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721.
by maccard 9mo ago
I’m inclined to agree, even in cold places. AC is remarkably efficient, especially when you reverse it (and get a heat pump).
722.
by maccard 9mo ago
Sorry, it’s not a topic I know an awful lot about. I was talking about an exposed hearth with a chimney like in the article, as opposed to a cast iron unit that recirculates the air like a stove
723.
by maccard 10mo ago
The CTO is a she.
724.
by maccard 10mo ago
An open fire is not a particularly warm thing to have unless you’re directly in front of it. Most of the heat goes straight up the flue, and it uses an enormous amount of air to keep burning - it will pull huge volumes from rvertwhere it ca
725.
by maccard 10mo ago
It’s changing to C in a few years. But the ratings are odd - only fully completed items count so if you insulate the rooms as you go, you won’t get the EPC benefit until everything has been completed. There’s no partial credit
726.
by maccard 10mo ago
This is true. The rating is actually pretty low though - they only need to be a band E on the EPC. It’s soon to be C though. One of the… problems with that is that a lot of our housing stock is very old, and honestly not ever going to reach
727.
by maccard 10mo ago
I can't speak for CUE, but I've worked with CI and "build orchestration tools"in the past. Most CI providers provide executor APIs that let you override it as a plugin. One example is https://buildkite.com&#x2
728.
by maccard 10mo ago
On the projects we work on, we don’t use ephemeral workers and we rely on tool chains for incremental builds. It’s flakier but 100x faster…
729.
by maccard 10mo ago
> If your CI can do things that you can't do locally: that is a problem. IME this is where all the issues lie. Our CI pipeline can push to a remote container registry, but we can't do this locally. CI uses wildly different ca
730.
by maccard 10mo ago
I was the person who said it can't copy from examples without making up APIs but. > he'll never get that with LLMs, and that their inability to do so isn't a barrier to getting productive use out of them. This is _exactly_
731.
by maccard 10mo ago
> There is no silver bullet. And if you think you’ve found one, you’re in for a world of pain. Worse still, you’ll never realize the full potential of these tools, because you won’t understand their constraints, their limits, or their pi
732.
by maccard 10mo ago
As someone else said in this thread: > The whole discourse around LLMs is so utterly exhausting. If I say I don't like them for almost any reason, I'm a luddite. If I complain about their shortcomings, I'm just using it wr
733.
by maccard 10mo ago
Someone else said this perfectly farther down: > The whole discourse around LLMs is so utterly exhausting. If I say I don't like them for almost any reason, I'm a luddite. If I complain about their shortcomings, I'm just u
734.
by maccard 10mo ago
I’m perfectly happy for my tooling to not be deterministic. I’m not happy for it to make up solutions that don’t exist, and get stuck in loops because of that. I use LLMs, I code with a mix of antigravity and Claude code depending on the ta
735.
by maccard 10mo ago
You’ve missed my point here - I agree that gen AI has changed everything and is useful, _but_ I disagree that it’s improved substantially - which is what the comment I replied to claimed. Anecdotally I’ve seen no difference in model changes
736.
by maccard 10mo ago
> Generative AI, as we know it, has only existed ~5-6 years, and it has improved substantially, and is likely to keep improving. Every 2/3 months we're hearing there's a new model that just blows the last one out of the wa
737.
by maccard 10mo ago
Yes. Look at the UK - in the best case the laws here (OSA) are absolutely trivially bypassable by apps that are openly advertised on the App Store (VPN apps). In the worst case it pushes people onto sites that refuse to comply which are lik
738.
by maccard 10mo ago
My television has a > 5 second lag on bringing up the input device selection. The buttons don’t actually respond when the menu appears, it’s about a second after that before they work
739.
by maccard 10mo ago
> I often wonder what its like to been born in 2010 and never experiencing this. It’s always amusing to see these cycles continue. If his music is indeed as good as you claim it will still be listened to - just as so much of the best mus
740.
by maccard 10mo ago
Tailscale has been a HM darling for a long time, this isn’t very surprising!
741.
by maccard 10mo ago
> All encryption is end-to-end, if you’re not picky about the ends. This is a great quote.
742.
by maccard 10mo ago
> The real annoying thing about Opus 4.5 is that it's impossible to tell most people "Opus 4.5 is an order of magnitude better than coding LLMs released just months before it" without sounding like a AI hype booster click
743.
by maccard 10mo ago
I've not found it to be bad for smaller things, but I've found once you start iterating on it quickly devolves into absolute nonsense like what you talked about. > If it did save me time, would I want that going into my codebas
744.
by maccard 10mo ago
> How do you know AI did the right thing then? Because I tested it, and I read the code. It was only like 40 lines of python. > Why would this take you 2-3 hours? It's multiple systems that I am a _user_ of, not a professional de
745.
by maccard 10mo ago
I’m far more in the camp of not AI than pro LLM but I gave Claude the HTML of our jira ticket and told it we had a Jenkins pipeline that we wanted to update specific fields on the ticket of using python. Claude correctly figured out how we
746.
by maccard 10mo ago
> Which goes to show that Ctrl-C profiling is often enough to solve a simple problem, and it’s usually much easier than learning how to use a profiler and how to properly read its output As the article says, this is a low frequency sampl
747.
by maccard 10mo ago
I just went and checked my university - they’re still teaching c++ to first year uni students in 2025
748.
by maccard 10mo ago
Full 4k - very few, but lots are running adaptive resolutions at > 2k and at 120hz
749.
by maccard 10mo ago
> So I'll just reiterate my main point: a CI system must provide a workable caching mechanism if it want to be both snappy and reliable. The problem is that none of the providers really do this out of the box. GHA kind of does it, b
750.
by maccard 10mo ago
> GHA with the `setup-ruby` action will cache gems. Caching is a great word - it only means what we want it to mean. My experience with GHA default caches is that it’s absolutely dog slow. > Buildkite can be used in tons of different

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