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Software guy since the early ‘80s. 25 years of Extreme Programming! Aviation Geek/Pilot.
Proud Canadian on the banks of the mighty Carp River in Ottawa! 🍁🇨🇦
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Maybe they're both Alien Predators! 😀
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As real as anything else on Twitter 🤷♂️
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He uses the raised eyebrow deliberately and goes by Thomas and not Tom. How is it possible NOT to hate him? 😂
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One of the solar storms last year (May?) was about 25% of a Carrington-level event and it didn't cause many issues at all. If anything, it was a wakeup call to ensure the infrastructure could handle worse. So, it may actually have spurred companies to invest in protection against it. 🤷♂️
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So glad I'm Canadian 😞
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I believe that Doug Ford's superpower is to look mostly harmless, even appealing, while working the IDU playbook.
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Based on my experience, you could just write a script that automatically responds, "No, that didn't work!", to the LLM until it responds with, "Fine, then write it yourself!". Then take the code from the response before that. 😀
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Yep… people are so people-y. Dogs don’t lie! 😀
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Yes!! Bruce worked his arse off for that riding!
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🤣
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Yeah, it's a classic example of "the worst system, except for all the others"
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My work here is done! 😂
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Yes, but this is probably just more distraction from government corruption in Alberta.
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Oh please... Henry I died from eating too many lampreys, not eels! Lampreys are from the Petromyzontiformes order while eels are Anguilliformes.
For crying out loud, Clare, get it right!!
😀
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"We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune..." 😂
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He reminds me of Bowie's The Jean Genie: "He sits like a man but he smiles like a reptile..." 😂
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AND, David Cochrane managed to get a dig in about the LRT débâcle! 😂
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Ew.
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Yep, the "Mach stem" effect!
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Do you mean the squiggly vertical lines to the left of the mushroom cloud? If so, those are from rockets fired to show the effects from the shock wave. Other blast videos show them being moved laterally, which is an indication of the strength of the wave.
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He won't. He's scared of her, just like he's scared of Ana.
I'm not joking.
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Is there such a thing as a "hard like" of a post? If so, I give one to this.
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GAAAAHHH... Tainted Love!!! Back when it was on the charts in '81-'82, I was at a party where someone had made a 90-freaking minute tap of just that effing song!! IT PLAYED ALL NIGHT!!!
To this day I twitch when I hear the opening notes!! Then I have to... run away. I have to... get away! AAAAAGH!!
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Here is how he spent it. Excellent article.
open.substack.com/pub/letterke...
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Depends on the quality of the beer 😀
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SELECT * from public.Fridge
WHERE item.type = 'Beer'
AND item.temperature < 6
AND item.temperature.units = 'Celcius';
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I dunno... recently a friend asked ChatGPT to summarize their approach to software development, so I did the same. As you say, it generated dull, banal, uninspiring "stuff". So I asked it to do it again, except with me being reimagined as an action hero! I rather like what it came up with. 😀
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I was 20 in 1985. I didn't understand all the horrors, but I understood enough. I'd be happier with the mid to late '70s before Ronnie Raygun.
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Nice!!
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You figure out what works best in your particular context, but at least try something different occasionally!
Is the PR text & any clarifying comments ever used to generate technical documentation?
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the trick is determining which version of "Mary had a little lamb" we mean. Yes, you can do that in comments but a conversation is much faster and more clear.
Of course, that doesn't take into consideration different timezone, working hours, etc. So...
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When I'm working with teams I'll ask a group what "Mary had a little lamb" means. Most will say, "It's from a nursery rhyme", which is true. But, I point out, it could also mean that Mary was eating lamb & wasn't very hungry. Or Mary is a sheep and gave birth. So...