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Friday, 29 September 2023

 

You know we’re in a tech hiring downturn when the only entry to a “who’s hiring” post is a Russian company.

Thursday, 28 September 2023

 

Thank god lobste.rs banned ExTwitter links so I don’t have to flag as offtopic a tweetpost from Lex Fridman where he chats with Mark fucking Zuckerman, clad in “photorealistic avatars”. Both are so robotic so the feat is less impressive than it sounds.

HN of course laps it up.

Wednesday, 27 September 2023

 

Tempted to make a “Stop doing GNU” copypasta meme. “Mankind was not made to program in elisp”

 

Jag har dragit mig för att läsa första delen av Åke Ohlmarks memoarer. Titeln är ”I paradiset” och boken handlar om hans barndom. Här kan väl inte finnas så många av de ilskna tirader som gjort honom till ett av den svenska rättshaveristikens största namn, tänkte jag.

🇸🇪🐦🧵 David Nessle

 

🔗🇸🇪 Nagorno-Karabach: Fördjupning (ui.se)

 

An hackernews is sooo close to getting it…

There is a danger though if certain types of sites are more likely to block GPTBot than others, because that would end up skewing the data set that it trains off, which could have longer term impacts on all the content generated with it. If all the good quality sites block it and the sites full of AI generated junk don’t, then that sounds like a downward spiral.

Tuesday, 26 September 2023

 

John W. Campbell Jr. – cryptofascist

[Moorcock said that] Campbell’s Stories and its writers were “wild-eyed paternalists to a man, fierce anti-socialists” with “[stories] full of crew-cut wisecracking, cigar-chewing, competent guys (like Campbell’s image of himself)”, who had success because their “work reflected the deep-seated conservatism of the majority of their readers, who saw a Bolshevik menace in every union meeting”. He viewed Campbell as turning the magazine into a vessel for right-wing politics, “by the early 1950s … a crypto-fascist deeply philistine magazine pretending to intellectualism and offering idealistic kids an ‘alternative’ that was, of course, no alternative at all”.

Bester commented: “[my conversation with Campbell] reinforced my private opinion that a majority of the science-fiction crowd, despite their brilliance, were missing their marbles.”

🆆 John W. Campbell: Assessment by peers

Monday, 25 September 2023

 

📺🇬🇧 Better

Good UK crime drama, with great characters and actors as usual.

Extra credit for having a The The track as closing theme.

Sunday, 24 September 2023

 

🇸🇪 TV4-appen på Samsung-TV är verkligen riktigt usel.

 

🔗 Amazing footage of liquified mud (quick clay) in Norway in 1978 (narration in Norwegian)

🆆 Quick clay.

Via Cornubot

 

🇸🇪🎭 En midsommarnattsdröm

En föreställning från Scenkonst Sörmland. Shakespeares pjäs är översatt till 1939 i Sörmland. Bra humoristiska inslag men med bråddjupt allvar.

Saturday, 23 September 2023

 

Learning a lot about hydraulic ram maintenance and repair from a nice young Australian man on Youtube. I hope he’s not a Nazi.

 

Broke: thinking about the Roman Empire every 10 minutes.

Woke: thinking about the Byzantine Empire every 10 minutes.

Bespoke: they’re the same thing, fool.

Friday, 22 September 2023

 

Aside from chat history, persistent notifications, multi-line comments, editing and media support, what have the later gen alternatives to IRC ever done for us?

 

Yanks on weekend plans: rattle off more stuff than I can do at work in a month, “you know, just taking it easy”.

Thursday, 21 September 2023

 

“Halt! It’s the GDPR Police! Drop that unencrypted PII now!!

Tuesday, 19 September 2023

 

Some IT consultant is trying the hoary old trick of advertising using puzzles, but in this case they’re using Tengwar, and the idea of spending my working days with Tolkien nerds is not the selling point they imagine it to be.

 

Had my first run-in with the hell of node/npm versioning when I had to update pagefind. Not very enjoyable.

 

Anyone know why Donostia-San Sebastian is such a popular destination for Australians?

 

🔗 Liquid Bewitchment: Gin Drinking in England, 1700–1850

So in this almost empty gin palace
Through a two-way looking glass
You see your Alice

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2020 16 13 18 9 7 10 2 7 11 3 18 8
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2018 14 28 24 10 9 7 18 7 14 4 7 2
2017 13 26 15 14 21 13 3 13 7 7 25 18
2016 21 56 35 28 36 27 17 8 28 21 13 6
2015 16 10 32 13 11 14 4 16 33 34 44 11
2014 16 37 9 18 17 12 23 28 42 24 9 12
2013 67 88 44 50 33 23 18 19 51 52 47 37
2012 22 56 10 54 95 48 42 48 42 54 36 60
2011 63 41 51 54 38 37 45 31 66 35 23 19
2010 152 188 129 154 111 117 53 115 114 125 102 89
2009 234 246 270 280 270 278 106 164 224 199 186 147
2008 45 121 135 178 146 154 158 154 145 151 133 169
2007 3 1 44 76 38 30 27 76 110 182 68 30
2006 20 14 5 2 9 5 1 12 11 12 4 13
2005 1 1 10 8
2004 1 2

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