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mike, to random
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If at first you don't succeed ...

Here's ChatGPL opining confidently and being wrong wrong, wrong and wrong.
sigh

Still, I'm sure the LLMs that advise doctors and lawyers will be 100% reliable.

mike, to random
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Harvey Elliott is well on my way to becoming my favourite player. His readiness to actually take a shot is part of this.

mlawton,
@mlawton@mstdn.social avatar

@mike who does he take the place of?

I hadn’t thought about it, but I’m not sure I have a favorite now that Bobby is gone.

mike, to random
@mike@sauropods.win avatar

Jurgen Klopp already looks five years younger.

mike, to random
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… pray we do not update it further.

mike, to random
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Is there a stupider error in the world than "The document XYZ.jpg can't be opened because it's in the Bin"?

How the heck is it the OS's prerogative to tell me I can't look inside the bin?

JohnJBurnsIII,
@JohnJBurnsIII@kzoo.to avatar

@mike

This muppet:

mike, to random
@mike@sauropods.win avatar

"This of course is the whole purpose of scholarly communication. It’s why we have academic publishers: to make it possible for us to progress our fields by standing on each other’s shoulders.

Unfortunately, the publishers are mostly standing on our toes."

https://svpow.com/2016/04/12/moral-dimensions-of-open-part-4-on-the-shoulders-of-giants/

mike, to random
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Well, what a deeply disappointing match for . The thing is, Villa didn't have to do anything special to score three goals. We just handed the goals to them. Talk about self-destruction.

mike, to random
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Minor programming-in-2024 irritant #3,456: remember which of the many many git repos I interact with daily have a master branch and which have main.

villares,
@villares@ciberlandia.pt avatar

@mike any chances of having the master folks renamed? too much trouble?

mike, to stackoverflow
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"I don’t know why anyone would willingly submit more unpaid answers (or questions!) to Stack Exchange forums under these conditions. After all, huge pools of people in Africa and South America are being paid to write code examples for model-training companies right this minute. Why should I do it for free?"
https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/closed-as-unhelpful-an-elegy-for
#StackOverflow

john,
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@mike As the article says, Stack Overflow was finished, and companies rarely go quietly into that good night, they sell, sell, sell your data to the shite.

mike,
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@john I don't really agree. LLM are much better at making an attempt to answer your question rather than coming back at you with gatekeeping. But they're not as good at actually giving correct answers.

mike, to random
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I like Neil Young's album After The Gold Rush, and I like the song Oh Lonesome Me from that album. But there is absolutely no excuse to rhyme "arms" with "charms" in any song later than the Gershwins.

john,
@john@sauropods.win avatar

@mike I see, when there’s calms, balms… farms etc.

mike,
@mike@sauropods.win avatar

@john Yep. Not a whole lot of choices, I admit, but it's just so lazy to always go the same way.

mike, to random
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It seems my University of Bristol account for some reason doesn't have access to The Paleontological Society Special Publications. Can anyone please email me a PDF of this one?

https://doi.org/10.1017/S2475262200009436

dino@miketaylor.org.uk

gay_ornithischians,
@gay_ornithischians@sauropods.win avatar

@mike what a sad day it will be when sci-hub goes away

mike,
@mike@sauropods.win avatar

@gay_ornithischians If they cut off its head, seven more will spring up.

mike, to random
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How on EARTH have conceded two goals in a game they have so comprehensively bossed?

mike, to random
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I don't think I've ever seen Harvey Elliott have a bad game. Sometimes I think we don't take him seriously because he's short (5'7") but really he has everything else but height. Speed of thought, speed across the ground, tenacity, creativity, shooting. Reminds me, more than anyone else, of Kevin Keegan. (Yes, I AM that old.)

mike,
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Called it!!! 🙂

mlawton,
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@mike 👏

mike, to random
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@colin @ernie @jessamyn @mem_somerville @RustyBertrand Sorry bother you all, but I noticed each of you mention newspapers.com which I don't have access to and can't make an account on for some reason. I am trying to get this article about a Wyoming dinosaur from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat on 27 November 1898: https://www.newspapers.com/image/571391078/?match=1&terms=dinosaur

If anyone could email it to me I would be very grateful!
dino@miketaylor.org.uk

mike,
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@ernie @colin @jessamyn @mem_somerville @RustyBertrand Perfect! Thank you so much! (and the rest of you can stand down 🙂)

ernie,
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@mike @colin @jessamyn @mem_somerville @RustyBertrand Please let me know if you’d like me to recrop—I did it on my phone, and looking on my desktop I see my cropping leaves a little to be desired :D

mike, to Wikipedia
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One of the little joys of #Wikipedia is the pedantry in some of the entries.

For example, about the song Chattannogo Choo Choo:

  • The train is described as departing from Track 29 in Pennsylvania Station. At the time, the facility only had 21 tracks.

  • "You leave the Pennsylvania station 'bout a quarter to four", but The Birmingham Special departed at 12:30 p.m.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattanooga_Choo_Choo#Inspiration

john,
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@mike Bet they didn't even serve ham ’n’ eggs. Damn songwriters, always lying to the general public.

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