is no public IP address exposed to my home. Right now my "servers" are Dell micro i5s. I've have used RPI 3 and 4 in the past. My initial foray into self-hosting wer…

Yeah, that is a good idea and as I have been doing a little bit of studying Kubernetes I thought about that too (overkill for sure).

I'm right there with you, except at times I have thrown caution to the wind and made my sites available. My current setup is to rent a cheap $5/month VPS running nginx. I then reve…

At my org they are trying to move away from programmer/analyst to sowftware engineer. I told my manager call me what ever you want, just don't call me late to dinner. As long as it…

Hoosiers is probably my favorite movie of his.

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Thank you. Luckily for me my current manager didn't have a code test. I received a timed coding test for another position within the same org but a different manager and bombed the…

I did actually. I created a custom dashboard with basic stats of type of calls ran, how many calls were run by each station, how many were EMS and how many were fire calls. Then I …