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Here's part of the answer:

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re...

There are no rules for side projects. Consider just removing or skipping the test parts if they are slowing you down. Sometimes project progress and fun is more important than industry best practices.

Maybe decide to release by the end of the weekend, and be brutal about dropping anything that's not absolutely necessary for release.

Here's the repo:

https://github.com/GSA/search-gov

Yi is a good source in this area, and a good follow on Twitter.

Can anyone with good insight explain why AMD hasn't traversed the CUDA moat yet? Surely they have been investing in building a similar layer and getting it upstream into the ML frameworks and intermediary compilation systems?

Tighter control of updates by system management teams, including but not limited to staged roll-outs with critical systems at the end of the queue. If the vendors did this, and the customers too, then you'd get better outcomes from the updates being distributed over time.

Ah right, my bad. I was definitely thinking more about b2b.

I think it's less that it must be one style, and more about having a profile image that isn't bad. It could be any good picture of you, or you could just have a consistent and interesting image across platforms. Something that shows you took a little care.

Certainly there are some patterns to be found, and many people in upper management (moreso outside tech) take the "good headshot" approach. That's just the commonly accepted path and checks the box.

I think it's fine to show more creativity. Alternatively, you just play the game and move on, expressing yourself in other ways.

Oh, I see. I've thought about shifting to a zettelkasten style for my own notes, but I didn't think about that personal reminder side effect. Thank you for sharing!

That's a cool idea and crossover that I'd not considered. Maybe I should dust off my Anki account. Thanks!

This is a good point, that understanding the underlying personal outcome is important. For me this helps narrow the specific businesses or arrangements that I should consider.

Great followup and details. Your introspection sounds like you're on the right path for evolving and making progress. There is no silver bullet here (at least in my own experience).

Your three priorities (if I understood correctly), sound like your health, relationship, and independent business. This really does seem like a good track. In fact, having such clarity of priorities puts you ahead of many people. The only thing I don't see is maybe having a vision of the environment in which you pursue these priorities (home, living area, weather, etc).

I encourage you to consider specific short and medium term goals within those three areas. Maybe you can help draw out several purposes that adjust your mental framing.

As a small example, the hot topic of the children. I don't perceive anyone saying you should rush out and have a child tomorrow. Instead, adapting to your situation, maybe there are some specific family goals for the next few years.

Then, on the business side, maybe there are some specific goals for the next 1, 3, and 6 months. This might also need some goals about when to cut bait and try some different business ideas.

When I'm in the worst malaise, it's often when I have vague big picture aims without shorter term goals. Purpose is multi-faceted.

Thanks for sharing your journey. It's helpful for me to think and write about these topics, so I appreciate the prompt and hope I've helped your pursuit in a small way.

Indeed, it's an interesting and alluring point to defy. My experience so far is that it's not so easy to distinguish between misleading indoctrination and archetypal patterns that lead to positive long term outcomes. I try to share the things I've learned that have/are leading to good outcomes.

It's also interesting how mental framing can dramatically change outcomes. There are many people out in the world building widgets. Some people try doing it for the love of the widget. Other research indicates that fulfillment in building widgets only comes after getting good at it and practicing that craft. Then others do it solely to earn money for family, hobbies, travel. This mental framing for each individual seems very related to purpose and positive outcomes.

There are a few.

The biggest is probably Indeed.com (aggregator + direct posts).

Google itself does aggregation, but it's mostly accessible by searching for something like "assembly programmer jobs". You'll see a special jobs section and can click through for filtering etc. Maybe there's a home page for it, but I've not looked.

For my own experience, the more specialized and smaller boards are better though. When I'm hunting, I usually build a set of bookmarks to saved searches on various sites and just keep checking them.

In my observation of some successful sales folks:

* Build a relationship of trust with key people inside the customer org

* Keep showing up (literally) and be friendly and helpful

* Frame the ask as a trial or something that fits in their business patterns and budgets

First, there's nothing wrong with what you're feeling. It's a signal, and it's great that you're giving it consideration.

It sounds like you're in need of a Purpose. Like many folks in modern times.

Casually and broadly speaking, I'd say you have a couple of paths forward. Neither is a short-term holistic solution. These paths aren't mutually exclusive either.

