depdawginim.bsky.social
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Dang
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In the UK and just woke up. Genuinely thought it was a joke or AI misfire.
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We have now managed to produce school leavers who are great at Scratch but dont know how to use the largest mainstream computing platform (Excel).
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For the occasional coder it completely negates the need to recall syntax and libraries, and the tedious debugging. I generally find it gives me what i want immediately, although granted you need to know what to ask it (and where to paste the code).
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Chatgpt et al can now do the kind of small, routine coding tasks you need in non-dev jobs - formulas, a bit of VBA, Python etc. This kind of coding was always my secret weapon/backup plan, but I’m resigned to it being obsolete now.
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At my institution people over 55 applying for VR had to leave the pension scheme to get severance (if they wanted it).
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Many post-92s by law have to offer LGPS to non-academic staff, which states that the pension has to be paid out in full if someone is made redundant over 55 (soon to be over 57). Ergo most over-55s on admin contracts now can’t be removed without great expense.
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I remember Volvos being the car for lentil-munching teacher types back in the 80s (or whatever the cliche was back then). Us C2s meanwhile were making eyes at the Granadas and Capris.
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Quid pro quo for Trump to go after regulators in Europe and US states.
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I finally passed my driving test in 2019 and my cds have gained a new life in that car, after years of sitting in boxes. They sound amazing on the car stereo too.
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I once shared an evening in Vietnam with a fairy norm-ish brother and sister called Star and Ocean, the children of southern middle-class hippies. Lovely people and i fancied the pants out of ‘Oash’ as her brother called her.
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Same nonsense in unison to be fair. They advised us to reject 2.5% (why!), and then our university blindsided the local branch (and UCU) by deferring it. Now we have two ballots running, plus, you know…. mass redundancies.
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Staffordshire.
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It will be expensive to teach and Hull will have probably lost too many ‘cheap’ students on humanities students to cross-subsidise the course. Its a crazy system.
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Feels like he’s been on-the-downlow excellent for a few years now, with the kahwi/pg/harden circus keeping him on the bench for the last few years.
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Great to see you here Keith, been waiting for a while for everyone to come over.
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There is a reverence for Black American culture amongst UK white working class that didn’t exist in the US (at least until rap went mainstream). My parents and their friends grew up listening to stax/motown in 60s, and then you had Northern Soul, rare groove, soulboy movements etc.
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‘Alabama has a Sikh congressman’
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Wilbur (‘mr wibs’) yesterday.
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Got invited last-minute to a night out in Birmingham the other month (about an hour away on fast train). Was 70 quid return and the last train home was rail replacement 🫤
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This all sounds very clever but doesn’t stand up to even the slightest bit of scrutiny. By this logic tourists should have the same access to healthcare, housing, and benefits as citizens, and be undeportable. Ever pressed ‘like’ on an article bemoaning tourism in say Barcelona? Or gentrification?
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Jesus, you are getting some serious abuse here.