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  A Nintendo Switch but without a sense of humour: No pun Nintendo.

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  Sometimes I think that the designers at #Apple don't actually use Macs in their daily work. Someone would have noticed by now, surely?

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  c'mon #python314, you can make it to 3.14.159, I believe in you! #pi-thon

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  Furiously rubbing away at a scratch on my laptop. It's over 5 years old and never had even a mark on it. Sad panda. Yes, gentle reader, it was indeed a backtick in a text field.

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  Having been following the saga of the malware dishwasher sending terabytes of data, what are my options for outbound whitelisting / firewalling if I'm running a Deco mesh? Should I get a small physical device between that and the World, or can I monkey with the Deco settings? I can't see any obvious firewall-y settings.

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  That’ll be the last time the Scotland #rugby coach washes the team shirts with the Arsenal football kit.

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  Most of the really cool programming tricks and chops I've learned over the years have come from people younger than me, often significantly (10 years or more). Some of these were women. As I am getting older, this pool is only going to get bigger, so I figure my strategy only has upside. This is not a post about AI, just an observation about people. And gatekeeping, probably. Be excellent to each other. And try listening from time to time. It's amazing what Other People know, especial...

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  If a vegan crossfit fan is using Claude to write Rust, which thing do they tell you first? Edit: at least two votes for Arch and one Standford in the replies so far. You are making me proud, Mastodon.

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  - My girlfriend loves football! - Wow, she sounds like a keeper - No, she plays midfield - Well my girlfriend works at the zoo - She definitely sounds like a keeper! - No, she does event management - My girlfriend looks after bees ...

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  Trying to find the source of the quote: 'We only hire senior engineers, but we hire them early in their career.' Because I rather like it.

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  Is there a term for the post in a thread where it hits its diminishing return, where there is still some useful content before it collapses into an echo chamber of repetition or meta references to itself? I'm talking way before any Godwin ad hominem attacks, just... Nothing Useful Beyond This Point. I've noticed that I have become sensitized to when it is time to duck out of a thread, and I feel like there must be a name for that point. Otherwise I'm claiming it as the...

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  beyoncé: if you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it sauron: brb

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  '... multiple hand-offs' <- flagged as typo, suggested alternative: 'stand-offs' Why yes, I believe you may be correct!

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  Well I certainly hope that some poor product manager at #Microsoft is getting a bonus for Best Effort to Shoehorn #AI Sales Into Everything

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  'Yes, and don't ask again for: python3 -c *' Oh but do. Do ask again. Every single time!

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  Public Service Announcement: Inserting a pointless voice or chatbot between me and the human I want to talk to—who still works there but now only ever picks up the phone to frustrated and angry folks fed up with repeating themselves—is not an 'AI strategy'.

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  New old sayings: Opus here for thinking Down Sonnet for dancing

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@jefframnani/116581671294641500 I feel it is time that people start buying execs copious copies of 'The Mythical Agent-Month' It's only been half a century.

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  'Get Elevated Access by signing into Azure Portal as a Global Administrator' 'Grant yourself Access Management for Azure Resources, then return to the Center of Multifactor Authentication' 'Fill the Goblet of Seniority from the Citadel of Entra' 'Ensure you activate Phase 2 of the MFA Quest' I have no idea who works on #Microsoft security, but I am convinced they play way too much D&D.

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  In other news, it seems I am a Microsoft Global Administrator. It's like being a regular administrator but I works outside of the US too.

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  PSA to product managers: The word 'experience' only exists on your Miro board or Canva. No other actual humans talk about 'onboarding experience', 'support experience', 'checkout experience'. To us it is just 'onboarding', 'support', or 'checkout'. When you say 'This support experience is brought to you by Copilot Studio', we hear 'Bla bla bla I live and work...

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  What if you don't think of your LLM as an entity, whether human or not, but a proxy crowd-sourcer playing Family Fortunes / Family Feud? It makes a _lot_ more sense. You ask: > How can I get this image to sit in the middle of the page as I scroll? Claude's training data says: > We asked 100 web developers how they would get an image to sit in the middle of the page. Here are their most popular answers! It has _no idea_ about the question or the domain, just abou...

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  Yet another brilliantly useful git command that I will instantly forget: % git add -N . Marks all new files as tracked-but-not-staged, so git diff will show them but they aren't in the index yet.

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  Google using DORA as a vehicle to push their messaging around 'ROI of AI development'? I can't say I'm assuming it is going to be independent, academically defensible research, is all. There is a terrible pun in here about closing a barn DORA, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader's dad.

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  Compaction be like: 'what did I come into this room for again?'

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@samaaron/116495560044298012 Ssh! You don't want word to get out!

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  Looks like @kevlin is going to be fixing my coffee machine then…

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116484259428763062 Your periodic reminder to check the Y-axis on any graphs you see. Misinformation isn't always just flat-out lies. Sometimes it is deliberate optical misdirection. (This one _starts_ at 99.5% uptime.)

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  Why did I not know about difftastic? Everyone is banging on about delta, when this absolute delight of a structurally aware diff tool exists. https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk

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  Proposal that Brits start celebrating American Independence Day on 7 April.