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former kids who read too many books and didnt know how to pronounce the words you learned gang say hey
That’s just asking for somebody with a printer and a laminator to swap the sign for one that says “Not defacing the sidewalk prohibited”. Bonus points if they attach a little pot of chalks…
Damn good alibi for if he does kick the bucket though!
Don't forget that they are probably not using your site search. They are more likely using google (or even ChatGPT these days) and searching for "xxx uni history courses". Blocking search engines from indexing parts of your site will lose you these applicants, they won't just come use your search.
Pretty sure there has been a spike of crime in DC since January. The main hotspot is around 1600 Pennsylvania Ave...
Mullvad are good. You don’t have to provide an email address and can pay with a brown envelope full of cash…
Has WhatsApp web changed how it works recently? It used to require that your phone was on to relay messages, but mine is currently out of battery on my desk and I'm still using WhatsApp web. I was under the impression that the phone had to be involved due to the E2E encryption - has that gone away?
Thanks! Most folks wouldn’t bother to respond to an internet random, it is appreciated 🙂
That’s fair. It’s hit the dotnet subreddit and folks are (rightly) kinda pissed off about it. Any chance you can push for some form of explanation or statement from your side?
@blowdart.me are you able to comment on what happened here? It feels like a massive overreact for a minor issue - is there more we arent seeing? aaronstannard.com/microsoft-de...
I agree 100% there. Unfortunately there seems to be a niche of ragebait focused purely on horrific cooking videos. Stuff like “shove this chicken in a jar and then use the dishwasher to cook it”. You can’t tell me that that is legitimate budget cooking, that’s just food poisoning with extra steps.
That sounds like some of the cooking videos TikTok has been throwing at me recently. I need to work out how to tell their alogrithm that "No, I don't want to see more shockingly bad cooking videos. I only watched the one out of morbid curiosity. Please show me more silly cats, dogs and birds"
I would love to see the Millennial category broken down by student loans as well. Yes, it’s essentially a tax at this point, but by removing money you are essentially lowering their pay and removing their ability to save. I’m willing to bet there is a link between student loans and pension savings
Consider a programmer looking at code they themselves wrote a year ago, now having to identify and fix a bug. They have to rebuild the mental model of what is going on, which is easier if they have already had a mental model of what is going on.
Dear dickhead on the sports bike, I’m sure the police appreciate the wheelies you seem to love doing - it lets them easily read your folded up rear number plate really easily. Good job 👍
I was just thinking that one of the good things to come out of the current LLM craze is a standard API being available on a lot of big services. After looking briefly at the MCP spec on my phone, I’m not so sure. It looks… strange.
My mechanic thought she heard a squeak coming from the car…
I tried out the "How many i's in teamwork" question for Google to see if they had fixed it... ...they have not.
I’m assuming you already ate the sausage roll? No way you went to Greggs and didn’t get one…
It’s not Windows 11 - it’s binary for Windows 3. The next version will be Windows 11.1 and will start by booting you in powershell. You then have to run “start-win” to start windows…
One of the joys of summer, my neighbour has commenced their annual rewatching of 24. At least I assume it’s an annual rewatch - it might be all they watch and it’s only now that it’s hot and we all have our windows open that we can hear them…
This is just special. I'm a fan of cyberpunk as an aesthetic and cautionary genre. Seeing such an on the nose example popping up in real life is somewhere between concerning and terrifying...
Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
Is it a coincidence that in the UK we have our Trooping the Colour parade with our armed forces in London this weekend, the same weekend Trump has decided he wants his little birthday parade?
Nope, 5th works. There is no way 2010 was 15 years ago!
SCOTUS: POTUS has immunity for everything he does in his official capacity POTUS: I’m Commander in Chief. I don’t like those rowdy fellows over there. Marines, go git. The Public: Wait, that’s illegal… POTUS: Immunity! Not saying this will happen, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it does…
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” 1984 (Image from @theguardian.com)
I’d like to make a prediction for the record: I strongly believe GenAI will “fail” in the next 2-4 years, despite its prevalence. I suspect (about) 2 years from now, we will see businesses trying to pivot and “fix what AI broke.” (The actual timeline is less important than the patterns.)
Dear UK Gov. Please get your act together and fix higher education funding. Seriously, the way things are going you will be seeing unis going under before much longer - and that is going to fuck over the towns around them. I don't think you realise how bad it will be when one goes. It will be bad
Depressingly not unexpected. The constant opposition to big infrastructure builds, and particularly nuclear power are one of the major off putting things about the greens. That said, they are still far and away better than some of the other, more blue shaded, options…
morrowind: Have a scroll that lets you jump over mountains me: cool! *uses it to jump across the map* morrowind: BTW it will wear off before you land. Good luck surviving the landing... me: *falling to my doom* WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?!
