gregoryl

Joined 17 years ago

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Mar 26

   Engineer, People Lead
   Melbourne, Australia
Currently contracting for FoodStorm@Instacart.

(used to) Run Ultra Marathons in my spare time.

Feel free to email me on any topic.

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Recent submissions

Comment · 4 days ago
I was digging around an epson receipt printers firmware recently; got as far as discovering http endpoints (hardcoded auth) to remotely enable ssh (but not login), and some other diagnostic access. They seem fairly well put together.
Comment · 11 days ago
500 hours; sorry, we increased the price after streaming became the only option.
Comment · 23 days ago
I often call them by their title, "Staff Engineer" ;)
Comment · 24 days ago
Roughly, zero. Stimulants are not a fun dependency, come with a bucket list of side effects and downsides, and only mitigate one aspect of ADHD.
Comment · 1 month ago
and/or how many robots they are willing to loose in my shed.
Comment · 1 month ago
They link https://github.com/terminatorul/NvStrapsReBar in the repo which does what you want for 2000 series cards. Start there, burn some credits.
Comment · 1 month ago
Tempted to see if this will work on the work dell laptop, which hardware supports rebar, but Dell just can't be assed to enable it - use an external ARC GPU to properly support 3 screens (again, Dells awful drivers / firmware - the same hardware supports 3 screens just fine).
Comment · 1 month ago
We elected a central-left government, and somehow ended up with center right. Its deeply frustrating.
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm hoping Rider get some support for switching between worktrees efficiently - until then, it becomes a tool only the primary / interactive agent sessions can access.
Comment · 1 month ago
Better running metrics. Maps. On-device routing. Longer battery life.
Comment · 2 months ago
It has encryption.
Comment · 3 months ago
As with most things LLM, you can generally get what you want by asking for it (maybe not efficiently, but so it goes). "Once you have a answer, please summarize, and ask an agent to convert it to plain English" often helps.
Comment · 3 months ago
Its a bit unkind to talk like this - the obvious and equally unproductive response is to question if you are really as good as you think you are. Are those junior developers not making a mess, or do you lack the insight to see it?
Comment · 3 months ago
Those SRE people live on excitement, its basically a gift ;)
Comment · 4 months ago
Its hard for native speakers. Information density makes for rough reading.

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