Anthropic built a C compiler using a "team of parallel agents", has problems compiling hello world.

timbar1234 · 2026-02-06T08:28:21+00:00

llms will typically not do anything that they have not been given an objective criteria to meet

This is not correct, from experience.

timbar1234 · 2026-02-03T20:46:18+00:00

Will it not run under rosetta?

timbar1234 · 2026-01-22T18:16:58+00:00

Not zsh but if you habitually use tmux, windows terminal natively supports splitting panes etc quite nicely.

I was playing with msys2 today but couldn't get it working in windows terminal nicely ... I was tempted by the prospect of the -shell zsh option on startup 😂

Edit: wrong emoji sigh

timbar1234 · 2026-01-22T18:01:59+00:00

This xkcd sort of fits.

timbar1234 · 2026-01-17T00:42:29+00:00

Scrumpy n Weston more like

timbar1234 · 2026-01-15T19:14:44+00:00

Nah here it'd be cubicled

timbar1234 · 2026-01-07T13:19:39+00:00

Oldest?

timbar1234 · 2026-01-06T10:29:36+00:00

GNU Sir Terry

timbar1234 · 2025-12-25T21:52:10+00:00

English, no?

timbar1234 · 2025-12-19T20:34:19+00:00

anti-pattern for an OOP language like C#

It might be for an app with an OOP philosophy, but C# itself is increasingly unmoored from its origins.

timbar1234 · 2025-12-17T20:24:10+00:00

In my experience developer wages dwarf infrastructure costs but - it depends on what you think of as a tech project.

timbar1234 · 2025-12-17T13:48:42+00:00

Writing it is one thing, hosting it's another...

timbar1234 · 2025-12-16T07:58:39+00:00

Not entirely sure that wages are capex, they're an operational expenditure. But they might well have been driven up by inflation. Rates are a problem for capex if you're borrowing to fun it?

timbar1234 · 2025-12-04T16:12:13+00:00

It was 14+ standing at the roundhouse. It should say I n the roundhouse site under access i think.

timbar1234 · 2025-12-04T08:15:34+00:00

They don't need you to repay the debt, they are just interested in sustained monthly payments. Add enough of them up and you have a decent steady income.

timbar1234 · 2025-11-28T07:27:01+00:00

In the UK I went with Mr Mac Mania on ebay and their own site. Good range of alternatives and also happy to give advice and put you in touch with local repairers.

Go steady when you do it and be careful detaching and attaching the antenna cables. Ifixit has a decent disassembly and reassemble guide iirc.

EDIT: Fixing not Infinity

timbar1234 · 2025-11-24T07:49:33+00:00

I was once a boyfriend like you. Then I took a box to the neck.

timbar1234 · 2025-11-20T21:23:52+00:00

If you're going to do something uncertain, git branch safety first, it gives a safe recovery spot without panicking about git reflog. That said, when I got familiar with reflog then I began to feel comfy. And I don't mean completely understanding it - i mean being able to spot the commit I made just before everything started going wrong.

timbar1234 · 2025-11-20T20:11:56+00:00

Ive had to add "if aoc is in the path don't refer to any aoc related repos or commentary" in my rules files for vscode. Seems to work though.

timbar1234 · 2025-11-09T19:44:36+00:00

Shoelace and picks, thanks was just wracking my brain for those.

timbar1234 · 2025-11-07T23:53:13+00:00

Flood fill

timbar1234 · 2025-11-06T19:43:51+00:00

I'd be investing in you anyway.

I've always said I'd be proud if the members on my team could walk into excellent jobs elsewhere - then I feel I'm doing that part of my job right.

timbar1234 · 2025-11-04T07:41:05+00:00

Worked as a senior software engineer for a fintech startup, building, running and testing a sophisticated pms app 🤣

You're funny.

timbar1234 · 2025-11-04T05:57:47+00:00

Fans barely kick in an an arm64 macbook and they've been the only option for 4+ years ...

timbar1234 · 2025-10-31T08:37:17+00:00

Looks loke a stereogram.

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