Karl Stoney
@karlstoney.com
Tech Architect @ autotrader.co.uk
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Anyone else feeling burned out by AI? I definitely feel it accelerates me but the cognitive overload of simply doing more things is starting to take a toll. Am I the weak link here? Haha
March 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Anyone else feeling burned out by AI? I definitely feel it accelerates me but the cognitive overload of simply doing more things is starting to take a toll. Am I the weak link here? Haha
Bought a backbone for my phone in the airport and it's ace. Very happy impulse purchase. Looking forward to trying out gamestream on it when I get home.
January 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Bought a backbone for my phone in the airport and it's ace. Very happy impulse purchase. Looking forward to trying out gamestream on it when I get home.
First time in Helsinki airport, it's really nice, not sure about this hashtag though, "future of hel" 😂
January 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
First time in Helsinki airport, it's really nice, not sure about this hashtag though, "future of hel" 😂
I say no to everything AI on my phone (and everywhere else) and yet "AI Core" is still my biggest app arghhhhh
January 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I say no to everything AI on my phone (and everywhere else) and yet "AI Core" is still my biggest app arghhhhh
Where is the no, not ever button
January 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Where is the no, not ever button
GCP support is so funny at times.
me: Raises ticket, vertex response times are 10x the norm for the past few hours, this causes customer impact on real-time systems.
them (a week later): Suggest you implement retries.
:|
me: Raises ticket, vertex response times are 10x the norm for the past few hours, this causes customer impact on real-time systems.
them (a week later): Suggest you implement retries.
:|
January 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
GCP support is so funny at times.
me: Raises ticket, vertex response times are 10x the norm for the past few hours, this causes customer impact on real-time systems.
them (a week later): Suggest you implement retries.
:|
me: Raises ticket, vertex response times are 10x the norm for the past few hours, this causes customer impact on real-time systems.
them (a week later): Suggest you implement retries.
:|
As someone with a 4070ti, please listen to my advice. Ignore the 5070 marketing, 12gb vram truly sucks.
January 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
As someone with a 4070ti, please listen to my advice. Ignore the 5070 marketing, 12gb vram truly sucks.
The way Google Cloud pushes dedicated commitments for individual services is to get remotely stable service, if you squint, is basically what we had on prem where we had to CapEx dedicated hardware for specific projects. Cloud is less appealing by the day.
January 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The way Google Cloud pushes dedicated commitments for individual services is to get remotely stable service, if you squint, is basically what we had on prem where we had to CapEx dedicated hardware for specific projects. Cloud is less appealing by the day.
The new @prometheus.io v3 UI is _such_ an improvement. Kudos.
January 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The new @prometheus.io v3 UI is _such_ an improvement. Kudos.
My ff16 journey so far:
This is dull
Oh thats a cool skill, I'll play more
Bored again
Oh wow cool I can fight as ifrit, I'll play more
Bored
Oooo new eikons
Bored of unnecessarily long eikon fights
Start skipping cutscenes
Bored/quit
I've had 25 hours of of it though so can't complain. £2/hour.
This is dull
Oh thats a cool skill, I'll play more
Bored again
Oh wow cool I can fight as ifrit, I'll play more
Bored
Oooo new eikons
Bored of unnecessarily long eikon fights
Start skipping cutscenes
Bored/quit
I've had 25 hours of of it though so can't complain. £2/hour.
January 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
My ff16 journey so far:
This is dull
Oh thats a cool skill, I'll play more
Bored again
Oh wow cool I can fight as ifrit, I'll play more
Bored
Oooo new eikons
Bored of unnecessarily long eikon fights
Start skipping cutscenes
Bored/quit
I've had 25 hours of of it though so can't complain. £2/hour.
This is dull
Oh thats a cool skill, I'll play more
Bored again
Oh wow cool I can fight as ifrit, I'll play more
Bored
Oooo new eikons
Bored of unnecessarily long eikon fights
Start skipping cutscenes
Bored/quit
I've had 25 hours of of it though so can't complain. £2/hour.
Me: going to run slow today, nursing a bit of a hip injury
Garmin: looool you're slow, old and unfit, I've reduced your vo2 max and fitness age just to shame you. Pathetic.
Garmin: looool you're slow, old and unfit, I've reduced your vo2 max and fitness age just to shame you. Pathetic.
December 26, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Me: going to run slow today, nursing a bit of a hip injury
Garmin: looool you're slow, old and unfit, I've reduced your vo2 max and fitness age just to shame you. Pathetic.
Garmin: looool you're slow, old and unfit, I've reduced your vo2 max and fitness age just to shame you. Pathetic.
People playing POE2, is it worth playing if you're burned out from d4, or more of the same?
December 25, 2024 at 7:53 AM
People playing POE2, is it worth playing if you're burned out from d4, or more of the same?
Linux gaming adventures continued. Quite a few games run without any issues using proton, and it's reasonably seamless. I look up the game on protondb.com first to check for settings. Others have about a 20% frame drop compared to windows. Game streaming (sunshine) is unplayable however.
December 24, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Linux gaming adventures continued. Quite a few games run without any issues using proton, and it's reasonably seamless. I look up the game on protondb.com first to check for settings. Others have about a 20% frame drop compared to windows. Game streaming (sunshine) is unplayable however.
Oooo I think I might have found a Linux distro that works well with Nvidia out the box and generally feels.... Good. Pop_os!
December 21, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Oooo I think I might have found a Linux distro that works well with Nvidia out the box and generally feels.... Good. Pop_os!
