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I am, or have been, in no particular order, a: parent, data analyst, aircraft designer, guitarist, project manager, chartered mechanical engineer, chorus member, tinkerer, programmer, music fan, executive assistant, traveller, glider pilot, concert promoter, crowd herder and supermarket cashier.

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drhayes, to random
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Steve Albini's "The Problem with Music" is pretty great: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music

I'd never read it before, thanks @scalzi !

hl,
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@drhayes And people these days say bands have it bad with the pittance they get paid by streaming services; and they do; but I fear it's just a different type of crap than in the past, which wasn't good either.

danielholt, to random
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Dickhead next door is smoking at her little table again now that the weather has improved.

Her little table is about 5 feet from where I'm sitting in my living room, and directly below my daughter's bedroom.

So despite no-one in my household smoking, we get to enjoy 4-5 months of everything smelling like cigarettes.

Yay!

hl,
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@danielholt Commiserations. We don't have it as bad, but our neighbour smokes outside his front door (he's not allowed to do it inside, or in their garden), and in the summer it drifts into our house too. I kind of hope smokers don't realise how bad, and how far, their smoke goes. It'd be embarrassing if they did.

mms, to random
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2025…. Once an altman, always an Altman

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/07/openai-says-its-building-a-tool-to-let-content-creators-opt-out-of-ai-training/

hl,
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@mms We have that, it's called copyright. What they want is a tool that lets you opt in. Should be quick to write, since they've got AI to create it, correct?

hl, to linux
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Fever dream idea: 's wide adaption was dependent on reliable web search: It's the fastest way of getting a working solution in an environment made up of disparate software, that's not developed and documented together for consistency. Does that mean s might become more popular as search becomes less reliable, and people have to use primary sources, like the docs more?

hl, to random
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At work we have to register being off ill via a 'bot'. It asks for your date of birth in the format: "DD.MM.YY" When it asks for your presumed last day of sickness, it wants the date in the format "DDMMYYYY".

I think this is a cunning trick to see how ill you really are, as to put up with that nonsense you must be feeling really low.

#ShouldHaveBeenAForm

hl,
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@fedops Eventually this also ends up in a HR SAP system, making the different date formats even more perplexing.

hl, (edited ) to random
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I've had flu all weekend, so that's not been great. Especially as it means my wife's had to do most of the childcare by herself in that time. On the upside, lying in bed, sweating, and listening to podcasts through fever dreams has given me a few spectacular conspiracy theory ideas.

hl,
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@qtuu I've mostly just been listening to various BBC ones that are queued up, and I never get around to: In Our Time, Analysis, The Briefing Room and More Or Less. It's more to have background noise, I've not really been in a state to take much in.

hl, to random
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Me:

Clip of a man pushing at an airport with too many bags. He's pushing one cart overloaded with bags, while dragging another suitcase behind him. He also bought too much music.

bencurthoys, to random
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but not every id value returned by an API that looks like a Guid, is a Guid. Some of them are just strings pretending to be Guids.

And some of these are CASE FUCKING SENSITIVE.

hl,
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@bencurthoys

Clip of Mr Bean reacting so shocked that he can't move, and drops his cup.

jake4480, to random
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Listening to upbeat sludge in the semi dark

hl,
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@jake4480 What's an example of "upbeat sludge" for the ignorant amongst us?

hl,
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@jake4480 Thanks, I'll give that a go once the children are in bed.

hl,
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@jake4480 It is today, so I might be a little twitchy on the buy button if I like it after a first listen. I'm also tempted by @tldr 's Slater-Keeny offer, plus this
https://killerantz.bandcamp.com/track/bruce

neilgmacy, to random
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Switching it up for day 2 of and writing about some basic DIY things I’ve learned in the last few months after lots of dumb errors https://www.neilmacy.co.uk/blog/diy-tips

hl,
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@neilgmacy Most useful thing I learnt on a building site doing year 11 Work Experience was "Measure twice, cut once": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/measure_twice_and_cut_once which I see you've discovered as well. The other thing I learnt was that I wasn't insured to use power tools, and that by arguing a kettle was a power tool, I got out of having to make all the teas for two weeks. (Not really sure what the lesson there is though.)

hl,
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@neilgmacy I'm terrible at negotiations and arguments, so I still consider that one of my finest achievements.

hl, to Parenting
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My children have (EU) shoe sizes 26 and 31; but like some magician's trick, they can contain a Sahra's worth of sand. If I pull out the insole, and hold the shoe upside down, there's a solid, continuous pour of sand for about 5 minutes.

hl, to random
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Good luck to everyone doing . I did think about it, but sadly it'd be /another/ thing I'm committing too, with too little time, and I already have about 100 of them. But looking forward to seeing what everyone writes 🍿 .

cory, to random
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Present me with the Shakespeare’s Hamlet, but written in the tone of an author that ardently believes only eMacs should be used to write such a work.

hl,
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@cory
Ctrl-b, or Alt-b, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The keys and bindings of outrageous fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of

keenan, to random
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WeblogPoMo2024 begins tomorrow. I am going to try and write 31 posts about 31 different songs. And even though that may not happen, at least I made a really fucking awesome playlist.

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/weblogpomo2024-playlist/pl.u-55D6Pp3io8Jy5

Obviously don't click that if you're sensitive to spoilers about my blog.

hl,
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@bendaubney @keenan There so needs to be a songwhip for playlists. Any chance of a track listing please for people without Apple music?

calpaterson, to random
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It takes me a long time to write blogposts and certain ones in the past have (at least felt) like they have taken weeks...

Recently I totted it up and I reckon I take about 1.5 hours to produce 1 minute of reading time. So longer posts like my past one about Bank Python which are 30 minute reads...yes they felt hard because they were a lot of work!

hl,
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@calpaterson Well, thank you for writing it. I found it very interesting. I also find it takes frustratingly long to write anything, and even after proof reading it a thousand times, there are still grammatical and spelling mistakes in what I've written.

alpine, to random
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Honestly. Hospital food is not complete shit.

hl,
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@alpine GIve it 8 hours....

hl,
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@alpine I'm sorry to hear that, hopefully it won't be too much longer.

My, poor, joke was meant to imply that even good food is, after about 8 hours of digestion, normally sh--.

bendaubney, to random
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🛠️ Sunday: had a lie-in, went for coffee, pootled around some charity shops, now for a bit of plumbing DIY.

hl,
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@bendaubney Only a bit I think, this thread describes the kind of issue we're having. It's probably not terrible, but I've not managed to get the motivation up to do it, yet: https://www.elektroda.com/rtvforum/topic3652484.html

hl,
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@sarajw @bendaubney It's one of those jobs that probably isn't terrible, but requires to motivation to remove some impractical parts, lie on the floor, and potentially break something expensive. Or I could just pointlessly browse the internet?

hl,
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@bendaubney @sarajw To be fair to myself (for once) since it's not urgent, it falls down the list behind the more urgent things that do get done, and the need to have break from time to time. The dishwasher still washes dishes, so that's the important thing. It just means there's this ever growing backlog of things that /should/ be done, but don't happen, which gnaw at my conscience.

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