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by barrkel 5mo ago
If you're familiar with London, you know where Richmond is and that it's a wealthy area. A search confirms there's a Richmond Hill in Richmond.
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by barrkel 5mo ago
HDD failures don't normally have a software root cause. Treat HDD failures as a certainty. It's just a matter of time.
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by barrkel 5mo ago
Claude Code would probably attach a profiler and take a peek under the hood. Agents are making sysadmin and system introspection way more accessible, and the tools, unlike Windows, are generally command-line, easy for an agent to automate.
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by barrkel 5mo ago
What was slow? I'm running Ubuntu on a 9950x3d and 5090 and it is not slow. Games in Steam with Proton are buttery smooth. One hiccup was I had to disable variable refresh rate because moving the cursor didn't "count" as
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by barrkel 5mo ago
Any small LLM will get the fractally small details incorrect and have a dubious understanding of arithmetic. That usage mode is basically user error for small LLMs. LLMs aren't databases of facts. It's much more useful for getting
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by barrkel 5mo ago
Git was blazingly fast when it came out, faster than hg (C vs Python) and of course a different order of complexity to svn, which was the actual existing alternative it supplanted.
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by barrkel 6mo ago
You are surfing close to something I've seen a number of people fall into. Take a step back.
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by barrkel 6mo ago
Bluntly, no, you probably don't belong in tech. This is what tech has always been. A never (yet) ending race to automate. Our job will be done when there's nothing left to automate.
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by barrkel 6mo ago
Economics teaches us that a big difference between cost and price attracts competition which should make the price trend towards the cost.
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by barrkel 6mo ago
Cygwin bash isn't slow either. The problem is a typical bash script isn't a series of bash operations, it's a series of command line program executions. For example, someone might do something like this ( completely ignoring
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by barrkel 6mo ago
Just use ssh from Cygwin. DLL hell was rarely a problem, just always install everything via setup.exe. The single biggest problem it has is slow forking. I learned to write my scripts in pure bash as much as possible, or as a composition of
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by barrkel 6mo ago
Cygwin implements a POSIX API on Win32 with a smattering of Nt* calls to improve compatibility but there's a lot of hoop jumping and hackery to get the right semantics. Fork isn't copy on write, for one thing. I was a Cygwin user
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by barrkel 6mo ago
You come with a belief, then you wonder why other people don't have the belief. The belief was exogenous for you. Why do you believe the belief is not exogenous for others? I guess you never talk to coworkers about your weekend. That&#
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by barrkel 6mo ago
Hegemony is great for peace, but I think it inevitably turns into a kind of imperialism, even when well-intentioned.
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by barrkel 6mo ago
There's an element of revisionism to this perspective. It used to be thought that integration with the global economy would gradually bring more alignment with Western values as well. The ideas was that a rising middle class would dema
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by barrkel 6mo ago
You can run Qwen3 Coder today - on expensive hardware - but fairly cheaply on a token by token basis. It's no Opus, but you can get things done.
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by barrkel 6mo ago
I've tasted madiera-style wine from Crimea IIRC from the 1800s. It was in an Enomatic machine in Hedonism Wines in London. I could not say it was appreciably better than something more modern. On the other hand, I've had a glass o
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by barrkel 6mo ago
Yes, but this is intentional, and that's what's out of line. The main content stays the same but exercises and case studies are rotated out to force an upgrade. The business strategy class I took in college in Ireland used the sam
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by barrkel 6mo ago
I exported all my email with Google Takeout, and Claude Code was able to write me a threaded email viewer local web app with basic search (chained ripgrep) in about 10 minutes, for any time I need to search archived emails.
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by barrkel 6mo ago
Software hasn't eaten all it could, in my book, and AI makes a lot more stuff legible to software.
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by barrkel 6mo ago
I expect hybrids. Something general has to be adaptable for what will be an expensive capital purchase. The human form factor - torso up anyway - is probably easier to bootstrap on a general basis; keyed off of human data. But I don't
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by barrkel 6mo ago
I don't believe the marginal customer of Claude Code is loss-making.
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by barrkel 6mo ago
The lack of robotics mention somewhat undermines this article. I don't think it's intrinsically wrong, we are in a late stage of a transformation. Software is eating the world and AI is (so far) most profitably an automation of so
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by barrkel 6mo ago
You haven't thought this through.
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by barrkel 6mo ago
The argument against platform teams needs to be balanced with the compounding nature of technical debt. The argument to always go for the biggest return works OK for the first few years of high growth (though the timeline is probably greatl
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by barrkel 6mo ago
With some irony, one thing Substack doesn't afford is zooming in to images on mobile.
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by barrkel 6mo ago
I've done this to my MacBook around the sharp and unpleasant corners near the touchpad. I had the laptop a few weeks before I couldn't take how unpleasant it was to touch any more.
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by barrkel 6mo ago
Windows frameworks got web envy. Xaml and styling and all sorts to try and compete. Trouble is, it made desktop development harder, and it didn't win against the web. It left the simple and safe formula of standard and common controls
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by barrkel 6mo ago
I think I've been reading about federal Länder breaking up with Microsoft for the past 15 years. (Actually 15 years is mentioned in the article now that I scanned it)
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by barrkel 6mo ago
By this metric my uncle, who died in his 70s, never became an adult. My grandmother lived to 93.

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