My parents had this book. Thankfully they didn’t follow the advice.
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Alexander Dyas
@alexanderdyas@mindly.social
mastodon 4.5.18British, live in France, work in Switzerland.
#Reading, #science, #meditation, #snowboarding, #making, #woodwork, #electronics, #guitar, occasional #cooking, #boardgaming, #cinema, #music.
Maker and collector of #clocks.
Sysadmin by trade, #DevOps, #K8s, #Cloud, automate all the things.
Star sign - Stegosaurus
99% #Atheist, #humanist, #remainer
Moderate, occasionally good.
-= Do no harm, take no shit =-
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Don’t anthropomorphise machines, they don’t like it.
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@Walrus @david_chisnall And that breathing / eating down the same pipe idea really was a doozie.
The guy was a deranged maniac 10 years ago, stop acting surprised only now.
Regretting that Carpe Diem tattoo
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@randahl@mastodon.social Its like at the start of anything he does he asks himself “How can I do this the worst possible way?”.
Ordered a 1TB USB disk drive for someone last week. Person reported yesterday that they were thrilled to receive a princess costume for a 4 year old.
It’s not even Apple Time Machine compatible.
Part of me wants to go through the customer support experience trying to get backups to work on the item actually delivered.
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Handing over the keys to automation is NOT absolving yourself of responsibility. This goes for any automation, self driving vehicles, nuclear power station control, anything.
If you remove the air gap, you expose the gap between your ears.
#ai
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@markn@mastodonapp.uk Or when you start reading the work you find out there was a specific child he wanted everyone to call Eric Partridge. Maybe the chosen one to take on his legacy.
I see that he didn’t even follow his own rules, naming his only daughter Rosemary Ethel Honeywood Mann, not even using his surname.
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@keyboards That’s v2472.372 of the design. Version 2472.373 has now been released, thankfully including antidisestablishmentarianism and also the word ‘jerk’ which came from the same Jira ticket.
Pre-coffee I read :
“Caching a large dir”
as
“Catching a large tiger”.
And I thought “yeah, do what you need mate”
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@Opfoss@c.im Quite. I’m wondering now if the book was a long justification for the suggestion, and I want to read that.
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@benjamin @ShaulaEvans I tend to use this word quite a lot in English, and regularly speak French. I’m wondering what I use in French, and honestly I think I actually use a made up frenglish “acknowleger”, most people understand.
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@Tekchip@mastodon.social Just that cover photo is so good. On its own, in isolation it’s beautiful, and it gains so much when you add all the context. ❤️
And you've been so busy lately
That you haven't found the time
To open up your mind
And watch the world spinning
Gently out of time
- Blur, Out Of Time
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@82mhz
Apple Switch campaign ad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c72d4-LpilM
Ellen Feiss - https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/03/08/what-apple-switcher-ad-star-ellen-feiss-is-doing-now
Beep beep beep beep.
Apple Switch - Ellen Feiss (2002)
I think enough time has passed now to go back to the “boop deep doop lost data” Apple ad girl and ask her for real if she was stoned.
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@finitebaffle@mas.to @alexglow@chaos.social @acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com “Manchester who? No. I didn’t know the city had a football team.”
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@SmartmanApps @owent @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross To be fair, the one at the top is a plantain
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@kepano Data used to train AI cannot be unpicked either. So this is a one way street, unless you start over.
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I should have linked to the article from whence I gained this information:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/apr/19/a-year-in-life-of-london-zoo-vets-photo-special
Beautiful piece.
#zebras #TIL
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@jalefkowit His initial plan of slowly moving the scalpel from one squidgy lump to the next and watching the expressions one faces of the nurses didn’t work
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@Edelruth@mastodon.online @theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social Came to say this. Easy way to filter out anyone we don’t like.
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@tafnn@universeodon.com Decisions based on observed behaviour and strongly held values, not just blindly following an ideology or loyalty.
A genuine entry in today’s ToDo list:
- Change G string
There’s an old Blues trick, by replacing the G string (standard tuning) with a B string tuned up to G, it allows easier pitch bending as the B string is thinner and more elastic.
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@nusher@mastodon.scot Unless you’re posting under a pseudonym you dodged a bullet too!
#weareeric
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@thomholwerda It’s almost like we’re becoming dumber, not properly verifying what we’re reading before trusting it.