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msgodel

766 karma · joined May 27, 2025

If you need an ML engineer (pytorch or ggml) email hz4944554@gmail.com

I have side projects in Rust, Javascript, C and many other languages. I've worked back end, front end, embedded, built massive web-scale distributed systems and one off prototypes.

Yes I'm short apple (as of August 2025 $206 average price)

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msgodel··on Gitea Private, Fast, Reliable DevOps Platform
My solution for this is a ~20 line shell script that gets run from a checked out copy of the repo under /var/www/html and uses inotifywatch on the origin repo (pushed via ssh) to update an HTML file with a tree view and links to all the files in master as well as a second HTML file with per-branch diffs from master. Then it runs "build.sh" and archives the output.

IMO this covers pretty much all the bases, it just doesn't have a flashy GUI. There's way less to configure though and one of the worst ways to spend time is configuring other people's software.

msgodel··on Ask HN: Python developers at big companies what is your setup?
I haven't tried it but I'd assume copilot just exposes an OpenAI compatible API. The Llama.cpp plugin for neovim should work with that OOTB.

I only use it for local models and don't have any hosted ones that I'm willing to pay for so YMMV.

msgodel··on What will become of the CIA?
I think the construction of it has proven to be a serious problem and if we can't dismantle it in an orderly way then it needs to just be torched.
msgodel··on What will become of the CIA?
The state should not have secrets during peace time. It's a crime against the population. I'd love to see all of these agencies gone.
msgodel··on Ask HN: Python developers at big companies what is your setup?
Black is the main thing you want IMO.

I think language servers and autocomplete are much more useful for .net (I used to do a lot of C# as a freelancer in college) than they are for python. Personally I just open a REPL and tab around in that if I need it but I do that maybe once a month. Most software is well organized such that you can keep enough of the theory in your head for the default nvim config to work easily. A small FITM model with a ring context like Qwen can help a bit with boilerplate if you really want autocomplete.

Python just isn't that verbose.

msgodel··on The vibe coder's career path is doomed
Of course you can't make a career out of vibe coding. At best you can launch a business with an MVP.
msgodel··on Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine
That's not so surprising. Iron isn't magnetic in all its oxidation states.
msgodel··on What happens when housing prices go down?
It's a small enough portion of my net worth I can consider it a complete write off. Even with that it's cheaper than renting.
msgodel··on What happens when housing prices go down?
Normally people deal with this naturally by having fewer children when supplies for basic goods like this are constrained so the population and prices would servo around an equilibrium.

High rates of migration upset this equilibrium. In the past it would normally cause wars and genocide because of that. I'm not convinced the current world is any different but a number of other people seem to be.

msgodel··on What happens when housing prices go down?
I'm just building my house myself and ignoring the permitting process. It's extremely rural and there's no one to really report the violation plus the house is so small if I'm forced to tear it down it's no big deal. The expected value of "breaking the law" this way is pretty deeply positive.
msgodel··on Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS
I think the problem is that the way ChromeOS was originally sold it was extremely user hostile and also made it completely impossible to "just add those features" back so in most people's mind they hear "ChromeOS" and think "oh it's even more useless than Android."
msgodel··on Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games
I pay my VOIP bill in crypto. It's just easier and I usually pay a year or two at a time.

I've had to pay my DNS registration in crypto from time to time too. I don't know why but sometimes the anti-fraud AI at the bank gets triggered by my DNS provider and that's literally the only method I have for paying them.

msgodel··on XMLUI
It seems a little strange to accuse jquery. I think what actually "killed it" was modern HTML. Jquery was just an intermediate API that let you target modern browsers and IE without having duplicate/shim code to maintain yourself.
msgodel··on The Minecraft game score unexpectedly became big business for its composer
Microsoft has pretty much only made Minecraft worse. Not maintaining it at all actually would have been better. Now I can't just set up a server and tell my friends to join it, I have to explain how to use an older client or how to install minetest.
msgodel··on Why not to use iframes for embedded dashboards
Oh it's more analytics crap.
msgodel··on Airbnb allowed rampant price gouging following L.A. fires, city attorney alleges
It's a tough situation mostly because you've decided to reject reality.

Let people sort it out, they know what's going to work best for them far better than you.

msgodel··on Airbnb allowed rampant price gouging following L.A. fires, city attorney alleges
>Almost nobody sets prices manually.

Huh. I know a number of AirBNB hosts (the new kind that treat it like a business, not the old kind) and they all absolutely do model the market out months in advance and 100% manually set the prices.

msgodel··on H-1B program grew 81 percent from 2011 to 2022
You pretty clearly don't want to hear my concrete explanation. I'm not sure yours fully accounts for what's happening there. It's pretty extreme especially when there's a large pool of unemployed talent in the US.
msgodel··on What the Fuck Python
I don't know I think "Python doesn't optimize <x>" is one of the least surprising classes of statements in programming.
msgodel··on Beyond Meat Fights for Survival
I bought one of these by mistake during the pandemic and immediately gagged trying to eat it. Then checked the label and realized what I had bought wasn't what I thought it was.
msgodel··on TSMC to start building four new plants with 1.4nm technology
I don't think it's easy to migrate to Taiwan (it's very unlikely that it's easier than migrating here, most East Asian countries make that difficult) so that doesn't seem to actually be a prerequisite.

We already have a pretty serious unemployment problem among college graduates so something else seems to be going on (a problem with domestic universities?)

msgodel··on What the Fuck Python
It probably wasn't a good idea to start it out is showing string constants aren't optimized. If they wanted to talk about really unintuitive reference gotchas initialization in optional function parameters would have been a way better example.
msgodel··on US revokes visas of Brazilian judges after crack down on ex-president Bolsonaro
>victim-blaming.

That is a crazy way to phrase that. I think it reveals a lot about what democracy really means at a fundamental level.

msgodel··on US revokes visas of Brazilian judges after crack down on ex-president Bolsonaro
The biggest thing that makes communism just completely non-viable is the simultaneous demand for socialism/democracy and internationalism.

Different people just aren't going to agree on social norms and some groups are going to abuse certain things more than other groups. In the past between freedom of association and low levels of migration people could kind of work that out but when you force people to use public services for everything that's completely impossible.

You get one or the other at most. Both at the same time is an immediate non-starter for pretty much everyone.

msgodel··on Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of mitochondrial disease
Where I came from (rural and very conservative) everyone is 100% against IVF and frankly, religion aside, I'm not sure it's good. There are certainly ways to abuse it and there's a certain kind of person it's popular with.
msgodel··on US revokes visas of Brazilian judges after crack down on ex-president Bolsonaro
>Why is everyone suddenly tearing down all our shared institutions? All we wanted to do was force a communist revolution on them!
msgodel··on Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration
Weirdly Microsoft has been one of the companies ensuring Linux remains bootable on PCs.
msgodel··on US revokes visas of Brazilian judges after crack down on ex-president Bolsonaro
Yeah that's the problem with it. It wasn't communist and aggressive enough. Certainly everyone would have wanted it if it were.
msgodel··on The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter
The last couple places I've worked at did this with their old equipment too. It always drove me a little nuts.
msgodel··on US revokes visas of Brazilian judges after crack down on ex-president Bolsonaro
The proponents of liberal democracy should have sold it better.
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