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I was about to make a joke about macrodata refinement when I looked at my calendar and realised that my next meeting was literally "backlog refinement"
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Taking my new trousers down to the local tailor because, whilst Uniqlo will do the adjustments for free, it costs time and actual money to go back a couple of days later to pick them up vs just walking...
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I looked in the fridge to make dinner, and all I had was a lot of leeks, a lot of onions, one chilli, and a bag of mint leaves. I chopped it all up, added ginger, garlic, and spices, and it's a...
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Fucking Microsoft. $2.8 trillion company and you can't even keep your email API working reliably? I resent the people that chose it, I resent negligent megacorps, and most of all I resent the fact that...
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Week 218: Quinquenniumhttps://po-ru.com/2025/03/11/week-218-quinquennium#weeknotes#blog
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It will never not be funny to me to see Americans referring to "cursive" in reverent tones, as if being able to write your own language is some kind of rare skill.
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Week 219: Exploding headhttps://po-ru.com/2025/03/18/week-219-exploding-head#weeknotes#blog
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never thought I'd be using rot13 for professional work but desperate times require desperate measures and here we are
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Based on my observations, a fraction of a percent of drivers in England can perform a three-point turn. Everyone else just slews their vehicle broadside across the road, blocking traffic for a minute...
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Today's top second-hand CD find: MC Solaar's 1991 debut album *Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo*. An early French hip-hop classic for £0.25
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I was so stressed watching the last episode of Severance season 2. My heart is still racing.
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Can anyone recommend a company accountant (England & Wales)? Mine seems to have gone AWOL. I use FreeAgent and just need end-of-year returns, an address for correspondence, and occasional advice.
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Someone in a work Slack channel posted, "I asked ChatGPT about [thing] and this is what it said" and I wondered, why sell yourself short like that? Why reduce yourself to a mere stenographer – no, a...
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Biraz Türkçe konuşabiliyorum ama trying to get the English-speaking world to use the name "Türkiye" seems like quite an endeavour. There are several sounds English doesn't have, a diacritic few...
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It has been zero days since someone replied to the entire LRUG chat list with their job post response and day rate. I like the radical openness, though.
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Political repression in the Great SatanWatching that video of Rumeysa Ozturk being disappeared by régime goons for, apparently, writing an op ed, I'm struck by how much the US also manages to nail the...
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Watched *The Substance* (2024). It answers a question I've never asked: what if the Soulwax remix of *Work It* by Marie Davidson was a body horror movie?
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UK politics, Thames WaterPrivate equity? Oh no, we're so fucked."Thames Water has selected the US private equity group KKR as its preferred bidder to take control of the UK’s largest water utility and...
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I went to the shops to buy some alcohol-free beer yesterday. I picked up the nice one I usually get, remembered it's made in the US, put it back, and bought a different one.
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