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tomw, to random
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Today I learned that the "DIZ" in "FILE_ID.DIZ" stands for "description in zip" – because it is a description text file inside a zip file.

I wondered about this at the time, but not enough to have gone looking for it since. Nice to have a loose end tied up.

tomw, to random
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Once again I have put an apology between the <noscript> tags

Sorry friends, I would have made this work without Javascript, but I didn't have time and at this point, seriously, most websites don't work for you, do they?

(That isn't what I wrote, I just said sorry)

sil,
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@tomw @robstyles agreed. And I build stuff the same way you do, half the time. My objection is to the idea that doing anything without js is old fashioned and outdated. The specific demos on that page don’t work without JS, I absolutely agree. But the page itself explains its vibe correctly; it does not display only a warning.

Obviously, you build what and how you need to; that’s up to you. But doing something useful when your scripting isn’t there is more robust, and that helps real people.

tomw,
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@sil @robstyles Yeah, I'm not building anything that 100% refuses/fails without JS. More like: this widget over here needs JS, theoretically there could be a fallback here, but it's not a priority, sorry.

tomw, to random
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People are all about fact-checking their information until they see a 'poll' that has their favoured party ahead from Johnny's Polling & Wings Shack. Instant share

tomw,
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Ahem, excuse me, you say Labour are ahead here, but @ electionguessingdude has Lib Dems on 78.9%!! What do you say to that good sir!!!!

tomw, to random
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That feeling when you commit to a big project with no idea how to actually do it, and then... you figure out a way!

(I don't know how universal this is actually, but I do it more often than you'd expect.)

tomw, to random
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Yes I am a 10x programmer. I have rewritten this same bit of code at least 10x

tomw, to random
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Long story short, don't trust AI with your dog.

MaggyWells,
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@tomw omg.

Madeleine2018,
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@tomw the Beatles did not "release" that single. It escaped

tomw, to random
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Annoying #opendata #ukpol problem - UK postcodes are included in Code Point Open but Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded for stupid licensing reasons.

Is there any source of NI postcodes mapping them to the new constituency boundaries?

tomw,
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I mean any source. I don't care that much about licensing technicalities, even if there is somewhere to scrape it from

tomw, to random
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"McAfee won't let me open that link..."

Buddy, McAfee is dead

tomw, to random
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That's all well and good, but what are you doing for people like me who

(...proceeds to describe entirely unique set of circumstances that surely no one else in the world shares)

tomw, to random
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Microsoft Recall AI after taking hundreds of screenshots of everything you're doing:

"It looks like you're writing a letter..."

tomw, to random
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Signed a contract that said I may not use a computer here, "except a personal computer".

Probably just old text but I like to think it was caused by some guy bringing in mainframes

tomw, to random
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Thisposthasbeenminifiedtohelpyousavebandwidth.Pleaseusethebytessavedwisely.

tomw, to random
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There's a right way and a wrong way to do Tailwind.

The wrong way:
Use Tailwind

The right way:
Don't

tomw, to random
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Artificial intelligence is 'intelligent' to the same degree that artificial grass is grass.

tomw, to random
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GPT-4o? What even is this numbering scheme?

I'll wait for GPT-4: Golden.

tomw,
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Still annoyed that GPT-3 Reload didn't include the extra content from GPT-3 FES

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