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GlenDownton, to random
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"Rishi Sunak has vowed to bring back national service for 18-year-olds to create a “renewed sense of pride in our country” in his first major policy announcement of the election campaign."

It's not often I laugh out loud at news headlines these days. So well done to the UK Tories for that.

(via the SMH via the London Telegraph)

GlenDownton, to random
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Happy Towel Day you Hoopy Froods!

GlenDownton, to Software
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Looks like I'll be spending the weekend making the key decision for my new project - what shall I call it?

GlenDownton,
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Just asked to come up with a name and I like it's suggestion. Which is annoying.

GlenDownton, to android
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If you have an phone, now would be a good time to pop it open and go to

Settings > Google > All services (if tabs exist) > Find My Device > Find your offline devices

and give it a quick "Off"

GlenDownton, to random
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chuckle ...

GlenDownton, to random
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The 60s have disappeared in the rear view mirror, haven't they ...

GlenDownton, to random
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What better way to spend a glorious autumn Sunday afternoon than refactoring a pile of to make it thread-safe?

Actually, even I can't tell if I'm being serious here or not :/

GlenDownton,
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Good day's work, that ...

GlenDownton, to random
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GlenDownton, to ChatGPT
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Oh my fellow , do NOT use to write your job app cover letters. I mean, we all know cover letters suck, but a truly sucky solution to a sucky problem does not actually solve the problem.

On the other hand, you are making my first pass filtering task easier.

Fury,
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@GlenDownton Thanks. Goodluck with your pile 😅

GlenDownton,
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@Fury 😂

GlenDownton, to random
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Today's lesson is if I wake up in the middle of the night thinking "I should refactor that big ugly block of working code" I should just get rudely drunk and go back to sleep.

GlenDownton, to tech
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The next will come about when a relative handful of very underpaid and undervalued have to try and maintain and fix great reams of generated code that no-one ever took any time to try and understand in the first place.

GlenDownton, to Perth
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sitrep: 5:24pm, 40.6C

GlenDownton, to random
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False; my favourite type of alarm.

GlenDownton, to ChatGPT
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My inner voice is reading #ChatGPT answers in the voice of #Isaac from #TheOrville and now I can't turn it off.

GlenDownton, to random
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"Hello? Yes, I'd like to book my camera in for a cleaning please ..."

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