Barry Kelly
barrkel.bsky.social
Barry Kelly
@barrkel.bsky.social
Software engineer and architect. Zurich, London, Galway. Google, Duco, Delphi.
I bought these bad boys in October, not due to tariffs (these are CHF prices) but due to lack of belief in significant hardware speed leaps any time soon, and got ahead of the great memory spike. 128G for my desktop and 768G for my home server, & 32+96 VRAM for the two GPUs. 1TB RAM total!
December 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
If you simply mention France it's hard for generative AI to avoid jamming an Eiffel Tower in there. It's a real problem that without a lot of specific prompting, the kind of sample that modern generators come up with is laden with kitsch stereotypes.
August 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Chat is the messaging equivalent, and you need to allow people to contact you if you want people you don't follow to be able to chat.
April 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Always thought this joke goes better with Kermit looking out the window
March 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
You can understand it under a game theoretic framing, as a long term commitment proof.
March 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
(For what it's worth, which isn't a lot, Clause agrees I'm entitled to feel offended.)
December 18, 2024 at 9:20 AM