tomwphillips

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by tomwphillips 6d ago
Yeah, me. I've used it every day for years. With a hybrid/remote team it is a fantastic alternative to a physical whiteboard. Whole team uses it. I don't care for or use any of the AI features. I hope the price doesn't g
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by tomwphillips 7d ago
The video demo is so strange. A waitress spoke too fast - just act like a normal person and politely ask them to repeat themselves, instead of reading a transcription on your watch. My goodness.
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British Museum hosted Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry(theguardian.com)
24 points by tomwphillips 16d ago|27 comments
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The benefits of data lakehouses are overstated: open data != open platform(tomwphillips.co.uk)
2 points by tomwphillips 21d ago|0 comments
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Surge in AI-assisted complaints putting extra strain on councils and schools(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by tomwphillips 23d ago|0 comments
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As AI guzzles water and energy, we are facing a choice: datacentres or homes?(theguardian.com)
5 points by tomwphillips 1mo ago|2 comments
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by tomwphillips 3mo ago
Definitely not a bubble.
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by tomwphillips 3mo ago
Can you elaborate what you mean by "won't let me fix"? What happens when you try to?
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by tomwphillips 4mo ago
I was in a similar boat with my M1 Pro. I have an M4 Pro for work but rarely notice the difference. Unfortunately the display in my M1 has failed and a replacement is £500-700. Very frustrating.
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Worried Britons 'prepping' for major disruption with stash of tins and cash(theguardian.com)
10 points by tomwphillips 4mo ago|2 comments
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by tomwphillips 5mo ago
*All* my work as a solo consultant/contractor was from former colleagues who needed "trusted pair of hands" to deal with a project, or former colleagues introducing me to new people. People hire you because they want somethin
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by tomwphillips 6mo ago
I have this problem, but I just lock the front door.
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by tomwphillips 6mo ago
A colleague sent me this search directly. Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570269
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by tomwphillips 6mo ago
Yes. https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+cop...
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Copilot Adverts in Pull Requests(github.com)
3 points by tomwphillips 6mo ago|4 comments
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How to Do the Work(buttondown.com)
2 points by tomwphillips 6mo ago|0 comments
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by tomwphillips 6mo ago
I'm not sure a staging environment would have caught it. I often find Claude makes changes that _look_ reasonable, but it's only when I really dig in (e.g. when refactoring) that I realise there's insidious problems. I can im
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by tomwphillips 6mo ago
At $dayJob we use (user facing) IDs like this. Select a prefix then add a sufficient number of random alphanumeric characters for your use case.
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by tomwphillips 7mo ago
In October they were talking about it taking 18 months. https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...
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by tomwphillips 7mo ago
There were reports that they're migrating to Azure. Maybe it isn't going so well. I thought AI was supposed for have solved software engineering...
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by tomwphillips 7mo ago
That's good - I'll reconsider Dagger. Yes, I agree on your assessment. AI means a higher rate of code changes, so you need more robust and fast CI.
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by tomwphillips 7mo ago
A while back I think I heard you on a podcast describing these pain points. Experienced them myself; sounded like a compelling solution. I remember Dagger docs being all about AI a year or two ago, and frankly it put me off, but that seems
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by tomwphillips 7mo ago
Also seeing this in the UK right now.
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by tomwphillips 7mo ago
I agree it works well. Although as a long-time TDD practitioner it is mildly frustrating that it has taken LLMs to get more people to realise it works!
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Red/Green TDD(simonwillison.net)
5 points by tomwphillips 7mo ago|2 comments
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by tomwphillips 7mo ago
Like we don't feed the trolls, we shouldn't the feed agents. I'm impressed the maintainers responded so cordially. Personally I would have gone straight for the block button.
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AI Command and Staff–Operational Evidence and Insights from Wargaming(militarystrategymagazine.com)
1 points by tomwphillips 7mo ago|0 comments
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by tomwphillips 7mo ago
Anyone know what happened? Thought it seemed like a great idea but I never tried it. In a startup it seemed like an unnecessary source of risk and in an enterprise too much hassle to convince stakeholders to switch from existing IaC product
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by tomwphillips 8mo ago
In my last company, we _did_ pay for Google Cloud support and when BigQuery jobs started to fail randomly, causing huge trouble producing critical reports, the response was essentially "we are investigating", "we have identif
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by tomwphillips 8mo ago
Thank you, and please keep it online. Apparently I am incapable of remembering HTTP status codes and I always go straight to http.cat!

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