I disagree. Water can be desalinated and/rationed. If we avoid war over oil, I think the next wars will be fought over food supply or inhabitable land :-(
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I disagree. Water can be desalinated and/rationed. If we avoid war over oil, I think the next wars will be fought over food supply or inhabitable land :-(
AltTxt: a mug from podcast "The AI Fix".
A picture of a confused-looking pigeon and a question "Would you trust pigeon?"
My coffee mug says:-
Beautiful fluffeh black and white cat mirrored to appear like a pompom
Same fluffeh black and white cat through a kaleidoscope creating what appears to be a biblically accurate feline floral snowflake.
Couldn't resist, Freida is a very aesthetically pleasing cat.
NEW VIDEO IS NOW OUT!!!!
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SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON
GO AROUND ON THE SUBSCRIBE BUTTON!!
youtu.be/Wm1_UJCvRkg
I heard a rumour that the new Star Trek films will be set in the Kevlin timeline
I agree, but cynically I think "They make money when you are happy. They make money when you are angry. So they don't care."
The believers frighten me more, because they'll still be around after Trump is out of office. They've gotten so used to being mean to people that I can't see them giving it up overnight.
Long version (90') of my talk on The Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages at the @accuconf.bsky.social this year
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-3Q...
p.s. PL/I type checking was OK at a basic level.
But if you overlaid a function pointer with a basic pointer (using BASED), you could point the basic pointer at anything, which might be some home-grown machine code, then run it by calling the function pointer.
This was *frowned upon* :-)
That's going to be a *very* short piece...
Look, this is funny. Fair enough.
But I feel sick now.
Nice dig at PL/I :-)
At the time it was seen as big and resource hungry compared with COBOL, when bytes and CPU cycles were expensive.
COBOL has added the useful facilities that PL/I bigots like me would use to laugh at COBOL programmers, back in the day.
And gcc is bigger than PL/I was :-)
All my favourite mastodon servers seem fine.
Oh, *that* other site! ;-)
mobile.other.site is as dead as that squirrel.
A screenshot showing that downforeveryoneorjustme.com is currently unavailable because of a Cloudflare problem.
A screenshot showing that downdetector.com is currently unavailable because of a Cloudflare problem.
A screenshot showing that uptimerobot.com is currently unavailable because of a Cloudflare problem.
Cloudflare is down...
I use UptimeRobot to monitor sites. UptimeRobot is also hosted on Cloudflare. It is VERY BROKEN right now.
DownDetector is another useful tool for checking site availability. Also hosted on Cloudflare.
DownForEveryoneOrJustMe... yep, hosted on Cloudflare.
GOLLY THIS IS FUN!
When Cloudflare goes down but you still remember how to program without Copilot
pingability.com still seems to be working fine.
And my website on mythic-beasts.
Kryten: engaging smug mode
That sounds like the "MED files" episode, a corker of a story :-)
Brill stuff!
And is that a train I hear? :-)
A Greggs bag in UK claims "BAG SOME JOY" is a registered trademark.
Seriously?
Oh, now that's *very* musical!
Bought it on Bandcamp after listening once, which is rare for me :-)
A big tinsel feature in a shopping mall. A reindeer in a bauble that has bars like a bird cage pops out of a giant gift box.
Creative writing time. What did the reindeer do to deserve this fate?!
“They’ve accidentally released you?”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
{chomp! chomp!}
... and the world carries on without a pair of nonce bastards.
Post an image that will always make you laugh
I think AI probably has a place as the uninhibited person in a brainstorming session where "there is no such thing as a stupid question or idea".
I still remember when it was -14°C in Cumbria, getting into a diesel Peugeot so efficient that it took 20 minutes to warm up the engine.
It wasn't actually painful grabbing the steering wheel, but it was close :-)
A photo of the front cover of issue 1662 of Private Eye magazine with the caption "on shelves now." The front cover reads “BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special” and shows Broadcasting House with speech bubbles coming from the building. The quotes include “Donald Trump says we broadcast fake news!”, “Nigel Farage says we’re totally biased!”, “Boris Johnson says we’re liars!”, “The Daily Mail says we’re peddling conspiracy theories!”, “Kemi Badenoch highlights poor leadership!”, “The Daily Telegraph says we’re editing for political purposes!”, and “Liz Truss says we’ve done huge damage to the country!”
BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special
The new Private Eye is out now.
Roadside warning sign in UK style--white triangle with a bold red border around a picture of a leopard, and the words underneath say "BEWARE OF THE LEOPARD"
Bizarre. I mean their business model seems to involve taking card payments, so I'd expect them to make that bit easy :-)