Rephrased... "Is ChatGPT reliable despite being unreliable"? Seriously, @news.sky.com did anybody read this headline before publishing it?
I'm not sure he has ever actually *watched* the damn film. Once you know that Hans is the bad guy, it's painfully obvious from the start. Even if you don't know, he is still creepy and manipulative and weird. A bit like Peterson I guess...
Local businesses will be seeing a massive loss of income due to the loss of 15k customers. They will be looking at redundancies themselves. They won’t be hiring. Towns with universities are built around them. If you allow the university to fail, the future of that town is grim.
And thats only the student population. The staff would be gone as well, along with the money they spend. That’s probably another 6k+ people suddenly out of work. That’s 6k people *in one town* who will be looking for work in a town that is seeing a massive economic crash.
There is so much truth here. If the university I work at were to shut down, the local area would have an immediate population loss of 15k. That’s 15k less people spending money on the high street. 15k less people paying rent. 15k less people buying take out. The knock on effects would be huge.
I am a silly butt who left his phone with his bored wife 😈
Seriously, this is insanity. Why couldn't they just embed a python interpreter as an alternative to the VBA stuff? This solution feels like it is needlessly online and 1 sandbox escape away from a major data breech. Please Microsoft, just embed a python interpreter in excel. Please.
I have just discovered that Python in Excel is *not* an embedded python interpreter within excel, with the code running on your machine - as a normal macro would. Instead it outsources the running to Azure and you have a quota. Update a spreadsheet too often in a month? No more calculations for you
I feel like there should be a matching 'TERFS' one to put on the exit so you have matched pair...
We do have dogs at polling stations. It’s not quite the same, but it has encouraged me to linger near mine in the past to say hello to a friendly pooch…
If we ever manage to create a sentient AI, would we be the eldritch abominations to it? We would be the messy self propelled meat lumps, from outside its reality with unknowable intentions and unimaginable power. For an intelligence that lives inside a computer, that would be terrifying.
I am unable to read “necromancer” as anything other than “neck romancer” aka vampire in my head. I have no idea where I picked this up from…
Fucking hell. Who deputised the sovereign citizen nutjobs? Seriously though, this is the kind of shit that cannot end in anything other than bad times.
Don’t tempt fate!
Looks like they are up to 211 accounts now. Including @thedailyshow.com and @arseblog.com - I wonder if they are large orgs that have been pushing for something more than the domain name verification system…
In porridge!
Roald Dahl's heartbreaking letter about how his daughter died from measles in the 60s. Even today, measles can be a killer - vaccinate your kids. Not sure if anybody on here needs to see it, but some of you might have folks in your lives who would benefit from it. www.immunize.org/wp-content/u...
Give the kids the choice. Do they want to watch “a film about cute bunnies”? (Not to be confused with “a cute film about bunnies”)
I’m just wondering how long before somebody writes a “verify all of the things” service that just verifies all users with “verified bluesky user” or similar…
I’m pretty sure I know why anybody would think there is a better answer than Tremors - they have never seen Tremors. That in itself is a problem that needs fixing though, so make sure you bring a copy and something to watch it on to that Greggs car park…
This doesn’t work if you are taller than the person in the front. Then you need to pee over their shoulder.
Just going to leave this here. It’s Trump and his besties, Musk and Vance. Quite clear who the bigger man is here… #trump
Today is the 369th anniversary of Jón Jónsson and his son Jón Jónsson being burnt at the stake in Iceland for witchcraft and casting fart runes that “afflict your belly with great shitting and shooting pains”. Obviously
I feel like you have to know your audience with that one…
And this is the 2nd number I have called. The first one on the contract seemed to only exist to hand out the phone number for this line...
It doesn't match the length of the music on repeat - I'm 10 mins in and it has started varying the volume of the "We have high call volumes, your call is important to us" woman as she is speaking...
Currently on hold calling a bank and it sounds like their hold music volume is on a sine wave. It goes from low side of normal, up to earsplittingly loud and then back down again.
This just makes me think of that town the libertarians tried it with. Maybe this one will end up getting abandoned to bears as well…
Does anybody know of a decent alternative that doesn't have the Gen AI bullshit baked in?
