Simon Lyall

I think Adam Dorsey needs to get a better imdb photo

Not a bad list. Plenty of good songs there

I've listened to 22,49 and 72 just in the last 24 hours.

MTV Dance "The 100 Biggest 90's Dance Anthems Of All Time" List (2011)

www.discogs.com/lists/MTV-Da...

Apollo 11: The Complete Descent YouTube video by Apollo Flight Journal

Good video of the Apollo 11 decent and landing

Syncs in video, data and audio recordings plus adds information to explain what is happening.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc1S...

I am really concerned for the "LLMs don't work and are completely unreliable" folks

TIL the tattoo I'd though about getting in my early-20s actually has a distinct meaning as a prison tattoo

Guess some of the reactions if people saw it would not have been what I'd expected

TIL about "Sandstorm Run"

Run, jog, walk, or dance in the Sandstorm music video locations around Helsinki with a post-run concert with Darude and friends

www.sandstormrun.com

I wonder if the job market is warming up. Been getting the odd recruiter messaging me after almost none last year.

These days when I open an article on a news website I automatically scroll down a page or so before I start reading it

Checking to make sure I can actually read the whole article first.

No point starting if I'm just going to hit a paywall after a couple of paragraphs

Cut Every Corner (Music Video) | The Simpsons YouTube video by The Simpsons

It's the American way..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxWo...

Well it seems to be pumping the estimated value so I guess it is working right...

My latest contribution to Tolkien Studies:

" Was Gandalf raining down flaming poop on Orc guards while he was imprisoned at Isengard? "

I did a survey of the NZ University websites vs the xkcd criteria 15 years ago

blog.darkmere.gen.nz/2010/08/xkcd...

If everyone hates them so much I assume nobody is buying and living in them...

What to do if the neighbours' cats keep tearing up your garden. From r/newzealand

Seriously thought that guy was stuck in a loop like those Ant Mills

Say somebody complaining about people who:

"Sew discourse"

is forums.

and I'll admit that phrase almost works.

TIL the tattoo I'd though about getting in my early-20s actually has a distinct meaning as a prison tattoo

Guess some of the reactions if people saw it would not have been what I'd expected

Picked up some Durian from the local supermarket (Paknsave not an Asian place)

R16 from Vietnam. Was about $18 frozen

Flesh in pretty good condition. Did contain nuts so they took up some space

The flavour was pretty weak though

Picked up some Durian from the local supermarket (Paknsave not an Asian place)

R16 from Vietnam. Was about $18 frozen

Flesh in pretty good condition. Did contain nuts so they took up some space

The flavour was pretty weak though

Dark but funny

Was having shower, looked up and huge cockroach was on the (outside) of the shower dome right above my head!

I screamed and freaked out. I really don't handle big insects when they sneak up on me. Grew up in South Island where they are rare

Partner has sprayed and disposed of it. I'm still shaking

Mongol General: Conan! What is best in life?

Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and and to hear the laminations of their women.

I find it funny that a guy wrote a history of the potato in 2008 and initially released it under the title of:

The Propitious Esculent

and then after a no doubt "Oh if you insist" with his publishers changed it to:

The Untold History of the Potato

and it actually sold a few copies

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

Kinda ironic that for years Ops people have been told coding is the number one priority in infra management and Devs will take their job

And now generating code (and config like terraform) is just something a LLM does

Big change to what skills DevOps/SRE people need to prioritise going forward

Well if they start hanging/camping out in suburban shops, parks and streets then I can't imagine the average suburban voter will be happy

These days when I open an article on a news website I automatically scroll down a page or so before I start reading it

Checking to make sure I can actually read the whole article first.

No point starting if I'm just going to hit a paywall after a couple of paragraphs