thinkfoo.uk
Software Developer: TDD, CD etc
Political: liberal, pro EU, centrist non Dad
If you get blocked it's because I found you boring
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New game. Take the headline and ask chat gpt to write a Telegraph article in the style of the the author. Every bit as good as paying for the subscription.
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I have to come to London for work in a couple of weeks this thread has (and oh my the replies) has terrified me, what if I have a nice time and meet interesting people, the horror.
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One wonders if extradition to the USA should now be considered in breach of human rights act.
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Some people need a grievance, often people who by any standard have been pretty successful, but somehow they just feel like they haven't got what they deserve and that's clearly someone else's fault.
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I imagine at some point there will be a test case under the online safety act.
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“The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”
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As enshrined?
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Have had 5 (I think, I've kind of lost count) general anaesthetics now. I was nervous before the first one but never since. I find I come round thinking of whatever I was looking at just before, so try to be reading a good book or looking at pictures of my (mis?) adventures.
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Kind of sums up how stuck Westminster is that they believe knowing how to use methods developed over 2000 years ago is the new way to find original thinkers.
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Never understood coffee for hangovers, the last thing on earth I want with a hangover is coffee.
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Easy to imagine it's the world rotating around you when it's actually you going down the drain.
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The "this project was funded by the EU notices" suggest not.
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Fascinating how much this has changed in even a few weeks though. I mean still a bit outraged but definitely useful.
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"We had committed ourselves to a Wealth Tax; but in five years I found it impossible to draft one which would yield enough revenue to be worth the administrative cost and political hassle."
- Dennis Healey
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Which also brings to mind that now we are finally (rightly) getting on with processing the backlog of asylum seekers there is probably a wave of very dilapidated vacant hotel rooms in areas already oversupplied with dilapidated hotel stock coming onto the market.
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An I the only one that looks at that and thinks there must be something to gain from a high speed rail link between Edinburgh and Newcastle?
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I imagine landownership is much more fragmented than it was in Victorian times as well, which meant landowner resistance (which was very definitely present) was much easier to deal with.
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Are trains in France frequently underutilised?
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Isn't the test for the end of the world kind of intrinsic in the waking up?
Unless you're Arthur dent I suppose, just make sure you know where your towel is.
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Am I correct in my understanding that we currently perform more stringent checks on imports from RoW than from the EU?
Which means there is a potential problem of dumping of substandard goods from bad actors in the EU.
But that has nothing to do with pesticides on Mexican asparagus?
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With the excellent Blackadder Christmas Carol special thrown in for good measure.
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Those that have to do that already have to do that.
Making tax digital applies to self employed people and landlords making over £20k, not pension income.
www.gov.uk/guidance/che...
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Presumably hoping they don't look at the polls showing Reform in the lead.
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One of my pet hates to be fair.
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There's always been queuing in pubs except that it's a wide queue, managed by competent bar staff and a overdose of politeness (I think you were here first mate etc)
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Queuing. Which sounds trivial but actually points to a wider mutual respect of each others rights.
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We'll have really worked our way through this evolution in tools when using AI >in<an exam is considered no more unusual than using a calculator.
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At some point we'll actually all catch up and view this headline in the same vein as "Shocked as students found cheating using slide rules"
AI is a tool, that's all.
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Pratchett's Sam Vimes said it's more expensive to be poor, cheap boots wear out fast. Decades of underfunding public services have had the same effect, the UK is more expensive to run >because< we constantly underinvest.
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I agreed with the ECHR on prisoner voting. If prisoner votes could swing an election, perhaps what we criminalise is out of line with what the people want.
The people must always have checks and balances on executive power even, perhaps especially, when the executive has locked them up.
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Darth Marmalader
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Telling a developer they won't have time to write unit tests is like telling a joiner they won't have time to do any measuring.
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I love the books that sync between audible and kindle. I frequently switch between listening and reading the text.
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Folks here are saying engagement is falling, but is that necessarily a bad thing?
Engagement here seems much higher quality than the verbal bashing that dominates the place that shall not be named.
Quality not quantity.
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I'm forming the view that BlueSky is to Xitter as methadone is to heroin.
Which makes it a valuable public service for those that recognise the problem.
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Unfortunately successive governments seem determined to push them much more effective levers that move things in the other direction. (Brexit, overly restrictive immigration controls, lack of clarity and direction)
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These people must think the electorate have the attention span of a goldfish, looks at Trump 2, oh as you were.
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Especially if you think about eg. Acceptance Vs unit test
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Architecture styles (client server, cqrs, event driven)?
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It makes sense, many Brexiteers lived in a alternate reality where things like trade gravity and non tariff barriers didn't exist.
Is it really so great a step from there to start believing in the lizard people?
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IMV Governments have great power to make things worse but limited ability to improve things.
Like an airline pilot, they can easily crash the plane through malice or incompetence, but on the upside they can perhaps improve the flight by steering around turbulence.
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That looks nasty
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Yeah feel like do the best you can that's true to your values, explain what you're doing you're doing it.
Come election year sell what you did and why to the electorate would be a better approach.
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I suspect games seem as inaccessible to non-gamers as opera is to non-opera-goers.
Both have financial and educational barriers to entry.
Can commentary on either substitute experience in understanding what they're really about?
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Crossover post
"If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." Marcus Brigstocke
Pac-Man launched 1980 EDM not britpop is the cultural reference of the 90s teen/young adult
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I imagine that the UK and RoW will eventually reconfigure, and the US could decline in importance, but that’s likely a decade away at least, barring a major escalation in US isolationism of course.