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It is abundantly clear that we would have the greatest benefit in rights, market access, regulatory participation as well as influence for progress and change by being a full member of the EU.
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Simon_Lucy
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Simon_Lucy
@Simon_Lucy
I'm a left-angled trapezoid on the graph of political philosophies, apply me no labels. alt https://t.co/W8y9QtpbmH @[email protected]
Worcestershire Katılım Haziran 2008
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@JustMichael_80 @Grady_Booch How are you different to a developer?
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@Grady_Booch ...which is why, as a vibe coder, I will always advocate for putting in the hard work to ensure the code is quality by careful iteration, testing, checking code, and generally trying to emulate best practices as much as possible. Then, when a dev takes over, it's not a mess.
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Having been part of the industry for 50 years, I can confidently report that none of this is true.
Sure, writing code has a non-zero cost; this is true of any artifact.
But you know what costs even more, Jonathan?
Writing bad code; writing unnecessary code; writing more code than you really need simply because you think you might need it someday or you are too lazy or sloppy to clean up after yourself.
Anything that costs nothing is often worth nothing as well, and results in significant unintended consequences.
Jonathan Ross@JonathanRoss321
For 50 years, software engineering ran on code rationing. Writing code was expensive, so we rationed it carefully through roadmaps, RFCs, prioritization meetings, and scope reviews. This created a role: the No Engineer. No, that won't scale. No, we don't have bandwidth. No, that's out of scope. No, we need a design doc first. The No Engineer was valuable for 50 years. Every "no" saved real money. Their judgment was the rationing system. LLMs will be the end of code rationing. Code is cheap now. And while the No Engineer is explaining why something can't be done, the Yes Engineer has already shipped three versions of it. If you're a Yes Engineer, the next decade is yours.
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@breakfast_dogs @Grady_Booch I guess that's a pretty high energy to output process, as otherwise you could have done it on a scientific calculator.
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@Grady_Booch I now use AI to write disposable code that will run once, doesn't need to be efficient, scalable, maintainable - find and manipulate some data, calculate something, make a chart/animation and I'll never use it again.
Things I'd never bother to code without AI. Jevon's paradox.
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@DonsStuff @Grady_Booch Even though I didn't really notice it at the time as it was running on an IBM370 with the code and job loaded from the card reader, my first virtual space was 32k.
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@Grady_Booch Around the time we incorporated object methodology, we were also building virtualization systems. Being on the SI end of the business, it was the customer that was cheap on hardware & architecture, but we built around that as well.
My first virtual system was in a 1M space!
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@farsaid_fenius @franklns_tower @goodfoodgal So I've seen Van Morrison probably more than 20 times in the last 40 years, not once have I relied upon him for health advice.
Whilst I accept isolation always has an economic impact there was no alternative at the time.
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Agree! I’ve seen both Clapton and Van in concert over 6 and 5 times, respectively. Eric’s Cream reunion and tours with a young Derek Trucks and Doyle Bramhall, Jr. were top notch. I’ve caught Van in Dublin and Liverpool, which were the best. I’ll go see them again and buy any forthcoming LPs to add to my already extensive Slow Hand/Van the Man collection!
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Eric Clapton is 81.
He was ground zero for letting people know about the potential dangers of the jab, after his own poor reaction to it in early 2021.
And he was - of course - vilified by the brainwashed. Just for warning people to be careful.
Glad he survived.
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@flowerpotweller Absolutely shameful those who voted in favour of murdering full term babies @UKHouseofLords .
Noone with any decency could possibly think this is ok. What is wrong with them? Let's hope those voting yes can sleep at night.
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The House of Lords have voted narrowly in favour of allowing abortion up-to-birth in England & Wales. The only solace is that one day they will meet Jesus.
SPUC Pro-Life@spucprolife
🚨 BREAKING: The House of Lords has voted to DECRIMINALISE ABORTION AT ANY STAGE OF PREGNANCY by a close margin. Peers are now voting on Baroness Stroud's amendment which would put a halt to the pills-by-post policy.
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@Simon_Lucy @tomfgoodwin Fair enough. Convention would've been the appropriate term in that case
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Does anyone have a good explanation to why the em dash (—) is rendered out so much by LLMs
The explanation is always that it's in the training data a lot.
I don't think that's true at all.
And why is it so hard to get LLM's to stop using them?
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@MichaelRosenYes This would be labelled sanity and outlawed immediately.
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Is it possible to be against the Iranian government AND against the Iranian population being bombed?
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@pTinosq @tomfgoodwin Not true. There's no such thing as an ungrammatical dash. It was a printing invention in moveable type in the 18th century.
Typewriters tended to have an en-dash. Stylistically some authors were wedded to the em-dash, often American ones.
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@tomfgoodwin It is in fact because of the training data. It's the grammatically correct type of dash to use in literature so any book or article ever written (w/ correct grammar) should be using the em dash. - only became popular because the minus symbol is more accessible on the keyboard.
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@tomfgoodwin Honestly:
Maybe it’s because AI is trained on language itself - grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation . . . so it often uses the em dash correctly
But since so many people struggle with clear writing & are unfamiliar with the em dash, they get triggered when AI uses it
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@tomfgoodwin It’s in the training data because for years cut and paste would “helpfully” swap a double dash or a dash with an em dash and no one would notice.
Of course when you’re cutting and pasting a command line via chat and “foo —bar” becomes “syntax error” you feel this pain a lot.
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Chuck Missler said, “We have Sixty-six books penned by forty authors over thousands of years, and yet we discover it is an integrated message system from outside our time domain.”
