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grogenaut

5,774 karma · joined February 11, 2012

Sr. Principal Software engineer in Seattle. Works for largest game streaming platform.

Email is Mr dot gaffo @ Google's email system.

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grogenaut··on Waymo in Portland
portland gets snow
grogenaut··on Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API
soon their goal will be to hit A 9, like 89
grogenaut··on We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
Nah, on the 7th day he rested... On the 8th he apologized for his behavior having learned the error of his ways.

On the ninth he roasted some fool.

grogenaut··on We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
Sorceforge predates git by about 11 years. As do several other projects like google code. Its not a new idea. Or basically most source control systems. Git, actually, is the more unique idea, of a DVCS... versus a cVCS...
grogenaut··on How to get better at guitar
I tell my Mentees one of the greatest skills is getting good at not being good at something. Being comfortable being uncomfortable.
grogenaut··on DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
it's literally the hello world of micros. get an arduino, plug it into the usb, install the ide, new -> example -> 01. Blink. Press Run. Cool you have now blunk a led. Now use AI to draw the rest of the owl.
grogenaut··on DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
good news, now you can use all that dram you can't afford to vibe code an arduino program. Think of the savings and the learnings!
grogenaut··on America tells private firms to “hack back”
Why do you think they are likely state actors versus script kiddies.
grogenaut··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
I specifically look at the quality / substance of the comments when I'm reviewing someone for promo/transfer/fire.
grogenaut··on MacBook Neo
Each line gets me over 50gb.

I'm assuming your not doing much in those apps.

Fusion is not free cad and is a hog.

So is kicad.

The language server for many things I work on sits at 28gb per copy.. I work for twitch, our code base is not small for the website. Moving all engineers to min spec 48gb.

I'll do stuff all day prototyping data analysis approaches that will fill ram with a pandas cross join.

I put my4 into thermal shutdown 2x in the last month and hard locked it due to swap use 3 times in the last month. I keep records so I can talk with IT about or dev machine specs. Apparently you can't run 30 concurrent yarn builds on a 3gb codebase... Who knew.

This isn't a works on my box competition I'm glad your workloads are that small, you can be a lot more efficient than me. I'm also lucky I bought all this ram before it became absurdly expensive.

It doesn't negate that I'm constantly over 64gb and that I'm super happy I have 128+ on my machines.

grogenaut··on MacBook Neo
Unreal + blender + ide.

Fusion + blender + slicers.

Virt machines / docker + dev env

iOS Android web development

16 copies of Claude code, cursor or kiro

Any of that while running arc raiders and watching twitch or YouTube or plex

My gaming PC is usually at 50-70 gb use

My mbp for work is often at 90 and starting to swap.

My personal mbp is only 48gb and often swapping

I have 128 in everything except my smaller mbp personal.

grogenaut··on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
Won't someone please think of the poor JLC owner. Look I get it, I like nice watches as well. I also recognize some day a computer is going to drive for me. Some of my nicest antique watches barely or don't run.

All of those clocks have drift and most of the wall ones are wrong by several minutes. We're also talking the drift of 1 hour over the course of 6 months. or .32 minutes a day, or 2.3 minutes a week. Most clocks will be drifting that much on weak batteries or grime if they're not quartz or digital.

Your fancy watch likely isn't on time unless you have only one, or you have auto-winders on all of them. And you're not going to miss an appointment because your Patek is off by .32 minutes a day 2.3 a week.

If you cared about accuracy you'd have a network clock synced to an atomic clock, oh wait, you do, its in your pocket. People wearing watches for fashion aren't using them for their calendar appointments or because they don't want to be late for an appointment with the King.

grogenaut··on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
Why don't we just adjust the clocks by a minute a day constantly all year? They're all digital now.
grogenaut··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
Can you run openclaw on it?
grogenaut··on Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case
Depends. What's the overhead of delaying construction, replacing pipes and valves etc. lost revenue ( like car rental)?
grogenaut··on Making MCP cheaper via CLI
Or write your own MCP server and make lots of little tools that activate on demand or put smarts or a second layer LLM into crafting GQL queries on the fly and reducing the results on the fly. They're kinda trivial to write now.

