Well, money. Solar panels cost money.

Imagine you were required to buy solar panels for your private parking space. And then someone says «well, you can afford it…just cut down on some luxuries».

We solve problems by first understanding them.

Point cloud visualizer widget for #fyne now with flythrough mode and other goodies:

github.com/borud/pointc...

I tell people I don't like Python

They ask why.

I explain that I don't like to unfuck other people's Python programs

They don't see the problem.

5 minutes later I ask "what are you doing?"

"oh just figuring out why this python program won't run"

People are stupid.

Really fucking stupid.

Delta robot visualizer: borud.no/delta/

Perhaps useful if you want to build a delta robot and want to know how its motion space will look.

And anger. Lots of anger.

I would very much like to meet whomever came up with Github Actions, and by their ineptitude, lowered the bar for CICD systems forever. I'd very much like to introduce my fist to your nose.

From the bottom of my dark heart: fuck you.

CI/CD became a hellhole with the introduction of Github Actions. It was poorly done and it lowered the ambitions in terms of user experience considerably.

CI/CD used to be much easier to set up and maintain.

Person, woman, man, camera….

Vi må hjelpe journalister med å forstå bedre hvilke spørsmål de skal stille og hvordan de bør tolke svarene. Når politikere (og næringslivsledere) snakker om KI betyr det i de aller fleste tilfeller at de ikke vet hva de snakker om. De bare strør fasjonable begrep rundt seg for å virke troverdige.

Hollywood movies are even worse. I constantly ask myself how on earth they would green-light a whole movie without having a an even half-decent script.

Most script-writers *should* feel threatened by AI.

I'm not sure how much is down to poor writers or executives interfering. Some shows seem to not have enough material for all the episodes, so they tend to stretch a thin story across too many episodes.

I looked over my streaming accounts and half the shows in my list I abandoned before finishing.

The reason I ask is that I very often see TV series have "waiting episodes". Where nothing actually happens. And it isn't "character development", as the actors are often not able to portray much of anything to a degree where it would make sense to waste time trying.

For ikke å snakke om at 21MNOK er avrundingsfeil i forhold til amerikanske departementsoverhoder med innkjøpte fly til godt over milliarden. Som enkelte av dem til og med misbruker for privatreiser.

De aller fleste som hisser seg opp over sånt vet ikke hva de snakker om. De har aldri hatt noen jobb der det er viktig at de, og bare de, er på rett sted til rett tid, eller så kan det få konsekvenser for veldig mange andre mennesker.

Det er helt greit å påpeke at de er idioter.

Jeg husker sjefen i butikken delte et leaset "privatfly" med andre i ledelsen. Og det var endel kommentarer om det i avisen.

De de ikke skrev var at det var et trangt, slitt, utrivelig fly og at det faktisk er mer behagelig å fly på economy pluss-type billett. Men de trengte fleksibilitet.

I en tidligere jobb brukte jeg bortimot 500k NOK i året på flyreiser. Med unntak av reiser til Asia fløy jeg nesten alltid economy. Det er dyrt å reise, og når du må reise mye i uker av gangen blir det slitsomt. Spesielt om du har kort tid å komme deg på og du må være skarp i møter.

This is a good demonstration of why it is dangerous when people think they understand something, but in actual fact do not. Imagine what happens when you slap layers of lacking understanding on top of this all the way to legislators.

This is very leaky. Both ways. It is not how a well designed system would work.

Government should not be able to identify what account this is for. Service provider should get no PII at all.

I understand that people make assumptions based on prior improper design they are familiar with.

It contains an email address. That’s already a fail. It should contain no personally identifying information. At all.

Anyone implementing this shouldn’t fail right out of the gate.

Ja, det er jo en forståelig frykt.

At one occasion I saw executives from Palantir and ministers/secretaries hugging each other and seeming very familiar. I must admit that this scared me.

And at least one of the ministers I know to be dangerously gullible.

Jeg *tror* det er frykt og muligens en følelse av at det er en form for krenkelse? Kanskje også en form for vemmelse?

Jeg vet for lite om det. Skulle ønske jeg visste mer.

20-something me was fascinated by Frank Ghery's architecture.

Also

50-something me sees it as sloppy, careless and utterly stupid architecture and fans of it as easily distracted simpletons. It is form without function or empathy.

Age verification without undue information leakage is on of those things only governments should be allowed to do on behalf of service providers.

You can _not_, and must not, trust private companies to do this.

I don't trust politicians to understand this.

Det som burde skremme oss mer enn det gjør er at organsvikt er et økende problem. Samtidig som det fremdeles råder mye skepsis mot organdonasjon.

Men for psykisk helse er det vel først og fremst mangel på kvalifisert personell og budsjett for å drive institusjoner?

Vi har liksom uendelig med penger når enkeltpersoner nektes behandling som koster noen millioner i året og kanskje ikke virker. Men når det handler om budsjett og helsevesenet får pipa liksom en litt annen låt.

Jeg har ingen erfaring med den delen av helsevesenet, men jeg tenker ofte på det at vi har endelige ressurser hver gang jeg leser avisoppslag om dyre, ofte marginalt effektive, behandlinger som folk ikke kan få.

Jeg vet ikke om "kø" egentlig er riktig ord. Det er mer en kontinuerlig evaluering av de som trenger organer og hva som er tilgjengelig har jeg inntrykk av. Spesielt for lunger som i tillegg til HLA-match krever at de fysisk passer også. Det kan ta lang tid å få det til å klaffe.

If they have a F-35 fighter escort I wouldn't expect them to emit any RF (radar or otherwise), much less shout a transponder signal. F-35s have already covered off Russian fighters that have violated western airspace without announcing themselves. Or being seen. It's what they're supposed to do.