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slipwalker

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About slipwalker

25+ years over engineering software for money…

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49201054

    calendar spread.

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    Comment #48995103

    GLM 5.x coding plan from z.ai, and opencode go plan.

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    Comment #48950853

    looks a lot like a rag pull...

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    Comment #48891908

    0. SWE turned manager against my better judgment 1. MacBookPro M4 base model. 2. roughly 10 years ( my last one was a MCP retina 2015, and before that linux notebooks lasting about…

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    Comment #48835091

    for a long time i have replaced my nginx instances with openresty ( the open source version with Lua scripting ) and the CVEs seem to be less critical and solved faster: https://ap…

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    Comment #48832280

    replace documentation for an agent/chatbot accessing a RAG with the collection of requirements/design docs plus the code repository. I have been doing a POC at my day job and it wo…

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    Comment #48745868

    wezterm running herdr.dev with several pi.dev sessions.

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    Comment #48745807

    i am assuming he is suggesting a 3 year depreciation cycle for the equipment, quite common on enterprises.

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    Comment #48722728

    "former software developer" does not say much... which field of expertise, which tech stack are you comfortable with ? In current AI trends coding means very little compared to sys…

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    Comment #48678259

    towards system design and solution architecture.

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    Comment #48662872

    for my needs, raycast suffices, and it is one less app to install.

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    Comment #48660567

    homebrew ( indispensable ! all the other apps below are installed/managed via homebrew ): - raycast ( keyboard shortcuts for clipboard manager, basic window management, pomodoro tr…

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    Comment #48597608

    i have toyed around Tiny Llama 1.1B ( https://github.com/jzhang38/TinyLlama ) for the "conversational brain" of NPCs in a game i was dabbling.... it was fun.

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    Comment #48588434

    drop horizontal layers architectures and focus on vertical-slices. This alone reduces the needed context window per feature by an order of magnitude.

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    Comment #48522447

    Role playing… it’s basically lying and pretending with extra steps.

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    Comment #48507988

    multiple pi.dev with opencode.ai/go plan; inside herdr muxer. works nicely at a very agreeable cost ( USD$10/mo ).

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    Comment #48496121

    how about opencode's go ( https://opencode.ai/go ) it is very cost effective and the models are surprisingly competent....

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    Comment #48229375

    just out of curiosity, which GPU are you running on your local machine ?

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    Comment #48221506

    https://opencode.ai/en/go evaluate the Opencode's budget friendly "Go plan"

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    Comment #48122389

    ship it !

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    Comment #47967839

    are you using opencode ?

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    Comment #47954278

    Elite (1984) used procedural generation to create EIGHT entire galaxies, each with 256 star systems, on a floppy disk that was less than 48 kilobytes!

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    Comment #47925329

    i like opencode's zen https://opencode.ai/en/zen with opencode's TUI.

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    Comment #47863091

    maybe this: https://www.skillsdirectory.com/ ?

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    Comment #47805193

    I set my "personal instructions"/customization for any LLM tool to highly adversarial mode. Explicitly confront and question every word i type.