Have officially moved into the new Aussie house out in country Victoria.
2 camp chairs. An inflatable bed. A side table. And an invisible fridge.
Student days again! Anyone know where to nick some milk crates for side tables???
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uh... wow. got told there was a fire in Cafe Monde in the very centre of winchester yesterday. i imagined a chip fat fire, or something like that. turns out... no. it was something quite different! https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/26257504.winchester-fire-12-photos-blaze-witnesses/
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@ptoothfish you mean the UN*X shell?
first experience in 1985.
suspect i'd be okay today.
Sweden has just purloined a Russian shadow fleet vessel filled with stolen grain from Ukraine. This opens up a major problem for Putin and his illegal war.
Go! You little Swedes!
Roses from the front yard! Bloomin' 'eck!!!
Smell noice too!
In our new house awaiting a delivery. Between 0800 and 1800, I arrived at 0754. What will be the delivery time...?
My guess... cancelled at 1800 and rescheduled for 0800 to 1800 tomorrow...
A long and fascinating post on how Mark Carney just held a press conference and may have upended the post WW2 world order by repudiating the US.
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@WiteWulf@cyberplace.social it'd be a fine way to give a lot of public money to the shareholders of a basically worthless business. probably in the billions.
apart from people refusing to let the past go, there's little benefit to anyone here.
a lot like trying to resurrect British commercial shipbuilding.
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-the-uk-lost-its-shipbuilding?hide_intro_popup=true
Some excellent cloud action in Maryborough this afternoon!
Kash Patel continues to be the greatest gift to late night comedy. Three fabulous takes on his drinking issues... Bin Laden even manages an appearance! https://youtube.com/shorts/mL0s4hyjzwI?si=G2yGMO1P97dZrT0-
News travels slowly in country Victoria...
Good morning! Everyone!!!
My favourite city in the world. Melbun. Amazing.
Don't much fancy this cruise ship!!!
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@RolloTreadway oh, gods yes! i just swallowed tonight's "handful" and often muse on how much it must cost in the US!
if you take more than 3 medications it is worth doing, even paying the pittance we're charged here.
the bootsies people put me onto it.
it's another reason to lurv the #NHS !!!
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@masek@infosec.exchange a possible variation on "promethean"?
promethean task: when you give people a powerful new tool that could transform their work — but key resources get snatched from you every day.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io mine is the same but speaking. same problem. structure, flow, language, minimise tech (that can come later), and leave places for the audience to breathe and take in what they've just consumed.
doing weather briefings to a cycling team as they're warming up is my perfect version of this. they're listening, but they're not concentrating on you. works most everywhere i think!
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@aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social @itsfoss@mastodon.social C simple????? bwahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
okay, for certain edge cases it is simple, but who cares about "hello world!" these days! 🤣
funny how though that UN*X basically powers everything these days, but nobody ever sees it. remarkable!
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@Krazov@mstdn.social @foone@digipres.club i suspect my client prevented me from a quizzical click on the link...
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@PeterLG@theblower.au @BrianJopek@mastodon.world what about ineffable questions like:
"does my bum look big (in this)...?"
i'd unfollow just to avoid the consequences of any answer to that question!
Blasting through Port Philip Heads at 0430.
Still no sign of Harold Holt...
so it is down to you and it is down to me gif
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@maxleibman there is no physical limit to how small you can smash them down, esp. if you find the process extremely relaxing and satisfying.
Jonathan Pie with a fantastic rant about Reform PLC. Worth a few minutes of your time. https://youtu.be/SqObceUurRs?si=-vbV6dtR4bWvv304
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@TiciaVerveer@mastodon.social hence all that North American Gaming???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_gaming
Backing very slowly into Station Pier in Melbun!
How very exciting...
Trump. Reality is what your dogma believes. #sleepyJoe https://youtube.com/shorts/OELNJuueeS8?si=ROu0GetTlHS5Ngxc
Bye Melbun...
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@samueljohnson@mstdn.social @MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk sorry? What?!?!?
Where did the UK come from in this?
The ECJ forced Apple to pay Ireland $10 billion in back taxes... a ruling that Ireland fought tooth and nail... because of their dodgy tax regulations.
If you're trying to make this suddenly about the UK you can't upset me as I'm an Aussie in Australia.
Ireland, quite simply, is a dodgy tax haven for software companies. If a German company transacts all of its European business out of Ireland, you know it is something very dodgy.
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@samueljohnson@mstdn.social @MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk well done Ireland. Wasn't addressing those numbers.
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@samueljohnson@mstdn.social @MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk I am not in the UK.
However I did spend 25 years in an EU wide software sales role for a big American company. We transacted every contract out of Ireland because it was hugely tax advantageous. All the big software companies do, even if they're based in the EU. It even makes Ireland look super competitive for intellectual property because those same companies get even bigger tax rebates if they register their patents in Ireland. No development done there, but patents aplenty!
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@jtonline@mastodon.me.uk they tried very hard to stop us! The "system" doesn't appear to cater for our combination of passports and visa. Check-in was... interesting... and the bar is not open yet!!!
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@ploum@mamot.fr in technical subjects these days where LLM and generators are heavily used in industry, i think that tool use in exams should almost be mandatory.
if you're writing code for my company i don't want you writing everything by hand these days. try doing that in an actual job. you'd not last long. code gen, libs, git, etc. use are universal. what i'd like to be testing via the exam is both the use of those kinds of tools, and how good you are at the "hard or unique bits" that can't be auto generated.
if i got 10 people with a 100% solution, i'd be inclined to give the highest mark to the person that made best, or most, use of tools.
once they leave uni that is going to be their life going forward!
OTOH, i'd ban them for "critical thinking" topics like literature, etc.
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@ron_stewart@mastodon.social @CountBinface@mastodon.world speaker. typically sufficiently loud to be heard *in* space.
Outstanding piece of work again. This time assessing the effectiveness of solving the US gun crisis by building a ballroom... https://youtu.be/Oz-MJKU7_Zk?si=7kZP-0N4zXCADPl6
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@samueljohnson@mstdn.social @MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk an awful lot of Ireland's exports are software resellers taking advantage of some very targeted tax policies in Ireland and directed at the rest of the EU. Almost zero of that software is developed in Ireland, and thus doesn't really contribute much to the country or its citizens.
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@WiteWulf@cyberplace.social Aussie steelmaking and oil refining. huge amounts of iron ore and crude mined in Oz, but...
"Despite some interest in expanding capacity for energy security reasons, analysts consider building new refineries difficult to justify commercially, citing the high cost and long development time."
plus given Oz is almost out of crude reserves, onshore refining to protect against global supply chains makes zero sense if... you rely on those same global supply chains to provide you with refinable crude!
https://archive.ph/VXK18
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@samueljohnson@mstdn.social @MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk this is a good start. https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/ireland/corporate/tax-credits-and-incentives
or... https://www.oxfamireland.org/blog/time-for-ireland-to-address-past-and-current-tax-haven-like-behaviour
or... https://jacobin.com/2024/05/ireland-tax-haven-policy-inequality
or... simply Google Ireland tax haven.
You're in a wild bit o'denial there...
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@jtonline@mastodon.me.uk sadly, you might be right.
It is remarkable to see the difference in political engagement in Oz. Variously the governments are working for the populace.
It is late, and we have a silly early flight. Summary later if I remember!
But... back to the UK tomorrow.
Merde.
I, for one, bow down to our robot masters! https://www.reddit.com/r/oops/s/pVphDxHGIa
Ready meals are really not a thing in Australia!
Under this pile is a suitcase. All of this will fit in there... I think...