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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Nothing about national debt?
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mastodon 4.7.3I wanted to be a ham in my teens but I couldn't figure out how to learn enough Morse, so I went into professional radio telecoms instead. Now, 40+ years later, I got my licence -- but I am still trying to learn Morse. (It's much easier with computers!)
Outside this hobby I am a maker (=mad inventor) and a beekeeper living in rural Ireland.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Irish: we don't use "yes" or "no"
Japanese: we do - but they don't always mean what you think they mean
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Nobody commented on "100% salt"? That doesn't leave anything over for nuts.
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@datarama@hachyderm.io I read it as Zen. I half expected "then Alice struck him with her keyboard and he was enlightened" :-)
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@ppossej@aus.social Since we're doing this, my first language was 4004 Assembly, my first paying gig was DSP (although we didn't call it that) in 8051 Assembly on a CP/M box as big as an electric cooker.
But I came here to say that eliminating 50+ signals from CVs has been a thing since I was 50 - which is from before LLMs were a thing.
Plus ça change and all that :-(
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I'd be happy for Europe to learn from our own history. :-(
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social The secret is to put the phone down when you're doing something else
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@fesshole@mastodon.social If you debunk every video he shares he will either figure out that he is being lied to or he will stop sharing with you.
Either is a win, right?
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Who thought owning the libs would be so expensive?
Thoughts and prayers
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@anon_opin@mastodon.social If Scotland united with Ireland the Scots would immediately become full EU citizens.
Just saying.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social that's one huge grain of rice. The standard 8-leg SOIC package is about the size of a fingernail.
The unsubscribe button is too large too. ;-)
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@fflyn@mastodon.social @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Testosterone supplements can also cause sterility.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6305868/
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@CppGuy@infosec.space @ZBennoui@dragonscave.space @anon_opin Another 60-something here and, in so many ways, I'm living my best life so far. Sure, my knees aren't what they were, and neither is my eyesight, but mostly things are great.
I'm not really trying hard to not die, though. Death is inevitable. It's what happens before death that matters.
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@starlily @renardboy @DeeLux_Fiat@todon.nl @fesshole My 2019 Renault Zoe is also this. It's not EV's it's modern cars.
@datarama@hachyderm.io No. Humans have value.
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@datarama@hachyderm.io Did the "meaning" come from satisfaction in your own craft or the approval of society?
The first won't be taken away. It might change from being a profession to a hobby, like your bonsai gardening (which could become a profession, as people have more time on their hands.)
Unless the robots show up at our doors to lobotomize us, we will still be able to code.
We just might not get paid for it anymore. Although, with the token costs needed to recover AI investment, maybe we will.
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@datarama@hachyderm.io I for one have no interest in conversation with a chatbot. Nor am I interested in chatbot art, craft or literature.
I want the company of humans. Maybe one day that will be called bigotry, but there it is.
One thing I suspect is beyond today's AI is understanding or even perceiving the whole concept of the meaning of life (or lack thereof.)
Humans have been addressing it since the Epic of Gilgamesh and writing whole works on the subject since the Old Testament (e.g Ecclesiastes)
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@datarama@hachyderm.io In other words, your ability to think and feel these things makes you better than them. Your feelings of worthlessness is part of your humanity - paradoxically, the very thing that gives you worth
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Leviticus 19:28
Amazing how few of these bible-thumpers are bible-readers.
Twenty-three years ago I added an X to my YL. And, honestly, it just keeps getting better. :-)
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@grantdenkinson@mastodonapp.uk
You might find this useful:-
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.pocketpc.nearbyglasses
It scans Bluetooth for glassholes.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social It's simple statistics. You are much more likely to be killed by a human than a bear in US national parks.
(It's not because there are more humans than bears)
Killed by bears 2014-2019: 7 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_bear_attacks_in_North_America)
Killed by humans 2014-2019: 25 (https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/mortality-data.htm)
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@aoanla @mhoye Job 1:6-12 for example. Probably more than "an interpretation" - the language is quite clear.
Also: https://www.etymonline.com/word/Satan
Copilot also reads emails ... :-(
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/29/word-worm-crawls-into-copilot-spreads-chaos/5280588
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social So to even things out now Americans will get free healthcare?
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@Danpiker@mathstodon.xyz Works for me with one eye only. The other eye has an artificial lens following cataract surgery (and also can see ultraviolet)
I guess it's to do with the thickness of the lens, and probably works better on older people (I'm in my 60s)
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@datarama@hachyderm.io There is no meaning to the universe, other than the meaning we give it.
That is not an AI thing, though
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@grantdenkinson@mastodonapp.uk Hey, it could be worse.
Look what we have in Ireland!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_family_(Castlebar)#Wilson's_Hospital_School_dispute_(2022–present)
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@sjaakkeuvelaar@mastodon.nl @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Supermarket honey tends to be blended, and often with rather tasteless types (canola/rapeseed, I'm looking at you.) Beekeepers can harvest individual flows, so I can offer blackberry, or whitethorn, or apple, and so on. Each has it's own flavour, often of the flower or fruit.
As you say, it's a far superior product.
The curse is lifted.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/gaelic-games/67612202
Tonight we are in the happiest county in Ireland
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@datarama@hachyderm.io I still think that, here in socialist Europe, they won't turn the entire middle class out on the streets. That's not the way we do things this side of the Atlantic.
And, even on a basic income, you can have indoor trees.
I'm serious - something like a YouTube/Patreon channel of practical bonsai might well provide an appreciative audience (and income stream) in that world.
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@NanoRaptor The purpose of the site is to sell a service. Why would they tell you that you don't need what they're selling?
Can you find any text that it doesn't flag as AI generated?
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@collimated_thought@defcon.social @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net Most ad tools in apps can be blocked with DNS adblockers
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