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> This was a clean-room implementation (Claude did not have internet access at any point during its development)​

Talking of words meaning something, calling it 'clean-room' when the training data included an implementation of what was being built is... not how I would use those words, at the very least. I also suspect it is not how a lot of lawyers and judges would use those words, either...

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] At least one of my university friends became a sysadmin partly because he felt that it would otherwise be too tempting to try and poke around other people's systems.​

@[email protected] Snazzy​

@[email protected] ​No, that's fair and I'm on record as liking Elm for teams but not reaching for it for personal projects (partly because of JS interop) so I get where you're coming from.

@[email protected] @[email protected] ​As a counter example one of my cousins applied for Australian citizenship and was rejected but the process was shorter, cheaper, and the reasons given were clear cut (if borderline enough that they had tried applying regardless). The UK process was long and ridiculous in places, but it was always clear what you had to do next, and where you had to go to get it. The Italians rejected my request on the basis of a rule that they changed retroactively (yay, different right wing government of a few years back) but at least submitting the request took me a fairly small amount of time and money (hundreds of euros, maybe a day of work)

@[email protected] @[email protected] So firstly: some other countries suck as well, just to be clear. Just maybe not as much 😁 . My wife getting her UK citizenship was far harder than it had any reason to be (answer questions on British TV shows I had never watched​, do an English test that required a much lower level than she'd had to demonstrate for existing profressional qualifications from a UK university, etc).

But the main difference just seemed to be in the sheer volume of information you needed to find and submit, and obviously the more you submit the more there is that can be challenged, that you might have made a mistake on, that you might forget.

@[email protected] Spicy take! Now I'm curious: why would you choose both MVU and not to use Elm?​

@[email protected] @[email protected] "I've now finished this book and no longer need it, so I've sent it back."​

@[email protected] @[email protected] I have family members who have applied for (and in some cases received) naturalization to seven different nationalities. The US applications were the most time consuming and expensive by an enormous margin. Not because the actual requirements were more restrictive (all four US applications were eventually successful, while some of the others were not), but because of the process.

Obviously, if you try it and it's horribly broken in some way do let me know 😅

Managed to scrape together enough energy to move my blog from github pages to a repurposed Pi sitting in my home office. Because, well, reasons (gestures at world).

Took the opportunity to move it from .co.uk to .eu at the same time given I haven't lived in the UK for years. blog.mavnn.eu/

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Organic, vegan, golden cables. No pesticides used or animal parts included in this cable!​

@[email protected] @[email protected] lots of phone reminders and a pill box marked with days of the week. Auto repeating reminders help me actually take the meds, the pill box helps me not take them twice. Or three time​s.

@[email protected] I think you've got an unfortunate typo in this post (assuming you like them? 😅) ​

@[email protected] @[email protected] just the level of trust and attention to detail you like to see in people offering checks notes assurance services!​

On a totally related note, if you're looking to get into coding or fine tune your skills I'm currently able to take on a few more people/small groups teaching web programming (frontend and backend), basic game development with #godot, or narrative game creation for non-coders. I've got enough experience with the UK school system I can also help you present evidence to the local authority for home educators.

I've started doing some mentoring with general coding skills as well as the online VisualInk courses, so to avoid any privacy concerns (waves at current world situation) we now have a private code server where mentees can share their code (using #forgejo).

Given I now have the server, it also makes sense to start moving the rest of my open source code there. The first public repository? VisualInk itself: code.mavnn.eu/mavnn/VisualInk

@[email protected] I'd be more worried by them specifying natural potatoes. Unnatural potato​ crisps sound like something from, well, a @[email protected] novel.

@[email protected] @[email protected] does "reminding myself sternly not to build a project management tool every ten minutes" count? I'm not even completely joking.

More helpfully, org mode in emacs hits the best balance point so far for personal projects, but it is still very hit and miss how successfully I use it​

@[email protected] @[email protected] ​it's a really deep rabbit hole - rgb is actually a terrible way of representing colours even at the basic level of being able to try and define all visible colours (see colour spaces en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_...) and that's before you even get to things like how different pigments change in different ambient light vs how projected colours are perceived in different brightness of light or how the texture of your paper changes the apparent ink colour...