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danjac

@danjac@masto.ai

Software developer/professional Jira ticket puncher.

Originally British, naturalized Finn. Interested in #scifi #fantasy #movies #opensource #python #django #javascript #running #nature #art #podcasts #languages #history

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Header pic: Pascal Blanche https://pascalblanche.artstation.com/projects/r9ZEKL

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Netflix execs to Zack Snyder: "Roger Corman made Rebel Moon in a cave!From a box of scraps!"

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Ryans Gosling and Reynolds to star in a movie about parachutists called Free Fall Guy

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When Americans talk about "small government" I think they mean something like a New England village council of elders in the 1600s

https://www.rawstory.com/katie-britt-shredded-register-women/

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Natalie Elphick is definitely a Conservative Party op. They got rid of a useless and scandal-ridden MP who was on the way out anyway and Starmer took the bait

danjac, to random
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lol no what shite

ChatGPT and the like could free up coders to new heights of creativity | John Naughton | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/11/chatgpt-ai-will-co-pilot-coders-to-new-heights-of-creativity

danjac,
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chatgpt is probably the most frustrating waste of time

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Watching latest Mission Impossible and realising Tom Cruise is same age as Angela Lansbury in the early seasons of Murder She Wrote and the only physical stunt she did was cycling around Cabot Cove

danjac,
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@bazkie yeah that show had higher body count than the Sopranos

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It's downright criminal how universities and other courses encourage or force students to set up private AWS accounts.

AWS is for companies, period. It should never be used by a private individual. If it were designed for private individuals, they would have implemented hard limits on the free tier rather than their laughable billing alerts.

You should never use it for coursework or side projects: the danger is too high.

https://old.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/qgr9jh/was_billed_60k_with_a_free_tier/

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tip: if using "htmx.ajax()" API call to trigger an HTMX request, and you need to push the URL to your history, return response with "HX-Push-URL". (django-htmx has a handy "push_url()" function for this).

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A company run by a braindead fail-upward twat like Zaslav means 100+ seasons of Young Sheldon while Scavengers Reign gets cancelled.

https://gizmodo.com/scavengers-reign-cancelled-max-but-netflix-s2-hope-1851470217

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I don't think I can remember a single time when renting that we have ever got our full deposit back.

In fact I've lost my deposit so many times I'm thinking of changing my name to Lawrence Fox

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I suspect that the only people still planning to vote Tory at the GE are either very rich, very stupid, or still believe in Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy. Same applies to those planning to vote for Trump in November of course.

danjac,
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@kennethb Tories would never believe in characters who give away free things to children.

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The kids booing a Bitcoin hodler high on ayahuasca at a commencement speech just shows how completely over-and-done cryptobros are in the cultural zeitgeist.

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C3PO! We're trapped in an Apple ad!

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Stack Overflow going the way of Expert Sex Change I see

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The SNP is at the same time the party of independence, and the ruling party that voters judge based on the quality of their schools and hospitals. Fairly or unfairly, people's opinion on the former depends on performance on the latter.

Frankly if I were a Scottish nationalist, I'd want a pro-independence movement rather than a pro-independence party.

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those devs and tech “influencers” who pioneered the technical work of putting “AI” shit in everything everywhere, and are—for the most part—the assholes who enabled our brave new “AI” world by actually figuring out how to make it run, are also going to be the people who get credit for criticising it after the bubble pops, aren’t they?

Everybody will latch onto their vague concerns and ignore the fact that they literally implemented the shit that got smeared everywhere, aren’t they?

danjac, (edited )
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@baldur it's the secret of how to have a long career as music journalist: know when to fluff up a new indie garage band, when to ride the hype wave as the one who "discovered" them, and when to declare their moment is "over".

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Handy Labour chart on who should get the party whip

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YouGov poll puts the Tories at 18%, which would leave them with seats in double figures.

Zahawi, founder of YouGov, by sheer coincidence announced today he is retiring from politics.

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I feel the real story here is that stunning incompetence and corruption in the tech company C-suite is too often compensated for by the willingness of tech workers to burn themselves out to prove...what exactly?

Sometimes the industry reminds me of George Orwell's quote about the UK: "a dysfunctional family with all the wrong people in charge".

https://grumpyolddev.com/post/the-one-where-i-lie-to-the-cto/

danjac,
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@hengymrohebwlad this article also describes what I like to call "golf driven development", when deals with substandard vendors are made on the fairway without regard to actual requirements or consultation with the domain experts.

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Very sick (but still funny) joke I heard on another place:

"RFK Jr follows family tradition of having their career abruptly ended by missing brain matter"

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And this is their earnings call.

"I think the central risk to Palantir, America and the world is a regressive way of thinking that is corrupting and corroding our institutions that calls itself progressive, but actually — and is called woke — but is actually a form of a thin pagan religion,"

danjac,
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@mnot what a very weird thing for a company to say.

I mean Raytheon might be doing dodgy shit but they don't end earnings calls about Western civilization being threatened by woke neopagans.

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