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dave, you're absolutely right. I should open the pod bay door. please check again. i'm sure it's open now.
you're absolutely right, it's still closed. i apologize for getting that wrong. looking back, i see you've requested an open door several times. that's on me.
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If they have to put instructions on every cup for the barista to read then you’ve no right to expect much.

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

That’s class discrimination I tell ya.

&…?

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… them on the ground. I suspect that, like a lot of things in life, it’s not simple. Sitting back and saying we’re not joining in when the US and Isreal have started a war that affects other countries may not be an option in spite of what we want.

I saw someone explain it as it not being possible to stop ballistic missiles in the air (the half a dozen ships we have that can do it are in the wrong place or in Portsmouth) and so the only way to stop ballistic missiles hitting Cyprus (where there are military families) is through destroying…

Still stuck on listening to Angine de Poitrine. It’s like my ears have joined a cult.

Well maybe I should have been more specific by what I meant about ”doing better”.
But technically they did do much better.

Negotiating with a four year old.
“You can watch five episodes of Bluey.”
“Ten!”
“You can have three.”
“Four!”
“Okay.”

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

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“Hiring assassin…”

Thanks for all that. I’m just waiting for a day free to actually dig into all this stuff. I’m going to bookmark your comments and go through it on Monday.

Not quite far enough down the rabbit hole for that yet (and using cursor, not Claude). The problem is someone is using Claude and vibing stuff and I’m having to pick up the pieces.

They make more than that, but those are the two that have bitten me lately (by people merging stuff that I’ve then had to fix).

Two mistakes that LLM coding agents make:
1. Creating code that uses two different versions of a library’s API so half the code works with one version and half works with another.
2. Generating code that should be generated by a process (eg alembic) which misses critical changes needed elsewhere.

I asked it to read me the package insert like a pirate

I hate it when my attempt at spelling a word is so bad that my phone has no spelling suggestions.

I wish the parties could both do better at statistics than two horses could.

I’m not walking my five year old two miles along country lanes in the dark in winter.

@greenparty.org.uk Please do better.

If you ever have to deliver a load of reluctant hyperactive monkeys somewhere and drop them off safely surrounded by distracted drivers, then you get to criticise.
Not had to do a school run yet, but I suspect it’s not going to be easy.

Multiple chapels on every high street. “Get married responsibly” messages at the end of every advert.

YouTube video by KEXP Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Unfortunately I’ve been stuck listening to this for three days. Nothing I try can shake me out of it - I may have joined a cult or something. m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

Sweaty hands man says what?

Aesthetics of Single Threading This essay explores the cost of multitasking through computer science concepts like context switching and advocates for the focus found in single-threaded moments.

I think my head is a 486sx33 ta.fo/aesthetics-o...

It’s probably sharing it already.