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ratkins

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I miss Usenet. Donโ€™t make me miss Twitter too.

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ratkins, to random
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Always stop and smell the roses. But make sure theyโ€™re not occupied first.

Edent, to politics
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๐Ÿ†• blog! โ€œGell-Mann Amnesia and Purdahโ€

This is a retropost. Written contemporaneously, but published long after the events. At the time, I was a Civil Servant in Cabinet Office. Now I am not. But as we're heading for another General Election, I thought I'd share this post. It's the evening of the 2019 General Election. I am plagued by two thoughts. [โ€ฆ]

๐Ÿ‘€ Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/gell-mann-amnesia-and-purdah/
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ratkins,
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@Edent I want the Dunning &Kreuger &Gell &Mann shirt ๐Ÿ˜‚

ratkins, to random
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More LLM prompts should end โ€œโ€ฆ in the style of Chuck Tingleโ€
https://awscommunity.social/@Quinnypig/112487446321275191

tastapod, to random
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Hooray! Healthy conference snacks at #kotlinconf.

#thisistheway

ratkins,
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@kerryb @tastapod You beat me, damn it ๐Ÿ˜‚

jef, to random
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This is fine.

ratkins,
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@beeoproblem @jef Always.

ratkins,
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@jef From a very long distance away, on top of the substandard infrastructure, it seems Americans are particularly bad drivers.

hungry_joe, to random
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a new app exactly like tik tok but for porn called CLICK, BATE

ratkins,
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@hungry_joe Shitposts that could be funded for $100MM if you had the right people in the roomโ€ฆ

hungry_joe, to random
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THERE ARE TOO MANY FONTS there i said it

ratkins,
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@hungry_joe There are too many awful fonts.

glyph, to random
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New Blog: A Grand Unified Theory of the AI Hype Cycle https://blog.glyph.im/2024/05/grand-unified-ai-hype.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

ratkins,
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@glyph โ€œsemasiologyโ€, you mean โ€œsamasiologyโ€? ๐Ÿคช

(In all seriousness excellent post, thank you.)

eieio, to gamedev
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prototyping 'webcam pacman.' Chomp to move, look to turn

'pacman' played via webcam. The user's webcam is visible but transparent in the background; on top of it is a yellow circle that contains the user's face. As the user opens their mouth, the yellow circle's mouth opens as pacman's does. The circle's orientation changes based on the direction of the user's face. The circle moves in the direction it's facing as the user closes and opens their mouth.

ratkins,
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@eieio This is very silly and I love it.

ratkins, to random
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Even before the latest shenanigans, I still havenโ€™t found a reason to use anything but the built-in macOS Terminal.app.

ratkins,
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@nat Umโ€ฆ

ratkins,
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@matdotcx โ€œHi, I would like an overcomplicated, less HIG-compliant, featuritis-infested, version of a perfectly stable pre-existing tool thatโ€™s shipped with the OS please!โ€

ratkins, to random
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Whatโ€™s the best of the โ€œI want to go somewhere for a holiday, Iโ€™m not sure where, give me optionsโ€ sites?

simonbs, to random
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Today, Iโ€™ve been using ChatGPT a lot to create SQLite queries. I provide it with the schema for all my tables in SQL and ask it to create queries based on specific needs that require reasoning about relationships across 5-6 tables. It works surprisingly well! ChatGPT takes advantage of features in SQLite that I had no idea existed to ensure that the result rows match my needs in great detail.

ratkins,
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@simonbs I write the tests in advance and get ChatGPT to write me all the queries. Itโ€™s amazing, such a productivity boost.

doc, to random
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Cycling in Berlin, I am saddened sometimes when I cycle not on the bumpy, broken โ€œbicycle pathsโ€, but on the buttery smooth car road where I can get much higher speeds much more comfortably. All I need to do is risk my life. ๐Ÿ˜Ÿ

ratkins, (edited )
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@doc In those situations where the bike path is unrideable, I take the middle of the lane. Sure, you can mow me down, but Iโ€™m not going to let you tell yourself it was an โ€œaccidentโ€.

ratkins,
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@doc No, not โ€œfar from the edgeโ€, thatโ€™s what I mean, right in the middle. Make it absolutely impossible that they think they could get around you without killing you. And if they tailgate you, slow down.

ratkins,
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@doc (If the road narrows such that itโ€™s not safe to passโ€”but thatโ€™s my call, not the driversโ€™. I refuse to sacrifice my safety for a driverโ€™s convenience.)

brianbilston, to random
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As if it wasnโ€™t enough for it to be Monday morning, some students are also facing their GSCE English paper today and the terror of the โ€˜unseen poemโ€™.

Wishing them the very best of luck with it.

ratkins,
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@brianbilston What is the high-falutinโ€™ literary term (possibly French) for a form-vs-content joke? (This is brilliant btw.)

Dr_Bombay, to random
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Et voila! Vienna bread with a dutch crunch topping, hot out of the oven, with a pic of the book responsible. iโ€™m flabbergasted by the oven spring on these! they inflated like balloons! #BreadPosting

ratkins,
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@Dr_Bombay In the Netherlands they call that a โ€œtigerโ€ loaf, for relatively obvious reasons.

shawnhymel, to FinalFantasy
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Do you name your computers and if so, what theme do you use? Iโ€™ve been naming mine after summons for around 15 years ๐Ÿค“

Naming your computers

ratkins,
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@shawnhymel Women in Arthur Dentโ€™s life. My laptop is Mella and my phone is Random. I had a disk server named Eccentrica once, but itโ€™s gone now.

Edent, to FIRE
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๐Ÿ†• blog! โ€œAn adult gap year?โ€

I've got about another 10 months left at my current job and after that... I don't know what I'll do. I've already moved down to 4 days a week in an effort to glide down to FIRE. Do I really want to go back up to 5 days? Could I find somewhere that would be [โ€ฆ]

๐Ÿ‘€ Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/an-adult-gap-year/
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ratkins,
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@Edent Iโ€™ve always disguised it as travelโ€”your backpacking around India option. Literally nobody has ever needled me about a โ€œgap on my rรฉsumรฉโ€ and if the idea of me taking a year off makes their brain explode I donโ€™t want to work there anyway.

jsq, to random
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notable culinary news

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ratkins,
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@jsq The first one is about topology isnโ€™t it?

cstross, (edited ) to random
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WHATโ€”

(The European potato crisp singularity intensifies)

(UPDATE): Aaagh! They taste of egg yolk! This is totally bizarre!

ratkins,
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@KatS @cstross Better, I bought a packet with a picture of a ham and cheese sandwich on the front while in Barcelona and fuck me if they didnโ€™tโ€ฆ

christianselig, to random
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iPhone 15 Proโ€™s been my best battery performer by a mile, damn. All MagSafe charging too pretty much

ratkins,
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@christianselig I updated from a 14 mini (after previously having a 13 mini)
and man, as much as I hate the size I canโ€™t deny I love the battery life.

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