chrisbham.bsky.social
Birmingham UK
Interests: Ontology for Data integration, Rail Data, Stage lighting, learning Italian and cycling.
Work for University of Birmingham and MoniRail
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I went to watch just a random debate in parliament when 21.
It was like kicking out time at spoons without all the intellectual rigor. It was just people repeating themselves without any account of what anyone else was saying and this before social media clips were a thing (though only just)
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My daughter (4) has been asking for skates for some time now, we see kids with them at the park quite a lot.
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I don't think that's particular to a class or even a gender.
You name a group of people and a certain, really quite small (like <5% ?) proportion of them will always be arseholes. Nationality, gender, any characteristic, some people just are that way
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In electrical engineering one of the second year's harder modules includes a 'bench inspection' where work is demonstrated and discussed. That can't really be faked. It does however take several days to get through everyone, and universities are keen to have ever more students with fewer staff
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I got the wrong bearded man
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It's easy to imagine how 'we can all be like rich people and have cars' was very appealing in the 50s, when Birmingham destroyed its fabulous tram network, the likes of which is far exceeds any modern mayor's wildest dreams
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Likewise pedal bikes struggle with trams. Plus you needed more (expensive) Infrastructure for them.
Train trams, or trams with their own lane for as much of the route as possible can help, as can battery trams
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The highways agency rebrand was so effective I had to google what it's called now: nationalhighways.co.uk apparently.
Somewhere on the Birmingham City council website it had household recycling centre - "Council Tip" because they'd given in and acknowledged citizens had their own name for it.
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I have found that my mother in law cooks off the onions (often with celery and carrot) very slowly, for an hour and it makes everything taste so good.
Obously no one has time for that, so do it once in bulk and freeze it, then use when you need it
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Everytime I see references to Duterte the dictator I automatically think first of Duarte from the expanse. He was also a dictator to be fair, who got his own planet and almost, but not quite, immortality to go with it.
expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Winston...
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It does rather feel like it.
Thus I escaped. To Birmingham
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This really is a classic of our time. Despite not being "in" politics I know a few fairly inactive labour members and at least one guy who quit when Corbyn was replaced.
None of them ever like anything the labour party does
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snap!
I just keep going for walks to be outside.
If I actually try to work outside I am reminded of how thoroughly impractical that is, especially if I'm writing software rather than just like trying to read something academic.
The siren song of the lunch pint becomes irresistible too
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and, unlike many other places, not in a position to say no when we inform them we're dumping our worst people there.
The UN would probably complain though, dumping Farage on someone is surely a serious crime
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It's been seen by 1.4 million accounts.
The way twitter is these days 1 million could easily be automated and another chunk from completing manual astro turfers
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I think you'll find they've *gained* a submarine. it's just not a very good one, being as it was designed to fly
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Aside from the obvious "being a good place for it angle" with the hotter summers we can expect, we will get the same benefit Italy gets: cars that aren't roasting hot in the sun.
(I don't think it's required in Italy, but it is something they do)
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Sadly I don't think being entirely impossible has ever stopped the public (anywhere! Not just the n the UK) wanting things.
Green power with no pylons is nothing on economic growth, good pensions, no immigration.
Big army. Lower taxes.
The impossible is very popular
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Sharing a name with a way of describing age and gender doesn't reduce ambiguity
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Actually, now you mention it, LLMs and the senile sound remarkably similar
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I know that I *should* be against drone strikes for fly tipping, but it does seem I might just quietly nod and mutter something about following due process, before promoting them to a red mist
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You choose the right moment to request that:
bsky.app/profile/chri...
2 * children dropped at nursery this morning
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It worked out just great for japenese curry going from India via the UK, why not bagels too?
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'Did you need help with a twat?'
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In a small world moment, we have that exact same 4 way pop up plastic toy in the UK.
Ours was sold as Chad valley (a long defunct UK brand)
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I'd be inclined to terminate both: double socket faceplates for ethernet are more common than singles any how. Then only use one normally, but if you discover you need a second it's there.
Disclaimer: I didn't bother, cables hardly ever just die
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Shouldn't overlook the entertainment value of accidentally recognising Taiwanese sovereignty too
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Ideal time to put wired networking if you're making a mess of the walls \ floor anyway.
WiFi is great an all, but £200 access point still isn't as good as £10 worth of cable
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To be honest I think an average programmer, working at a level that would let them do commercial projects unsupervised could knock out better work than an LLM. The average taken includes all the people who are still very much learning and would normally be at university or in very junior roles
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Developers do have problems with them.
We're annoyed that they're just not very good. Like if you let it do anything even slightly complex, it will *definitely* do it the worst possible way.
The bits of programming that are creative are the last thing you'd trust them with
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Might I then respond with the Turisas version:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdkB...
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....Loads of tech is making things better: my job couldn't have existed when I graduated in 2005.
At the same time you're right, the world does have a going to shit vibe, the spin out I work for is part of higher education, which is fucked 6 ways to Sunday
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I shall add it to my 2025 bingo card forthwith
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I think we all came to these comments to ensure that joke was present!
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I haven't seen the tiger, but the stuffed animals from IKEA are definitely popular with my kids, we have a polar bear, a stegasus and a pig
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Indeed, this seems like a case whereby more is more.
Sure I don't know what I need £1bn for right now, but I'm sure something will present itself