paulthekelly.bsky.social
Software architect and engineer with some opinions. And a new youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ0ACxDQNZEZxa3SySF1mSg
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Why do they do that weird thing with the mouth while saluting the fuehrer?
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You are resisting fascism by repeating fascist lies? Interesting take
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Bravo
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All you have done is persuade me that the music of Barry Gray would elevate anything it was attached to
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"At least one defendant has died in a post pardon altercation with the police."
We live in an auto satirical reality.
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Canticle for Leibowitz is a terrific book from a time when nuclear armageddon seemed very likely. It's also one of the only science fiction books my Dad ever read, and definitely the only one he ever enthused about.
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Duck Duck Go is my primary search engine
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"The heat death of the universe is a big problem alright, but I'm not working on it as there are currently more urgent problems."
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Won't there be fewer people to support after an apocalypse?
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Soon to be a UNESCO world heritage site. You
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Stop and say hello
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Although he had some terrible political views it seems he was a nice man in his personal life and helped out the ever impecunious PK Dick on more than one occasion
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This
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But somehow very appropriate for our times. Though not in the way Heinlein intended it perhaps
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These are the only "engineers" who will acknowledge Elno's brilliance
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The obvious answer to that is "Because the modern world Silicon Valley built is a hellscape of enshittification, privacy violation, and algorithms that lead people down conspiracy theory rabbit holes."
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Well, yeah. I don't think they'll be retrofitting this change
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Good point. All those are things that need doing. There, a rare case of two people arguing in good faith on social media and coming to at least partial agreement! Maybe there is hope for humanity after all
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I think we probably need to do both. Knife crime is a rising trend, so it will continue to get worse without effective action
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Agreed, you can hurt people with lots of things. But after firearms, knives are one of the easiest ways to take a life, intentionally or accidentally. Perhaps the compromise position is to have pointy tips on small knives, but remove them from the big ones that do most damage
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Kitchen knives can have sharp blades. But not the pointy tip that makes it easy to stab someone. So you can still chop, slice, and carve. But you can't stab. It's a pretty good idea
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I have so many questions. Neither of those scenarios looks good...
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They almost certainly did distill data from either models, and given the piratical nature of the model builders when it comes to other people's content, zero fucks given by anyone outside a few silicon valley board rooms
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GenZ have been completely failed by the UK. If they go for a University education they leave it saddled with eye watering debt.
Most have no hope of owning a home, and are exploited by greedy private landlords. To placate sad old racists, Brexit denied them opportunities to live and work in Europe
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Time reading Philip K Dick is never wasted. He predicted our world better than anyone, especially targeted advertising that follows you around
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What, when they were expelled from their homes in 1947?
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Wait till you see the restrictions needed to make self driving cars safe.
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So... Marching to protest against a genocide = antisemitic. Making an actual Nazi salute in front of a TV audience of millions = fine, no problem here
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I can hear that wonderfully off-kilter guitar riff
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Ill informed opinions are often unpopular. Birth rates in developed countries have been falling for years. The NHS is failing for many reasons, and wilful starvation of resources probably accounts for over half of them.
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The clack of the letter striking the paper and the thunk of the carriage moving when you pressed a key on an electric typewriter.
Hearing the end of line bell and pushing the carriage return lever on a manual typewriter was pretty good too
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This could become the canonical definition of "it works on my machine"
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I came here for the double entendres and you gave me one
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The Multi Academy Trusts are overdue for having their wings clipped. At the moment they take public money and then do what they like, with very little oversight.
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On the plus side, child 2 benefits from the learning you got from all the mistakes you made with child 1
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The washing machine broke down at the local convent and the nuns got into some dirty habits
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Awesomely awesome
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Interstellar Overdrive also works for the star tunnel sequence in 2001
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All those valve amps used to record give it a wonderful tone.
Nice record deck too
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I stand by my oft-repeated statement: Diehard is a Christmas movie. It's not a Christmassy movie
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Pretty awesome. How is licensing managed?
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And yet in real life the "high level decision makers" are unlikely to sign off on anything big till their senior techies have given it the once over
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"And now it has AI so good luck figuring it out if it goes wrong"
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The number of times I've been reduced to shouting "yes, but what does it DO" at the screen when looking at enterprise software websites
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And repeat