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Oh man, I did this with my dad's voice after he died and set up a thing where I could talk with an LLM-backed assistant and have it respond in his voice and mannerisms. It was a very weird coping and grief period and I ultimately hit a point where I got really weirded out about what I was doing.

I used to work on CECL and stress testing models for large banks and i used tmux similarly. Lots of scripts that would take like 6 hours to run.

I do this, too, but I also take a count of the expected number of items to be deleted as well. If my collection I'm iterating over doesn't have exactly that number of objects I expect, I don't proceed.

I think I just found my cofounder.

Done!

Thanks for the advice, BlockPaper holder #14. I'm a back-end dev so this stuff is mostly arcane to me. I'll check it out!

Only if you exchange it for hoops of paper on a chain in my home office.

I'm thinking about adding a live Twitch stream of the chain, but that sounds like a lot of work so I'll probably just upload periodic pictures of it in a pile on my floor to Twitter every few days and charge $5,000 if people want to come audit it physically.

Bold of you to think I'm smart! Thanks for checking it out.

Now THIS is a smart investor. Good call.

This made the twitter feed.

I knew someday I'd be asked this question. Let's just say it's sizeable as my proof of paper consensus algorithm is tied to how hard I want to work and I'm very lazy. Managing two forks sounds tedious. Stay tuned though - I'll definitely be adding forks in the future.

I'm serious about taking your money.

Infinite paper in a paperless world.

BlockPaper will likely cause the collapse of civilization as it will be the most sought after physical item in the world and will cause massive cross-continental conflict once the chain reaches critical mass. So, I mean, it's gonna be worth a lot. No other blockchain can, or will, make this claim. When the grid shuts down, BlockPaper keeps ticking.

Yes that's right. It's all viewable - it's the only physically observable blockchain (that I'm aware of). Also I'm not really sure what a blockchain is, but I'm confident this qualifies.

Thanks for your interest! We've hit double digits so I've started cold-calling A16Z and other investors. You'll get it by email, but we have Twitter and Facebook sharing links to allow you to easily brag about your financial prowess and gambling ability (see here: https://buyblockpaper.com/View/5). Of course, if you tag us on Twitter, I'll retweet anything and tell everyone how smart you are (see here: https://twitter.com/BuyBlockPaper/status/1490047224688132098)

Thanks for your interest in BlockPaper. Imagine a world where all transactions can be tracked on a single, linear chain of paper links. Centrally managed in a corner in my home office, each link in this chain represents a step forward into our collective future - a future that you can use your money to own a small part of. Adding a new link to the chain is easy and affordable - based on how I'm feeling and your personal defintion of affordable. The starting price for a new link in the chain is $1.00 USD. This price is variable and based on a mathematical function. Essentially, the price is inversely correlated with how much I want to get off my chair and add a new link to the chain. Once the new link is added, I'll send you a picture of it via email.

I wrote BlockPaper last night using ASP.NET Core, Azure (SQL, storage, webapps), Twilio, SendGrid, and Cloudflare.

You can follow the project on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BuyBlockPaper

I think this is an important way we need to frame the use of these tools for junior developers. I'd advise that anyone who is recommending this product to their team also take the time to give this analogy - maybe even going so far as to require explicit comments that notifies reviewers when code was provided by Copilot and similar services.

I've started doing this as well too. I don't want to be someone's hosting provider or CSP. Too many headaches and building the thing is a lot more fun than watching it run and making sure you've in compliance with the 1000 governance documents the company has regarding production environments. There are a lot of good companies that already provide purely that service and, to your point, many companies have those teams already.

Yeah it's funny that it is called a sensor bar when it has no sensors.

For my undergrad, we had a cross-major project to build a robot that shot pingpong balls at various targets that were tagged with IR lights. We used 2 wiimotes to calculate the 3D space.

This seems like a way for the doctor generate RVUs and show greater productivity.

RVUs as a concept for anyone interested: https://www.texmed.org/Template.aspx?id=32053#:~:text=An%20e....

Well, with a spam viagra site, I think the point is keeping it up.

On topic, it's crazy how willing some people are to defraud their investors.

Hi everyone. This is a tool I wanted to build for a while and last night I finally did it. Hope some of you find it useful. Let me know if you have any questions.

A few years back, I had a friend in another department ask me to build a prototype tool help manage their team's work more efficiently. I told them very directly that this was a hastily built prototype to help them see if a business case was viable. 3 years later, their entire department still uses that prototype and they have a small contractor team that makes annual updates to it. Nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.

You had to sign something as you were leaving? What if you just refused to sign it? What are they going to do? Fire you?

Edit: also, I have refused to sign non-competes in the past and still been hired. This is something you can negotiate at some companies.

There are a few news sites that I refuse to visit because I get so frustrated by the performance on these sites. Not to mention auto-playing videos, broken back buttons, lazy loading that causes me to click the wrong element, and a myriad of other design flaws that seem almost ubiquitous on all major news publications' sites. It's funny to me that these could easily be the simplest of websites that are made incredibly convoluted.

I'm building a service for finding a gym buddy (on hold now) and leveraging exposed endpoints has been great for getting gym locations for various chains. Much better than screen scraping.

I've done this a bit. I define ranges per numeric field and if it exceeds or is below that range, I send it to another queue for manual review. Sometimes I'll write rules where if it's a dollar amount that usually ends ".00" and I don't read a decimal but I do have "00", then I'll just fix that automatically if it's outside my range.

I totally agree with your first sentence. As a former enterprise data warehouse architect, it's interesting seeing some of the responses. Surprised I'm not seeing more Informatica and SSIS. I'll also say SSIS is a good solution for nearly any data storage platform and is included in a SQL Server license so might be a good, cheap enterprise solution if you already have SQL Server.