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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Clearly nothing that uses Mmm d YYYY has anything approaching intelligence.
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mastodon 4.7.2He/him/his. Writing code for a living for 35 years and counting. I've lived in England, Minnesota, and (currently) Aotearoa New Zealand 
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Married with two off-site adult children.
Profile pic is a loon (state bird of Minnesota) in the form of the Star Wars Rebel Alliance symbol.
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@LynnD@cosocial.ca @CStamp@mastodon.social Canadians should *pirate* American media. The laws that say you can't were implemented as part of a deal that included tariff-free trade.
Same crossword as last week, but if you haven't done it yet it's now up with annotated solutions at https://www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3886
#CrypticCrosswords
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@Perrin42@mastodon.social @RickiTarr@beige.party There have been many men from Nantucket, but there's no historical evidence that any of them kept all their cash in a bucket.
Hard to tell if the woman in the middle of Orewa this morning shouting "Speak English! Get the fuck out of my country!" was having a mental health episode or if she's the NZFirst spokesman on Immigration.
#NZPol
Do it in the road
#BadAdviceASong
#HashtagGames
North of 40°C in Dallas
#HeatWaveMovies
#HashTagGames
#ThreeGoodThings
Getting out of Toronto.
Two teenage girls busking with their violins while I napped on the back porch. Heavy on the Pachelbel.
This borb coming to visit the island in the river.
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@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz @mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe @kennergf@mas.to @Niall@mastodon.nz Yes, stole the ship names, clearly didn't understand any of the other words in the Culture books.
Also the whole fixing White Replacement with his own dick thing is not typical nerd behaviour.
Fly like an illegal
#RuinABrandOrSlogan
#HashTagGames
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@RyeNCode@mstdn.ca @cap_ybarra@beige.party There is a lot of competition for the jobs that don't force you to use LLMs. Employers should reflect on that a while.
The title is not a guide to the content.
#DisclaimersForBooksOrMovies
#HashTagGames
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@dramypsyd@ohai.social You get to be in your prime for 30% of the next decade, which is as good as it will get from now on.
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@tuban_muzuru@beige.party @malcircuit@thingy.social Iron rods, heated to red hot, then inserted up the jacksies of Altmann, Amodei, etc.
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@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz @mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe @kennergf@mas.to @Niall@mastodon.nz Just mentally picturing what Iain would say about all this.
And also, ROU Fuck off Elon, you nazi cunt.
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@billbennett Definitely something white men are supposed to grow out of in their mid 20s.
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@2legged @Strandjunker Any time in the last 35 years would have been good. Right now, not so much.
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@theeclecticdyslexic @sinvega @munin I like talking *about* bullshit, especially when you tell people you mean in the sense coined by Harry Frankfurt in his 1986 paper, and they look at you like this is an example, isn't it?
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@LilahTovMoon I knew that ;) It was a riff on Steve Coogan's "Where are the rest of our universities? Why is it always Oxford and Cambridge in the final?" and also a pet peeve about how Arwen is given a superficially larger role in the movies but at the same time demoted from a being who everyone could see was the sole motivation for everything Aragorn does, and understand why.
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@Azuaron@cyberpunk.lol @mttaggart@infosec.exchange I think this is unfair to Ikea, whose cabinets do not take it upon themselves to sell your clothes on ebay.
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@peter @coreysnipes
I think you're screwed. I've spoken to hiring managers whose first question is "how much do you spend on tokens per month?" There are people hiring for non-AI jobs, but they want experience from before these dark times.
An actual computer engineering degree may be valuable in the future, I certainly hope it will, we will need to engineer our way out of this pit, but it's not a great bet.
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@burnitdown@beige.party @jonny@neuromatch.social my bike's pedal assist cuts out a 42km/h, but it's top speed (as in the fastest it's been going when I've looked at the speedometer) is 73.
I'm assuming it's the former that's subject to regulation?
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@futurebird@sauropods.win I'm just saying, this could also be the start of an #AltAfterDark story ...
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@richardh@mastodon.nz I run an export from Gnucash through a program I wrote myself that does all the allocations based on floor area etc. for the home office and rental flat. That outputs a spreadsheet that the accountant appears to be able to read.
