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  Society has done a really poor job of teaching people to enjoy learning how to do something, rather than just getting an outcome, huh?

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  Source code is for explaining things to other humans. The machines don't need it to look like that.

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  There is an Aldi ad on SBS lately that annoys me. An old woman warns "beware the salami that boasts a tiny price, thy corners be surely cut" But salami doesn't *have* any corners.

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  What song would make the most people think of a particular movie, but where the song wasn't written or recorded specifically for the movie? Edit: the rules in next post in the thread make this harder.

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  Bit of a work win to end the week. Big #TGIF time :tgif:

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  Beaumont Tiles gets a Security Bandage Award for failing to take security seriously.

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  Morning Fediverse!

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  `status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data corruption. Applications may be affected.` This is why I have two external backup drives in rotation.

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  Late bedtime after school cabaret night plus some poor sleep means moar coffee needed.

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  Morning Fediverse!

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  :omya_aws:

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  Looks like my plans to migrate things off DigitalOcean just got reprioritised to "as fast as possible".

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  The new Digital Duty of Care draft proposes to ban "material or conduct that encourages, promotes, incites or instructs individuals to … engage in self-harm" and I, for one, look forward to never again being invited to connect with anyone on LinkedIn.

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  I have contacted the ANAO to ask if they have any branded merch one might purchase.

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  How do I explain, in a professional work context, to a group of early- and mid-career engineers that Omarchy is a fascist project they should avoid because the stench of that past association may never come off?

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  Urge to FOI AusPost for the signoffs on the TERF wizard owl promo bullshit rising.

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  Local raven (that we have decided is named Tina) was trying to get into a neighbours groceries that were left on their front porch. Clever girl!

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  :omya_xero:

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  Maybe putting credulous, incurious people in charge of important things is a bad idea?

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  vibes means vibraphone

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  In which I share helpful advice with the audience.

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  This might be my favourite photo of me giving a talk at Melbourne Python metup.

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  Is it nostalgia to remember when a lot of this stuff was called "fraud" and there were consequences?

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  It is my considered opinion that the stem ginger cookies from Aldi are now superior to the modern Arnott's ginger nut biscuit.

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  Maybe someone could look into how genies get put into bottles in the first place?

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  Morning Fediverse!

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  Highway to the Synergy Zone.

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  "Your call is so important to us, we have fired all the humans and replaced them with a terrible automated system that cannot understand you. Please hold while we pay our executives another bonus for some reason. Did you know you can use the Internet to discover our website can't answer your question?"

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  "Just fork it" assumes that it is as easy to duplicate and distribute the ecosystem that sustains a piece of software as it is to duplicate and distribute a software artifact.

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  I levelled out a paved path yesterday, and remembered to sweep sand into the gaps between the pavers to help them grip each other and not move around quite so much. It took ages, but I'm pleased with the result. Better than the landscapers who did the last one.