
Phil Richards
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Phil Richards
@phildrip
Coder, dad, runner, biker. Bits and bikes.



It is time. Let's go faster! Let's use io_uring for dotnet System.Net.Sockets on Linux! PR124374 Replaces epoll with managed C# io_uring engine: batching, multishot accept/recv, zero-copy send, registered buffers, SQPOLL (zero-syscall), and more 🚀

Yorkshire Water and Northumbrian Water have nearly 200 criminal convictions between them. On 6 August 2024, Ofwat fined them £47m and £17m for sewage dumping. Fines not paid, will not be paid. Firms claim to have invested. No penalty for abusing laws leftfootforward.org/2026/01/public…


@Dumnorix24 @marklongrigg @renewablesmiffy @moremagnanimous It’s how it’s always been. Since before renewables. It’s a broken outdated system. Renewables bid at much lower than the gas price but then the gas top up comes in at the highest price and that is then the set rate for all energy. It’s ridiculously stupid. Be angry at that.









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


@JagersbergKnut The prompt format concerns me - it's Vicuna 1.1-like, with just "User:" and "Assistant:" prefixes, apparently without special tokens? I expect there will be problems if the RAG or user message contains such strings. I'm asking them about it here: huggingface.co/nvidia/ChatQA-…