One of these days this tool chain will be simpler.
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@Taweret No-one says it's going to be straightforward getting your Uranus joke published. You're going to have to sneak it in through the back door.
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@LilahTovMoon 34% of respondents are straight men, and Arwen doesn't even make the final round? I blame Liv Tyler.
Arwen is canonically the third most beautiful woman in history and poor Liv barely scrapes the top 10.
[Edit, see? My subconscious knows she's not even the most beautiful Liv]
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@mayintoronto @coolandnormal "Doona" for duvet is only used by Australians, as far as I know. I'm sure whatever the architectural trick is of making it colder inside the house than out* is a blessing in summer, but we've had the heat pump on in the house we're staying in in Melbourne this week.
- they build them like that in NZ as well, where it's much less practical.
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@niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be True. I forgot to put solar panels on my roof last year and all the sun did was make my attic hot.
- Biked to the /good/ bakery in the village
- Which wasn't busy (you could get in the door)
- And got out again without speaking any English
- Urban streams protected by green belts
- with bike paths through them
- Canadian baristas that admire AoNZ coffee culture and will tweak the way they make a long black to produce something I like
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@burnitdown@beige.party @jonny@neuromatch.social to be clear, that was on a long downhill stretch of brand new road during lockdown. It was all gravity, not battery.
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@JustaJason007 @jalefkowit Look, I didn't spend my teenage years thinking about sex with Lalla Ward just for you to make me do it again now.
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@eribosot@mastodon.social @maudenificent@aus.social @Y2kyJelly@aus.social @Cadbury_Moose@wandering.shop @DelilahTech@tech.lgbt @HederaVulpes@expressional.social @jmax@mastodon.social @TheVoidTLMB@social.vivaldi.net @Knitronomicon@mastodonapp.uk @Daveosaurus@mastodon.nz @jmopp@masto.ai @v_for_verbosity@mastodon.nz @Havoc_online@mastodon.social @gerg@hachyderm.io @delcj@mas.to @b_age@troet.cafe
I believe the tune is called "Colonel Bogey". I don't know if it originally had lyrics.
The ones I learned, at a generation's remove from WW2, were:
Hitler,
has only got one ball
Göring,
has two but they were small
Himmler,
had something sim'lar
And Josef Göbbels
had no balls
at all.
#ThreeGoodThings rollup edition
- Got my replacement passport. Well done NZ high commission in London.
- Air Transat found my bag. It was in Islamabad. No-one knows how, but it swapped tags with someone else's bag who was going there.
- All set for flying to Toronto tomorrow and back to AoNZ on Thursday.
- Guy time, helping my host and his neighbour fix the fence that blew over in the last storm. 10 post holes dug and posts cemented in (except the one where we tried the foam, not a fan).
- Poutine. It's not my favourite Canadian food (that's cretons) but it's a notable contribution to world cuisine.
- The Internet. Yes, a lot of it is bots and shit sites, but it still enables real human connection, and we shouldn't throw that out with the heads in the baskets under the guillotines.
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social There should be a boy band called ASYNC who vary the set list every night so you never know when it's going to end.
On the plus side, you can get started on the after party as soon as they start playing.
- Practice round in the Indian Crossword League went ok.
- Lunch plans with both brothers. Hasn't happened in at least a decade.
- Got through to someone at Air Transat and they might actually be looking for my luggage now.
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Feels like we should be saying his name more, because this isn't inexcusable behaviour in the view of a lot of corporate boards.
Changhan Kim.
We'll be seeing him again.
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@groxx@hachyderm.io @inthehands@hachyderm.io Code coverage is a measure of maximum testability. If you only have 90% coverage then you are testing no more than 90% of your code.
I was briefly fascinated by mutation testing, where you randomly change a bit in your code and see which tests fail. If none do, either you need more tests, or you don't need that code
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@Plumbert@thecanadian.social @Nickiquote@mstdn.social @RickiTarr@beige.party I am so sorry that my children are too old to teach this.
Although the elder, with the engineering degree, calls the custodian to change the light bulbs in his apartment, and the younger calls me, so it's not like they're using the knowledge.