geoffcampbell.bsky.social
Biker and techie. Very old.
Lives in Wales, in a crumbling pile of rocks in the vague shape of a house.
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She wants to run. Used to love taking our lurcher to an open field or a beach and watch him running for the sheer joy of the speed.
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Boris Johnson? Is he still hanging around?
Unusually, he's not wrong in this case, though.
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Once I've cleared the decks a bit here, I'll take a look. Thanks!
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Oh, OK. Those are two entirely separate concepts in my aging model of the IT universe, approximately database vs namespace.
That's cool.
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Is this one of those angels-on-pinheads discussions so beloved in the IT industry?
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Nope, still don't follow you. Any pointers to examples?
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I must be misunderstanding the context here, because I can't conceive of any moderately-sized data space that doesn't use some form of hierarchy - DNS to pick a trivial example.
Can you expand a little?
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Wait, what?
No, never mind, I just realised that I don't care.
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I know you're too good a person to do this, but you really should name and shame. That's really poor behaviour on a number of levels - at the very least, if they feel that strongly about it, they should leave the show, quietly and without fuss.
But more importantly, they need to grow up.
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The conclusion certainly fits with my anecdotal evidence. The left is massively prone to tribal factions and infighting.
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Delaying purchases for one day is ineffective posturing.
Stop buying their pointless shite for a year. Shop local for food and clothing.
Yes, it takes more time. Yes, it will probably cost a little more. Are you that shallow?
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Yes. Next question?
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It has occurred to me several times that if you pitched this as a script in Hollywood, you'd be laughed out of the building.
Even Idiocracy was more believable than this clusterfuck.
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Good. Now *act*, dammit!
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I know that surveys are weird, but after the past month or so, how can 15% still be unsure? Pick a lane, people :-(
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There's a small but solid probability that US forces will be fighting EU forces in eastern Europe this time next year, just because Putin wants that.
This makes me very sad.
America, what are you doing? You've been taken over. Take back your country :-(
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<raised eyebrow>
"Even" AOC and Warren? What are you trying to say?
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We've really quickly reached the point where an American Civil War is the *best* outcome for the world. This is the weirdest timeline.
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Oh?
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If you go back to most long-running classic TV series, the 80/20 rule bites hard. Watch the full TV run of Monty Python, and 80% of it is rubbish. But the 20% - oh, my, comic genius!
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I must go back and watch those through. Life was a bit strange around that time, I didn't give them the attention they really deserved.
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You never forget your first Dr Who.
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So many deserving cases in the modern world, but we do what we can...
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I dunno. Seems too easy to use something so bloated and orange as a target.
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With all due respect to the companies that you list, they were very, very far from being major players in the industry.
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There are only two lessons history has ever taught us:
1) Nobody ever learns anything from history;
2) It is always possible for a country to lurch further to the right, politically.
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Yeah, let's not.
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Indeed.
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Nadella definitely wasn't there, he was in Davos at the time. And it tells you something about the depth of my feelings that I view that as a better place to be than at the inauguration.
One of the papers published a long list of tech company attendees, and I didn't see any Microsoft names on it.
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Hell yes.
So many great gigs there back in the day.
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Every European nation should now be flooding Ukraine with our forces. Yeah, that's WW3, but we didn't start it. We do need to finish it, though.
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I read Atlas Shrugged back in the '80s. Don't remember much about it, beyond a deep-rooted conviction that I will never pick up another book by her.
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Ho hum :-(
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Sadly very true.
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Oh, that's easy to shut down - just ask them how many of Robert Kennedy's children had their childhood vaccines. All six, was it?
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And probably still living on hand-outs, just like she used to...
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It's Reach. That's about their level.
I just feel we should be rewarding those bits of the media willing to stand up to the shit-storm that is developing. There's precious few of them.
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I was paying close attention at the inauguration. There were a lot of Techbros stood up behind Trump, notably Cook (Apple), Pichai (Google), Zuckerberg (Meta), Bezos (Amazon), and of course Musk.
So I'm not doing business with any of them. Interestingly, I didn't spot anyone from Microsoft.
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Oh, well, that's easy - Trump doesn't have any morals, country, or people. It's Trump First, Trump Last, and Trump Only in his tiny brain.
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I think this should put an end to the notion that Trump is some sort of criminal mastermind genius. He's just as gullible and manipulable as his odious followers.
So, was it Putin calling the shots all along? Or is there someone else pulling the strings? Occam's razor implies it was Putin.
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I think this should put an end to the notion that Trump is some sort of criminal mastermind genius. He's just as gullible and manipulable as his odious followers.
So, was it Putin calling the shots all along? Or is there someone else pulling the strings? Occam's razor implies it was Putin.
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Yes, you can, and must.
Trump and Musk have weaponised the US legal code to enrich and empower themselves, and they don't care what or who they destroy doing it.
Kill them now, as a warning to those who might want to emulate them.
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Fire At Elon.
FTFY
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Time to declare open season on Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and all their odious friends. Then you can move on to Musk's bodyguards, his Mini-Me schoolboy helpers, and Musk himself.
Shouldn't be too tricky with hunting rifles and decent planning.
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Well, he can just fuck right off.
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(Yeah, sorry - were you hoping this was the end? It will get a *lot* worse yet.)
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Some people have always been this dumb.
Time was, we'd point and laugh at their stupidity, while largely ignoring their blatherings.
These days, stupidity is celebrated and promoted, especially the brand of aggressive stupidity practiced by Trump and his followers. This will not end well.
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Sounds like a useful basis for a perfectly-curated block-list, to me.