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Lars Rosenquist

@calvobianco.com

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"Do the right thing. Do what works. Be kind." Aka Calvo Bianco. Father of 2, husband of 1, musician, software/tech nut. Dev adv eng @ Zoom. Formerly @ Redis, VMware, Pivotal. Dutch. He/him. https://soundcloud.com/calvo-bianco https://deployonfriday.com

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 26d

My new track 'Clockwork' is out NOW!

Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSX3...
Buy: calvobianco.bandcamp.com/track/clockw...

Also on:

soundcloud.com/calvo-bianco...

#musicsky

Calvo Bianco - Clockwork

YouTube video by Calvo Bianco

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 2m

Need to introduce some new elements in the second half now.

To have some contrast in addition to the 909 drums, what I find that often works really well in that case is either a 707, or the RZ-1.

#calvobianco

Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 17m

Extended up to around 6:45 minutes. Now for some polishing/tweaking/make it less dragged out while keeping length the same.

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 3d

Extended mix/version of Clockwork is now in progress. Beefing up the drums a bit while I'm at it. :)

@nalyd14.bsky.social :)

#calvobianco

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 36m

AI supposed to make us work less?

Oh no, my sweet summer child, you will now do the work of 5 humans!

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 4h

Meta executives are telling their workers they must use AI to "go 5x faster" and expect a "5x leap in productivity"

www.404media.co/meta-tells-w...

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

www.404media.co

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 4h

anyways we know this but tech companies are not only using AI to justify laying workers off and to justify not hiring people. they're also using it to say that their existing human workers must do the work of five humans each

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 39m

Similar here, except they're watching Child's Play and number 2. 😱🤣

(He's 15 btw)

Swapping turns tomorrow and I'll be bringing in Wishmaster 1 and 2.

Cheesy horror flicks ftw!

a close up of a man 's face with make a gif.com in the bottom right corner

Alt: Andrew Divoff up to no good in Wishmaster

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 3h

Sherman just wants to sit in his hole. Let him. :D

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 18h

sherman, for the love of god!

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 3h

Let Sherman have his hole!

Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 8h

ADHD can be fun some times.

Daugher preparing lunch, to the dog: do you want the crusts of the cheese?

My brain wired directly into my mouth:

(To the tune of "The wheels of the bus go round and round")

🎵 "The crusts of the cheese are for the dog, for the dog, for the dog!" 🎶

Daughter: WTF 🤣

Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 9h

Joke's on them. I only catch half, so the responses I yell back cause utter chaos. 🤣

Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 12h

We see a similar pattern in music and Spotify, etc. Everyone just following the masses hoping for money (which never comes) by trying to emulate the big players (who play by entirely different rules and contracts).

Folks think they have to make boring garbage and follow dark patterns.

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 12h

And not just games. Gimme my one-time pay apps without ads and in-app purchases and I will be happy.

And knowing App Store stats a bit: nobody makes money except the top 1% or so. So I suspect folks are not really A/B testing (both A and B are zero), but more 'doing what everyone else is doing'.

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Ether Diver @etherdiver.bsky.social · 13h

Reposted with #AltText

Tumblr post from girliesinnermonologue

Did the name odysseus already exist before the odyssey? or was Homer just like "This is my new book 'The Journey' and our hero's name... Journathan"

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 1d

Drum-upbeefing is done. That's the easy part, basically some replace and rebalance/mix and done.

Now to the extending part. This requires a bit more thought because I want to make the track longer, but not by artificially lengthening it (boring) or retreading earlier steps (boring).

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 3d

Extended mix/version of Clockwork is now in progress. Beefing up the drums a bit while I'm at it. :)

@nalyd14.bsky.social :)

#calvobianco

Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 1d

After all the serious tech stuff, I'll be resuming shitposting and music shortly! :P

Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 1d

I think they will do that regardless. /pessimist-mode :P

Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 1d

Welp. RIP my mentions. 🤣

If you need another great convo around non-determinism and automation, check below.

Grace @gracekind.net · 1d

Different visions of AI-driven software
1) agents will take the place of the shell scripts
2) agents will take the place of the person writing the shell scripts
3) Both 1 and 2

Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 1d

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 1d

Folks adopting 'new-thing' and completely abandoning all they learned from 'old-thing' because they assume that somehow 'new-thing' will automagically do all those things (it usually doesn't).

A different form of abandoning reason than in your article, but also valid here I think.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1d

Being able to reason over things has *so* much value. www.anildash.com/2023/06/08/a...

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 1d

I am disappointed. No longer surprised though.

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Samuel @samuel.fm · 1d

#react

how on earth do you do a search input with a typeahead dropdown thingy without pulling in an enormous ui library

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 1d

Yes, and it's a good way to protect yourself from becoming (seen as) a bottleneck and/or burning out.

Most folks are not like the person you described BTW (fortunately). And you develop a sixth sense for them after a while. :)

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 1d

Just roll the dice again, maybe it will be correct this time! 😱😂

But all jokes aside, I’m disappointed (not surprised) that with every new paradigm, folks seem to think that they can throw out all previously learned experience.

Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 1d

TL;DR: how is this a work thing and not a healthcare thing?

Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 1d

Want less cancer patients? Crack down on carcinogenics (industry/manufacturing/food processing/water treatment).
Want less folks burt-out? Crack down on toxic workplaces and stop 'worker efficiency' BS.
Want less long-COVID folks? Promote clean air and vaccination tech.

But who am I? ;)

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 1d

Folks that have experience with deterministic automation in (esp. in distributed systems) understand compounding error rates well enough to be very sceptical about throwing non-determinism in that mix.

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