cicloid

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Collector of hobbies, maker & philomath engineer

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Comment · 26 days ago

I started collecting all the links on an “awesome list” since this exploded https://github.com/cicloid/awesome-fm-1

The interesting question is how much of the fizz from these efforts will disappear if SOTA models start moving away from moral gray areas or because of security concerns the guardrails disable this type of work.

Comment · 10 months ago

Amazon has Q, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot…

Names that mean everything, nothing or something based on what website you land or what sales pipeline you are on.

Comment · 1 year ago

Somewhere in the world there is someone crying while using QIK…

Comment · 1 year ago

There is also a community of users known for not making sane financial decisions and keeping older technologies working in their basements.

Comment · 1 year ago

Tempted, specially for switching H3 instead of S2… I prototyped a similar solution a couple of weeks ago, so I could probably do a second pass

Comment · 1 year ago

I was one of the backers who got his money back because they “discovered” very late in the process that selling to Mexico was not worth it. I only got a small discount If I wanted to get a regular order in the US.

Bit disappointed and had to handle the expectations of my kid, that was super excited about this for Christmas. It seems TMEC/NAFTA is worthless if even small entrepreneurs discover is very difficult to sell across Mexico and Canada. But decidedly they see less value in selling to Mexico to pass similar (in theory) regulatory hurdles to Canada. The same story with Kiwico, Lovevery, etc.

Even considered building something like this, but I don’t have time.

Honestly, I feel like people just underestimate the market size because of the language barriers.

Comment · 1 year ago

For all intents and purposes, Colon is considered to be part of the ZMQ (Zona Metropolitana de Queretaro)^1

Funny thing the english wikipedia article does not even mention it. But yeah, Each of those Cloud providers, have at least 3 buildings distributed on multiple industrial parks in the metropolitan area and I'm not even mentioning the ones from Kio Networks, IBM (SoftLayer). We are one step away from having one from OVH and Hetzner.

The only data center I know that is in the middle of the city of Queretaro is the one from Triara (aka Telmex, one of the many companies from Carlos Slim). Most of them are in the outskirts of the urban area.

1. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zona_metropolitana_de_Quer%C3%...

Comment · 1 year ago

that was also my understanding. Nearby Mexico City, in a semi-desertic area (Queretaro), there are a high amount of data centers, Google, Microsoft and Amazon have a region there.

I would think they only need cheap electricity, connectivity and in the case of Mexico, far away from seismic activity.

Comment · 1 year ago

I'm still waiting for the Solarpunk future I was promised as a child.

Comment · 1 year ago

I would imagine you are talking about Queretaro. Google and Microsoft also have data centers there.

This is a thing that has been more than a decade in the making, mostly because Queretaro does not have seismic activity and is only a couple of hours north of Mexico City.

While the water sources are completely different, both regions are prone to intense water seasons and, in the last couple of years, intense droughts.

More specifically, Queretaro is a semi-desert, so this behavior is a bit more expected.

Aside: Coming from personal experience I don't think that current agricultural methods are the best and are pron to wasting water, at least what I remember from Queretaro

Comment · 1 year ago

Isn’t that just a distro, similar to what AWS also distributes as Airflow, I think it’s called Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA)

Comment · 2 years ago

Location: Mexico (operating on Pacific Time / UTC-7)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No (but willing to consider it for the right team)

Technologies: AWS (10+ years), Kubernetes, Rust, Ruby, Go, Python, Serverless, Apache Kafka, IaC (Terraform, CDK), Docker, CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab), Big Data, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Java, TypeScript, Rails

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cicloid/ (detailed resume available upon request)

Email: [email protected]

Senior Systems Engineer with 15+ years of experience at major tech companies. Specializing in large-scale distributed systems and cloud architecture. The last 6 years have been mostly working for Data Engineering/Analytics/Big Data/Telemetry organizations on a MAMAA level (or whatever Jim Cramer decides to unveil and is the new hotness to investors).

Key experiences:

- Managed petabyte-scale systems with a small, efficient team

- Led enterprise-wide migrations to Kubernetes and serverless architectures

- Optimized legacy systems, significantly improving performance and reducing costs

- Successfully managed globally distributed teams across multiple time zones

Passionate problem-solver and team mentor. Fluent in English and Spanish. Seeking roles in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or distributed systems, but always eager to explore new technologies. Quick learner with diverse interests. Ask me about my latest hobby!

Comment · 2 years ago

Location: Mexico (operating on Pacific Time / UTC-7)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No (but willing to consider it for the right team)

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cicloid/ (detailed resume available upon request)

Email: [email protected]

Senior Systems Engineer with 15+ years of experience at major tech companies. Specializing in large-scale distributed systems and cloud architecture.

Key experiences:

- Managed petabyte-scale systems with a small, efficient team

- Led enterprise-wide migrations to Kubernetes and serverless architectures

- Optimized legacy systems, significantly improving performance and reducing costs

- Successfully managed globally distributed teams across multiple time zones

Comment · 2 years ago

Currently it runs my home assistant installation at home, so, a bit more processing would help, but it is not a critical load that requires speed most of the time. The most annoying task is compiling ESPHome firmwares from the raspaberry, which could take several minutes.

Comment · 2 years ago

I've been waiting for this, now, the question is, is this a drop-in replacement for the CM4? If so, these will sell really well (and will have shortages)