philjohn.bsky.social
Staff Software Engineer @Apple, previously @Meta, @Tripadvisor
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It creeps up on you out of the blue sometimes, doesn’t it? Coming up to 2 years for me. The best metaphor I found was the grief box and ball hospiscare.co.uk/how-we-help/...
Hope you’re able to focus on happy memories to remember him, despite the grief.
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Three words: Kickass Proxmox Cluster
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I remember using “trackers” back in the day, there’s some modern versions floating around like OpenMPT en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMPT
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carsick.app if you ever find you need it! Also useful for company shuttle bus commutes :)
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One thing that stopped me for the longest time was the train to London tilts around fast corners which gave me motion sickness. Thankfully someone came up with a MacOS app that pairs to your phone’s gyro to display motion cues which has solved it for me! A privacy screen is a must though.
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Only time I use my laptop as a laptop is when working on the train on the way in and out of work, or taking notes in a meeting.
Rest of the time it’s plugged into a Thunderbolt dock and driving 2 monitors and with a physical keyboard and mouse.
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They’re annoyed we’ve not weakened our food standards so our farmers can’t sell to the EU cutting trade with them even more. Brexit uber alles, even if it decimates the fishers, and farmers, and anyone else.
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Also a reason not to use smart sockets/plugs with inductive loads - inrush current kills them fast.
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Attached a kill-a-watt (or similar) to things to check the power draw?
I’ve “only” got a 3080 TI but that thing can spike pretty high.
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Can’t go wrong with a Bambu P1S, my 18 year old son has one and the prints are great. A little bit of kerfuffle lately with their security enhancements, but for the happy path it just works.
Add in the AMS and you can do some really fun multi colour prints.
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When they got rid of Quip at Meta a load of us were annoyed as hell because it’s just better for writing IMHO.
Glad my new employer uses it.
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Philomena Cunk writes for the NY Times now?
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It doesn’t fit the talking points of the gas and oil industries … one could draw the conclusion from there.
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You forget that Republicans follow Supply Side Jesus’s teachings and not actual Jesus.
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The same way that EVs have been made political. Monied interests, from the oil and gas industries, sowing discord to prevent their cash cow being threatened.
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Yeah, and in the 18th century we were all in on Miasma theory. Times change, and we learn more.
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They saw what the tariffs did to soybean farmers last time and
voted for more of the same. At some point people need to learn, maybe second times the charm.
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Maybe they’ll have to agree to export limitations to “unfriendly nations”.
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I hope you sue ... since their defamation laws are descended from those in the UK they're a lot stronger than in the US. IANAL though.
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Also Taft and the “right to work” bill which neutered unions.
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With the opioid epidemic I wouldn’t be surprised if pharmaceuticals are the third leading cause of death.
But of course, he just takes that number and tries to claim all medications are bad.
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Ah yes - you’re 100% right, I missed the “mr president” line at the start and assumed it was an older conversation. Thanks for the correction!
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That’s exactly how it works.
And the poorer you are, the more of your income you have to spend on “stuff”. So it’s explicitly a tax on the poor.
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When Roy Cohn is making sense you know stuff is cooked.
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Especially two business guys who have funded every single step that got us to project 2025.
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It’s an older joke, sir, but it checks out.
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“2026 election at risk!”
lol … they’ll still vote republican and then wonder why things don’t get better.
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It’s sad how they get a large language model to do their thinking for them.
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It does. You don’t show up in DAU and MAU metrics (daily active, and monthly active).
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So much for the “tolerant” left!
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It’s always the ones you most suspect.
Glibness aside - there’s one main thing predators often go for - and it’s positions they have power over and access to children (source: used to work on child safety).
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It’s not art
It’s AI generated imagery.
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Don’t forget the right wing talk radio that played a part in radicalising Timothy McVeigh.
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I was wondering if it would act like a tuned mass damper … but looking at your credentials I think you’re more likely to be on the money there.
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“Fortunately” the building that collapsed was under construction so fewer people in it that if it was finished.
Horrific.
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Or even white families
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Only for republicans. Hillary Clinton gave evidence for 8 hours without issues.
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“Intelligence”
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I loved his song “When I’m cleaning windows”
On second thoughts, that was George Formby.
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Or when they do it’s a token 2 or 3.
Grid scale is still best on low quality grazing farmland though as on roof is 2-3x as expensive and has other grid constraint issues.
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And don’t censor their contact details. If they’re proud enough to send that, let the whole world know who they are.
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He didn’t mind when a single federal judge went against Obama, or Biden. The hypocrisy … it never ends.
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But also tracks - Tesla fans aren’t car people and don’t know how to drive properly, taking sensible precautions etc etc.
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Lots of the 9500 are senior nurses who are away from frontline work managing contracts from a clinical perspective. So to say they’ll be lost is a misnomer.
Which has always seemed bonkers to me.
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Plus it’s more fun to grow someone that just use a machine to do the “grunt” work.
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Also the buttons to indicate instead of a stalk is just dumb. Years of muscle memory gone, and when turning if you need to indicate need to think “wait, top or bottom button at this orientation?!?”
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E-GMP platform totally slaps. I’ve got an EV6. Love the look of the Ioniq 6 … almost Porsche esque.