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What part would Gemini do well at? What would you feed it?


LLMs are uniquely bad at writing nix configs I've found. The top models all regularly hallucinate options

Really useful for debugging though


Really? This surprises me. I've used them for projects and for my home-manager setup and it's always been amazing at it. The best example I can come up with is packaging a font I needed into a nix package for a LaTeX file. It would have taken me a month of trying various smaller projects to know how to do that.


I made something similar that uses alacritty / llm / tmux. The referenced script is also in the repo

https://github.com/mjmaurer/infra/blob/main/home-manager/mod...


Here's my own repo with a very similar setup! https://github.com/mjmaurer/infra

I build the ISO via a Github action as well. The biggest pain point is adding / removing disks after initial install, which I do imperatively (but still disko for mounting / fstab equivalent)


I'm curious how your team ended up doing this. We settled on Nix with flakes after some pain with Docker / RStudio Server.


Have any more details on this?


https://piermesh.net/ But the basics are we're using Meshtastic as a base to run a decentralized lightweight alternative internet that's run by the people using it. I've managed to squeeze a lot of juice out of one of the compatible esp32 boards so that for $15+ (what the board costs from Lilygo) an sd card you can run a web server on the board as well.


Curious to learn more. Did you make these changes by just switching jobs? Did education precede it?


Background in telecommunications/signal processing (phd) + applied math. I studied finance + machine learning for two years as a hobby before the switch. In the evenings and weekends. Studied data structures + algorithms + python for two years before took a job as a software engineer in google (initially as a data scientist in apple). Worked 6 days a week for 1.5 yrs to master information retrieval in google. So lots of studying was involved on top of a solid educational base.


Uninformed Average Joe here and I'm with GP. If bakeries are out of the question then I'd be questioning fruit and meat shops as well


Bakeries load their goods with sugar.

Typically you don't mix sugar with meat. Though I think that practice is unfortunately becoming more frequent.


> Typically you don't mix sugar with meat.

You're joking right? There's tons of meat dishes with fruit sauces in them dating back thousands of years. It's almost Thanksgiving, think adding cranberries to turkey is really just a product of 1950's marketing?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fesenj%C4%81n

http://historicalrecipes.blogspot.com/2017/02/patina-de-pers...


My brief insurance experience with Medicaid was the best I ever had. It was through State of NY. I happened to break my wrist during that time. It was easy to find a doctor, low/no copays or deductible, and they were comparatively easy to contact.

Every other insurance company I've dealt with has actively cost me money, time and unnecessary pain through ineptitude or beurocracy. My FAANG healthcare was good, but had relatively fewer health issues


It's funny, because AWS devs are also a bit guilty of slamming admin credentials and calling it a day.

I was testing out sagemaker studio. I just did the quick setup wizard and the default managed execution role was insanely permissive. I believe read/write to all of the accounts S3 buckets and broad List* for account resources. There are multiple parts of the documentation that also recommended you use this role. It seemed especially wild for a product with so many ways to access. we have good account hygiene but still


> the default managed execution role was insanely permissive.

I find this is often the case.


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