monch1962

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by monch1962 4mo ago
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 at different stations along the way, plus a change of train
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by monch1962 4mo ago
As an Australian, I completely agree with every point in your response
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by monch1962 7mo ago
Exactly this setup
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by monch1962 8mo ago
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 $US500-ish on a mini PC, which would get you a reasonab
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by monch1962 8mo ago
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 of running lots of small experiments to see wh
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by monch1962 10mo ago
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 of boring & time-consuming stuff that doesn&#
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by monch1962 11mo ago
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 change with the emergence of search engines ~30 years ago. At t
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by monch1962 11mo ago
> 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 Napster ("piracy") then streaming services (analog
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by monch1962 1y ago
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 are some circumstances where bringing in a consulta
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by monch1962 1y ago
> 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 single screen on the device. Offline-first would be a plus.
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by monch1962 1y ago
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, Claude and Perplexity for what each does best. In
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by monch1962 1y ago
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 admin knows how to use it. There's a zillion unprote
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by monch1962 2y ago
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. Their reasoning is that CBD-based businesses are somehow entitl
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by monch1962 2y ago
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 everywhere. Although it's just slightly smaller than
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by monch1962 3y ago
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 governance bodies. These days, with nationalism an
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by monch1962 4y ago
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 that may or may not be worth pursuing f
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by monch1962 4y ago
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 Slack msg, and I don't get a response within
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by monch1962 4y ago
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 need to deal with. Sometimes I can refactor my flaky code to
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by monch1962 6y ago
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 has the BBC, Australia has the ABC, and both are state
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by monch1962 7y ago
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 for integrating with external systems
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by monch1962 7y ago
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 paid back) to get their finances under control. Finan
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by monch1962 8y ago
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 startup was going to languish completely within IBM, and their
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by monch1962 8y ago
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, presentations with several presenters, being on the receiving e
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by monch1962 8y ago
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 interact with page elements via the "normal"
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by monch1962 8y ago
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 see a buy and sell order that are a distance apart, buy
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by monch1962 8y ago
I'd appreciate it if I could install Pulumi via e.g. $ brew install pulumi That way I'd have a convenient way of keeping it updated to the latest version
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by monch1962 8y ago
I would add Python and Go to that set of required, mature server-side libraries. If there's solid libraries for each of the common languages used to write serverless code, then I think that'd be a big plus for decision makers who
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by monch1962 9y ago
To someone who isn't in the corporate world, the job title "agile coach" is about as bullshit as anything out there. People in this role are actually paid to walk around inside an organisation, finding things that aren't