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I DON'T have a book or a podcast I'm trying to promote. And I won't be appearing on telly any time soon. (Those are all hostages to fortune I'm happy to have.) But I'd get loads of upvotes if I posted these comments BTL on the Graun.
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Raffle prize. Rushed detail from a Work In Progress. But, hey, I feel we need one today.

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tcc (Tiny C Compiler) Brilliant isn't it? Although a brief moment of confusion to remember how to write C...

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I'd written off the World Test Championship. But Australia 16-2? It's game on!

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#booksky

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When did they start naming nuclear power plants after bra cup sizes? And how long do we have to wait till we get Hinkley Point DD?

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Quote of the day, "The [bureaucracy] is both labyrinthine and Byzantine" And a good first hand account of working at Sellafield: forums.theregister.com/forum/all/20...

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Let’s get this to 25K! Protect Disabled people who cannot work from planned cuts to benefits petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

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Imagine being so rich you can lose $33bn and just shrug. For comparison, that would fill Rachel's £22bn black hole (the one that caused the whole Winter Fuel Payment farrago) with enough change left over to lift the two child benefit cap for one year.

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@katarazzi.bsky.social Well, we're scored. Now I've got to work out what to pastiche for the intro to the finale...

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Sent my "appeal" to NPM. It's so depressing to have 3yrs work labelled as "malicious code", to lose my account over it, and then to be made to beg to get NPM to fix the error. Ugh!

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

i’m not going to use ai to write emails however, i will take the opportunity to be extremely catty and spiteful in my emails and then be like “oh sorry the ai tool did that”

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The UK is moving to a war footing: because you never know when the Americans might decide to invade. /s

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I have just invented a new delicacy: salted walnuts. Okay, yes, I did just have salt on my fingers when I ate a walnut half. But it was quite nice.

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1. Aghhh! The response from NPM about my deleted account is in. They don't highlight any code but nevertheless demand that, if I want to dispute it, I provide further evidence it's not malicious.

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Martin Belam on Radio 4 Today talking Doctor Who! Ha!

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