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Software developer, professionally in Java but tinkering in Rust and Go. Cisgender He/him but I'll answer to anything vaguely polite. @grahamcox82 from Twitter if you're looking.

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The problem is that, in modern society, success is measured by wealth rather than ability.
So the super rich people who have never done anything themselves feel successful, and the under paid but more capable people feel the opposite...

07.03.2026 09:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

To be fair to them, how dare gay people want to *checks notes* be respected and treated as equals. It's just not fair of them...

/S

07.03.2026 09:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So, apparently the official terrier of Ireland is the Kerry Blue Terrier, and not the Irish Terrier... Who'd have thought...

06.03.2026 20:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can she come over here and tell our government the same?

05.03.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Or else they'll move into those areas that GenAI just can't do- either not at all or not well enough.
I'm thinking things like where performance is key, where you can't afford any hallucinations, or where there's just not anything in their corpus to pull from...

05.03.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm both older and younger than ET at the same time.

05.03.2026 06:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can anyone recommend any Grammerly alternatives that aren't doing awful things like this?

03.03.2026 13:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for β€œArmageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

Looks like Crusades are back on the menu, boys!

jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-...

03.03.2026 07:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I read something about a brilliant way a teacher was using them. They had the students look up the answers on ChatGPT, then research all the ways the LLM generated answers were wrong.
Not only learning how to check these things, but also that LLMs give wrong answers...

01.03.2026 20:08 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Still doesn't work.
Apparently the real number is around 0.48%. So even if see got the decimal point wrong (and I could forgive someone confusing 0.3% with 0.3 = 30% if that number wasn't so ridiculous in this case), but even then the digits are way off...

01.03.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So, is she just outright lying? Or is she given false information by her staff and is too stupid to question it?
And which is worse?

01.03.2026 15:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Since the US violated the Olympic Treaty (no fighting from 7 days before the Olympics until 7 days after the Paralympics), I assume this means they're uninvited from at least the Paralympics?

Or are they allowed to just break treaties and bomb schools with impunity?

01.03.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can we possibly all agree collectively to just boycott those cars whose normal headlights - not full beams, just normal - are brighter than the sun...

28.02.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Can anyone recommend a cloud-hosted, free (or inexpensive) personal wiki? Something like Obsidian only online. And preferably one that has good enough support for mobile devices too.

27.02.2026 23:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Putin's asset in Washington has ordered Ukraine to rein in it's long-range attacks on Russian infrastructure"

25.02.2026 20:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Murdering.
The word you want is murdering. Not killing.
The defense department murdered (another) three people.
That's what you call premeditated killing without any legal reason - such as evidence, a court conviction, anything at all like that...

25.02.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

If this is all true then this is scary. Not least because I can think of at least one other AI company that would gladly take government money, and has no qualms about pesky things like ethics.. So Anthropic saying No likely won't stop them from doing this anyway :(

25.02.2026 18:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Blue box with the writing "102.1% Of 2022 Final" inside it.

Blue box with the writing "102.1% Of 2022 Final" inside it.

How many MAGA voters will look at this one number and cry fraud if they lose?

24.02.2026 17:03 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

If they can raise prices on stock they didn't pay tariffs on ahead of needing to pay tariffs on future stock, they *could* absolutely drop prices on stock they did pay tariffs on ahead of not needing to pay them any more.
They just won't.

24.02.2026 09:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of the "I'm Not a Robot" game, level 17 where you have to draw a circle that is 94% accurate, showing that I was 94.7% accurate and had almost finished it when I ran out of time.

Screenshot of the "I'm Not a Robot" game, level 17 where you have to draw a circle that is 94% accurate, showing that I was 94.7% accurate and had almost finished it when I ran out of time.

Seriously?!? :(

24.02.2026 08:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Worse, if the tariffs are removed, odds are the prices won't go back down to what they were before. The companies will just pocket more profit from you...

23.02.2026 23:43 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

Because you're not super rich, and therefore the government doesn't care about you...

23.02.2026 23:42 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe with America being too dangerous for many people to travel to, this is the time for Canada to step up and do better with these things...

23.02.2026 19:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

47? I've gotten to 17 and I'm totally stuck!

23.02.2026 15:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

People who were abused by some of the richest and most powerful people on the planet were threatening to name names, without any form of protection, and are suddenly not doing so anymore. I wonder what could have happened there... :(

23.02.2026 15:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not sure about books but there are plenty of mobile games that are effectively that idea...

22.02.2026 17:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've seen a few posts/videos from actual, professional historians - people who's entire academic career is around studying this stuff - who have pointed out a significant number of parallels been 1930s Germany and 2020s USA...
But sure, it's nothing to be worried about...

22.02.2026 15:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Trump probably won't. From how he looks, he's likely to die from natural causes before seeing anything resembling justice...

21.02.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm curious. When (if?) Andrew is found guilty of paedophilia and espionage, will they reopen the tower for him?

19.02.2026 20:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I suspect we're all much more than Β£1,000 poorer directly because of leaving the EU...

18.02.2026 21:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0