keithnz

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by keithnz 4mo ago
schooling has to be designed around "average" teachers. Having someone who is gifted at teaching is great, but there wouldn't be many teachers if that was the standard. I often think when people idealize what schooling sh
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by keithnz 4mo ago
Just a comment on Proton... I've recently shifted to linux (garuda ) as a native OS for gaming (still dual booting, but linux is my main OS now, I used to run linux VMs in windows). My experience with Proton is that only ~30% of my g
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by keithnz 4mo ago
seems they forgot to say "...and the networks of friendly nations / allies"
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by keithnz 4mo ago
but no matter what you do this is the tradeoff you are making. Different people have different tolerances for that balance, hence why I'm happy to watch people on youtube in wingsuits and not do it myself. Of course in this new AI
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by keithnz 4mo ago
These kinds of things can be quite life changing, people can come out the other side quite different people.
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by keithnz 4mo ago
one of the really good things about these kinds of write ups and accounts of experiences and false leads is that I hope it feeds the LLMs with more context. For both me and my partner we've had problems with misdiagnosis that took a w
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by keithnz 4mo ago
seems ironic that critics were saying, it needs typing, and all the elixir fans were saying you don't need typing, you don't get bugs related to typing because elixir is somehow magic, now they get typing and it finds bugs for the
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by keithnz 4mo ago
if you are prompting such that the LLM isn't pulling context that the recipient doesn't have access to, then your email is likely marginal. ie the prompt "Send 'bob' an email with a description of why the VPN bridge
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by keithnz 4mo ago
where are you getting that information from? see https://www.githubstatus.com/ uptimes are really high. This is kind of exactly what I'm talking about, people are over exaggerating problems with github for some wei
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by keithnz 4mo ago
All this hate directed at github feels odd, every time I look into people complaining, or moving their projects off, other than a few related to genuine bugs, many just seem ideological. This article, calling it a crime against software?
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by keithnz 5mo ago
If you look at the latest stuff from the previous owner where they recorded multiple conversations / pulled security footage... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zedmOopRTm0 1, they were allowed to do consignment de
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by keithnz 5mo ago
Not sure about SaaS, For nearly all our SaaS AI's just made it easier to work with, we haven't got rid of a single SaaS product, but via APIs, we've integrated and automated a LOT more of our existing SaaS products.
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by keithnz 5mo ago
My ongoing theory is for small to middle sized businesses AI is incredibly useful as it will help leverage you to grow your business by building more than you could before AI. But for big businesses, like uber, not sure the advantages are
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by keithnz 5mo ago
I think use any language that can achieve / or is close to native speed and has a reasonable ecosystem of significant libraries around it. Trivial libs are pretty much dead as AI will implement what you need, so if you need something l
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by keithnz 5mo ago
moved to Jetbrains YouTrack many many years ago, and this is what we do via its APIs. It's quite versatile. With AI, it unlocked it even more.
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by keithnz 5mo ago
I did technical drawing at school (pre computers... pencil, paper, t-square, compass, etc). It really was quite fun constructing things with pencil and paper. I think one good thing about it is you'd end up with a very intimate under
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by keithnz 5mo ago
Ever since I started working from home I barely use my phone, I just buy a mid range phone, and it seems just as capable as high range phone in most every practical way. The only real thing that seems a bit better is the camera, but I don&#
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by keithnz 5mo ago
the article seems way too generous, we'd barely be able to detect things like 1980s tv broadcasts, they fall below galactic noise before alpha centauri, let alone 50 light years out.
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by keithnz 5mo ago
I read that, but opt'd instead to write a script to live serve md as html pages with mermaid diagrams and syntax highlighting. Such that the md itself can be put into things like github and for github to be able to render it. Works w
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by keithnz 5mo ago
I have a simple script that previews md pages as html and hosts a liveserver so it dynamically updates, renders mermaid / syntax highlighting etc. Super useful when working with an agent when planning out a piece of software. Page dy
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by keithnz 5mo ago
One of my beliefs about AI, for small / medium sized companies it allows them massive speed ups and generally increases their capability (I'm also in this space), existing employees of all types essentially get massive speed boost
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by keithnz 5mo ago
yeah, likewise, I locked in on this very early on even though it goes against what the tailwind creators recommend. But I've never regretted this approach and it works well.
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by keithnz 5mo ago
I think we should care way more about what the validation story is of code. The obvious question does it all work? I'm happy to not look at any code if we have good ways to validate what is there. The other thing I care about is th
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by keithnz 5mo ago
https://status.claude.com/
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by keithnz 5mo ago
my son, and his friends all seem to have switched to https://garudalinux.org/ recently for gaming. Seems to be working out well for them.
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by keithnz 5mo ago
I had a mini holiday job working for (long since gone from NZ) Philips Design and Development Laboratory in 1992. As part of that I worked on some tools for their silicon graphics workstations. I was shown vi, and how to get help and left
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by keithnz 5mo ago
I don't actually think this has much to do with software architecture. Except maybe the "Isolate parts of your system..." In fact the article itself didn't really seem to be too coherent on software architecture. I th
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by keithnz 5mo ago
In my experience AI reduces maintenance costs. Though, context might matter here, I'm working on a multi decade set of projects, while there is a lot of greenfield feature development, the old code / older projects have suddenly
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by keithnz 5mo ago
AI writes what you ask it to write, you need to talk to it about architecture. You should have an architecture doc so AI can shape the code based on that, you can get the AI to make the architecture doc also. If using claude you can use t
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by keithnz 5mo ago
I'm sure this is going to happen a lot to big companies, with AI they are all going to find they have too much staff and are not likely to benefit from a higher pace of development. Smaller/Mid size companies on the other hand ar

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