Kevin Brennan also @newba.com on BlueSky

If you are looking for business stuff, follow or connect with me on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/bakevin Personal/game stuff will be Mastodon @rentagurkha@dice.camp

@joelspov @mattgurney Even mid-sized companies find it challenging to do a monthly reconciliation of spending and income. At a governmental level it can be difficult to do it at all.

@mattgurney Numbers must be bad. How do we not have a real time window on the budget

Honestly, good for Freeland.

@tbailey1976 @ArmandoNDK @balupuppy @MattGertz Given that they seem unclear about the ethnic mix of the Jamaican population, that seems to be too much to hope for.

@bakevin @ArmandoNDK @balupuppy @MattGertz They don’t know where Black Jamaicans came from and how they got there, do they?

They're really going for it.

@ArmandoNDK @balupuppy @MattGertz Sure it does, it says her father was “Jamaican”, not black! Those are two different words which don’t even have the same number of letters! Checkmate, libs!

@balupuppy @MattGertz but that doesn’t say that

@Ed_of_O @ryanwgough @jburnmurdoch Yeah, but raw seat count can be very sensitive to small shifts in data. To do a meaningful analysis, you need to look at the actual numbers and where the votes shifted, especially in multi-party elections. That data will be available soon.

@bakevin @ryanwgough @jburnmurdoch That's true, but final results shouldn't be different enough for Labor to claim the models were accurate for them. They may get 418 seats instead of 410, but they won't get 487. I agree claims about SNP & Reform are probably too early.

Comparing the exit poll to the models, two things stand out: • Labour underperformed the forecasts • Reform exceeded them

@Ed_of_O @ryanwgough @jburnmurdoch They might be close. But it is hard to turn polls into accurate seat counts. The actual results will be available soon enough that there’s no point in overthinking these.

@bakevin @ryanwgough @jburnmurdoch They've been very close to actual results in previous elections. Why would they be off so much only this time?

@carlrydings @juanbuis @Grammarly Hardware, not software…it’s limited to devices that have hardware designed to run neural networks, so that Apple can do a lot of this on-device.

@juanbuis @Grammarly It’s iPhone 15 pro only…. So there’s still a big market Apple has decided to software lock out of this.

i can't believe apple killed 8+ apps today 🤯 first off, RIP @1password → passwords app syncs across iphone, ipad, mac, vision pro, and windows

This has held up pretty well…

@RISEUP1776 @KlasfeldReports If I understand correctly, what this means is that they can disagree on the reason that business records were falsified and what crime it furthered, as long as they agree that the records were in fact falsified to commit a crime.

@KlasfeldReports I am very confused.

This is true. From the charging conference on the question of unanimity over "unlawful means": THE COURT: Do you agree, that's not ordinarily required? TRUMP'S LAWYER EMIL BOVE: Certainly. The jury's verdict must be unanimous, but how they arrive at it does not need to be.

@ChristianAGWatt @BeijingPalmer Name one.

@Gtwy @hakluke @RachelTobac @d_feldman Teams works great if you’re all in the same organization. It’s a disaster for stuff that goes outside those boundaries.

@GingerGeorgiana There’s a Canadian show callled Murdoch Mysteries that is still being made and is up to 287 episodes. Dunno if you can watch it in Australia though.

We are very saddened to hear of the passing of Vernor Vinge, whose ZONES OF THOUGHT books are perennial SFMasterwork bestsellers. RIP.

#SourceCallout: Looking for an AI expert to chat today for a Toronto Star story. Details available upon request — send me a DM or email at aisling(dot)aly(dot)murphy(at)gmail(dot)com!

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@craigrobb77 @TheBeaverton It means that a conservative person has been told that they have bad opinions.

@TheBeaverton Does any of my white brethren (other than punk rockers ) actually know what " woke " means?

@TotherAlistair @LlewellynFalco You can replicate any use case with an activity diagram. Sequence diagrams are trickier in that I think they work best with one flow per diagram, but are doable. I prefer the textual form because it’s easier and faster to revise, edit, and modify as scope changes.

@LlewellynFalco This is cute! It looks like a sea of jellyfish! 😂😂 The diamonds are nice - they match use case step semantics - I might play with them

hmmm, i'm looking for someone/people who are good at UML activity dgms or swimlane dgms or other visual forms to show a couple of use cases using their favorite visual form. I have 1-2 easy ones and one I think could be difficult... any takers?

@xriskology That was raised as an example in court, and Trump’s lawyer said yes unless Biden was impeached and convicted in the Senate.

Could someone explain this to me (because I genuinely don't know): if the Supreme Court rules that Trump has immunity, does that mean that Biden could order the assassination of Trump without any legal consequences? Is that an implication of such a ruling?