mattbee

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by mattbee 2mo ago
Yuck, the LLM writing style is obvious, and strongly suggests you didn't do the work you claim. Why should we read this?
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by mattbee 3mo ago
Maybe he sold his company, or never completely owned the name himself?
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by mattbee 3mo ago
Builders and gamers can install regular Windows. They can run a de-crapifying script to strip it right back - cut the AI, OneDrive, adverts etc. It flies along very predictably without that. So much is optional and easily removed. You don&
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by mattbee 3mo ago
How is "without being able to really put it in words" a mark of experience ? Surely an engineer should be able to justify why an architecture should be arranged the way it is!
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by mattbee 4mo ago
But there's been security fixes in most releases of rsync! Even then, why would a security fix be some kind of strike against AI? We've all seen LLMs being used to tease out the most serious and obscure bugs in C codebases. I
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by mattbee 4mo ago
The risk of an "upstream cloud provider" is not something you need to tolerate in your supplier of internet infrastructure!
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by mattbee 4mo ago
Yep you can look up a car's MOT status publicly, including their mileage history at each inspection. I wonder if they'll send a bill from that report, or expect garages to act as tax collectors. Though currently you don't ne
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by mattbee 4mo ago
Sounds like a bargain. In the UK we'll be paying £0.03 per mile from April 2028.
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by mattbee 4mo ago
This is very cynical, why would you not thank the Wallet Inspector
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by mattbee 4mo ago
Microsoft say it's no longer true that EV certificates get special treatment: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/package-and-d... The only option to avoid a SmartScreen prompt from day 1 on W
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by mattbee 5mo ago
Er yeah same. I can believe it's a PITA to self-host because why would they care to make it easy. It's open source, good luck. $10/year seems pretty fair to avoid all that. The clients are fine, could be smoother, but I'
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by mattbee 5mo ago
This OS doesn't says it's maintenance-free! But it skips a whole load of maintenance you'd need to think about with a traditional base system, because 1) there's almost nothing there, and 2) the upgrade to that base is e
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by mattbee 5mo ago
The internet of 20 years ago was awash with info for running dedicated servers, fragmented and badly-written in places but it was all there. I can absolutely believe LLMs would enable more people to find that knowledge more easily.
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by mattbee 5mo ago
I founded a hosting company 25 years ago when User-Mode Linux was the hot new virtualisation tech. We aspired to just replicate the dedicated server experience because that was obviously how you deploy services with the most flexibility,
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by mattbee 5mo ago
There was a time before Google when various mailing lists of grumpy sysadmins in key institutions could decide the fate of a new mail sender, internet-wide. But yes that "internet community" is small fry now, and can only cut o
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by mattbee 5mo ago
Or just switch your browser to Reader Mode and it's free.
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by mattbee 6mo ago
I have seen it start on a sentence, get lost and finish it with something like "Scratch that, actually it's fine." And if it's not giving me a reason I can understand for a bug, I'm not listening to it! Mostly it i
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by mattbee 6mo ago
The law (OK, well, British law) does recognise that many terms can be Unfair especially when one of the parties is an individual, and especially when it relates to employment. They can nullify them on that basis.
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by mattbee 6mo ago
Pasting a big batch of new code and asking Claude "what have I forgotten? Where are the bugs?" is a very persuasive on-ramp for developers new to AI. It spots threading & distributed system bugs that would have taken hours to
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by mattbee 6mo ago
Absolutely the opposite here, after reading a few paragraphs I was a bit bored. Then I saw the length of the piece, noticed the AI imagery, quit, came here. I read your comment and it makes sense. I'm not reading a story that somebody
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by mattbee 6mo ago
"I'm sorry to ask, but have you forwarded me unedited output from an LLM? I'd rather hear what you think!"
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by mattbee 7mo ago
I had internalised that it was Windows Defender hooking every file operation and checking it against a blacklist? I've had it forced off for years.
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by mattbee 7mo ago
Right?? There is a working original After Burner in an arcade in Leeds - on free play and just open to kids of all ages. Sooo many places where it could trap a finger, and it moves pretty violently.
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by mattbee 7mo ago
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by mattbee 7mo ago
Congratulations Ben! The game sounds like a dangerous cult that I want no part of. But I've also done game ports recently and was curious - how much of the old codebase did you need to understand (and change!) in order to port it? And
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by mattbee 7mo ago
This has been on the cards for at least a year, with the increasingly doomy commits noted by HN. Unfortunately I don't know of any other open projects that can obviously scale to the same degree. I built up around 100PiB of storage und
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by mattbee 8mo ago
Personally I don't think I've ever re-run it. I think I've clicked a few buttons as I've seen alerts about new options appearing. But ultimately it's just a bunch of powershell commands to remove packages and set op
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by mattbee 8mo ago
The key to having a nice time with Windows is 1) to give it loads of memory (32GB+ surely) and 2) to run a debloater script the moment you pick up a new system e.g. https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat All the rubbi
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by mattbee 8mo ago
This is such a fascinating & personally inspiring time for me as a programmer. The real game Bandersnatch (as a business folly) was something else - the "coming soon" advert from just before Imagine's bankruptcy would pro
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by mattbee 8mo ago
And the advice is not (necessarily) "work extra, unpaid hours".

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