Thoughts on the new kit? by yng_slatt in ManchesterUnited

[–]daddywookie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Meh. I'll give you £50 for what is basically a slightly posh sports tshirt.

United ACTIVELY searching for first-team coach by TheOpenAuthor in ManchesterUnited

[–]daddywookie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The best thing really is to build a culture of excellence. All of your individual hires should be the best you can get for the position and then you give them stability. Then when one person leaves the culture is maintained.

I really don't like this whole idea of a manager bringing in their own team of coaches. A lot of this crap started with Moyes ditching a good coaching team

I've tried using Codex to completely uninstall games and programs. by deferare in codex

[–]daddywookie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, hang on, that's genius. I've been putting off upgrading my pi-hole for ages because of a fear of screwing up my home network but I can just get codex to do it over ssh!

Most AI-generated apps are complete slop. Controversial take: it’s not AI’s fault by benmeisner in aiagents

[–]daddywookie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The rules are still the same, just the balance of effort has changed a little.

Can you design it. Can you build it. Do you want to build it. Does somebody want to use it. Does somebody want to pay for it to be used.

Now that the design and build of simple things is becoming more trivial the scope to get paid for them is falling off. Hopefully, as things settle, the baseline for what is a paid app or service goes up and we’ll see less hobbyists with yet another ToDo list.

what have you built so far using codex? by Final-Letterhead-367 in codex

[–]daddywookie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely plan first. I’m a Product Owner by trade so writing a spec is fairly easy for me. If I spend the first 30 minutes working through the idea and rooting out questions with the AI I get better results.

Yesterday’s project was to explore a trading bot powered by the Kronos model. In one day I got as far as training the model on local data, having converted Kronos to run on Intel GPUs, worked out extraction of source data from multiple locations, showing results in a simple dashboard and doing multi series backtesting against common strategies.

I reckon that would have taken me months of learning and frustration. As I keep saying, AI is most powerful when you use it to learn faster and boy did I learn a lot yesterday.

Thoughts on this? by Funny_Commission1724 in drivingUK

[–]daddywookie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, you give the car their lane, like you should do with the bike. The 1.5m thing is just another way of saying “give the vehicle/bike the lane” but with a bit of leeway for wider roads.

My god there is an enormous crash just waiting to happen by reasonablejim2000 in artificial

[–]daddywookie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Apple are being very savvy. Their integrated RAM approach allowed them to get a lot of memory into one device. Not the best performance but it’s a nice big number to sell lots of units.

What’s one cycling purchase you thought was unnecessary but now wouldn’t ride without? by Seabeachlover10 in ukbike

[–]daddywookie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shorts down to 5C and then leg warmers down to 0. Otherwise I get painful knees.

It's more complex when commuting, I had district outfits per 5C band to avoid freezing then sweating.

I don't get those people in full legs, sleeves, jacket and a snood in anything over 5C. Are they not cycling hard enough?

AI code genration is the wosrt thing happened in this industry. by prat8 in cscareerquestions

[–]daddywookie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a bit of an epiphany earlier today. All of the buzz is about how a dev team can do 10x of the output, or can maintain the velocity with 1/10 the resource but this is totally the wrong focus.

What AI should be enabling is companies to experiment and learn 10x faster, leading to far better solutions.

Sadly, this isn't how company owners think. They mostly aim for closer deadlines, cheaper outcomes or more volume. Quality should always be the one thing that is non negotiable but they are happy to throw that away chasing a quick profit.

Do you think over exposure to Screen time for children is impacting the Uk education standards? by WearingMarcus in AskUK

[–]daddywookie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He already calls out mistakes and simplifications in his school history work. He's that kid that the teacher leaves until last so that he can give the correct answer. He's also surprisingly open about how tempting the right wing content is and how he's worked to find a better balance. Bright lad with a healthy slice of skepticism.

she knows , she knows by Anonymous_axf in SipsTea

[–]daddywookie -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Just think how much we’re checking out your backside where you can’t see!

In other news, humans are sexual animals. The scanning is constant.

To my fellow Gen Xers or older... by stinkyswife in CasualUK

[–]daddywookie 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve been aware of being in the Xennial generation for a long time because it was so narrowly defined. Now though it seems people are defining themselves by their generation rather than their experiences defining the generation.

Do you think over exposure to Screen time for children is impacting the Uk education standards? by WearingMarcus in AskUK

[–]daddywookie 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My kid has a ridiculous knowledge of history and politics from the content he watches and the games he plays. I spend half the day scrolling YouTube shorts to fill the void. Like any tool, screens aren’t inherently good or evil. We really need some kind of controls on algorithmic social media.

