Ben Jones

You can tell the Apple Watch is made for Americans
“Watch has detected you’re doing an outdoor walk activity! Shall I record it?”
“I’m walking home from the pub”
“You are doing a HIKE sir”
“My house is just there”
“Sir you have tripled your move goal! What. An. Athlete”

All the "Colère [dept]" facebook groups looked bloody dodgy at the time. But that first weekend at least, there were a lot of people that were out and angry. Not sure how much Bannon does, vs how much he brags about.

"If I pull off gilet juanes takedown of macron ;may out; meadows/ bossie in as cos all in
5 days --HBH"

...there are echoes of what the previous greybeards worried about when I was starting.
"People don't write assembler, how do they know what the computer is doing"
"If you don't manage the memory, it will not be efficient"
We are always building new layers of abstraction to get shit done.

You can (and we do) get AI to help write tests. The point always is accountability and responsibility. The tools aren't responsible for the code. I go back and forth about all this, clearly there are problems and pitfalls to navigate, but...

AI is changing them a lot! In the last year it's gone from (and I'm going to attempt a carpentry analogy) "what screwdriver do I need for this... no that's not a screwdriver... ok I guess" to "here's the precise instructions and measurements for legs and a tabletop" to "make me a table"

Well, we code review & have test suites, the same as we would for any contribution. There's a lot of hacks out there, but previously they were just committing any old nonsense they found on Stack Overflow anyway.

Ah, so they must’ve moved to Oracle’s “cloud” as they were part of the buying consortium.

100% true that the first webserver was in France. It was in the building I'm sitting in now (in fact, the next cube it was on is in a display cabinet in an adjoining building).

Slaves, I think they want slaves. They’ve huffed up Rome podcasts and thought “hey what if we have a robot slave economy and buy off the plebs with some grain dole outs?”

Is that possible at all in this vote, since most of the funding was in the big shit bill

I don't know what "classical liberal" means to the OP, but it's normally pretty damn right wing whenever I see it.

Haha, you see I'm not a physicist, but I work with enough of your lot to know that one dodgy plot can derail a room for hours.

At least 2, since some of the values seem to imply that there are others.

The Y axis is so messed up, but it doesn't really prepare you for that X axis.

Also doesn't deal with the fact that Brexit is part of the reason that Europe was weakened, which is why it was so enthusiastically supported by some of the vultures that Frost advocates hitching our fortunes to

Sack the board!

The fck is this clown on about. Also has he had a stroke.

Love this, but I still don't know how much is the mythology of RDJ, but the live stuff is 100% true. I remember seeing him around the time of this album in a tiny club in a Sheffield railway arch. Two massive bears bounced on stage, but he just lay down on his back through it all smoking

That's what's nice about days like today. Whilst he's probably still alive, there's a real possibility he knows people are hoping he's not.

I think a good rule of thumb is to live your life in a way that a significant proportion of the world's population isn't imagining the joy and street parties upon your demise.

Could Americans stop waiting for something to come and save them - Mueller, the courts, now Europe and do it themselves please.

A million times this.

Important perspective from Greenland.

I do get all that. But expecting Europe to burn all bridges at the cost of NATO, Ukraine, the general security architecture of the world and the remains of a "Western alliance" is quite a big ask compared to, I don't know, 10 US senators and a handful of Reps discovering a spine

Keep seeing this, from Americans, and it begs an obvious question. Wtf are you guys doing? Trump gets his power from you: you have agency. Europe has to contend with Trump running a superpower. It's still a superpower. He's running it because of you!

Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though

Wasn’t suggesting that at all. Just we are not in the market to be lectured to by Americans of all people at this time.