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arun-niranjan.bsky.social
Software engineer 🖥️ | Former neuroscientist 🧪🧠🐭 | Southerner pretending to be a Geordie | Blog: https://arun-niranjan.github.io/
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Over the past 6 weeks: - BlueSky became less British and more American - the weather improved

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Using mine right now! The Aeropress feels like an engineer-designed product aimed at engineers, I absolutely love it.

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The dog managed to wag his tail so hard in his dream that he fell off his bed 🤦🏾‍♂️

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“That's 40 *cents*. Cents are a form of currency one hundred times smaller than the reál. I'm not even going to take this. Come back when you have 130 reál.” Isn't it... evil? The order of magnitude between what is asked of a person -- and what they have?

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I am going to come across as stuck in the past. If you are making Studio Ghibli style images with OpenAI models, please don't. I applaud the technical ability required for these algorithms. And every image I see cuts at my soul. I beg of you, watch "keep your hands off eizouken!". And enjoy it 🙏🏾

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Never has the FT made my eyes roll back into my brain stem "Tell me you've never been a software engineer" 😂 www.ft.com/content/471b...

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A jumbo jet is state of the art for intercontinental flight, but that doesn't mean a migratory bird flies by the same mechanism.

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It's arrived and it's gorgeous 🙌🏾

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On the subject of sieges in movies, I recently watched The Great Wall (2016) - a dubious spectacle and box office bomb, but also premised on a straightforward "siege" (tower defence) scenario. Monsters live in a distant mountain; they come out every 60 years; the wall has to stop them. Wat do?

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I need to build a bluesky labeller that labels and removes all chain posts from my feed. "Post a warning" being the latest

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Had a great time yesterday evening hearing @hanfrankan.bsky.social speaking about her new book Faithbreaker!

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The obsession with 'overdiagnosis' is a much bigger problem than overdiagnosis itself open.substack.com/pu... The discourse around the 'problem' of 'overdiagnosis' doesn't hold up at all when you consider the actual evidence. Pushing it anyway risks harming so many #Diagnosis #Mentalhealth #Media

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“There is this terrible misconception that disabled people just take, but actually by taking from us, you prevent us from being able to give – we want to be able to participate in life equally the same as anyone else, and that includes going to work.” Disability campaigner Tanni Gray-Thompson

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