Matt Copperwaite

@yayamatt
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Security. Tech. Economics. Father.

Views are my own and not of my employer

Homepagehttps://matt.copperwaite.net
GitHubhttps://github.com/yamatt

I always get cheered up by looking at National Grid Live.

Ok 12% of energy is from Gas, but right now almost 50% of our energy generation is from renewable sources.

https://grid.iamkate.com/

National Grid: Live

Shows the live status of Great Britain’s electric power transmission network

If GitHub scheduled workflows can run up to 45 minutes late, I'm not really sure what the point is.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@yayamatt/116211882995536851

Thinking about this again.

I'm wondering if this is why models are getting worse for coding.

They're getting tuned to provide you results that look believable and make you engage, rather than better results first time.

🤯

The last word to find was RAM, but there's also an incredibly important technology term in there that wasn't correct.

YAML

I've had so much delay repay this month it's almost been like those loyalty cards you get at coffee shops, except you get your 10th journey for free.
What I'm finding when coding with AI, is that functional tests, are a more useful test. To check that it's done what it said it did, rather than unit tests where it just uses fake values.
Train tickets to #emfcamp booked

Completely agree about expecting my hardware to last 10 years at this point.

My dream since a teen, using computers, was to have everything run on other computers and your terminal is just an interface to that.

We're definitely at the point where that's possible.

Most of my hardware now has been chosen so that it can be upgraded rather than replaced.

https://alexwlchan.net/2026/ten-year-computer/

Dreaming of a ten-year computer

Modern computers are more powerful than I know what to do with, but the norm is still to upgrade every few years. I want my current computer to last a decade, and I don't think that's unreasonable.

It's pretty simple, when computer people borrow terminology from other areas of study, they (usually) get it's actual meaning wrong.

"There's no I in 'team'"

Exactly, which is why I am leaving.

https://www.workchronicles.com/p/comic-there-is-no-i-in-team

(comic) There Is No "I" In Team

Work Chronicles