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Adam Sanderson

To everyone outraged about Gary Lineker, I'd like to remind you that Jeremy Clarkson said striking public sector workers should be shot dead "in front of their families" on The One Show. We were told that Clarkson had a "right to his freedom of expression and that is protected".

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lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:

As a former expert on infectious diseases and large language models, and a newly-minted expert on bond risk management, let me explain what happened at SVB

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Waldo Jaquith

Please, please, stop using "foo" and "bar” in code documentation. Give us real examples that mean something. Not "if (foo > bar)," but “if (height > limit)." Not “foo++” but “counter++”. Give us a logical hook to hang our hat on, not nonsense words.

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Matthew :python: :scientist:

First blog post in a while. Musing on how central teams can be structured and my experience in a central team. Comments and thoughts welcome 🤓

The Anatomy of a Central RSE Team
bssw.io/blog_posts/the-anatomy

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@coderefinery Are these delivered remotely? I get the sense from the use of the term "watch-party" that these are remote, but I want to confirm. Also, are these free for all outside of Nordic countries to participate?

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SkyNet here we come...
for
microsoft.com/en-us/research/g

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@eScienceCenter Will the presentations of this session be made public? Even though presumably the call isn't applicable to organisations outside NL, some of the topics covered look quite relevant to some discussions I have been having around Technical Readiness Level and Software Sustainability.

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Matthew :python: :scientist:

@dabeaz I came across them whilst learning a language and was quite bamboozled. Do you have any good resources for a gentle introduction? In theory, they look a lot better than the hacky regex I tend to write.

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US Research Software Engineers

🚨🚨 It's happening!!! 🚨🚨

Submissions for the first @us_rse Conference are open:
us-rse.org/usrse23/participate

Chicago, Oct. 16-18.
This year's theme: “#SoftwareEnabled Discovery and Beyond.” #RSEng #reproducibility #researchsoftware #Engineering

Please boost!

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

One lesson connected to ChatGPT is that reliable pple aren't those who have good answers in general, but those who answer ONLY things they know v. well.

When lost, you'd rather get no direction than a wrong one.

Real doctors let you know what is outside their expertise.

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Matthew :python: :scientist:

From birdsite 

RT @ucu
Lots of people don't realise how difficult it is to work in higher education

UCU member Chris explains what it's really like👇

Watch, RT, back our members

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Sara Safavi

accidentally wrote "saad" instead of "saas" in a text to my partner; they immediately coined "Software as a Disappointment"

and honestly, where is the lie

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Matthew :python: :scientist:

My new lockdown hobby was doing and it has continued into "normal times". I find the algorithmic nature of them therapeutic. Does anyone have good recommendations for ? Or puzzles with a theme? I did the detector earlier this year which was great. A bit late for the celebrations but hey ho!

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Netherlands eScience Center

𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯!
This call is open to researchers from all disciplines and you will receive 2 person-year in-kind support from eScience Center research software engineers on improving the sustainability of your software.

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱?
𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟭𝘁𝗵
esciencecenter.nl/calls-for-pr

Would you happen to know someone who would be interested in the Call for Sustainable Software? Please share this message with them!

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Python Hub

git-sim

Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos with a single terminal command.

github.com/initialcommit-com/g

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Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]

Thousands of archivists and librarians over here gesticulating *yes, finally, we've been saying this for a decade+*

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From birdsite 

RT @UKAEAofficial
Call for papers: Standardized Software Frameworks for Robotics in Nuclear Applications.

Contributions to the Research Topic will provide a unique perspective on robotics software in addition to knowledge on discipline-specific state-of-the-art research.
frontiersin.org/research-topic

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David Ho

What people think #oceanographers do at work.

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Kit Yates

#2023

RT @MrMichaelSpicer@twitter.com

The Conservative Party in 2022.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/MrMichaelSpicer/st

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Stuart :progress_pride:

I haven't played Monopoly for many years now. The last game was with three housemates at university. One housemate was winning and really enjoying his triumph over the rest of us. So I suggested to my other two housemates that we form a cooperative. We would let each other off rents on our properties. The standards rents would apply to anyone not in the coop. And you could leave the coop if you wanted. None of this is forbidden in the rules of Monopoly because it has little market regulation.

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