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Posts by Liam Doughty

Yeah! It’s glaring how quickly the conditions have changed

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Yours sound* next level, but since I started wearing earplugs to things last year or so, I can’t believe I didn’t start doing it earlier.
*no pun

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May have gone over the word count of most primary school essays filling in a light rail survey. #opinions

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Apologies for diving in, but I’ve been using my calendar since the glory days of styli operated PDAs along with a seven day morning/night pillbox — I usually glance at that without needing digital reminders. Mostly works. If you end up with a more effective solution, please share
#unsolicited

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What did she write?

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Interesting. I’d argue the only possible voice in an LLM or generative whatever would be that of who, or the team, that created add trained it. Shrouded behind thousands of lines of code and a shiny interface, but I suspect most have been honed to a bit of their lives and any ‘voice’ rendered mute

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tfw you suddenly remember it’s Sunday night. zzz. zzzzzzz

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On occasion folks ask us how to get somewhere in this business of show. Here is an early bit of promo from a press kit we handed out all over New York City to somehow break through. In retrospect, it is hard to imagine a more misguided effort, but that was us... For your amusement...

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I’d say Earth-Moon, though I “see” it as time rather than space. Interestingly (for me at least) I see, let’s say Earth-Jupiter (though it could be any object other than the moon) as a vector as opposed to a scalar, “yeah, that’ll take x time at a distance/s”.

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Missing the pub out of frame to the right. Seems like…something’s happening there. 🤞🏼

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I wonder if those suggestions are commutative…

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No democracy for me, or maybe the bbq ended at middayish as opposed to my omgomgomg gotta vote! time a few minutes ago

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I’d love if that were anyone publishing anything on any channel until heat death of the universe.
/diatribe redacted/

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Compilers are indicative of fusion pistols right? Right?
Not to mention dark corners and jump scares…

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Just thinking about the dexterity required for punching with two fists while running/strafing back and forth with a controller needs some new neural pathways.

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Excited to see this relic, but really hoping for a return to punching all switches and, well, pretty much everything else.

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I was wondering something similar. Looks like I’ve been absorbed into a neighbouring electorate as well.

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Worth noting when considering your vote this May.

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Vaguely wondering what percentage of published articles contain some permutation of “what you need to know”. A graph of its use v time would be interesting.

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Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

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Isn’t that all year?

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With no testing at all, hypothesising the algo sorting presidents chronologically had some tricky but not tricky enough error checking and ran under the assumption if two presidents have the same name/id they must have been reelected(?)

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Change in Paris air quality between 2007 and 2023 using visuals

Change in Paris air quality between 2007 and 2023 using visuals

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.

Good trade.

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Guess it’s time for another coffee and to dig into one of mine

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Alright Bart, I’m just going to swing my arms like this…

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Not to mention political parties

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A delightful hour of an off by one error comes to an end #arraysOutToGetMe

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