John Hope

Director of Engineering / Stiúrthóir Innealtóireachta @gitlab. Formerly @storyful / @newscorp, @projectzebra & @shiftdock
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[John Hope @midhir]

For a product with an almost immemorable name, it's amazing how ubiquitous the Sony WH-1000XM* are.

[John Hope @midhir]

Also, there's just something magic about wrestling usable tokens out of a consumer card sitting otherwise idle (mine is a 7900XTX)

[John Hope @midhir]

Frontier models for planning and scoping work for specific local models (Qwen) to act on is the approach for me right now. Haven't found the sweet spot yet. The frontier has got very expensive.

[John Hope @midhir]

"Romped home" = elected below quota on the ninth count when there was no one else left to eliminate.

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

Sinn Féin, the main opposition party in Ireland, has lost out to a smaller left-wing rival in yesterday's by-election result in Dublin — and Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald is feeling the heat.
https://t.co/cxRosnrULi

[John Hope @midhir]

Thought I was missing something. But it seems the cutting edge for orchestrating multiple agents *is* tmux and worktrees?

[John Hope @midhir]

And to do so while providing less context, relative to other languages. The conventions are strong and enforced well enough that architecture can be described in short documents.

[John Hope @midhir]

Strict and strongly typed, I suspect Haskell is one of the best languages for agentic programming. When you don't want to care about the language itself but just check inputs and outputs. Which I think is the goal.

[John Hope @midhir]

While measuring simultaneously if the code quality or safety or performance was improved or degraded.

[Sinéad O’Sullivan @SineadOS1]

The enshittification of Ireland and the hollowing out of our institutions is the single largest threat to Irish civil society and prosperity.

In this damning piece, I'm going into more detail about the graph I posted yesterday: why it's happening in Ireland, why the way we're thinking about the protests is entirely wrong, and what this means for our collective governance. Link to the article is below!

[John Hope @midhir]

@ExCllrRedmond @ciarannugent Left the state this year because taxes are too high. Wasn't available to participate in the survey

[Kevin Patrick Mahaffey @dropalltables]

Their “wealth” is just a scorecard for how much benefit their companies provide to humankind.

If they stopped providing benefits, people would stop using their products/services and “wealth” would disappear.

[John Hope @midhir]

@naomhgallagher I just don't see how this change would incentivise that. I dunno, maybe it's me. I also feel the bar for interfering in free enterprise should require stronger evidence. Anyway thanks for the spirited debate! Was fun

[John Hope @midhir]

@naomhgallagher Why would I do that though, I can get a senior for 100k?

[John Hope @midhir]

@naomhgallagher I don't think the cultural acceptance will happen as long as the evidence favours inequality in overall outcomes. It has to be mandated top-down because, outside of a minority opinion, people don't really care or even believe in it.

[John Hope @midhir]

@naomhgallagher And I don't know what it's meant to accomplish other than to make a few people feel better. All the direct effects look negative to me. Looked it up & no surprise it's a Green proposal. Looking good is their MO

[John Hope @midhir]

@naomhgallagher Thanks! I just find it odd that the side effects aren't more obvious. E.g. I can never add junior, apprentice, grad roles without taking a pay cut because I'd bust the ratio? This seems obviously bad for everyone.

[John Hope @midhir]

@karldeeter It's infuriating. Having completely ruined price signals that create a market for food production, then captured it with subsidies, politicians now openly insult the producers.