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Alternative view: use of semicolons has gone up massively in the last 30 years or so thanks to computer programming languages.

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“Throwbacks” 😅

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Snakes on a Train “One of Japan's busiest bullet train lines came to a halt after a snake tangled itself in a power line, causing a power outage.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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One of the greatest movies ever made.

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John Ridley (writer for 12 Years a Slave) is set to direct an adaptation of Isaac Asimov's The Caves of Steel, first book in the Robot series. We predict it'll make it farther than the Will Smith attempt. reactormag.com/12-years-a-s...

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After struggling with Single Sign On with Go on a Mac, I eventually wrote ~80 lines of Swift, job done. #WeekendHack I learnt a lot about how Macs do Kerberos and why it doesn’t work well with go-krb5, but I was really impressed how easy it was to get productive with Swift.

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If you’re an engineer or systems designer, worth noting: Touch-based biometrics have high failure rates for older people. This has implications for any system targeted at older people, like pensions.

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We had some sun yesterday. It’s been a pretty crazy mostly sun-less November so far. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

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Saturn’s Rings from the Dark Side / Cassini apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap12123...

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Voyage of the Moons, by Kevin Gill www.flickr.com/photos/kevin... Europa and Io orbiting Jupiter, based on photos captured by Cassini

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Today seems like a good day to post something serene

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‘Blameless Retrospective’ Raja Ravi Varma, oil on canvas, 1906 #ClassicProgrammerPaintings

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Lambda functions in SQL. What a truly modern age we live in! #DuckDB til.simonwillison.net/duckdb/remot...

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If the Conservatives win 150+ seats tomorrow, I suspect they’ll be celebrating. #ukpolitics #generalelection2024

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My latest cartoon for Guardian Books. #books #politics #sauron

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Just setting up my #Bluesky

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