This is why I don't use public transport in Manchester. Believe me, I don't like sitting in traffic, and driving in general, and contributing to congestion and pollution, but when my option is a public transport system where 1 in 10 gets cancelled - it somewhat forces the hand.
December 20, 2024 at 7:18 AM
This is why I don't use public transport in Manchester. Believe me, I don't like sitting in traffic, and driving in general, and contributing to congestion and pollution, but when my option is a public transport system where 1 in 10 gets cancelled - it somewhat forces the hand.
Probably spent about 3 months migrating all our apps to ESM. What an ecosystem mess that was.
Today went to look at eslint 8 -> 9, dear god. Looks even worse.
I've worked in so many different languages in my career but Javascript, as much as I love it, feels the most - broken.
Today went to look at eslint 8 -> 9, dear god. Looks even worse.
I've worked in so many different languages in my career but Javascript, as much as I love it, feels the most - broken.
December 18, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Probably spent about 3 months migrating all our apps to ESM. What an ecosystem mess that was.
Today went to look at eslint 8 -> 9, dear god. Looks even worse.
I've worked in so many different languages in my career but Javascript, as much as I love it, feels the most - broken.
Today went to look at eslint 8 -> 9, dear god. Looks even worse.
I've worked in so many different languages in my career but Javascript, as much as I love it, feels the most - broken.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBK6... everything about this performance is perfect. It's, just so good.
Corey Taylor - Snuff (Acoustic)
YouTube video by Corey Taylor
www.youtube.com
December 17, 2024 at 6:20 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBK6... everything about this performance is perfect. It's, just so good.
Me: reads loads about how Linux gaming has improved in recent years, gets excited at the prospect of binning windows.
Also me: loads up my Linux mint distro, updates the graphics card drivers and now it just black screens after login.
Nothings. Changed.
Also me: loads up my Linux mint distro, updates the graphics card drivers and now it just black screens after login.
Nothings. Changed.
December 15, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Me: reads loads about how Linux gaming has improved in recent years, gets excited at the prospect of binning windows.
Also me: loads up my Linux mint distro, updates the graphics card drivers and now it just black screens after login.
Nothings. Changed.
Also me: loads up my Linux mint distro, updates the graphics card drivers and now it just black screens after login.
Nothings. Changed.
Me: I'm going to dust off and restring my guitar and start playing again.
Also me: traps his index finger under the Floyd rose bridge crushing the nail enough I now won't be able to play guitar for a few weeks 🤣
Also me: traps his index finger under the Floyd rose bridge crushing the nail enough I now won't be able to play guitar for a few weeks 🤣
December 9, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Me: I'm going to dust off and restring my guitar and start playing again.
Also me: traps his index finger under the Floyd rose bridge crushing the nail enough I now won't be able to play guitar for a few weeks 🤣
Also me: traps his index finger under the Floyd rose bridge crushing the nail enough I now won't be able to play guitar for a few weeks 🤣
Slept on capability of LLMs...
In a code base coding style is important, and LLM's are all the rage, so have you considered having it refactor all your code infused with your favourite artist? Slipknot? Taylor Swift?
In a code base coding style is important, and LLM's are all the rage, so have you considered having it refactor all your code infused with your favourite artist? Slipknot? Taylor Swift?
December 9, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Slept on capability of LLMs...
In a code base coding style is important, and LLM's are all the rage, so have you considered having it refactor all your code infused with your favourite artist? Slipknot? Taylor Swift?
In a code base coding style is important, and LLM's are all the rage, so have you considered having it refactor all your code infused with your favourite artist? Slipknot? Taylor Swift?
One of the world's most elusive mysteries is how Corey Taylor has any vocal chords left at all
December 7, 2024 at 9:23 AM
One of the world's most elusive mysteries is how Corey Taylor has any vocal chords left at all
Calling it now, and will be happy if I'm wrong, but two years from now all that will be left of Istio is forked commercial offerings. The OSS project will be basically dead.
December 7, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Calling it now, and will be happy if I'm wrong, but two years from now all that will be left of Istio is forked commercial offerings. The OSS project will be basically dead.
By far the messiest @istio.io issue I've come across github.com/istio/istio/.... TLDR is that httpclient5 (issues.apache.org/jira/browse/...) is now adding TLS upgrade headers making it fundamentally incompatible with Envoy (github.com/envoyproxy/e...). Loggerheads on resolution. Chaos.
403 response and Connection: close when "upgrade: TLS/1.2" · Issue #53239 · istio/istio
Is this the right place to submit this? This is not a security vulnerability or a crashing bug This is not a question about how to use Istio Bug Description Someone upgraded their httpclient5 from ...
github.com
December 6, 2024 at 2:11 PM
By far the messiest @istio.io issue I've come across github.com/istio/istio/.... TLDR is that httpclient5 (issues.apache.org/jira/browse/...) is now adding TLS upgrade headers making it fundamentally incompatible with Envoy (github.com/envoyproxy/e...). Loggerheads on resolution. Chaos.
Couldn't quite get 10k under 50 mins but chuffed with that considering 8 months ago I was 20k heavier and could only run 4k in 30 minutes.
November 30, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Couldn't quite get 10k under 50 mins but chuffed with that considering 8 months ago I was 20k heavier and could only run 4k in 30 minutes.
The new weather app in android has this picture for sunrise and sunset. And when I look at it I feel it perfectly captures how depressing winter is. Like, in pictionary, this could represent "miserable".
November 30, 2024 at 8:10 AM
The new weather app in android has this picture for sunrise and sunset. And when I look at it I feel it perfectly captures how depressing winter is. Like, in pictionary, this could represent "miserable".