1. Focus on creating and solidifying a family

Many many people trudge through boring and uninspiring work, all for purpose of providing and protecting for a family. There's great motivation and satisfaction in this. Don't be afraid of traditional gender roles and arrangements, and take pride in this accomplishment. Find good role models and mentors for this early, to help understand how to think about these challenges and gain fulfillment from them.

2. Refactor and keep trying with clear short-term goals

Regarding your business(es). The majority of successfully independent people have tried numerous things before succeeding. Repeatedly I hear the successful people say to keep trying. It's hard.

So, keep trying. Maybe you need to diversify your efforts and try some different services, products, businesses. Whatever your focus, set some more specific and short-term goals. When you have clearer goals, and you focus on those goals (with action), then other things like the 9-5 lose attention and focus. You shift from ruminating on the frustrations and instead attend to the goals and the possible.

Good luck!

You could update the account with incorrect but realistic information. As a last step, change to a throwaway email address. Then just abandon it.

Find some other businesses using clickhouse rigorously and reach out to them on LinkedIn or email. You might be able to get some contacts by just reaching out to clickhouse staff and asking.

I've rarely seen such things be valued in software engineering. I can't even think of a decent software dev cert.

For ops there are some vendors specific certs like the AWS or Microsoft certifications that used to carry weight. Currently, with the increased use of cloud services I'd probably lean toward AWS for SWE too.

In the past, the most valued certs were from Cisco for network engineering. Those were / are really good networking education even if you don't care about the cert.

Without more context, I'd recommend finding a general programming language conference such as the annual python or golang conference. They usually have a good range and are very industry oriented.

For reference, this project is from Eureka Labs, which is the new education startup from Andrej Karpathy.

* https://eurekalabs.ai/

It appears to be a generalized version of the bi-gram project, which he links to here:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaCmpygFfXo

It's cool to see him putting in even more effort on the edu work. It's a real gift he has, and was visible all the way back in his grad student projects.

Agreed with Paul. Find a suitable college which already has commuters and working professionals as a part of their student base, and go talk to some advisors in admissions.

If you want to test the waters, maybe try taking a class or two at a nearby community college first?

In your experience, what kinds of jobs allow that versus those that don't? What are the characteristics in particular that ensure you can leave things at work?

I'm surprised there aren't more mentions of sector specific funds. I know Vanguard has/had sector specific mutual funds, so maybe I'll see if there are ETF variations of those.

Thanks for the pointer on semiconductors.

I've not used it myself, but I see a lot of people referencing Ollama. It uses llama.cpp (and maybe more).

Looking back, I'd say it was a couple of things. One, as you note, is that it involved leaving class and getting computer time in the library (double win for both computer time and a change of environment). Second, there just weren't many preapproved and available choices at that time. Later I learned about how to acquire other games via mail-order shareware and typing in programs from magazines.

Oregon Trail in particular seems to have been widely available. Maybe they did some bundling when the schools bought the computers?

There are two things which helped me understand this better.

1. Exception handling is a form of flow control

Once you understand exceptions are a normal part of program flow, you begin to see how they fit into the broader logic. They help encapsulate and guide handling of common error cases.

2. There's no need to be over-granular

It's not necessary to go overboard and capture every single possible exception. You can explicitly capture the most common exceptions, log them, and handle/cleanup appropriately. Then you can have a fallback global trap to log and catch any others. If you start to see something unexpected a lot, then you can add an explicit handler for it if needed. It's mostly just about having specific cleanup and good logging for awareness of runtime issues.

I have a similar approach. Over time, it also helps me see which ideas repeat themselves and evolve. So I'll refine the document every once in a while, and start to group things together.

It's also very calming to get these things out of my head and into any document / record. This experience is discussed in more detail in the book Getting Things Done.

I have a traditional IRA account at one of the major brokerages, and I roll-over each employer 401k to that account when I'm done with that employer. Then I just invest it in VOO and a couple similar ETFs. Plenty of flexibility and no charges for the purchases.

Agreed, position 1 sounds like the best option for gaining hands on expertise and experience with stacks that will still be around in a few years. You'll still be able to learn concepts / architecture etc along the way.

Position 2 sounds more like a path to product or project management if that's a goal.