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WickyNilliams

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About WickyNilliams

Full stack dev currently focused on the front-end.

http://wicky.nillia.ms/

contact: @WickyNilliams or wicky @ my domain

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #48897437

    I'm always astonished when some cash for questions type scandal gets revealed and it turns out they got given like £10k to lobby for some cause. Frighteningly small amount of cash …

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    Comment #48882388

    I'd be happy if people threw them in garbage, but I often see them tossed on the street. Sickens me to see

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    Comment #48882081

    Semi-related: Boko Haram using LLMs for plotting, planning, and preparing for attacks http://archive.today/2026.07.10-132100/https://www.nytimes.c...

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    Comment #48729836

    No apologies necessary, that's perfectly helpful. Appreciate the response and the candour!

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    Comment #48729829

    Awesome, thank you! I am starting to do some work building LLM workflows and would like to stand on some giant's shoulders to skip the initial flailing :)

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    Comment #48726187

    Would it be correct to say you have experience building LLM based workflows like this? I'm guessing so, given by your critiques and suggestions of better approaches. Can you recomm…

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    Comment #48723832

    If I worked with horses for 8 hours a day I imagine the answer would be "recently"

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    Comment #48711503

    The article and your comment reminds me of one of my favourite songs which is a beautiful tribute to the ordinary - even dull - moments that make up life. The song starts with a ma…

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    Comment #48696727

    You can find it cheaper if you keep an eye out. My partner just got one for £250 unlocked, no contract

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    Comment #48696721

    My partner just got a 10a brand new, no contract for £250! Extremely good value.

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    Comment #48546955

    I am not super studied in nazi symbology. I learnt about this symbol in high school history class btw. It is not a regular skull and crossbones anymore than the iron cross (which y…

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    Comment #48543867

    Hmm I don't know. Other comments are suggesting that unless you're well studied in nazi symbolism you'd never know. I think I learnt about this in high school history class. I wond…

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    Comment #48525777

    It's an extremely well known nazi symbol. Probably second behind the swastika itself. There's even that famous "are we the baddies" meme, which uses that symbol as a central pillar…

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    Comment #48435907

    Until case law establishes that people are in fact legally responsible for output, then it is just empty platitudes, I fear

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    Comment #48435871

    Even if you have some AI transcribe in real time, they introduce the kind of subtle mistake - like negating a statement - that is plausible, but undetectable in retrospect without …

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    Comment #48375951

    I've been experimenting with aerospace for the last month. Still not sure if I enjoy the tiling aspect. It can get quite janky on occasions when multiple windows open at once. And …

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    Comment #48265386

    Could be both? Pay off the previous cohort and it signals to the next that they will get remunerated for their "assistance"

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    Comment #48265138

    Curious why you categorize lightly cooked as good but high heat as bad? Do you mean deep fried specifically? Or any high heat?

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    Comment #48173979

    Thank you! I'll take a look

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    Comment #48170103

    Thanks. I think that's some unaffiliated website btw. While they seem to have provided sources for most of the stats, MAU is not one of them.

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    Comment #48169380

    Netflix are not putting out manfiestos that read like a monologue from a movie villain, at least

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    Comment #48169288

    Where is that figure from? I would be extremely surprised if that doesn't drop at least an order of magnitude as the hype wears off. Assuming it's even representative of today and …

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    Comment #48167661

    Could you link to the video?

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    Comment #48167617

    He said in another thread there's 6 people involved. 6 people for this project doesn't feel lean, without even considering the enormous LLM spend/complexity

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    Comment #48163189

    Not OP, but I've been focusing on linting and automation. Custom lint rules to encode best practices that previously relied on astute/alert code reviewer to call attention to. This…