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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 21/03/2025

Anyone else feeling burned out by AI? I definitely feel it accelerates me but the cognitive overload of simply doing more things is starting to take a toll. Am I the weak link here? Haha

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 16/01/2025

Bought a backbone for my phone in the airport and it's ace. Very happy impulse purchase. Looking forward to trying out gamestream on it when I get home.

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 16/01/2025

First time in Helsinki airport, it's really nice, not sure about this hashtag though, "future of hel" 😂

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 16/01/2025

I say no to everything AI on my phone (and everywhere else) and yet "AI Core" is still my biggest app arghhhhh

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 11/01/2025

Where is the no, not ever button

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 10/01/2025

GCP support is so funny at times. me: Raises ticket, vertex response times are 10x the norm for the past few hours, this causes customer impact on real-time systems. them (a week later): Suggest you implement retries. :|

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 07/01/2025

As someone with a 4070ti, please listen to my advice. Ignore the 5070 marketing, 12gb vram truly sucks.

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 07/01/2025

The way Google Cloud pushes dedicated commitments for individual services is to get remotely stable service, if you squint, is basically what we had on prem where we had to CapEx dedicated hardware for specific projects. Cloud is less appealing by the day.

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 02/01/2025

The new @prometheus.io v3 UI is _such_ an improvement. Kudos.

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 01/01/2025

My ff16 journey so far: This is dull Oh thats a cool skill, I'll play more Bored again Oh wow cool I can fight as ifrit, I'll play more Bored Oooo new eikons Bored of unnecessarily long eikon fights Start skipping cutscenes Bored/quit I've had 25 hours of of it though so can't complain. £2/hour.

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 26/12/2024

Me: going to run slow today, nursing a bit of a hip injury Garmin: looool you're slow, old and unfit, I've reduced your vo2 max and fitness age just to shame you. Pathetic.

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 25/12/2024

People playing POE2, is it worth playing if you're burned out from d4, or more of the same?

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 24/12/2024

Linux gaming adventures continued. Quite a few games run without any issues using proton, and it's reasonably seamless. I look up the game on protondb.com first to check for settings. Others have about a 20% frame drop compared to windows. Game streaming (sunshine) is unplayable however.

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 21/12/2024

Oooo I think I might have found a Linux distro that works well with Nvidia out the box and generally feels.... Good. Pop_os!

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 20/12/2024

This is why I don't use public transport in Manchester. Believe me, I don't like sitting in traffic, and driving in general, and contributing to congestion and pollution, but when my option is a public transport system where 1 in 10 gets cancelled - it somewhat forces the hand.

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 18/12/2024

Probably spent about 3 months migrating all our apps to ESM. What an ecosystem mess that was. Today went to look at eslint 8 -> 9, dear god. Looks even worse. I've worked in so many different languages in my career but Javascript, as much as I love it, feels the most - broken.

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 17/12/2024

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBK6... everything about this performance is perfect. It's, just so good.

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Corey Taylor - Snuff (Acoustic)

YouTube video by Corey Taylor

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 15/12/2024

Me: reads loads about how Linux gaming has improved in recent years, gets excited at the prospect of binning windows. Also me: loads up my Linux mint distro, updates the graphics card drivers and now it just black screens after login. Nothings. Changed.

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 09/12/2024

Me: I'm going to dust off and restring my guitar and start playing again. Also me: traps his index finger under the Floyd rose bridge crushing the nail enough I now won't be able to play guitar for a few weeks 🤣

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 09/12/2024

Slept on capability of LLMs... In a code base coding style is important, and LLM's are all the rage, so have you considered having it refactor all your code infused with your favourite artist? Slipknot? Taylor Swift?

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 07/12/2024

One of the world's most elusive mysteries is how Corey Taylor has any vocal chords left at all

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 07/12/2024

Calling it now, and will be happy if I'm wrong, but two years from now all that will be left of Istio is forked commercial offerings. The OSS project will be basically dead.

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 06/12/2024

By far the messiest @istio.io issue I've come across github.com/istio/istio/.... TLDR is that httpclient5 (issues.apache.org/jira/browse/...) is now adding TLS upgrade headers making it fundamentally incompatible with Envoy (github.com/envoyproxy/e...). Loggerheads on resolution. Chaos.

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403 response and Connection: close when "upgrade: TLS/1.2" · Issue #53239 · istio/istio

Is this the right place to submit this? This is not a security vulnerability or a crashing bug This is not a question about how to use Istio Bug Description Someone upgraded their httpclient5 from ...

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 30/11/2024

Couldn't quite get 10k under 50 mins but chuffed with that considering 8 months ago I was 20k heavier and could only run 4k in 30 minutes.

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 30/11/2024

The new weather app in android has this picture for sunrise and sunset. And when I look at it I feel it perfectly captures how depressing winter is. Like, in pictionary, this could represent "miserable".

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 29/11/2024

My macbook battery never ceases to amaze me. Been working since 7am ish, building docker stuff, multiple IDE's, few teams calls, slack calls, etc. -16%.

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 29/11/2024

Them: "we're going to ramp the abtest from 5% to 100% this weekend" Me: who's on call this weekend from your team? Them: nobody but it'll be fine. ...

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 28/11/2024

Living in Manchester, where 4 degrees is Severe High Temp 😂

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 25/11/2024

My first Bluesky blog share :) A quick post on #AI Gateways, and how we productionised a few text-generation use cases at Auto Trader. Hopefully it'll be useful to those venturing into this space! karlstoney.com/building-an-...

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Building an AI Gateway

Building an AI Gateway to centralise common LLM use case cross functional requirements, to accelerate LLM product development.

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 23/11/2024

Gotta love my Tesla, 60% last night. Got in it this morning to go out, 10%. Random 50% drain over night. Had to hard reset it this morning too as the screen wouldn't come on. God I hate this car.

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 19/11/2024

The only thing I'm missing really is bookmarks

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 17/11/2024

Playing Throne and Liberty. It's actually pretty decent so far. Combat is fun.

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 17/11/2024

I hope bluesky succeeds. I miss old twitter where 90% of my feed wasn't American politics, engagement bots or porn. Fingers crossed.

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Karl Stoney @karlstoney.com · 17/11/2024

Hello I'm new here where do I claim my free welcome gift?

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