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rreyes1979

512 karma · joined September 29, 2013

Senior Java / Salesforce / PHP Developer, full time geek, husband and father of 2 awesome girls and a wonderful boy :)
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rreyes1979··on I hate packaging my software for Linux
Running Fedora Silverblue 44 as one of my desktop machines. Self updatable static binary sounds like a reasonable solution to me. But I can see why this has been a problem :/
rreyes1979··on A key remapping daemon for Linux
I use it to remap my mouse keys. Works like a charm on Fedora Silverblue.
rreyes1979··on Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?
Inoreader FTW!!! Generous free tier and no nonsense UX. Can't say enough good things about it.
rreyes1979··on Ask HN: Which movies did you watch multiple times?
Studio Ghibli's movies. They are basically the confort movies for my kids and wife too.
rreyes1979··on Show HN: Hanon Pro – piano technique and exercises for the digital age
Came to ask exactly the same thing. Want to buy one for my kids to practice but I don't have an idea which would be the best given our budget and preferences so a matrix of compatible devices would be great.
rreyes1979··on Fusion Sparks an Energy Revolution
Thank you. Removed it :)
rreyes1979··on How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment
Please provide the Season and episode number. I would like to find them but my UI is in Spanish so it's hard to find them :(
rreyes1979··on Firefox Keeps Getting Faster
Using Firefox on Fedora 39. It takes 1-2 seconds to start with lots of tabs reopening. I have had issues with videos not playing from time to time but other than that, I am really liking it (coming from MacOS and Chrome).
rreyes1979··on Ask HN: Hardware for learning LLM fine-tuning
I am as n00b as someone can be on this (although I've been doing software engineer for more than 20 years now) so please ignore any nonsense I may express.

My intention is to work on news clustering and summarization. So far just by using some "clever" prompts I have been able to generate some pretty good news summaries and I have not started clustering yet. But, I have used GPT 4 so far and my educated guess is that soon enough I will hit some quality / cost limits. So, fine tuning a Llama 2 model with (hopefully) small datasets to improve costs and quality on my specific tasks seems like a reasonable path forward.

Does that make sense? Thank you for your answer!!!

rreyes1979··on I will always prefer to work from home
Introvert and HSP software engineer here. Not only working from home comes naturally for me but I have to say that since I started WFH 15 years ago, I've been a top performer in most of the teams I worked for (and that includes some teams where I was the only remote worker). I don't see any reason why I should work from an office at this point in my career and it actually makes little sense to me why some companies are losing top performers just to enforce some silly back to the office rules. I guess they just promoted the wrong people :)
rreyes1979··on Fedora Workstation 39
Bought a Lenovo laptop for my daughter's school work but she was not able to use it. So, removed windows and installed Fedora 39 on it. All of the sudden a $480 USD laptop became a full blown python development workstation in no time. Everything just worked out of the box, got my Logi MX Master 3s configured and even touchpad gestures work!!! Can't be happier. I still use my MBP for work, but my personal projects now have their own Fedora powered dedicated laptop. For me, this is the year of Linux on the desktop!!!
rreyes1979··on Ask HN: How to secure your passkeys to survive lost / stolen devices?
Real question: If we trust them with this information, are Passkeys any better than regular passwords? If so, why and how?
rreyes1979··on What are emerging/promising areas of tech to get into today?
What are the usual problems that you see?
rreyes1979··on Jellyfin: Free software media system
Love it except for the fact that for whatever the reason my Google Chromecast Jellyfin client tends to break subtitle synchronization if forwarding or rewinding a movie. After that, there's no way to get them back in sync :/
rreyes1979··on How to make YouTube less distracting
Thank God for New pipe.
rreyes1979··on Show HN: Illa – An open-source alternative to Retool
May you elaborate?
rreyes1979··on Ask HN: Any pain points worth building an MVP for?
Love your answer!!! I think "scratch your own itch" is a good answer too, but yours opens up the possibilities not just to my own itches but to other people's itches too. More so, it is sharp and focused. Thank you!!!
rreyes1979··on Ask HN: Has anyone managed to find enjoyment in their work after burnout?
Yes. I have burnt out a couple of times. Given enough time and rest, you will reset. But my suggestion is that after you feel recovered, get into therapy to find out the root causes that got you into burn out in the first place.

It's hard work but it will pay off both for you and your near ones :)

rreyes1979··on WhatsApp is more secure than iMessage: Mark Zuckerberg
My wife was planning a trip with a friend on Whatsapp and for the first time in her life mentioned something about renting a car. She never searched for it in Google or anywhere else but not 24h after that, car rental ads for the specific city she will be visiting started to appear in her Instagram feed.

So I guess when Zuck talks about security that doesn't include privacy.

rreyes1979··on Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” messages?
She used the WhatsApp camera app. We have Google photos too, but we have it configured so that WhatsApp images don't get uploaded.
rreyes1979··on Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” messages?
Well, my wife sent me a picture of my daughter working on a puzzle. Less than 24 hours later, her Instagram was showing ads for a store that was selling the same type of puzzle as the one my daughter was playing with. So it's not just terms but images too.
rreyes1979··on Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” messages?
More so, my wife sent me a picture of my daughter working on a puzzle. Less than 24 hours later, her Instagram was showing ads for a store that was selling the same type of puzzle as the one my daughter was playing with. So it's not just terms but images too.
rreyes1979··on Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” messages?
But this is Instagram and WhatsApp. Are they sharing data about our conversations openly?
rreyes1979··on Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” messages?
We are seeing the same thing. More so, my wife sent me a picture of my daughter working on a puzzle. Less than 24 hours later, her Instagram was showing ads for a store that was selling the same type of puzzle as the one my daughter was playing with. So it's not just terms but images too.
rreyes1979··on Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” messages?
I think they are extracting terms. Some of the messages generated ads that were related to a term but not really about the conversation.
rreyes1979··on Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” messages?
No keyboard app. We use the regular Android Keyboard provided by Google.
rreyes1979··on I'm an 18 year old developer. How do I become one of the best programmers ever?
Being the best is just like that toy that you long wished for Christmas: once you get it and play long enough with it, it will no longer seem as desirable.

Make sure you fill your life with meaning and love. The rest is not as important. Recognition comes and goes. And even if it stays, it will lose its shine fast enough.

PS: And as a Jesuit once said, stay humble and you won't tumble :)

rreyes1979··on Ask HN: First-time dad-to-be. What do you wish you'd known back then?
By all means, strengthen your core and back muscles. Carrying babies around is no joke and I spent years in pain because of a bad movement trying to pick up my daughter.
rreyes1979··on What Happened to RSS?
Me too. Reading both this article and HN comments from HN RSS feed using Inoreader on Android. Love it!!!
rreyes1979··on Ask HN: What helped you get good at programming?
Test Driven Development. It forces you to write simpler, cleaner code in order to better test it.
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