Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
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These crows removing the bird-prevention spikes from this new condo. They are not having it!
@hgbruenker Those who voted remain knew that the promises of Brexit were not based in reality and ignored so many benefits. Unfortunately, the United Kingdom is still in denial that its time has passed, as did the British Empire.
We fumbled the opportunity that the EU offered, to *be* English, Scottish and Welsh, Irish, and yet still preserve our historical identity.
Sadly, we have to sort out what that means for us before we can co-exist again as good neighbours.
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(2/2) As for code, researchers have documented "disconcerting trends for maintainability. Code churn – the percentage of lines that are reverted or updated less than two weeks after being authored – is projected to double in 2024 compared to its 2021, pre-AI baseline."
https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2024/01/25/copilot-research.aspx
Needless to say, there are also lots of other issues. Generative AI remains a double-edged sword.
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Cutting it close for Valentine's Day? Cut these out. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/02/02/2024-valentines/
Thank you, well-being advisors. I followed your suggestion.
1) Up early for sociable run
2) Watched the highlights at lunchtime, which was still exciting
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Sportscaster: It is finally Super Bowl Sunday!
Other Sportscaster: Oh I thought it was Superb Owl Sunday hahaha
Owl: We get one single holiday the entire year and it's just a big fucking joke to you people.
I'm two minds whether I stay up to watch the #Owl tonight. Simultaneously everything warped yet magnificent about American culture.
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They wouldn’t be able to ban the flipper zero in the USA because of our 2nd amendment right to bear ARM’s which everyone knows refers to the processor
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Tucker Carlson’s two-hour interview with Vladimir Putin may not have revealed much that we didn’t already know, but it did inspire a lot of good jokes.
https://t.co/3dYc5urnh1
@older @Tendar Interesting point about memes is that when they work well they share an idea that crosses cultural boundaries and languages. In fact a well known meme helps illustrate ideas from a foreign culture. So someone can post a meme about, e.g. Finland, and it will translate.
Strikes me that Russian culture is still very insular and isolated (has been for centuries, which is part of their core problems) and this is reflected in their memes.
@Tendar Do you have some examples of the memes, especially ones from Russia?
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The Tucker-Putin interview is only a day in the past and devolves already in an absolute failure for Putin and his lesser minions in the West. I have already made my initial statement that the distorted history lesson of Eastern Europe was an absolute blunder. The attention span of the regular social media screamer from the right (and left) cannot exceed the length of a 3-minute tik tok video. Neither can their average meme-IQ last a text longer than 280 characters.
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But it is not only that. As you can see in the reposted text, it is even in Russian social media space where people are rather dismayed about the trajectory of this interview. Some even correctly assess that Putin's obsession of history - or better his distortion of thereof - is rather contrary to the intended goals. Putin is very much trapped in in his deluded world and then makes decisions as before February 24 for a full scale invasion which even many in his circle call ludacris.
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@DannyStaley Yep, I wanted to keep my space-related toots on a separate account. This feed random enough as it is!
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I always dreamed of a #MachineTranslation app that asks for clarifications – until I built one myself. https://www.fairslator.com/
@rochelimit Oh, I know this one! This is the one where we lose all the warm ocean currents and basically we become Nova Scotia?
@chrisgerhard And that's*income*. He's already sitting on a mountain of gold. We need the wealthy to pay dues to society.
- Location
- Mostly London
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- he/him
Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
