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@gleick
the US president announced intention to destroy civilian infrastructure if he does not get what he wants.
Surely this ticks all the 'state terrorism' boxes.
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Ben Hammond
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Jobbing Programmer, Bumbling Triathlete.
Clojure, Kotlin, Java with a bit of JavaScript/C++ around the edges.
Perth Based
Chinese Chess online at
https://elephantchess.me
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Joined November 07, 2022
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@masek@infosec.exchange
Do you find yourself actively prejudiced against products that you saw advertising on YouTube?
There is a certain amount of horror at 'not ANOTHER advert' that bleeds in to my perception of the product
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@chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe @jameshowell@fediscience.org
I can absolutely understand it can do amazing and potentially groundbreaking things
That's the narrowly focused machine learning though. Not this Large Language Model nonsense
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@graste
that word repeated over and over,
my tired eyes now read as 'coprolite'
and I cannot unsee it...
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@baldur@toot.cafe
how long can the AI companies keep offering their services as a loss leader.
As soon as they have to start covering their electricity costs, the cost:benefit drops sharply
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@ianbetteridge@social.vivaldi.net
Young boys not being taught how to behave is more of a parenting crisis isn't it
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
Bruce Schneier expressed it really well back in 2006
https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2006/05/the_eternal_value_of.html
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@om@witter.cz @DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social
Googlemaps does the same bothsiding thing when viewed from the UK
I always interpreted the
Feeding of the 5,000
as meaning that the food looks unappetising, and everyone pretended to eat it just to be polite.
my daughter has taught me that you can easily fill 12 baskets with food that has been artfully shredded to create the impression of eating it
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@Kingu@sakurajima.moe
why cant they use urine to cool the data centres?
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@MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk
There's some US states with extremely weak economies; would surprise me if we had lower GDP per head than Alabama or Mississippi
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
my knowledge of English Law came from reading John Mortimer; but I thought that it creates grounds for an appeal / retrial / quashing when a judge is shown to misdirect the jury
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@cmccullough@polymaths.socialhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ8_PnlEdBc
I'll drink to the memory of General Ludd
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@Pamela1960 @2legged
I note they've got the cassette version on archive.org
https://archive.org/details/not-the-9-o-clock-news-debut-album/1980+-+Not+The+Nine+O'Clock+News+-+The+Album.m4a
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@Lana
You got me confused when you talked about May
It's only April 2026 in my timezone...
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@rgriff@mstdn.social
My Mac mini keeps telling me that I dont have enough free disk space to install Tahoe. As though that were a bad thing
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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot @BellaCaledonia@mastodon.scot
oh I'd missed that too.
Dissolved 3 days ago, according to Wikipedia
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@baldur@toot.cafe
it really saddens me to remember, as a young man you learn that this is what Self Confidence looks like.
And when you cannot succeed with this kind of behaviour it is because you are not masculine enough.
And it takes ages to unpick the malignance.
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@baldur@toot.cafe
I had such high hopes for Jess Phillips
but, like any kind of idolizing, contact with reality is a problem
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@drgeraint
not just Glasgow
they were on the list ballot for 'Mid Scotland and Fife' too
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@GeofCox
depreciation is high enough anyway, I wouldn't expect my current hybrid to be worth anything in 2050
The cathedral is worth visiting
https://www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/whats-on/
From memory the Women's Institute run a cafe in the crypt
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@jwz@mastodon.social @dangillmor@mastodon.social
that graphic has intriguing choices
- that the crypto grifter is wearing a wedding ring
- that the fists are upside down on the steering wheel; that is a really really uncomfortable position to hold
Tickled by
They're laughing at you
being one of the worst insults he can imagine...
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@iris_meredith@mastodon.social
agree with your post though;
the only useful kind of network is people who you previously worked with (who would be happy to work with you again)
which is fine when you are an old git.
but not helpful when you are young
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@neil
Could it imply that both accounts have been compromised, and they are waiting for a fix before they make the announcement
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@theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social
I thought there were carve outs about wartime you can deny access to enemy shipping
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@hongminhee
It is still the case that most of the work goes in to debugging and maintenance.
Code that has been well designed and well thought out will be easier to understand and to modify.
Putting out 'just good enough' slop means that you don't think the code will be running for very long.
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@davidnjoku@mastodon.world
the logical conclusion being
Nicholas Taleb style
"I've see the risks you are taking with the results; ALL sample sizes are too small"
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@tranzystorekk@hachyderm.io @Kingu@sakurajima.moe
that does seem like a major design flaw
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@ninawillburger@social.anoxinon.de
Did the fancy ones have to tiny greek soldier statues in them?
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@liquidparasyte @Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social
felt a bit better after I read
https://vivaldi.com/blog/shared-networks-tracking-fingerprinting/
and noticed that the battery level was indeed inaccurate
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