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by cameronh90 5mo ago
This is just the design of a PE fund. They run on a fixed cycle, so early on they heavily invest into their portfolio with the aim of resolving that risk and maximising the sale value by the end of the cycle. In principle, I don't thin
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by cameronh90 5mo ago
Is there any proprietary Amazon end-dev/ops facing service that's worth using? I've never had a good experience with any I've tried - CodeBuild, Cloud9, Q, SageMaker, WorkMail, WorkDocs, Chime, OpsWorks,... I love AWS
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by cameronh90 5mo ago
Microsoft have historically tended to dogfood their own products. Obviously you want to be aware of what else is on the market, and use the right tool for the job -- but equally if you have a directly competing product, you'd prefer yo
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by cameronh90 5mo ago
Probably just because it's cool. I'm sure there's some bean-counter calculus involving recruitment, PR, demonstration of capabilities, they were going to be doing training flights anyway so why not do a few in public, etc. bu
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by cameronh90 5mo ago
People oppose data centres mainly for local reasons. We already have more than 10k Starlink satellites, and there’s almost no outcry about that outside of astronomers, who are justified in their concerns… but politically irrelevant. Plus, y
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by cameronh90 5mo ago
It’s trading political difficulty for engineering difficulty. There are now quite a few politicians running on a platform of banning data centre construction projects.
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by cameronh90 5mo ago
It's not "surprisingly" unless you haven't bought much in the last 20 years. China-owned brands are now often better and more premium than their Western counterparts across the entire spectrum. Give me Anker over Belkin
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by cameronh90 5mo ago
Gemini especially has a habit of blocking my pretty mundane requests, claiming they’re attempts to jailbreak or create malicious code. Grok also does quite well at code reviews in my experience because it’s not so aggressively ”aligned”.
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by cameronh90 6mo ago
I live in inner London within the ULEZ zone. ULEZ is about local pollution not GHG and even then the newest cars it affected were 8 years old. My 15 year old car was fine. If anything it didn’t go far enough.
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by cameronh90 6mo ago
I have an ICE and don't feel like I'm being punished? It's exactly the same as it's always been. If anything, we're still benefitting from ridiculous subsidies and driving an ICE should be a lot more expensive than
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by cameronh90 6mo ago
You're paying the au pair partly in accommodation, food, bills and a visa. The visa isn't coming out of your bank account, but it's definitely part of the incentive, so you could see it as a government subsidy. For comparison
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by cameronh90 6mo ago
I wonder how good AI is at playing Factorio. That’s the closest thing I’ve ever done to programming without the syntax.
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by cameronh90 6mo ago
It has Claude-isms, but it doesn't feel very Claude-written to me, at least not entirely. What's making it even more difficult to tell now is people who use AI a lot seem to be actively picking up some of its vocab and writing sty
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by cameronh90 7mo ago
Mutually assured destruction does seem to deter conflict, but even assuming it works, it always seemed like a poor tradeoff to me. Significantly reduce the frequency of small to medium-scale conflicts, in exchange for an inevitable, possibl
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by cameronh90 7mo ago
Sounds like the complexity is somewhat self-inflicted? I set up HA from scratch on a new mini PC with Proxmox and HAOS in about 30 mins having never touched either before. For VLANs, I just used port-based VLAN to attach it to the IoT VLAN,
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by cameronh90 8mo ago
> If most people are not using a tool properly, it is not their fault; it is the tool's fault. This is a standard that we don't apply to most other tools outside of IT. I do think git could be more usable, but most powerful too
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by cameronh90 8mo ago
If the pay-per-use cost predictable enough, it’s less of an issue. That’s how electricity works and it’s fine. The issue with Claude Code is it’s not at all obvious how any given task or query translates to cost. I was finding some days I s
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by cameronh90 8mo ago
I think my average level of useful focus is just simply higher with caffeine. I was off it for three years, which is well beyond the time it would take to lose any tolerance, but never really reverted back to the same level of focus that
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by cameronh90 8mo ago
I suffer from severe crippling OCD and anxiety. Years of therapy and psychoanalysis have failed to find any cause, and, if anything, made it worse. The best explanation has been it's probably because I'm autistic, and these things
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by cameronh90 9mo ago
It’s normal in London to live a few min walk to bakery, grocery, deli, so on but we still have supermarkets - from smaller ones to large hypermarkets. Everyone uses them and they sell good quality products. The same is true in every Europea
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by cameronh90 9mo ago
Is it that much worse than reverse engineering poorly designed business processes that hang together with Excel spreadsheets and VBA macros?
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by cameronh90 9mo ago
I find clothes labels are way too conservative. Half of my stuff says don't dry, hand wash only, or cold wash on delicate. Unless it's a particularly expensive or dry clean only, I just wash at 40 degrees "daily" program
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by cameronh90 9mo ago
I'm now putting more queries into LLMs than I am into Google Search. I'm not sure how much of that is because Google Search has worsened versus LLMs having improved, but it's still a substantial shift in my day-to-day life. S
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by cameronh90 9mo ago
Bad things can happen anywhere. A one-off incident wouldn’t make me leave. I visit the US often and have been a victim of crime there more often than anywhere in Europe. That’s not to say I don’t love the US. San Diego is probably my favour
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by cameronh90 9mo ago
What are we supposed to do to “clean up our city”? I live in one of the worst areas, statistically, for crime and haven’t experienced anything beyond porch piracy and someone trying my car door. My girlfriend walks to/from the train st
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by cameronh90 9mo ago
There was a phone theft wave that peaked in 2024. It’s still happening, but it’s significantly less of a problem now - some stats say 30% down from the peak by mid 2025. I had my phone stolen in 2024, I know others who did, but I haven’t he
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by cameronh90 9mo ago
That’s why we have the national crime survey, performed by the ONS. Correlating it with police stats and murder stats suggests that reporting and recording is actually going up as a proportion of crime. Petty crime like shoplifting has gone
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by cameronh90 9mo ago
I was responding to the parent who said if you had to make a choice between lidar and vision, you'd pick lidar. I know there are theoretical and semi-practical ways of reading those indicators with features that are correlated with th
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by cameronh90 9mo ago
Not that I'm aware of, but I was referring to the claim in the parent post that if you had to choose it would be insane to choose vision over LIDAR.
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by cameronh90 9mo ago
If you have to choose one over the other, it has to be vision surely? Even ignoring various current issues with Lidar systems that aren’t fundamental limitations, large amounts of road infrastructure is just designed around vision and will

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