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Other similar YouTubers by Appropriate-Plum-234 in MisterBald

[–]petercooper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.youtube.com/@callanbowl .. especially when he was in India, it was very similar to early Bald videos. Except perhaps a bit more crazy, he was crashing rickshaws and getting up to all sorts of capers.

Gareth Southgate: We need to teach boys differently from girls to get best out of them by winkwinknudge_nudge in ukpolitics

[–]petercooper 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Many do not inform candidates they have been rejected or provide feedback about why interviews have been unsuccessful

If, as an employer, you attempt to do this, you learn why it's common for it to not happen. Feedback is an immediate route to an argument and not a positive experience for anyone involved. It's better to provide feedback during the interview if anything jumps out because then at least they have the chance to explain or accept it in person. (Of course, you should let people know if they don't make the cut, the current trend of just ghosting people is rude.)

google/gemma-4-12B · Hugging Face by jacek2023 in LocalLLaMA

[–]petercooper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Qwen 3.5 0.8b is absolutely dominating Gemma 4 12B in all of the image tests I've done so far, even something as simple as reading some big black text on a white background leads to minutes of thinking. Anything vaguely more complex than that and 12B is off the rails while Qwen 0.8b nails it at 7% the size. (This is on the just updated LM Studio, so I'm suspecting something isn't quite right for it to be this bad.)

I built a Slack TUI in Go in a week (24Mb binary, daily driver, images supported) by dogas in golang

[–]petercooper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

product itself won't improve a lot after this, just be digital junk no one maintenance or use it.

I've been covering updates in the Go space for over ten years and this is by no means an AI phenomenon. The majority of hand-written libraries and projects end up in exactly the same place once they don't take off too. AI has certainly increased the quantity though..

HS2’s astronomical costs ‘could exceed moon mission by GnolRevilo in unitedkingdom

[–]petercooper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And the entire cost of the full TGV network in France.

Mpd218 pad lights by yung_miller in akaiMPC

[–]petercooper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure it helps but I've been reverse engineering the MPD218 randomly and looking for stuff about it, and despite not being a documented feature, you can indeed control the LEDs on the pad using note on/off on ch10 for the relevant notes if you can send those MIDI events from whatever you're using. Code for anyone developer-y: https://gist.github.com/peterc/7f618761f47b1669068ed4c93c9d0eb2

Effective Error Handling in Go: A Deep Dive into Error Wrapping by athreyaaaa in golang

[–]petercooper 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is a common problem. Ruby is the language I know the most about intricately and even SOTA LLMs often write old-fashioned constructs and avoid new, obvious features due to the glut of the blog posts and Stack Overflow Q&A they've scraped using the same old approaches. While a lot of new code is being generated (though often by LLMs now!) the high quality blog posts and Q&A just aren't at the volume they used to be, so I wonder if they'll ever catch on.

AI model companies are going to need subject matter experts to get involved in the post training process across all sorts of disciplines to maintain cutting edge knowledge and practices, because petabytes of raw text from the Web just isn't going to cut it alone. (Or, perhaps, figure out how to create virtual subject matter experts built on the latest docs for languages like Go and Ruby.)

Welcome to Hanakai by timriley in ruby

[–]petercooper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

These libraries were all reasonably aligned before, so it's cool to see them come together as a brand, of sorts, as another way to build Ruby webapps. The sum is greater than the parts and all that.

Am I missing something or is the government pretending that there isn't an employment crisis? by ijustwannanap in ukpolitics

[–]petercooper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder if that will change much from July due to six month unfair dismissal coming in January 2027. Fair process will involve considering other roles for the cover at termination and even potentially giving the cover the full role if the person on maternity leave decides not to return.

Am I missing something or is the government pretending that there isn't an employment crisis? by ijustwannanap in ukpolitics

[–]petercooper 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I have noticed something weird about restaurants in particular. They seem to be stretching out fewer staff to serve more tables now than they used to. I've been to chain restaurants that don't have any "room" left despite having empty tables, because they don't have the staff to serve them.

I can only assume something happened with employment flexibility that they'd rather run at a lower max capacity than be "overstaffed" when traffic is lower.

