Phil Richards

Coder, dad, runner, biker. Bits and bikes.

[Phil Richards @phildrip]

@ben_a_adams @axboe Very nice work! I have a similar effort ongoing for go, too.

[Phil Richards @phildrip]

@__tinygrad__ egpu dock

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

You'll want to be sitting down for this bit.

Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends.

And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇

[Phil Richards @phildrip]

@TheGingerBill This is awesome. Looking forward to the tasting notes!

[Phil Richards @phildrip]

@KathrynPorter26 I dunno, 40% sounds like quite a lot to me.

[Phil Richards @phildrip]

V2 has been up and running for a few years already, is performing better and is easier to maintain because of all that we learned in building v1, and the mistakes we made along the way.

[Phil Richards @phildrip]

We recently took down the v1 of our SaaS api, and deleted the code that powered it - 2.3M lines.
It had more of an emotional impact than I expected, so I took some time to blog about it.
https://t.co/ZBU5S5kXLO

[Phil Richards @phildrip]

V2 has been up and running for a few years already and is performing better and is easier to maintain because of all that we learned in building v1, and the mistakes we made along the way.

[Phil Richards @phildrip]

We recently took down the v1 of our SaaS api, and deleted the code that powered it - 2.3M lines.

It had more of an emotional impact than I expected, so I took some time to blog about it. https://t.co/ZBU5S5kXLO

[Phil Richards @phildrip]

Honorary mention to @bradfitz and @commaok for your unwitting help in the process.

[Phil Richards @phildrip]

@_josephwoodward awesome!

[Brendan May @bmay]

Never has this been truer. Labour needs to step up, wake up, show up, and get us back on the path to EU membership, in whatever form can be agreed. Blair was right then and is right now. Come on, sort yourselves out. Your economic growth doesn’t exist.

[Phil Richards @phildrip]

@dhh "Linux is wonderful, is flawed, is messy, is beautiful, is nerdy, is different. Android is customizable, is open, is fragmented, is less polished, is experimental. All the pros and the cons are true at the same time."

Love this. Sums up how I feel about linux+android. 💯

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

Take it in. The first female chancellor. The first housing secretary who's actually lived in social housing. The first education secretary who was on free school meals. An energy secretary who actually believes in aggressively fighting climate change. Not a bad afternoon.

[Phil Richards @phildrip]

@RocketJez Love the idea and the look! Strong preference for the bottom one, no hyphen :)

[Phil Richards @phildrip]

alloca caught us out. Stack overflow in a library we were using in certain, weird circumstances. Debugging was a nightmare; I had no idea alloca could cause a stack overflow as I'd never heard of it until then. Lost a couple of days to it!

[Falco Girgis @falco_girgis]

Hot take of the day... alloca() is underrated. It's an incredibly powerful, versatile, high-performance solution to automatic lifetime management of arbitrarily sized buffers, especially given C++ doesn't support VLAs. I use it HEAVILY on every platform I target. #cpp #cplusplus

[Phil Richards @phildrip]

@dustinmoris 💯

[Phil Richards @phildrip]

@simonw It's not like escaping / backslashifying hasn't been solved multiple times elsewhere, but I guess llms are less predictable. As in, maybe they would treat an escaped prompt as an actual prompt.

[Phil Richards @phildrip]

@VicVijayakumar Feed the sourdough in the shower, maybe. Could the dog walk the kids to school and back?

[Phil Richards @phildrip]

@Dave_DotNet @KarenPayneMVP That's doing I/O under the bonnet, so somewhere it's async, surely? Might as well make it obvious if so (and use the async API)... and if it's doing I/O synchronously, the thread is locked