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A nice read, Immigration has many pulls and with that comes all sorts of immigrants whether great, average and terrible. Unfortunately Western countries and bureaucracies seem to h…

Same Have you figured out a way to open a specific Firefox instance using some sort of routing. e.g. I click on a link in my work Slack desktop app, it then routes the link to be o…

My bet: In a years time the discussions on using CC, Opencode, Pidev etc. will be redundant as we will be building our own tooling with whatever programming language and tooling yo…

Check out Paul Stamets' research using Mycelium to give honeybees an immuneboost. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32194-8

No idea, Anyone from Anthropic here who could answer this?

I have been using Claude code for a while and have recently migrated to Pi Migrating my skills/agents and config was fairly straightforward. Pi's agent harness seems to be more res…

> If you are averse to the Daily Mail, you can try this article instead.. The irony of this though is that you just become bucketed in another consumer group. Resist the packaging …

There's always been absurdity though, right? These are some I can think of or have witnessed since starting my dev career in 2010: - 4GL business languages making developers redund…

Why do I hear this music every time I see Red Alert being mentioned? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfMw0NKqFek

Why stop there? I am considering adding Bell Labs, Xerox and Skunkworks Lockheed Martin to my work experience

Keir along with Theresa May and John Major were true bureaucrats but they all had no real charisma. Sadly charisma is valued more by voters than other qualities of the political le…

RIP Prince My favourite Doom track, "Into Sandy's City" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkhCNx-8Qos

A lot of the comments on here are a bit unfair on what is great work being done and even more awesome work (JEPs) in the pipeline for the future. If Java was a child, imagine it be…

It feels like 10 years ago for me :D Thanks for making me feel older now

What a time to be alive, I remember 10 years ago as a poor student waiting to buy a ATI Radeon X1600 Pro with 256mb, yes 256mb of RAM. It cost about £190 in 2006. Now we have GPUs …

Check out TNG on huggingface They are a consultancy in Germany, but I watched a presentation on them tuning and removing bias from Deepseek models. It was quite interesting. https:…

"T800" Do you have your agent say things like "Hasta la vista baby", or "I'll be back, after I clear my context" ?

Not a criticism, but why would I use this instead of locking down my Claude using the allow/deny permissions list? "permissions": { "allow": [ "Bash(npm run lint)", "Bash(npm run t…

How useful is spatial data over time, does it decay or age much? Is the geographical data more useful, or are buildings and other structures more important? Genuinely don't know mu…

Agreed, I have been trying to get back into blogging on my site. I found LLMs good for spitting out a structure for my posts but if I ask it to write for me I end up just fixing or…

I'll keep this post short and sweet, we have seen several steps in the evolution of LLM (large language model) usage. 1. Chat 2. Autocomplete 3. Embedding knowledge using RAG 4. To…

"You have 20 seconds to comply"

Anecdotal but I find people in the tech world hostile to ex or serving military, at least in the UK. It might just be the liberal bubble of London, but the sentiment I saw with som…