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simonwood

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Lecturer in Medical Education at Cardiff University, lapsed mathematician, garden railway builder & Doctor Who appreciator.

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simonwood, (edited ) to random
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Important that the PM takes a day off. He needs to recharge his batteries if he is to sustain this level of disasterousness. Look what he’s achieved in 3 days:

“He began by announcing the election in the pouring rain to the booming sounds of the 1997 Labour anthem Things Can Only Get Better, played by a nearby protester. (1/2)

simonwood, (edited )
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“He then attended a public question-and-answer session at a factory at which it was revealed that two of the questioners were Tory councillors, before asking workers in Wales whether they were looking forward to the Euro 2024 football tournament, for which Wales has not qualified.

“On Friday the prime minister travelled to Belfast where he visited the Titanic Quarter and was asked by a journalist whether he was captaining a sinking ship.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/24/sunak-to-take-a-day-at-home-after-hapless-election-campaign-start (2/2)

david_oxtaby, to ilaughed
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This is going to be my last post on Mastodon now. I don't have time for it anymore and there's never much interraction anyway so rather just call it a day. Thanks all for your support over the time I've been on here and wish you all the very best for the future. I will still be on X of course if you want to catch up.
Goodnight all and very best wishes

simonwood,
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@david_oxtaby I’ve enjoyed seeing your pictures.

Floppy, to DuckDuckGo
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going down again ( to everyone there) has really reminded my how much my unconscious workflow depends on a search engine these days.

simonwood,
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@Floppy Me: [searching for something on DDG] Oh, DuckDuckGo is down.

Me: [30 seconds later, doing another search on DDG] Doh.

simonwood,
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@Floppy Yes. I wouldn’t feel so daft if I’d done it only once - I’ve been doing it all morning!

Apparently it’s all Bing powered search https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/23/bing-is-down-bringing-duckduckgo-and-ecosia-down-too/

LoneLocust, to random
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My experiences with Waymo so far have been most satisfactory.

Far less scary than riding in a car with an unknown, untrusted human.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112484401923377732

simonwood,
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@LoneLocust So I’m not sure how accurate this article is - e.g. it says that “Tesla’s FSD works on all road types” and also that Tesla’s FSD doesn’t work.

But is it the case that with Waymo you have (probably, at some point) been riding in a car with an unknown, untrusted human controlling it remotely?

Would you ride in a Tesla Robotaxi? Not driven by an unknown, untrusted human. But built* by a known, untrusted human.

  • obviously not personally, but as CEO.
simonwood,
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@LoneLocust I don’t think I’m splitting a hair. There’s a world of difference between “Tesla’s FSD works on all road types” and “Tesla’s FSD is intended to work on all road types”.

simonwood,
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@LoneLocust Yes - I’d seen that before I made the comment. What impressed me about that guy was his Tesla FSD tried to drive him into a train already… and then he gave it another go! 🤣

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I’ve been a user of tado°’s smart heating products for years now and I’m intrigued to try their new range which now supports Matter over Thread.

https://www.macstories.net/news/tadoo-announces-new-range-of-smart-heating-products-supporting-matter-over-thread/

simonwood,
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@jonathanreed @viticci These look very interesting! I’m on Hive but there are a number of things I don’t like. I really like the look of Eve’s TRVs but they don’t have a smart thermostat to turn my boiler off when none of the radiators are on…

I do appreciate the fact that Eve do all their scheduling on device though, and seem to do it all over Homekit/Matter too.

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