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baldur, to random
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Ran across this on social media

"I just used ChatGPT to generate a 300 character regex for me, saved me an hour.

TBH if you aren’t using it that seems like a skill issue."

And it’s a perfect example of what I mean when I say that “AI” tools are a fundamentally conservative force

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@baldur also, trying to disentangle what a 300-character regex is actually doing sounds like fun.. 😬

FaithfullJohn, to Climbing
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From 2019, before the last year's hellish escalations, a short film by an American-Palestinian climber visiting local climbers in the West Bank. It could so easily be trite (ignore the blurb text below the video), but it's actually brilliant: powerful, joyful, enraging and sad. Watch all 37 minutes of it.
https://watch.reelrocktour.com/videos/rr17-resistanceclimbing

FaithfullJohn, to Geology
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The crystallization of large replenished magma bodies is amazingly complex. The photos of layered rocks from the Bushveld Complex in this new paper are mind-bogglingly wonderful 🤩 🤯 🤓 . The wider applicability of their conclusions might be disputed by some, but good stuff though! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2024.107621

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dailymedievalcats, to medievodons German
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Looking up.

Ms: BL, Add 42130, f. 13r (14th c.). #medievalcat #medieval @medievodons

FaithfullJohn,
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@dailymedievalcats @medievodons is that an erupting volcano in the background??? 🤔🌋

FaithfullJohn, to Geology
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The British Geological Survey have lots of wonderful open data. A favourite is their Geoscenic photo library - so much amazing historical and geological record! 😊 Here's an 1893 plate camera image of the Cuillin gabbro mountains in Skye 🤩 http://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=2997&index=34&total=758&view=viewSearchItem #BWPhoto #Geology #Archive

FaithfullJohn, to random
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TIL that Bette Davis and Robert Wagner were in a film splendidly-titled "Madame Sin", made in Mull in 1972! The plot sounds 😶 (from IMDB)

FaithfullJohn, to random
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FaithfullJohn, to random
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Boat scraped and sanded, ready for paint touch up...😊

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FaithfullJohn, to Geology
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A complex bit of Earth's mantle brought to the surface by a kimberlite (strictly, an orangeite) from Finsch mine, South Africa. The stand-out clear (black) grain is pyrope garnet. Most of the clear (bright coloured) grains are olivine. The pale brown (rainbow) rim around the pyrope is phlogopite mica, formed by a process called metasomatism. These rocks contain diamonds, but none visible here! See ALT text for more info...

A microscope view of a rock thin section, about 2mm wide. Most of the view is made up of a crystal showing blue-to-violet colours, with lots of curving cracks. This is mostly olivine. Just to the right of centre is a large, black grain, with a bright rainbow-coloured halo around it. This is pyrope garnet, and the halo is phlogopite mica.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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The former Barr and Stroud premises on Ashton Lane in the West End of Glasgow. Founded by Professors Archibald Barr and William Stroud in 1895, Barr and Stroud was a pioneering optical engineering firm who played a leading role in the development of modern optics. From these premises, they moved to a larger site in Annielsand in 1904.

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@thisismyglasgow I did not know this was where they started! 🤯🙏

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FaithfullJohn, to Geology
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A gloriously vivid eclogite-facies rock from the Eastern Glenelg gneisses. First image is between crossed polars, with large bright flakes of muscovite mica, with grey quartz +feldspar, plus a zoned yellow-to-purple crystal of epidote in the centre of the view. Second image is same, in plane polarized light. Field of view about 2mm wide.

A thin slice of rock viewed using a polarizing microscope, and plane polarized light. Most of the field of view is colourless, with come vague cloudy areas, and some lines. The centre of the view is occupied by an intense clear greyish crystal.

FaithfullJohn, to random
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Is it just me, or is this a really weird brand-name for a tangerine? 🤔😁

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baldur, to random
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'I'm not a cynic, I'm disappointed' – the Software Crisis Easter Sale: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-software-crisis-easter-sale/

FaithfullJohn,
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@baldur beautifully put 😞

FaithfullJohn, to random
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Last week I picked up a slab of lovely Dalradian metadolerite for the house from the wonderful Tradstocks, near Callander. Great to see so many Scottish building stones available again: low carbon, low energy, recycleable building materials with local character...😊 🥰 http://www.tradstocks.co.uk/services/stone-quarrying/

FaithfullJohn, to Rowing
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First go at skiff rowing this morning - here's the Eala Bhan being launched at Bendoran. Grand morning out! 😊

FaithfullJohn, to random
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This is a great name for a body part. Who knew that chitons were covered in ? 🤓🙂 https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-solve-mystery-of-the-sea-creature-that-evolved-eyes-all-over-its-shell

FaithfullJohn, to Geology
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Pic from today's walk to the wonderful Eas Dubh, east of Shiaba, in south Mull. Waterfall is maybe 25m high. Upper part of cliff is columnar basalt flow, lower part is a mixed sediment/volcaniclastic unit (both Palaeogene). Aslo a wee rainbow at the bottom 🌈 😊

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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This unusual Gothic style villa on Cleveden Drive in the Kelvinside area of Glasgow was built around 1880 for Alexander Erskine Murray an advocate and the sheriff-substitute (now just called a sheriff) for Lanarkshire who worked out of the old Lanarkshire County building on Wilson Street in central Glasgow.


FaithfullJohn,
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@thisismyglasgow hideous! (to me anyway) 😂

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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The former Anderson College Medical School building on Dumbarton Road in the West End of Glasgow. It was designed by James Sellars in the 1880s, but before it was finished he died at the age of 45 having stood on a nail and developed blood poisoning. The building was completed by his friend John Keppie. While not as widely known as he should be, Sellars had a major and lasting influence on Glasgow's architecture.

FaithfullJohn,
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@thisismyglasgow I love this building. I always assumed it was much older - I vaguely thought that David Livingstone had studied there. But be must attended the older Anderson Medical School in the city centre... Great to see the building anyway! 😊 👍

FaithfullJohn, to Geology
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#DogWalkingGeology Another loose rock from Ardalanish beach in SW Mull from this morning. This is a really distinctive rock, from the andesitic sills forming the lower part of the Glencoe volcanic sequence, 85km to the NE. Transported by glaciers. The purple alteration is partly hematite, but also distinctive pink manganese-rich epidote , which you can see in the core of the pale patch on the left of the cobble. #Geology #Mull #Glencoe

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🤓 Fun Fact: these purplish altered Glencoe andesites are similar in colour, , chemistry and mineralogy to the famous Imperial Porphyry quarried by the Romans at Jabal Dokhan, in Egypt. I wonder if any of the Glencoe rocks might be carvable? https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/red-porphyry-symbol-of-imperial-power/

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