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Reminds me of when Windows security problems hit critical mass in the early-2000s and Microsoft went all-in on addressing it (this started in the XP days IIRC).

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On the specific no/low-CGI bent — I find the obsession with using this (mostly false) claim so utterly disrespectful to the people in VFX that have poured thousands upon thousands …

Or like me where you get two SSDs in your pool that happen to likely be from the same batch and both decide to permanently disappear at roughly the same time :(

I have the F8 Plus, great little unit. It did need a BIOS update when I first got it to enable Proxmox/other OSes to work properly. Recently replaced the internal USB boot drive wi…

I’m running an 8-drive ZFS RAIDZ2 pool. I’m wondering if you know — are the free space recommendations around ZFS cargo or real? Like I’m already giving up two full drives for redu…

When I find myself feeling like that, a good reframe I like using is to turn those comments into commiseration; “What about trying A?” — “Yeah it’s f*ked aye, I tried A, B and C an…

I think I have a similar style, I can sound like I’m ‘arguing’ with a person but really I’m arguing with my own internal model. If I say “but what about….”, “what if…..” or “then h…

The most unexpected thing for me was kind of philosophical in a ‘holy shit’ way. Cloud models still feel ‘magic’, like you send a request off and get something back, like it’s some…

What kind of speed in tk/s do you get with the MacBook?

Your see this in coding agents too. The only times so far I’ve really seen Opus tie itself into a knot is where I’ve asked it to fix something that I thought was broken but actuall…

Actually, I would be really pleased if a member of Parliament asked that. That shows a level of deeper consideration. Isn’t there a saying about there being no stupid questions, on…

I think it’s the combined depth AND breadth of knowledge that can be captured by AI models that is going to make them way better than most humans at this kind of stuff.

Exactly. I was about to reply to the comment with “perfect example of not knowing what you don’t know” in terms of self-diagnosis. My internal model is/was “if the scan wasn’t set …

I guess ‘per GB’ doesn’t really capture it, because the base number of gigabytes available to people (ie- the smallest compatible RAM kit you need to build a computer) and the base…

Were we really paying more for RAM per GB in the late 2010s than we are now? Just really doesn't feel like it. Interesting.

Local using Qwen3.6-27B; 2xRTX 5070Ti graphics cards; VS Code with Cline at the moment and Ollama back-end (will get to trying the others soon).

It’ll be interesting. I’m using Qwen3.6:27B at home and mostly Sonnet/Opus (depending on the complexity of the task) at work. You have to break things down into smaller chunks for …

If we can agree that the AI model is at least as capable as a junior engineer or new contractor, how’s that different to saying “software engineering isn’t worth $200 a month”? Has…

It’s interesting — my own impression kinda matches that; I’m still doing most of the thinking when using AI that I’d do before writing the code, it’s just that now the feedback loo…

How is the place you’re at approaching AI in this context? As a senior I worry about the juniors coming in — Claude can do what I would have previously tasked to a junior. I guess …

As a senior you can get into a bad habit of being scared to make changes. It happens after enough experience with enough codebases. It’s good to not just go change things for the s…

I mean I can see it. Books are just a way to transmit one’s thoughts and experiences to other people. So it’s no different to being exposed to someone with a different viewpoint. C…

There was also the very early leak/theft of the Half-Life 2 beta source ( https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Half-Life_2_leak )

We aren’t even being given a choice nor being consulted for our judgement. Higher-ups are literally saying “This company WILL use AI, you are required to use AI, now go use it whet…