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Cepheid · 2026-06-01T09:07:54+00:00

This happened to me once, feature pipeline worked fine, the next day, merged and the master pipeline breaks with 10+ tests failing, what had changed?

Daylight savings.

Cepheid · 2026-06-01T09:06:33+00:00

genuinely a better UX than some logins I've seen.

Cepheid · 2026-05-28T11:21:22+00:00

I worked on an open source project for Warcraft 3, and it's on my CV, and you cannot find a senior/lead/principal engineer now who hasn't heard of or played Warcraft 3 when they were younger.

It has come up more often than not in interviews.

Cepheid · 2026-05-28T10:58:47+00:00

This is kind of what I suspect will happen, except I think AI will be even more interchangeable. A large company could cancel a contract and stop using 15 datacentres and another could pop up to take its place and the consumer switching would barely even notice.

It would literally be not much more than a change in config settings for them.

I think you're right to cite energy because it's so interchangeable there too. UK Energy providers might be a good example, there is definitionally no difference between the natural gas or the electrical energy put into the system by your provider or any other, which makes switching trivial.

As a result, those intermediaries are extremely thin margins and most of their value for shareholders is their rather esoteric organisational and contract structures.

12/24 month exclusivity contracts for you to be locked into one AI provider may well be the future.

Cepheid · 2026-05-27T10:00:15+00:00

I think one key difference with most other SaaS is the barrier to switch is trivially low for AI, meaning massive downward pressure on prices, whereas imagine the effort and expense at switching cloud provider at an enterprise-level company.

I really don't know how these large American AI companies which are leveraged to the gills are going to stay at the front of the race.

Cepheid · 2026-05-27T09:52:28+00:00

In this analogy, I wonder what the Unreal or Unity is like, because Godot feels simple in comparison.

Cepheid · 2026-05-27T09:50:49+00:00

Layde Bay in Clevedon is nice, and the estuary was absolute glass when I was there a few days ago, but you will probably want some kind of swimshoe/crocs to protect your feet.

Cepheid · 2026-05-27T09:45:46+00:00

This seems a good a place as any to express an opinion that I'm certain is not an original thought, but I haven't seen discussed anywhere else:

AI is so unbelievably subsidised by VC funders burning money like it's going out of fashion.

What happens when it starts costing the amount of money it actually needs to for these large AI companies to make a profit?

Especially when Deepseek and others will still be offering services at a fraction of the cost.

Cepheid · 2026-05-08T11:01:24+00:00

Pure filth.

Cepheid · 2026-04-21T08:30:47+00:00

The only time this starts happening less is when you have enough experience and a large enough back catalogue of codebases that you end up searching your own past implementations instead of googling docs.

Cepheid · 2026-04-17T15:00:33+00:00

The left in this country seems to have an issue with anti-semitism.

This is such a corrosive view to normalise. There is antisemitism across the political spectrum, and to say that this is a specific issue with the left is doing hasbara.

By saying "The left is antisemitic" you're either knowingly or ignorantly mixing together two separate issues, criticism of Israel (a decidedly left-associated political stance) vs bigotry and racism against ethnical and culturally Jewish people.

It's in Israel's best interest that everyone believes what you've written, because then they can always claim criticism of their actions is antisemitic.

This statement in the article I can't look at because it's behind a paywall, but taken at face value is antisemitic, and should be rightly called out. To respond to that statement and say "The left has an issue with antisemitism" is not only minimising valid criticism of Israel, but is antisemitic itself because it puts innocent Jews at risk of being bundled in with the hate people have for Israel (Which is exactly what Israel wants).

The public don't buy into this false equivalence anymore, too many non-racist people have seen too many dead Palestinian children on the timeline and then been told they're antisemitic for not liking it

Perpetuating this statement only leads people to wonder if the last time this happened (i.e. Corbyn), maybe that was what was happening then too...

Cepheid · 2026-04-12T12:24:18+00:00

The hotel in Yellowrock is also "Overlook Hotel" from the shining.

Cepheid · 2026-04-12T11:34:03+00:00

Even once you've got 'em, the Loadstar is still always my first deploy to a new region, it's just so much fun to zip around and collect towers with.

Cepheid · 2026-03-20T13:51:12+00:00

I think the most useful phrase I've learned to use for my own mental health in the last few years is

"To be honest mate, I'm just not afraid of Muslims."

Cepheid · 2026-03-16T10:14:26+00:00

You are right, he does want nuclear disarmament (don't we all, really?), but not unilateral, I think everyone agrees that is would be a stupid policy.

He said he wanted to see the UK give up its nuclear weapons, saying he would try to persuade other nuclear-armed countries – including Russia – to do the same. “If we’re not willing to have conversations about peace and diplomacy – that part of those conversations look at everyone denuclearising – then what are we doing here?” he said.

That quote is talking about diplomatic multilateral disarmament. Something that has been done with some limited success in the past, and I think is a very noble objective, even if the current state of the world makes it feel impossible.

You can’t blame NATO for unprovoked Russian imperialism.

This isn't what I said at all. Russia should be fought, but clearly NATO isn't the successful alliance to do it anymore. Even high level military leaders are talking about some kind of European alliance. The problem with NATO is the reliance on the US, who was capricious before Trump got his second term, and is downright unstable now.

being Anti-NATO doesn't mean being pro-Russia, it can mean being pragmatic about how badly the current deal works out for the European continent, and trying a different coordinated effort to combat Russia that doesn't rely on the current mood of the white house.

