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by jwilliams 7mo ago
I suspect it’s mostly microphone position rather than anything else (the headphones I have are the basic Apple ones).
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by jwilliams 7mo ago
I like to do walking meetings or meetings where I'm cleaning/emptying dishwasher/etc. It sounds strange, but I'm a lot more present than when I'm at my computer. Anyway. Somewhat ironically, I use a wired set of hea
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by jwilliams 7mo ago
There are some interesting points here, but I think this essay is a little too choppy - e.g. the Aircraft Mechanic comparison is a long bow to draw. The Visual Basic comparison is more salient. I've seen multiple rounds of "the en
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by jwilliams 7mo ago
I'm fairly sure that your best throughput is single-prompt single-shot runs with Claude (and that means no plan, no swarms, etc) -- just with a high degree of work in parallel. So for me this is a pretty huge change as the ceiling on
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by jwilliams 7mo ago
I think the thing is "MacOS" itself hasn't really been evolved for some time - what has been happening is taking iOS ideas and concepts and porting them back. I think that's ended up with a bit of a mess.
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by jwilliams 7mo ago
I wrote a short bit on a similar topic the other day[^a]. Just because something is faster or even measurably better, that doesn't translate to end productivity. 1. You might be speeding up something that is inherently not productive (
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GPT-5.4 to bring a million-token context window and an extreme reasoning mode(the-decoder.com)
2 points by jwilliams 7mo ago|0 comments
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by jwilliams 7mo ago
It was genuinely a surprise to see how much relative energy petrol cars use (and shame on me - I'm an electrical engineer). I mean I think I knew it intuitively, but this simple chart blew my mind.
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by jwilliams 7mo ago
I agree that a company’s codebase isn’t a playground and I know+feel those obligations. My reaction is more to the broader tone of some of these discussions. In my experience engineering cultures can become quite dogmatic or obstructive, an
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by jwilliams 7mo ago
I read takes like this and I feel like it's gatekeeping. I love writing software. I love that others are now getting to share this. I think the issues here are valid. Equally there is lots of hard engineering work to reduce these iss
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by jwilliams 8mo ago
Fair enough and no disagreement there. Perhaps (for me!) the example pulled against it your core point.
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Will we become gut bacteria for AI? (2017)(jonathannen.com)
3 points by jwilliams 8mo ago|0 comments
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by jwilliams 8mo ago
This post confuses me a little. With my tests I try not to "reach inside" systems unless it's quite a specific integration test. Especially databases. In this case I feel like we're just... testing known PostgreSQL behav
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by jwilliams 8mo ago
> Here's a thought. Lets all arbitrarily agree AGI is here. A slightly different angle on this - perhaps AGI doesn't matter (or perhaps not in the ways that we think). LLMs have changed a lot in software in the last 1-2 years (
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A Daily AI Chat(jonathannen.com)
1 points by jwilliams 8mo ago|0 comments
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by jwilliams 8mo ago
Although there is the consistent trap of tools that assign threads/workers based on the number of cores (e.g unit testing or bundling tools). This means the efficiency cores get dragged in and can absolutely tank the process. This was
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by jwilliams 8mo ago
It used to be Factorio for me (I live in Australia, so long flights happen a lot). The problem with Factorio the flight isn't long enough! and the game bleeds into 100+ hours post-flight.
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What does it take to build towards 100 PRs/day per engineer?(jonathannen.com)
2 points by jwilliams 8mo ago|2 comments
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by jwilliams 8mo ago
I’ve definitely experienced a subjective regression with Opus 4.5 the last few days. Feels like I was back to the frustrations from a year ago. Keen to see if 4.6 has reversed this.
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by jwilliams 9mo ago
> It's so interesting to watch an agent relentlessly work at something. They never get tired, they never get demoralized, they just keep going and trying things where a person would have given up long ago to fight another day. It&#x
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by jwilliams 9mo ago
It is, they've just aligned them under the same umbrella. It's literally "Workers & Pages" under the CF navigation.
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AI and Abandonware(jonathannen.com)
1 points by jwilliams 9mo ago|0 comments
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by jwilliams 1y ago
Yes + Appears it's a rigid structure w/ the engine pushing from the back? At 0.1g I suspect even with advanced composites only a few km would be possible.
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by jwilliams 1y ago
This is Windows Aero all over again - why is this a persistent design? You can't see or process the information behind the glass - at best it's major cognitive load to do so, at worst it's just very noisy with zero added info
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by jwilliams 2y ago
That and because UK uses a ring circuit, which was seen as a solve for a copper shortage at the time. Ring circuits generally way higher in power - and a lot more than a single appliance needs or could handle. Hence the need for a fused plu
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I Tried React Compiler(developerway.com)
3 points by jwilliams 2y ago|0 comments
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by jwilliams 3y ago
One part not considered is the grid connections - esp across time zones or geographies. Some examples: The SunCable link between Australia and Singapore https://www.suncable.energy/our-projects The Viking Link from Demark t
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by jwilliams 3y ago
It's not necessarily a lot of sites that block non-popular bots - but often it's big sites (i.e. content-centric sites such as Social Media). Think Yelp, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc. That can add up to a serious percentage o
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by jwilliams 4y ago
If it makes you feel any better, I started my career in the '90s and the same vibes were around then. Back then it was all RAD (Rapid Application Development) tools were going to replace everything. After that is was outsourcing. After
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by jwilliams 4y ago
Seems you're describing something a bit different? In this case, this energy is used to run a cycle defrost on the evaporator rather than run the heat pump.

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