Barney Dalton

Technology leader, renewables hobbyist, landrover enthusiast and kiter.

[Barney Dalton @AlphaAmps]

@weswinder ‘Landed’

[John Loeber 🎢 @johnloeber]

Standard experience booking an Uber

“5 minutes away”

I order it

“Finding your driver…”

“Pickup in 7 minutes”

I open my timer

9 minutes and 21 seconds later, it arrives

This is so tedious and I am tired of being deceived at the margin

[Barney Dalton @AlphaAmps]

@nbaschez This should surely be core to Claude Code itself. Why would you ever not want this?

[Barney Dalton @AlphaAmps]

@bcherny @ibekidkirsch Please fix chrome integration for windows. Last working in 2.1.19. Lots of bug reports but not sure they have been picked up.

[Barney Dalton @AlphaAmps]

@British_Airways how can your site be this bad? Happens regularly.

[Barney Dalton @AlphaAmps]

Did these LLMs all learn from repos with zero test coverage? #OpenAI #Anthropic

[Barney Dalton @AlphaAmps]

@TheAndyRussell @OctopusEnergy Ok, I’ll bite. What’s a looped supply?

[Barney Dalton @AlphaAmps]

@ajassy Can it connect to local MCP servers (like Claude Desktop) so we can avoid having to make internal MCP servers world accessible?

[Barney Dalton @AlphaAmps]

@elonmusk please stay out of UK politics. The UK may be far from perfect, but it is wonderfully inclusive and we value kindness. There’s no room for your divisive vitriol - especially when your view of Britain comes only through the distorted lens of social media.

[Barney Dalton @AlphaAmps]

When talking batteries the ‘h’ matters: kW = power, kWh = energy. One is the speed, the other is the tank. Forget the h and you’ve got no battery.

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

‘Why The British Don’t Like Trump’🇬🇧

- Written by Nate White🇬🇧

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

In case anyone was wondering, we are here:

[Barney Dalton @AlphaAmps]

@CB_Games01 Ship it

[Der Gepardkommandant @gepardtatze]

We showed you respect when you called us for help. And some gave their life for you.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

After 9/11, NATO's Article 5 was invoked for the first (and only) time ever by the United States.

Troops from the UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Australia, Spain, Poland, Norway, Romania, Turkey, New Zealand, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Finland, and many others joined the fight in Afghanistan.

More than one thousand of these soldiers paid the ultimate price.

JD Vance - Have you said 'thank you' once for their sacrifice?

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

"The problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell

[Mr. Beat @beatmastermatt]

I can't believe I used to defend Elon Musk.

[Barney Dalton @AlphaAmps]

@_HannahRitchie @_HannahRitchie can we have an update? How have prices evolved in the last few years?

[Barney Dalton @AlphaAmps]

@HotepJesus Queen to 3b

[Barney Dalton @AlphaAmps]

@ghostinthecable Beavis and Butthead - they were two firewall servers.