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It seems inconceivable in 2026, but in the late 1960s my parents dropped me off for an unaccompanied ~10-hour train trip from Melbourne to Sydney. That trip included multiple stops…

As an Australian, I completely agree with every point in your response

Exactly this setup

What are peoples' current suggestions for using Claude Code with a locally hosted LLM running on regular consumer hardware (for the sake of discussion, assume you're spending $US50…

As someone who's been coding for several decades now (i.e. I'm old), I find the current generation of AI tools very ... freeing. As an industry, we've been preaching the benefits o…

Spot on in my experience. I work in a space where I get to build and optimise AI tools for my own and my team's use pretty much daily. As such I focus mainly on AI'ing the crap out…

Old fart here... I started coding in the 70s, loved it then, still love it now and LOVING the emergence of Gen AI tools. For perspective, the IT industry went through a similar cha…

> Most authors do not support a way to pay them directly. I think this is the problem that should be addressed. Musicians went through a similar process in reverse order: first Nap…

Ex Director at a Big 4 consultancy here... While I've done more than enough Powerpoint presentations telling clients what they already knew but didn't want to say out loud, there a…

> A Sony Walkman-style device that you can give to children so they can ask questions to an LLM. It should be voice-first, and focused on explaining things. There shouldn’t be a si…

Right now, DeepSeek feels like it comes from the most trustworthy source, which is not something I would've said a few months ago. In the short term I'll keep using OpenAI, Llama, …

I love this implementation approach. At first glance I questioned your choice of bash over something like Python, but you're right - bash is everywhere and every competent Linux ad…

I work for a consulting company in Melbourne Australia. The Melbourne city council has started petitioning the government to force govt employees to return to the CBD for work. The…

I bought a Moaan Plus to see if it would work for me - basically, is a phone-sized eInk ebook reader something I'd keep using? 3 months on: I love this little thing and carry it ev…

Agree this approach seems to be worth investigating further, but as a citizen of a non-US country, I'd like to see a solution that wasn't based on a US-centric set of controls and …

I'd suggest seeking out industries where IT hasn't really "happened" yet. I work at Deloitte. Every time I chat with my counterparts in Tax, Audit, Wealth, ... I come up with ideas…

I agree that would work, but culturally that's not how most organisations seem to be using it. Instead Slack seems to be viewed as a synchronous messaging tool - "if I send you a S…

Exactly this. When I focus on building a really flaky version of a thing as quickly as possible, then I quickly land on all the edge cases and more-complex-than-I-thought areas I n…

It _usually_ makes sense to optimise for engagement, particularly in the US where there's no state-funded media outlet (cue discussion about socialism that will be ignored). The UK…

If you haven't used it, Google Sheets is worth looking at closely. It's good for collaboration (within the boundaries of a "normal" spreadsheet interface), and has a lot of options…

This. My 21 and 23yo sons have no idea how to manage their money, and it took my older daughters several years of "emergency loan from parents for food or rent" funding (always pai…

That lines up very closely with the experience of some friends who sold their (growing rapidly, highly profitable) startup to IBM. It took a few months for them to realise their st…

I use a combination of iThoughtsX and Evernote. I find myself in a lot of situations where information isn't coming to me in a particularly organised fashion - interviews, presenta…

I could see this being part of a lightweight browser UI testing framework. There's already ways to drive a headless UI (Selenium, puppeteer), but they require automation testers to…

Bear in mind that exchanges are owned by the companies that trade on them - they've got a VERY strong vested interest in not fixing the problem. HFT works because fast traders can …