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petethepig

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About petethepig

Building Pyroscope — open source continuous profiling platform https://github.com/pyroscope-io/pyroscope

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    I got sent to immigration secondary while crossing the border in Amsterdam earlier this week because they were worried I was taking videos of their “military object” with my meta g…

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    Is getting something like M3 Ultra with 512GB ram and doing oss models going to be cheaper for the next year or two compared to paying for claude / codex? Did anyone do this kind o…

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    Comment #46985642

    that's what i ended up doing — it was pretty easy: * download Warcraft II voices * tell claude to wire it all up

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    Comment #46750709

    I'm no EV expert, but I almost never use my EV's brakes — it mostly brakes using regenerative braking.

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    Comment #45778335

    funny i was recently picking between a glossy and nano texture screen and came to the opposite conclusion — the glossy screen’s image was so much more crisp, and i didn’t really se…

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    I have terabytes of iphone photos/videos accumulated over the years. Apple Photos app is trash when it comes to handling large libraries so I’ve been splitting them by year which i…

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    Many jobs aim to solve problems so well that there’s nothing left to fix — doctors curing illnesses, firefighters preventing fires, police reducing crime, pest control eliminating …

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    Comment #44429335

    Would love to see this in Cursor. My workaround right now is using a bunch of rules that sort of work some of the time.

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    Comment #44327506

    Not the first time i see such comparison being made, but it is the first time I see someone go into so much detail about it — great read.

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    Comment #38553683

    Hi all, wanted to share what we've been working on at Pyroscope. This is a ChatGPT based Flamegraph explainer. Analyzing flamegraphs can be challenging and we often get questions f…

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    Comment #38254245

    The robotic takeover has already begun; it's just more nuanced and less obvious at this stage.

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    Comment #37679223

    How much would you pay for a 20x20 inch piece?

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    Comment #37676968

    I did consider it, and I think you're exactly right RE the direction I would go into (colored wire, larger pieces, etc). But then I had a bunch of other things happen in life and s…

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    Comment #37668756

    hehe, if anyone's interested, I built a similar machine around 2018-2020 [1], although I never automated the nail pick-and-place part of the process. I also used epoxy instead of p…

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    Reminds me of the episode from the Office: "why waste time say lot word when few word do trick" [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K-L9uhsBLM

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    Comment #35172972

    Dmitry here (Pyroscope cofounder) This sounds about right. My favorite little anecdote that I like to tell is that the first thing people often see when they add Pyroscope to their…

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    Comment #34892876

    This would be my guess as well. I work on Pyroscope, which is a continuous profiling platform and so I see a lot of profiles from various organizations. If you want to save the wor…

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    Comment #34698226

    I own airpods and I was just as confused.

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    Comment #33293494

    Great article and all but there's no way I'm going to remember any of it. I think I'm going to stick to "click different blending modes until it sort of looks right".

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    I’d argue they got more coverage because they went down.