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designatednerd

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I never shut up about iOS and Android development. She/Her. Rochester, NY, USA and/or wherever I've convinced someone to let me come talk to people.

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designatednerd, to random
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Successfully:

  1. Drove a car for three days on the opposite side of the road as I’m used to without getting in any accidents or blowing a tire running into a curb like I did in Scotland.
  2. Walked along the cliffs of Dover without falling off them.
davemark, (edited ) to ai
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[UPDATE: Added a screenshot]

From Reddit, here’s a test for Google…

Go to Google search, type:

“which us presidents earned degrees from UW Madison”

No quotes. That’s a really really wrong answer. Anyone else see this?

This just unvetted source material? That’d be a red flag for their AI, yeah?

designatednerd,
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@davemark I'm not seeing whatever you're seeing but I am seeing what I bet the source is: https://uwalumni.com/news/presidential-badgers/

designatednerd,
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@davemark and this is why I am still very much in get off my lawn mode about AI.

designatednerd, to random
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The UK elections being on the 4th of July will be extra entertaining for Americans. Especially Americans who have any clue who Count Binface is. https://mastodon.world/@CountBinface/112485661600596055

designatednerd,
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@twostraws I mean if they don't, they very much should.

RobW, to random
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Am I going to book 5th July off work so I stay up all night watching Tory scum becoming unemployed?

designatednerd,
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@RobW it would have been extremely funny if they called it for the Fourth of July

designatednerd,
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@RobW you’re going to have a lot of Americans with popcorn watching from across the pond

Lorenanicole, to chicago
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Ahhhh to be in sweet home #Chicago

designatednerd,
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@Lorenanicole I miss Chicago terribly but I’m not gonna lie, I’m glad I’m missing out on The Great Repaving.

designatednerd, to random
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I’ve been to London a lot since I first came in the late 90s, and I always walk around for miles and miles.

This is the first time I’ve ever felt like I’m in any danger of getting a suntan.

designatednerd,
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@twostraws I think they'd be more confused. It's like getting a sunburn on a visit to Seattle.

RobW, to random
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I stopped in at the Jewish bakery on my way home last night. Someone had stuck a bunch of ‘free Palestine’ stickers around.
Come on folks. Jewish people are not responsible for the actions of the Israeli state. I cannot get my head around how this is hard to understand.
Anyway, my Beigel was incredible. Even if the service is consistently, charmingly, terrible.

designatednerd,
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@RobW it does not help that within the Jewish community the attitude “you should 100% support Israel and everything it does or you are an ungrateful little shit” has been an issue for years

designatednerd, to random
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I just attempted to take a drink out of a yogurt container full of ethernet cable plugs, if you're wondering how my morning is going.

RobW, to random
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The two stages of writing SwiftUI:

  1. Omg. I love this.
  2. Omg. I hate this with a passion.
designatednerd,
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@RobW it’s kind of an infinite loop between those two

designatednerd, to random
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As someone who has lived next to two golden retrievers for the last nine months, I can tell you this take from @caseynewton is spot on.

designatednerd, to random
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Researching things to do in Southern England while I'm there, and I was very confused to see a bunch of recommendations for Leeds Castle.

Well, it appears someone has stolen Leeds Castle and moved it 250 miles south of Leeds.

designatednerd, to Eurovision
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There is always at least one song that is clearly just an excuse for the production crew to go absolutely bonkers with the fire effect, and this year it is brought to you by Georgia.

designatednerd, to Eurovision
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One of the interesting things is that whoever wins Eurovision has to host it the following year, which is expensive. So there are a few places that send people who are good, but just a little too basic to win (Hi, Cyprus!)

designatednerd, to Eurovision
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The crocheted white balaclavas on the Croatian band are the perfect kind of weird costumes for this song

designatednerd,
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Rim Tim Tagi Dim is a great song but Baby Lasagna is the stupidest singer/band name I have heard in quite a while

designatednerd, to Eurovision
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Ireland really going for the Goth vote with this year's entry

designatednerd,
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OMG if Ireland wins, the American right-wing conservative christian freakout about all the satanic imagery in this is going to be fucking hysterical

designatednerd, to Eurovision
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I love that both hosts are fluent in both English and French and literally nobody is surprised. Last year Hannah Waddingham breaking out in French caused a near-orgasm in the audience

designatednerd, to Eurovision
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The tinfoil diaper is an…interesting choice for the Greek entry.

designatednerd, to Eurovision
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After the incredible staging and general insanity of Ireland's entry, Latvia's ballad with with a relatively minimalist vibe is suffering in comparison.

agiletortoise, to random
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RIP, Steve Albini. He had his touch on so much of the most important music in my life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Albini_discography

designatednerd,
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@agiletortoise Holy hell, what a loss.

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