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Week 205: Decades happenhttps://po-ru.com/2024/12/08/week-205-decades-happen#weeknotes#blog
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Pleased to see Ruby catching up with Python. Every time I run pip it tells me to update pip, and now gem has achieved feature parity.```A new release of RubyGems is available: 3.5.22 → 3.5.23!Run gem...
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UKPolI fully expected to be disappointed by Starmer's ambitionless managerialist Labour party, but I didn't expect to have progressed to outright hating them this soon.
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"Queen Elizabeth II memorial could cost up to £46 million" may I humbly suggest a polyvalent solution to the country's troubles: **The Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Sewage Treatment Facility**
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Strange how these whistleblowers just keep dying. It could simply be that being a whistleblower causes mental ill health, but I don't think it's beyond the bounds of credibility to imagine that...
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I know people love those minimal, streamlined pictographs instead of text on interface buttons, but I just had to click on a rubbish bin to remove someone from the admins on a repository in GitHub and...
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A supposedly business critical web application has been broken since the weekend, and after about 24 hours and the involvement of a dozen people, we're still waiting to get the relevant permissions to...
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If you had told 11-year-old me, using the VIEW word processor on a 2Â MHz, 32Â kB, 8-bit BBC Model B computer, that computers in the 2020s would run a thousand times faster and have a million times as...
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I have to do a technical presentation this afternoon. My biggest worry is that someone is going to ask a vacuous question about "AI" and I'm going to struggle to summon the effort to reply with...
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Someone on this call has just, entirely unironically, used the phrase ""people with sovereign leader and frozen firefighter characteristics". Like the sun in England in December, the light of God no...
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I fixed up an old Chromebook with the aid of some replacement parts off AliExpress and installed Debian. It runs OK despite its Celeron N3060 CPU with only 2GB RAM (plus a little help from zramswap)...
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Week 207: The Incidenthttps://po-ru.com/2024/12/23/week-207-the-incident#weeknotes#blog
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I never buy anything on Etsy, because every time I follow a link there, I'm presented with a CAPTCHA, then, after I complete it, the message "You have been blocked."It even does the same on a fresh,...
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Just spent an hour doing one of the most luxurious things I can do in an age of perpetual distractions (with work being the worst offender): put on a CD and read a paper magazine from cover to cover.
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One day, I will type "repository" correctly first time, without misspelling it as "respository", but today is not that day.
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Benchmarking my various laptops (Intel) and tower (AMD) and I'm wondering to what extent the differences are age, and to what extent it's just the number of Intel CPU security fuck-ups necessitating...
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I was watching a video on YouTube just now and noticed an "AI-generated video summary" below. It wasn't inaccurate, but it was so reductive as to add nothing you couldn't have gleaned from the title. I...
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Week 208: Festive arrangementshttps://po-ru.com/2024/12/30/week-208-festive-arrangements#weeknotes#blog
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