PaulRobinson

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by PaulRobinson 12d ago
If you call it a teacake, and I say no those have raisins in, and you protest that's a fruit teacake, I know you're probably from Burnley: https://www.ourdialects.uk/maps/bread/
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by PaulRobinson 12d ago
It's pretty common around Manchester. Bit like being nesh. But as you know... this is a thing: https://www.ourdialects.uk/maps/bread/
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by PaulRobinson 12d ago
Microsoft got this right once, and it cost them big to turn up late - that was the Internet and Windows 95 and the massive u-turn. Otherwise, they've been defining stuff early a lot I think. It's hard to explain how big a turnarou
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by PaulRobinson 12d ago
It's IBM. They leveraged synergies with the thought leaders they could reach out and touch base with.
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by PaulRobinson 12d ago
You should never name a tech product Bob in the UK, because the moment it isn't perfect, it'll just get called "Bobbins" [0], especially where I'm from. I wish IBM got better at product again, and took themselves of
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by PaulRobinson 12d ago
You're making a lot of assertions without citations here. If I look at a BYD at my local dealership, and compare it to a comparable spec German car (I live in the UK, so tariffs are not the thing shifting the needle here), I can see wh
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by PaulRobinson 12d ago
Not much airport shenanigans in the small island hopping nations and the fjords this is aimed at. 125 miles in 2 hours is assuming flat, straight, high-speed, low-traffic roads. Sure, people might not use these to fly SFO → LAX or back, but
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by PaulRobinson 13d ago
Yeah, you need to look away from private equity investment. Mutuals, co-ops, LLPs, there's lots of other models, but VC and PE money is not where you want to be.
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by PaulRobinson 13d ago
I have thought about this a lot over the years and tried to spot these companies - many of them are the type of business that Berkshire Hathaway would love to find. Some of them are a little more visible simply because they’ve scaled and de
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by PaulRobinson 14d ago
It’s sad that in the face of seeing AI content out there, so many writers are retreating to not feed the beast: it’s a white flag that speeds up the war being won by AI. We need more human writing, not less. I hope this trend reverses somet
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by PaulRobinson 14d ago
Here's where we're at: Tech companies invested in AI: AI is amazing (so good, it might kill us all, help?), and the ROI is going to be amazing. NVIDIA specifically: We will allocate cash in strange deals that makes it looks like w
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by PaulRobinson 16d ago
As the last two paragraphs of TFA point out, this idea is now widely discredited. However, there are a lot of things that don't seem widely known in popular culture about Stonehenge that might colour perceptions about this theory, and
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by PaulRobinson 17d ago
Imagine if your post read like this: > I like the idea but do not have a good use for these employees. Or any notion for a decent use, frankly. What do people do with them? > It sounds great to have an employee which does things. Like
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by PaulRobinson 21d ago
I say this as somebody who made his living for > 10 years as a Rails dev: Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were conservatives. DHH is at best an apologist for convicted criminal fascists like Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, and at worst is pot
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by PaulRobinson 22d ago
I am at a point in my career where I'm figuring out where I want to spend the last 15 years of it. I don't want to work in corporate for a long stretch of it. It seems to me, being a consultant to fix all those messes could be a g
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by PaulRobinson 22d ago
I've been thinking about this a fair bit recently. We make a lot of price/performance compromises for having an attached screen and keyboard on our computer. That was what got me started. Then I remembered the days of having to go
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by PaulRobinson 23d ago
Feels telling that there is a €20m budget for a certification program (very EU, but also surprising this isn't ironed out yet), and the largest single funding I can see at €24m is QKD and to prevent sovereign eavesdropping detection te
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by PaulRobinson 23d ago
GPUs are in a weird bubble captured by weird finance tricks in the private sector. They put money into that, taxpayers are going to freak out. If they can make progress on QOA and HHL algos, that has value. But the main thing they're t
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by PaulRobinson 23d ago
I read somewhere that there are more game engines in dev at any now point in time than there are games. I can believe that. I think it's OK to do something for the fun of doing it. It's expecting to a) be successful without doing
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by PaulRobinson 23d ago
This requires a little effort. Finding your voice, finding your themes and all that. Also, the Taste Gap, as it's sometimes called, is a real thing - plenty written about it online, but Ira Glass is considered the first person to reall
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by PaulRobinson 25d ago
As the old quip goes: people don’t want to be writers, they want to have published a book. You can turn this around as well: people don’t want to read, they want to be well read. The difference is “effort and process” versus a status. Peopl
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by PaulRobinson 26d ago
John Oliver did a piece on this a couple of weeks ago. The videos are not widely available outside of the US, but here's a Guardian write-up [0], and in the UK you can get access to the episode via catch-up if you have Sky Atlantic. TL
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by PaulRobinson 26d ago
I'm sorry to hear that. I'm glad that you've prefaced it with "temporary" - it suggests perhaps that the effects are known not to be permanent for you and that you are on the mend, which is marvellous. Godspeed. To
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by PaulRobinson 26d ago
Is saying it's sad and suicide is horrid a stigma? Apologies. As somebody with mental health issues himself, I was not aware of other people's sensitivities on this, only my own.
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by PaulRobinson 26d ago
What you've done here is build a transpiler that takes a lightweight pseudocode representation and turns it into a concrete and executable form in another language. There are good reasons for doing this: I might want to write something
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by PaulRobinson 27d ago
Ah, we've got back to the "we should event source everything, and allow ourselves to change history and re-snapshot current state", idea gaining followers again. Well, yeah. But it's hard. Also, git is not the solution t
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by PaulRobinson 27d ago
Having dealt with a few people with schizophrenia, either diagnosed, or clearly exhibiting many of the symptoms and refusing to engage with medical professionals until I cut off relationships for my own safety. I think something really sad
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by PaulRobinson 27d ago
Yesterday I was flipping between some TUIs, native apps, web apps and an electron app. I think it was only because I was trying to do a lot in each of them I became really aware of the latency lag in some of these. There are real advantag
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by PaulRobinson 27d ago
Building software for yourself - and only yourself - is a super-power. I can see how LLMs help. I wouldn't want to maintain software for other people entirely vibe coded. I think I might think again about native app development for my
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by PaulRobinson 27d ago
My dad once told me that being smart was a curse in some ways, but he framed it as having a World view that few others had. I think however your take on it is closer: when you're smart, you're told you're smart (both as a pos

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