I do agree that MCP context management should be better. Amazon kiro took a stab at that with powers

grogenaut··on Altman on AI energy: it also takes 20 years of eating food to train a human
That's the NRE of getting to where we are and having these llms
grogenaut··on Altman on AI energy: it also takes 20 years of eating food to train a human
Carnegie did that to white wash his public opinion while he worked his workers non stop and to mutilation or death. When are you going to the library when you work 996 or more?
grogenaut··on Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents
For having a python script curl youtube
grogenaut··on Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents
I'm channeling other people. But that's what most people want, just the problem solved for them. Not to write programs.

I love doing mechanical things, I also just want my truck to run.

grogenaut··on Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents
Lazy is a bit pejorative.

Other than the people that hang out here, most people don't want to write software, they want to make problems go away and things happen and make their lives easier and more fun.

we can magically have the ai do things for us now... for most people that's perfect. it opens programming up to others but do they care how it happens? does your ceo care what programming language or library you use (if they do do you want to work there)?

grogenaut··on Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents
what's a shell script? sounds like an implementation detail that I don't care about, I just want something to do a thing for me.
grogenaut··on Facebook is cooked
Mine started as women with ample posteriors at hockey games but quickly switched to police arguing with people and really sick ski and snowboarding videos. The police stuff is trailing off.

I do ski patrol, guess it thought, a ski cop, I liked cops and skiing. Oh I was also getting a lot of ai generated bane videos. Felt sorry for that guy, judge was real inhumane to him.

grogenaut··on Building a TUI is easy now
In the past week I made 4 different tasks that were going to make my m4brun at full tilt for a week optimized down to 20 minutes with just a few prompts. So more like an hour to pay off not decades. average claude invocation is .3 wh. m4 usez 40-60 watts, so 24x7x40 >> .3 * 10
grogenaut··on The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
I can bake a cake while having 0 understanding of the chemistry that powers the transformation. One is a pile of wet flour, the other is delicious.

A dog can create a snack by doing a trick. Doesn't mean that there isn't some mechanism going on there that neither of them understand.

grogenaut··on Where to Sleep in LAX
I'd get a hotel if that was the case. I've only slept on terrazo when I was a frat pledge and 18. The hoodie / jacket is a pillow and for warmth not a bed. I agree with you.
grogenaut··on Where to Sleep in LAX
I always bring a hoodie or jacket on the plane with me and wear pants when flying even when it's warm (it's air-conditioned in airports and planes) so I have pads and warmth when needed. It's often looped through my backpack arm strap. Also earplugs and noise canceling headphones/earbuds. My backpack has a nice pad in the back. He'd have been infinitely more comfortable if he had any of these things. And hell a book or something.

With the armrests you can kinda double wedge yourself on them. I got 2 decent hours in the lima airport doing this. They had the similar double seat with no armrest setup.

I got to ORD at 4am for a 7am flight and purposfully fell asleep on the ground in front of the check in desk figuring they'd wake me up. Eventually they did. The attendant woke me up and said "do you happen to be on this flight". I pointed at the first class ticket hanging out of my shirt pocket. "Good thing I checked we're closing the door now". I was like "I figured you'd maybe wake up the person in front of the desk I've been up for 38 hours." "oh you were sleeping I didn't want to bother you".

The entire flight had boarded and just walked around me. I was OUT.

Le Sigh.

grogenaut··on A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
I know managers who can read code just fine, they're just not able/willing to code it. Tho the ai helps with that too. I've had a few managers dabble back into coding esp scripts and whatnot where I want them to be pulling unique data and doing one off investigations.
grogenaut··on Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores
The go tech is amazing in 2 places: airport and stadium beverage tunnels. There's a premium price and high volume in those areas. The go tech has basically revolutionized the speed of getting a beer and a dog at the stadium here in Seattle. I can be back in my seat in 4 minutes including the bathroom now which for NFL means I can literally be back in a commercial break sometimes.

no idea how much they make on it, but it's a game changer in that small area.

grogenaut··on Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios
"we're going to cut all the other stuff and make assasins creed games and far cry, the stuff that we can leverage our studios on and make money"
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