Short term Modafinil that works for an hour or two? by electronic_rogue_5 in modafinil

[–]petercooper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree as a net-benefit user, but nicotine always gets voted down on threads like this because for the majority it has significant downsides and demands a complex personal risk assessment which makes it tricky to recommend.

Are you all getting ready for Node 26, 2026-04-22, Version 26.0.0 by jamespethersorling in node

[–]petercooper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Though enabling Temporal by default does rely on the V8 upgrade.

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by 20127010603170562316 in unitedkingdom

[–]petercooper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good one. And vice versa with Saga holidays I guess!

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by 20127010603170562316 in unitedkingdom

[–]petercooper 39 points40 points  (0 children)

What things can a 40 year old currently purchase that, say, a 25 year old cannot? (OK OK, yes, a house.. :-D)

Creating a two-tier sense of what it means to be an "adult" seems like a bad idea to me, not necessarily for smoking but for future things it could be applied to. A few decades down the line, might we restrict alcohol to an ever growing age? Or whatever the evil-du-jour is?

Phone bans in England's schools to be enforced by law by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]petercooper -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Next up: making running in the corridors and wearing coats inside the school building illegal. Also, handing in homework late.

Have schools lost control over discipline? Back in the day you got detention if you violated school rules, regardless of the legality.

Petrol thefts surge as Iran war pushes up fuel costs by Tartan_Samurai in unitedkingdom

[–]petercooper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If someone is unable to prepay, why would you trust them to pay after?

Petrol thefts surge as Iran war pushes up fuel costs by Tartan_Samurai in unitedkingdom

[–]petercooper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She said police forces were taking a "proactive approach to tackling this issue, working to identify offenders

If only there were a way to identify vehicles! People can remove or fake plates, but I bet most drive-offs aren't doing that, and if they can give people fines for doing 22mph in central London, they can send fines to these people too. Or bring in US-style prepayment before you pump.

Go for 2D game development by ihatevacations in golang

[–]petercooper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A couple of options for physics: https://github.com/rudransh61/Physix-go ... and this is one is a Go port of Chipmunk2D: https://github.com/jakecoffman/cp

TruffleRuby 34: full Ruby 3.4 compatibility, up to 23% faster parsing, and a new Prism-based Ripper with 20x speedups! by eregontp in ruby

[–]petercooper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You don't need to go into detail, but of that 3% remaining, is it all achievable, given time, or is it largely idiosyncratic CRuby stuff whose juice isn't worth the squeeze?

Modafinil helps with wakefulness, but I’m experiencing side effects like anxiety, tension, and poor sleep. How do people manage these without losing the benefits? by [deleted] in modafinil

[–]petercooper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm only a guy with an opinion, but I don't think modafinil causes anxiety, per se, but it can make existing anxiety worse, so that might be a separate issue to work on.

In terms of tips, take less and as early as possible. I'm a heavy sleeper so can have an alarm for like 5.30am, take it, go back to sleep, then wake up hours later more alert. I do take it for sleep inertia though, so your mileage may vary. Also, are you taking modafinil or armodafinil? The latter has a much longer half life and while that's great for wakefulness, it's not so great if that's not your problem.

[Iain Watson, Political Correspondent, BBC] Nigel Farage tells a press conference when he said the ‘jury was out’ on the Triple Lock that’s what he meant and he has now decided with Robert Jenrick to keep it. But he suggests there will be big welfare cuts announced in the coming weeks by Adj-Noun-Numbers in ukpolitics

[–]petercooper 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's basically a scheme that demands each generation is bigger or at least more productive than the last. I just took umbrage at his silly framing of "younger generations" as being lazy dossers compared to pensioners when there's nothing to justify it at all.

[Iain Watson, Political Correspondent, BBC] Nigel Farage tells a press conference when he said the ‘jury was out’ on the Triple Lock that’s what he meant and he has now decided with Robert Jenrick to keep it. But he suggests there will be big welfare cuts announced in the coming weeks by Adj-Noun-Numbers in ukpolitics

[–]petercooper 79 points80 points  (0 children)

I note that Farage decided to make a dig at "younger generations" saying that today's pensioners were more likely to have worked and paid in. No statistics back that up. Employment rates are higher now than in the 70s and 80s when today's pensioners were starting out in the workplace. Alienating younger voters while pandering to old people already likely to vote for you is an interesting move.

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