The gremlins did some pavement chalks on the driveway. #cat went out to “help”… (The picture doesn’t really do it justice!) #ProofOfCat
April fools was last week guys. And we know nobody is dumb enough to dump petabytes into an s3 glacier bucket and claim to be saving money… right…?
That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did, you deserved it. The Narcissist's Prayer, Dayna Craig. Sums up this Whitehouse perfectly…
I have hay, nuggets, various sticks and a log filled with food available to me. Yet the tastiest thing I can find is my house… #bunny
Apparently my house is the perfect temperature for sleeping during the day! WTF?
Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum
Wow. Judge Howell is worried that if she orders DOGE to leave the USIP building it could turn into an “armed standoff” over unwillingness to vacate, and points out law enforcement has shown willingness to help DOGE. Asks if we’ll need foreign mediators to come in.
America, you do know that OCP were the bad guys in Robocop right? Delta City is not something to aspire to - especially not on a national level! #NetworkState
Apple, why do you seem to think I want to see songs that have brought King Charles III joy? I don’t. Stop spamming my notifications.
I think we have a nomination for “most concerning question of the year” on the work slack. The question being “We have some electricians here trying to get into one of the server rooms. Can somebody come let them in”?
It would probably make a better blanket for when you don’t want to use the hole. I know the ones with arms are terrible at being regular blankets. It feels the same as just using a dressing gown…
You can get blankets with sleeves - it’s not quite the same, but they are pretty comfy. I think “slanket” is the name to search for…
At least a landfill you could add to quickly. Confluence takes an age to do anything with!
Just throw them a handful of dreamies as a bribe to go away. No way that can backfire…
TIL that C# lets you do your own memory management... minidump.net/exploring-fr...
Cat: I want to go out! Let me out! ~~5 minutes later~~ Cat: Let me in! I need to poop! ~~1 post-poop-zoomies and 5 minutes later~~ Cat: I'm hungry! Come watch me eat! I can't eat without a human watching me!
Right, if you have no interest in higher education, look away now, for I am going to bang on about it for a bit, because the sector I work in is in a state (like everything else), but I think there is something you can do to help: write to your MP (find out who that is with this handy link...)
There are four lights!!!
Why do I suspect I know the codebase this is from…?
Based on the fact the DOGE folks have not removed either the unauthorized content highlighted by @404media.co *or* the classified details of the NRO headcount from their website, I'm starting to suspect that they don't have the ability to remove content from doge.gov. Change my mind...
Your #caturday supervisor is present and supervising.
He… does know this isn’t how that works right? 🤬
America, what is going on at the moment? Are you guys ok? Should we call somebody?
TIL Maus is a 'dessert book'... Although I suspect wherever this list is from may have it on a ban list anyway!
Seriously though, who pays 15c per document? That's just obscene money. I'm just surprised that our consultants didn't see this as a showstopper before suggesting it!
Our consultants have suggested a cloud based solution that apparently costs in the region of 15c per document. We estimate that we generate around 150k documents per year. We can't afford $24k a year in new spending just for some PDFs I guess we are sticking with our existing home grown solution.
Currently working on a project where devs have raised some red flags over potential hidden costs in the technology and been ignored. We have a requirement to generate PDF copies of certain documents for record retention, sending out via email etc.
That sounds like a bad idea! The last thing you need is another illness with a small child to take care of - especially as you are paying half your salary for them to bring lurgy home from nursery...
It could be worse - you could have Gout as well. Then you would be sick from your head to your toes...
Based on those results, I'm pretty sure 'popular' in this context means 'I remember Romans, Egyptians and Tudors from KS3 history and only one of those names looks familiar'
I have been in meetings where a customer was grumbling I hadn't done something and before I could say anything she asked "did you email him"? They hadn't and I didn't need to defend not doing the work, I just sat there while boss explained that they aren't special and everybody has to email requests
Make them put everything in writing all the time. My boss knows that my response to requests is along the lines of "Send me the details in an email and I will see what I can do". Anything that I don't have an email for has a 50% chance of being legitimately forgotten even if I want to do it.
Thank you for the offer! I have a couple of ideas I can try and flesh out into a session she can enjoy...
Thank you! This is actually really helpful - I think I'm probably going to give it a go this weekend!
You have reminded me that I promised smallest gremlin I would run a game of it for her at some point. Never run a game before so this could be an interesting experience - any tips for a first time GM?
For the record, the correct response to this in the UK at least is always: "I believe that doing this would potentially represent a significant data breach and break the law. I'll need a letter from the legal department confirming it isn't, first."