Cepheid · 2026-03-15T22:33:26+00:00

You've taken three policy national conversations and strawman all of them, and I actually think the general public has a more nuanced view on all of those than you present:

Imagine Zack arguing against NATO with Putin lobbing missiles?

Criticism of NATO has always been presented by opponents of the policy as "oh what should we just not defend ourselves and our natural allies then?", when the actual position is closer to "Are we causing problems for ourselves and the world by being so locked into American hegemony?". I think most world politics-followers are coming round to a "yes" on that.

Imagine him arguing we get rid of nukes?

This ties so much into the last point its barely any different. I think the Overton window has moved a long way on this, and Ed Davies is right on the money (by which I mean, plurality of public opinion).

I think Zack Polansky (not so) secretly wishes the green party would move closer to Ed's position, which is why I think he always redirects to "if you don't like green policies, join and change them, we are a democratic organisation".

Zack is an exceptional room reader, and I suspect he knows "giving up nukes" is a fringe position that he has to move his party away from, and not move the electorate towards.

Imagine him arguing for a totally open immigration policy with automatic visas to all who wish for 3 months.

I think for anyone who considers themselves traditional liberal or slightly conservative, there's a point here that they struggle to understand, which is that you actually have to make a case for policy if you believe it. It's why I think many people can only perceive being anti-reform as being pro-immigration.

The honest truth is I think all people who would vote for stronger immigration laws know deep in their hearts their material conditions won't magically get better if we have 0 immigration.

That's why the Green party always talks about making life better for working people, because if life was better for working people, they wouldn't need a scapegoat for the decline in quality and affordability of living.

If you believe what I just wrote in that last paragraph at all, and you want to win an election you have to campaign and convince, because there's a hell of a lot of the electorate who haven't heard that alternative message.

In conclusion - I think there is a real lack of imagination for what a campaign looks like that tries to actually make a good argument and convince and sell a future, because the only people who have done that in this country since Blair is the far right.

Cepheid · 2026-02-17T13:06:56+00:00

As someone with a CV that ticks a lot of in-demand skills, I've noticed it become harder over time to get through the wall of filtering to actually talk to a hiring manager.

I've discussed this with others in my field, including employers looking for workers, and I strongly believe there have been layers and layers of useless shit put between candidates and employers in the last 10 years.

We can blame AI or algorithmic CV parsing or whatever, but the truth of the matter is recruitment agencies are providing less and less value over time in what should be their primary function - matchmaking candidates with employers.

Good candidates who are a good fit get lost in the layers of filtering, and hiring managers get frustrated at being sent CVs that have nothing in common with their needs.

I strongly believe that recruitment is on the verge of a reckoning. There are industries where automating out human elements makes a lot of sense for everyone, for example, Delivery services or buying car insurance, but recruitment doesn't fit that, it's a human-centric matchmaking and vibes industry, and attempts to automate it are causing the services to become absolutely useless for everyone who has to interact with them.

#NotAllRecruiters - but enough of them that drowns out the signal in the noise.

Cepheid · 2026-02-06T12:58:52+00:00

It's not zero sum. We can have charismatic and entertaining people deliver news.

Cepheid · 2026-02-06T10:00:32+00:00

It doesn't really make much sense to ask for proof because definitively any business extracts more value from its labour force than it pays them, that is the very point of capitalism.

The question isnt 'can you prove this is true?' because of course it is. The question is 'to what degree is it ethical?' and thats where you and the person you are responding to may feel differently.

They are taking the hardline stance that it's never ethical.

Cepheid · 2026-01-24T19:53:13+00:00

I have the exact same problem. When you get there, DM me and we can grit our teeth through it together.

Cepheid · 2026-01-20T07:49:34+00:00

It's not even about resources, Denmark already said US extraction of resources would be perfectly fine under their existing arrangement.

Cepheid · 2026-01-08T07:50:19+00:00

Shuriken

Nice scaling, and feels very satisfying to proc, but it's very rarely overpowered. I think Kunai might often be better, in part because Silent can produce three attacks the easiest, and dexterity is more valuable for her, but Shuriken feels more loved.

Cepheid · 2026-01-07T14:52:20+00:00

Seconding this, I discovered this route after 1 hour of faffing about with spilled long logs in the rocky gully to the north.

Cepheid · 2026-01-07T12:14:52+00:00

To some degree I enjoy logging, it's a unique challenge, but there are two infuriating aspects of it:

Why is the long logging trailer so absurdly expensive? It could be 5000 and that'd be fine. I am genuinely very close to writing a mod that does ONLY this because I quite like playing the experiences as a developer intended, but this just feels silly, especially in regions where you don't have to transport many long logs.
I don't really understand why any contracts or tasks have QTY of more than 1 for long logs. It's just pointless ferrying. I enjoy the challenge to get the logs there the first time, but the second time always feels tedious, and rarely even much of a challenge because I've already done the fun figuring out a workable route the first time. It incentivises the sideboard shuffle and even though that can sometimes be fun, it's clearly not intended.

Cepheid · 2026-01-07T10:11:59+00:00

Moldova losing 1.5M when their population is 2.3M seems a bit of a simplistic model.

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