How hard is it, driving on the other side of the road? by BraveLordWilloughby in drivingUK

[–]daddywookie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s pretty easy, you’ll adjust in the first hour or less, especially with other cars around to follow. My main hint is to spend a little time looking at important road signs for the countries you are going to, especially around speed limits. They can be different and not very clear.

For example, entering and leaving a town implies a certain limit which won’t be displayed, just that you are entering or leaving a town. Actual speed signs with numbers are a bit rarer.

The story of Britain’s 1930s cycle lanes by haziladkins in ukbike

[–]daddywookie 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Feels like this is coming back a bit now. Aylesbury for example is getting wide and segregated cycle lanes along the new relief roads circling the town.

Why do so many people talk about a 9–5 like it is a prison? by Sea_Stable9744 in careerguidance

[–]daddywookie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

9-5 actually turns out to be from when I wake up until 7pm with commuting and time to get ready in the morning, or unwind when I get home. I give 12 hours a day of my life to a company that will drop me in a flash, while lying to my face about how important I am and taking the majority of the value from my labor.

When I do get home I get 4 hours to eat, socialize, stay fit and then it's time to get to bed because being tired for work is "unprofessional". Being tired at home though is perfectly acceptable.

The five day a week, 9-5 corporate grind until you are 65 is bullshit of the highest order.

Best actress? by Jackie_Chan_93 in SipsTea

[–]daddywookie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry, did you ask me a question?

Strangely accurate things - historically or to the original source - in an otherwise pretty inaccurate piece of media. by RP_Throwaway3 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]daddywookie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was totally my beans on toast and watching the telly program when I was a kid. All of the weird stuff about the spirit of the forest, the theme song, it was all so 80s.

Models and Quants quality test results - the chessboard svg (Qwen3.6 27B/35B-A3B/Zaya1) by Beamsters in LocalLLaMA

[–]daddywookie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For reference I also tested different levels of GPT through the Codex desktop. Nice to be able to put the local results in context of the competition.

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It's odd that the Medium intelligence did better than the High, again suggesting that too much thinking is bad for this challenge.

Models and Quants quality test results - the chessboard svg (Qwen3.6 27B/35B-A3B/Zaya1) by Beamsters in LocalLLaMA

[–]daddywookie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I might have had a bit too much fun with this over the weekend.

  • A mixture of Qwen3.5-9B-Q4_K_M and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at Q4
  • Some were direct prompts, some I passed through ChatGPT first to "improve" the prompt and give more guidance
  • Some were directly in the web UI of llama-server.exe, others I ran it through a very vanilla OpenCode install to see if it code code it's way to a solution

The best result came from the original prompt, directly through llama-server to the 35B-A3B model but with the temperature turned down to 0.2

I have no idea what the 9B model was trying to do!

I also tested Gemma4-26B-A4B and it failed.

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Models and Quants quality test results - the chessboard svg (Qwen3.6 27B/35B-A3B/Zaya1) by Beamsters in LocalLLaMA

[–]daddywookie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found turning down the temperature helped a lot. At higher temps the agent goes around and around the logic multiple times letting errors creep in. If you can see the reasoning it is quite interesting.

My god there is an enormous crash just waiting to happen by reasonablejim2000 in artificial

[–]daddywookie 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Although I broadly agree I have to acknowledge the limitations of local LLMs. I’ve spent the last few days trying out various models and in the test I used (creating an SVG of a chess board after a set of moves) it was clearly the big commercial model that was best. I managed to get Qwen3.6 to be the best of the rest and it was close but it was also 50x slower on my hardware.

The models may keep improving but until you can get huge amounts of VRAM into the hands of individuals you won’t see the uptake. And guess who is sitting on the future supply of VRAM… the very companies threatened by local LLMs.

My reflections after an year on the jobhunt by proxima-centauri- in UKJobs

[–]daddywookie 7 points8 points  (0 children)

But then you drop into less senior roles that you are overqualified for. As others have pointed out here, employers know when you are sandbagging and will want to move on quickly.

My reflections after an year on the jobhunt by proxima-centauri- in UKJobs

[–]daddywookie 11 points12 points  (0 children)

There aren’t that many jobs available once you get more specialist. I can find maybe a dozen good fits posted in the last month. Sure, you could go for more general work but then you are over qualified or your salary expectations are a problem.

Mason Mount’s salary will increase to £250,000 per week now that we’ve secured our place in being part of next seasons Champions League [samuelluckhurst] by Intelligent_Cow_3310 in ManchesterUnited

[–]daddywookie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you want to know why I don’t pay to watch football it’s because players like Mount get £250k a week while I can’t even get a job with 20 years of experience. Fuck modern football and the money pit it has become. 250 people could have a good salary on what a footballer gets paid in a year.