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by bartread 8mo ago
Yeah, I had that concern as well, but I tend to find that both ChatGPT and Claude do a pretty good job of explaining the issues around the solutions I'm using them for, so I think - maybe not all - but a good portion of that learning i
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by bartread 8mo ago
Not quite: remember I said I fettled the code myself? This might involve rewriting, refactoring, reorganising, and I'll make changes to Copilot's PRs as well, but still the percentage of code written by LLM remains what I'd c
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by bartread 8mo ago
Yeah, I would say it's pretty variable, and it depends on what you mean by the word write. I've recently joined a startup whose stack is Ruby on Rails + PostgreSQL. Whilst I've used PostgreSQL, and am extremely familiar with
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by bartread 8mo ago
All the time, my friend: all the damn time. I've been all the way up to CTO in a mid-size company (650ish people), and I've felt like this in every role I've had at different times. Some places more than others. Where I was C
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by bartread 8mo ago
I ran a 5S that I bought in December 2013 as my primary phone all the way up to around March 2020, just as the pandemic was really winding up. The battery, after ailing for a little while, had eventually just given up. I'd gone skiing
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by bartread 8mo ago
I don't know that I fully agree with that. I use Copilot for AI code review - just because it's built in to GitHub and it's easy - and I'd say results are variable, but overall decent. Like anything else AI you need to u
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by bartread 8mo ago
This is interesting, because in many ways I’m almost the exact opposite. If I’m slouched in my chair, then I’m either completely disengaged or doing something mundane like dealing with email. If I’m upright or sat forward then I’m engaged a
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by bartread 8mo ago
> Therefore its use in the movie does not have any fantastic element in it. That's very subjective. I simply didn't know any of this before I saw that clip and was surprised to see a couple of recognisably modern form factor la
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by bartread 8mo ago
I love stuff like this. Often films and TV shows have anachronisms in them (like the very first episode, IIRC, of Narcos with the clearly very modern touchscreen photocopier where the screen has been covered with a piece of paper, or the BM
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by bartread 8mo ago
In 2026? And you host/manage it yourself rather than deferring that to a major platform that wants to monetise your words? Yeah, well, you kind of are special.
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by bartread 8mo ago
And had I been on a desktop browser (thanks uBlock Origin), or sitting behind pihole, I'd never have noticed, but unfortunately with Safari on my iPhone over 5G... not so much.
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by bartread 8mo ago
Do we think this page loads enough ads? The graphs are interesting but, really, if you’re considering your readers rather than SEOing for last decade’s search engine technology, you should lead with them and discuss the findings afterwards.
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by bartread 9mo ago
I agree on the some fronts. MP3 players that support a variety of other formats, including lossless, and have far better playback quality than any iPod ever did are out there. But the last time I bought one I remember a mixed experience. On
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by bartread 9mo ago
That’s the one, yes - thank you! Looks super cool but is rather impractical, and I seem to remember a review - might even have been Audiopilz - suggesting that you could get similar sounds out of plenty of other synths.
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by bartread 9mo ago
Just a bit later in the video he shows using his finger to change the pitch of the resonator on the right as well. I'm often a bit sceptical of "gimmicky" instruments (what's that synth with all the rotors inside that ma
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by bartread 9mo ago
I get the impression that what the Chinese want out of a car is different and, realistically, a bit more aligned with the trajectory of human progress as well. I remember the (UK) Top Gear episode, which I'd guess must be at least 15 y
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by bartread 9mo ago
No. I literally said in my original comment that I'm not from the US.
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by bartread 9mo ago
> I'm also somewhat concerned about your new found lust for Lebensraum I beg your pardon?!? Who the hell do you think you're talking to? Read my comment again.
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by bartread 9mo ago
I'm glad they've done the work here and put a figure on it - the impact absolutely needed to be quantified - but I also have to say... to the surprise of absolutely no-one with even the most basic grasp of how economies function.
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by bartread 9mo ago
> I think there are more places like that in the world. There are but not as many as we might like. I’d say I’ve learned to be decent on the soft skills side but it comes at a cost and the need to overutilise them can be incredibly drain
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by bartread 9mo ago
Thanks. You’ve reassured me that I’m not going mad when I look at our project repo and seriously consider binning the Dockerfile and deploying direct to Ubuntu. The project is a Ruby on Rails app that talks to PostreSQL and a handful of thi
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by bartread 9mo ago
This is exactly it. The tech in these sorts of devices is way overpowered for what they are or need simply because it's a lot cheaper to do it that way than it would be to use more appropriately scaled computing power. Either the &quot
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by bartread 9mo ago
> 1. People simply don't respect programming as a creative, human endeavour. Replacing devs with AI is viewed in the same way as replacing assembly line workers with robots. Very reminiscent of the "software factory" bulls
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by bartread 9mo ago
> No, I have plenty of other devices that update and remain useable. So do you. Sure, but your TV doesn’t behave like that and it won’t behave like that so why does it make sense to treat it as though it will?
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by bartread 9mo ago
Well, you say it's not particularly useful, but do you want a TV that runs like a bag of spanners or not ? Because if the answer is "not" then complaining about how your TV performs whilst stubbornly allowing it to download
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by bartread 9mo ago
I don’t run into this because I never allow the TV to connect to the internet. I basically use it as a dumb screen with a set of speakers and a bunch of devices connected to it: Apple TV, consoles, etc. As such, when I do use the TV remote
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by bartread 9mo ago
My comment about sound reproduction was more a point on Bose's longstanding philosophy in building speakers than in anything about this specific software but, to answer your question... quite possibly. Bose intentionally colour the sou
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by bartread 9mo ago
Exactly this. "Bose blows" is a popular comment amongst the audiophile community but, to me, it seems like they don't blow at all[0]. In fact quite the opposite: this is a fantastic example for other companies to follow. Top
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by bartread 9mo ago
> Would an email interface to Claude code work better? This might be the most "when your only tool is a hammer all your problems look like nails" suggestion I've ever read. Email driven automation isn't a terrible sol
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by bartread 9mo ago
You can usually polish scratches out of CDs as well. Where they’re actually much more vulnerable is on the printed side because the data layer sits just beneath that. Still more resilient than vinyl though, unless/until they get the dr

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