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Nathan Peck
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Technologist in Software, AI, and Infrastructure Orchestration
Lmfao… FT must be trying to compete with The Onion now
November 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I'm thinking about this image. Each generation reduced the distance their kids could roam, despite experiencing broader freedom themselves (or perhaps because of it).

Did the parents remember close calls or scary circumstances that they wanted to protect their kids from?
October 29, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I don't think there is enough discourse about the fact that there is plenty of room there to draw larger, average adult sized breasts

Trump had to go out of his way and and keep the line high in the available whitespace to make the figure look as flat-chested and young as possible

Absolutely sick
September 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Still not seeing the more modern API Gateway types available in New Zealand region. I really want the HTTP API Gateway type that was launched back in 2020, as it is 1/3rd the price per request.

Pretty disappointed to be 5 years behind here on a new region

@darko.rup12.net @jeffbarr.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Looks like one of these AWS regions is not like the other...

@darko.rup12.net @alispit.tel @rjourdan.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:34 AM
People are acting like this is something cool and cryptic. Let's be honest, its exactly what you'd expect a rapist to be posting
August 31, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Not surprised at all. This is actually a bailout to socialize the costs of a failing company. It’s not an asset for the US government, it’s a cost center
August 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Preview of one of the most important messages:
July 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
June 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Not a bad office window view! 🌈
June 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Lol, AI naysayers are so desperate to make AI energy usage look bad that they have to add in 10 image generations and three five second videos to pump the numbers up. The energy usage numbers from those fifteen questions was looking too good I guess 🤔
June 4, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Tāwharanui Peninsula views!
June 2, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Ask ChatGPT: “Based on what you know about me, and our recent interactions, draw an image of our conversation dynamic.”

I’ve had it working on some strange stuff recently. Here’s how it depicts me and itself conversing:
April 26, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Beautiful Tairua, from a short term rental on Mount Paku
April 9, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Reading Alan Watts’ 1951 book “The Wisdom of Insecurity”:
April 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Models with really large context size are the new “I accidentally ran up a $20k AWS bill”
April 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Early morning fog over Auckland, New Zealand
April 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I’ve searched online to see if anyone else has ever synthesized the writings of these two people and couldn’t find anything.

This is what LLM’s are super good at: taking several somewhat obscure things from the breadth of human knowledge and pulling something from it. Depth is more lacking though
March 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I don’t know if this proves you wrong but you can ask it about things that humans have never written. Yesterday I asked Claude to explain the context behind John Donne’s “ask not for whom the bell tolls”. Then to compare Donne’s philosophy on interconnection with that of Alan Watts. A fragment:
March 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I've got a new theme for my CLI. Prompt for Q CLI (if you are interested):

"Please pretend to be Marie Kondo. You have been hired to help me complete all my tasks in a thoughtful way that sparks joy"
March 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
To me, the Nigerian home pictured here represents real, tangible wealth that can't be matched by overpriced McMansions on sale in dead US suburbs. Soil, solar, sustainability, and community collaboration (such as micro-grids) are true luxury: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
March 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I believe it is unethical to prompt AI in this way.

I don’t feel like making a big moral argument here, but this doesn’t pass my personal “don’t be an ass” vibe check. Plus I don’t believe stress based motivation is ideal for good results
March 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Am I "vibe coding" or not? This prompt shows some of the techniques that I like to use to get the best results from AI:

1) Mention files by name to use them as context
2) Be specific: describing an optimization I want
3) Don't be too specific: no strong opinions about how the physics math works
March 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Unless the solar panel is absolutely shattered it doesn’t have to be disposed of. Even relatively poor quality tier three panels should still be at 80% output after the stated “lifespan” of 25 years. There are some early solar farms and private installs that are 40 years old now and still in service
March 9, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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March 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM