Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Mail chew, catch-up call with Kendy, Cor & Eloy, more
mail, reading of text, analysis etc.
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Pleased to notice the 30 years of Linux celebrations, and
some great
interview bits from SVJN one gem from Linus:
"I think the companies getting involved has been
hugely important - and that may sound so obvious as to be trite
and stupid, but some corners of the open-source community have
been fairly negative to any commercial involvement."
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Watched Yes Minister with the babes in the evening.
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Back to work, planning call, lunch, caught up with people
left and right. Phil & Susan came over for lunch. Sandy
dropped in too.
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Thrilled to see Lubos' work on Skia
on Mac land, with some significant wins.
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Up earlyish, M's Birthday - croissants for breakfast.
Off to All Saints with H. to practice & played for the
service; good to see lots of people returning to Church in-person.
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Home for lunch, went for a walk as a family in Brandon
forest; back - Ailish & Rebeka over for a fine roast lamb
dinner - they stayed up late for a sleepover. Watched some of
'Humans' with J.
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Mail chew; tidied up a little. David over for lunch; lovely
to see him. Plugged away at insulating the loft tank/pump together
for a while; dinner together, assembled a Tokyo lego model / present.
Watched The Princess Bride.
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Breakfast, packed up, washed up, tidied the place, bid a fond
farewell to everyone. J. drove home, rested - lots of tired people.
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Out for a rather better walk with Rob & my families.
Sun, lunch by a stream - dammed it with E. and E. - fun. Wandered
back past a great view of Thor's cave. Home.
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Prepped for Mum's party, managed to dispatch Anne, and move
onto Robert; caught up with Richard & Matthew. A fine, catered
Birthday dinner, speeches. Barn & Sarok dancing in the barn
until late; fun.
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Up earlyish; everyone out to Haddon
Hall together. Got side-tracked by the Kitchens and a tudor cooking
video for a while. Sandwiches for lunch outside together. Back to enjoy the spectacular
other innards of the hall - lovely long gallery & gardens.
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Into Bakewell to get a genuine tart to eat, flowers for M, and
some other essentials. Back. R & A cooked a fine BBQ for everyone, ate
outside for a while . Relaxed while
Anne & Olivier taught Bridge to H. N. and others.
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Breakfast together; selected a rather short walk which got
lengthened significantly by roads being closed; parked at Ilam Hall,
and walked to the top of a nearby hill with a fine view back across
the valley with R & A & Bruce. Lunch at a tumble-down barn.
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Back, played guitar songs for small nices & nephews to
run around inside happily. N. cooked a pasta supper. with
Eton Mess from B. Then H. setup a murder / assassin style game for
the families - fun. Played CodeNames in the evening.
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Up early, chewed mail backlog quietly while packing,
reviewed some patches. J. drove to near Ilam derbyshire to
stay at Lower Damgate Farm
with much of the wider family & some friends to celebrate
Mother's birthday party.
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Out shopping with R. chatted & slept.
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All Saints music in the morning, H. on Piano, M. on Bass,
N. singing, me on Beckie's Guitar; fun. Home for lunch; relaxed
variously together.
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Family out for Julie's hen-party looking georgeous.
Off to All Saints for Church cleaning & dunging out -
coffee with some of the lads afterwards, home - lunch.
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Mail; poked at some benchmarking code; added valgrind
support for tracing kit processes and poked at some rather
interesting things that appeared; fun.
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Mail chew, patch review, call with Mert, caught up with sales
backlog a little. Yes Minister and Ghosts with the babes
in the evening.
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Up early, bounced with L. on the trampoline, helped T.
get his UK Bank account reset. Lunch. Bid 'bye to the American
branch. Chewed some mail.
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Breakfast, T. explained his job to H. out to Lackford
Lakes for a walk & playground visit. Home, tried to get the
shade sail to be easy to detach (in case of rain) with some
success with T's help. Played games in the evening.
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Mail chew, consultancy call, cleaned the house, put up
flags, catch up with Tor. Helped babes prepare a full English
Breakfast / brunch.
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Tom, Beckie, Sam & Lydia arrived - so lovely to see
them in person after so long; celebration lunch - lazed around,
babes to bed to tackle the jet-lag. Enjoyed each other's company.
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Planning call with Andras returned from holiday, Aron
& Cor, catch up with Dennis & Szymon, chat with Gopi,
sync with Ash. Mail chew.
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Up early, took H. for PCR test in Cambridge; home,
played bass at All Saints, home for worship guitar &
lunch.
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Played Rumikub with the family; bit of Articulate,
watched 'Ghosts' & 'Yes Minister' alternately with the
babes.
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Up early, noticed 17yr vaccinations open & took N.
for hers in Cherry Hinton early. Drove to see B&A. as a
family; worked in the car. Enjoyed the beach: N&E swum
somehow, back for some tea & drove home.
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Mail chew, finance / admin / signed off accounts, partner call,
intern setup call with Mert. Sync with Miklos, more mail, code reading.
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Got music planned & sorted out for All Saints
Read story E. did some C# coding training with N. for school.
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In to Soham VC to collect Naomi & Miriam's GCSE exam
results; some impressive application - and great relief. Home.
COOL community call, caught up with Gabriel & Alexandru. Lunch.
Caught up with Pranam, Julie, chunks of admin.
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Finally got an HA proxy issue around Host: header port
numbers, an easy one. Dinner, more admin. J. collected N. late
from an exam celebration party.
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J. collected H. at 3am from Cambridge; Up earlish,
headed for Holkham beach with the family - dug in the sand,
enjoyed the sun & sea & sand.
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Back via F&C & Kebab shops on the way home,
band practice, bed.
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Waited with trepidation for H's A-level results to show up
on the UCAS website; some quality error reporing around coping with
~400k hits in the same minute:
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A few minutes later - got the good news of acceptance by
Durham. On to a partner sales call with Eloy, catch up with
Pranam & Cor.
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TDF staff call, interview with intern candidate. Tagged a
new core release with Cloph's help.
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Mail chew, plannign call catch ups with Miklos,
Pedro, screen-share support call with a customer.
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Lots of people over for dinner, getting their
nails done & so on. H. out for a walk.
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All Saints band in the morning, back for a quick lunch,
on to Jess & Alex's wedding - played for them variously -
a joyful time.
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Went to collect H. in Cambridge with J. very tired, but had a wonderful time helping
out on camp. Lovely to see her again. Dropped Jude home, back
to bed.
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Spent a good time with N. getting shade-sail fixings fixed into
the walls, and mounting the shade sail: nice.
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Managed finally to cut through the ~inaccessible PVC soil pipe
up-stand, by glueing to the wall with expanding foam and dremel / drill.
Got the new air-admittance valve fitted.
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Discovered the shade-sail about to burst - full of water;
British weather is something else, hmm.
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Mail chew; catch-up with Cor, interview with a project
manager; Lunch, catch up with Gustavo. Out for a walk with
the babes at Nowton Park. Back, more mail, admin.
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Catch up with Muhammet, COOL community call, plugged away
reviewing text, code, finally getting back through the mail queue
from a week away. Positive customer call, Simon N. over in person
for a pleasant meeting - nice to see people in-person.
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Played Articulate with the babes, fitted new sink waste
with a slot for overflow: will be nice to have the overflow
working. Some cost-engineer shaved 1cm off the bottom (or I
ordered the wrong one) - ordered a new adjustable trap to
match; annoying.
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Dug through accounts & projections for this
& next year.
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Mail, patch review, sales call, catch up with William,
CO 2021 planning call, team testing call.
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Call with Philippe, admin. Watched District 9
with the older babes.
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Up early, poked at some code; call with Pranam, then Kendy,
then Cor, lunch. Bit of hackery on a performance regression, more
calls.
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Liked Matthew's post on Copilot - sharing
ideas even those codified in neural networks (repeatedly counting the
number of lines in an in-lined, C, double linked list manipulation
method to check it used to be some sort of fun); so I tend to agree,
that is unless we train a neural network to type out whole programs
of existing (C) FOSS code verbatim: also possible, but not proposed.
Looking forward to having time to play with CoPilot myself.
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Chat with Gokay.
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Slept poorly, up super-early; quiet time - started chewing the
E-mail backlog. Caught up with Kendy, planning call, lunch with the
babes, patch review, admin bits.
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Call with Mert, who has made the online auto-typing benchmark
hugely faster; got some nice profiling data from that; lush.
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Tried to reproduce the family bathroom plumbing problem (having
cut a hole in the wall on Saturday pipes) - not reproducible - bother,
ordered more plumbing bits - lets see.
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Up lateish, sermon & singing at home, pizza lunch.
Slugged
and managed to catch the blog up to date.
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