weebull @weebull@qoto.org

@fallenhitokiri amazing

@revk
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/24/sideways-use-of-a-hammer-earns-rishi-sunak-social-media-mockery

@fallenhitokiri ...and you know there's some JavaScript in there somewhere.

@CheRosach There are many ways to interpret that cover, and every reader we project their own opinions on to it.

The important part is "by doing what?" because the answer isn't obvious.

@silverhuang I'm no doctor, but A) could be explained if this drug also has effects on Fibromyalgia. Drugs do multiple things, and it may be a completely reasonable treatment. There was no need to mention it's also used for treating depression, because that's not what they are treating you for.

However, I am a big believer that medicine is given with *informed* consent. If you feel you were not informed about potential side effects it's reasonable to be upset. It seems to me that the cliché of "Take two of these a day, and see me in six weeks" is a cliché for a reason. The system doesn't allow the time for those conversations to routinely take place.

@danrot

```
if ( something
&& something_else
&& maybe_something_else
)
```
...becomes...
```
if ( something
&& something_else
&& maybe_something_else
)
{
```

@FeralRobots @danrot @rupert @housepanther@mstdn.goblackcat.com @catsalad No, the problem is using tabs for alignment because they change size, but the text they align to does not.

@danrot @rupert @housepanther@mstdn.goblackcat.com @catsalad I agree for separate statements, but you don't align to parenthesis in multiline statements?

@danrot @rupert @housepanther@mstdn.goblackcat.com @catsalad If people could actually, consistently limit tabs to block indentation, and never use them for alignment, then I might be convinced, but I've never seen this happen across a team.

The result is, especially in code bases written with a narrow tab stop active, that alignment (i. e. Indentation done that needs to be the same width as some text) will invariably be done with a mixture of tabs and spaces. Change the tab stop and everything breaks in a way that helps nobody, especially visually impaired people.

This is probably a tooling problem as much as anything, but tabs are too easy to get wrong.

@revk Just think of all the flour they'll produce.

</AnnoyingPedant>

@losttourist @neil

I was thinking nude-selfies are the way to go. Then it's easy to judge if someone is.... ahem... "mature" enough to view the content.

All treated in the strictest confidence, of course.

@virtualcolossus yeah, it's weird. My dad was too young to be involved during the war (12 in '39), but afterwards he joined Flower's group as a fresh graduate at Dollis Hill. I read the stories now and I recognise several of the names.

I also remember him telling me that the best way to keep a secret is to make sure people don't know you have a secret. I never knew his secrets, but I suspect he had been accepted into the circle. I think the team used to talk about those times between themselves because it was the only way to cope with the anguish of being silent about something you were so proud of. They remained a friend group until each of them died off.

The whole thing is very sad IMHO, but at least we are being more open about it now. I just wish Churchill hadn't made the decision he did to destroy the project.

@virtualcolossus

That's great to see. I met Tommy briefly as he was a friend of my father's, and he seemed to be a very nice man. It was around the time they were rebuilding Colossus, and he'd come round to ransack my dad's hoard of old vacuum tubes.

I didn't understand who he was at the time, but I'm always pleased when I see him get recognition.

@kentindell @revk

Except now, with things like Latent Diffusion it has become apparently possible.

I say "apparently" because it's using random numbers to fill in the extra detail, but who's going to care about that.