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“The New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed, and the Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed.” In other words, God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
He does not change.
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The Bible was written on three continents.
Asia.
Africa.
Europe.
In three languages.
Hebrew.
Aramaic.
Greek.
By over 40 different men —
Shepherds.
Kings.
Prophets.
Fishermen.
A doctor.
Across roughly 1,500 years.
Yet it tells one continuous story:
Creation.
Fall.
Redemption.
Christ.
Different writers.
Different centuries.
Different cultures.
One voice.
Because behind the human hands was a divine Author.
Men held the pens.
But God wrote the story.
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@Rothbard1776 @julia_politics Try 1921, when Rezan Shah Pahlavi led his own coup which began the Pahlavi dynasty.
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Anyone telling you the history of conflict with Iran started in 1979 instead of when the CIA overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953 on behalf of British Petroleum (BP) is a propagandist for the Military Industrial Complex who will lie your sons in War.
John Spencer@SpencerGuard
Iran started a war against the United States in 1979 and has never stopped. - 444 days of American hostages. - 241 Marines murdered in Beirut. - 603 U.S. troops killed in Iraq by Iranian-backed militias. Their proxies, agents, and Iranian IEDs attacking our soldiers (including me and my soldiers) daily. - Over 170 attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria just last year. - Assassination plots on our President on American soil. - Ballistic missiles fired at U.S. bases. For 47 years, the regime has targeted Americans. All while expanding its nuclear program and building longer-range missiles designed to threaten the U.S., our allies, and global stability. Failed diplomacy was tried for decades. Diplomacy was tried now. The President’s Article II duty is clear: protect the American people. IMO, he and we (the United States) @WhiteHouse @POTUS @michaelgwaltz @SecRubio @RapidResponse47 @SecWar are doing exactly that.
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@Alec_Zeck They all breathed oxygen as well.
Condemning evidence of conspiracy.
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You know what a lot of the people named in the Epstein files have in common?
They were vehemently pro vaccination.
Many were directly involved in developing or promoting vaccines, tied to the pandemic industrial complex, lobbied for vaccine legislation, or used their platforms to aggressively push the jab on their audiences.
Vaccination was already a wicked, toxic, pseudoscientific practice—but now that it’s clear that abusive, satanic pedophiles push it, it’s even more obvious.
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The Holy Bible was written by 40 different men, over a time span of 1500 years, access 3 continents, written in 3 different languages, and with 45,000 cross references.
One united story.
Zero contradictions.
Only God can make that happen.
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@anika_climate @RokoMijic The Earth's albedo increased during Ice Ages reflecting sunlight.
The rising of carbon dioxide increased that temperature over time, melting the ice.
The fall in carbon dioxide tended to increase the rate in which ice became permanent.
But there's no one single cause.
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@RokoMijic If it caused higher temperatures, why would the highest carbon dioxide be in an ice age?
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I was taught at university that carbon dioxide and temperature were correlated and that this was settled science.
Years later, real-world data showed me that some of the highest levels of carbon dioxide occurred during an Ice Age 320 million years ago.
I was indoctrinated to believe carbon dioxide was the master control knob on the planet and it was an evil gas.
Turns out it’s good for the planet and trees love it. 🌲 🌍 🤷🏼♀️🏴🩵
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@helen_spirit1 @SpikeLawson1 He gets more in direct bribes and kickbacks.
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@SpikeLawson1 If he loved money so much, why did he refuse a salary as president?
Why did he become president at all, knowing his business & personal wealth would take a huge hit.
Trump derangement Syndrome is alive and well.
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@ArghhTom @lewis_goodall So why is he going hard on deporting kiddy sniffers whilst the left are desperately trying to prevent ICE from deporting the kiddy sniffers?
Makes no sense mate.
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Deeply weird and menacing scenes in Minneapolis. ICE agents sat in masks and balaclavas in unmarked, often blacked out cars, watching local residents. They themselves being observed by a network of locals, trying to deter them from mounting raids. Profoundly abnormal.
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@Censored4sure That's because up until recently vaccinations for measles was effectively the whole population and has been since the 60's.
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Fun Fact: There have been fewer deaths linked to “measles” in the United States than there have been fully vaccinated people getting “measles” in the US since the start of the outbreak in 2025.
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The MMR vaccine will not stop hospitalization or death. You can and will get measles with or without the vaccine.
Six fully vaccinated people in South Carolina have measles, and one is vaccinated and almost died from it.
And check this out: They claim 95% of cases are unvaccinated, but what they won’t tell you is that there has not been a single death among those unvaccinated individuals since the start of the supposed outbreak in South Carolina.
Not one. @AnnieAndrewsMD
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@DrAseemMalhotra Law fare idiot.
I think I can make a reasonable opinion that you're a grifter.
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TAKE NOTE: I’m a key witness in 3 international court cases involving the unlawful abuse of covid ‘vaccine’. Any attempt to censure, smear or discredit me with spurious claims will be perceived as an attempt to pervert the course of justice & you will be made fully accountable.
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@CSternausKI @ChrisMartzWX It isn't money, but effort. Catalysing emissions of carbon related gases at source would go a long way to positively reduce inputs into the environment.
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@ChrisMartzWX So how much Money do you need to avoid quantity X of CO2 to Limit global warming to 1,5 °C. Cite the technologies you want to use and provide evidence that there are no other influences in global climate. Like the sun's Activity or water vapor, etc
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No it isn’t. 🤡
Water vapor is responsible for most of the Earth’s greenhouse effect, not carbon dioxide (CO₂). It does account for some of it, yes, but it isn’t the control knob. There is no geological evidence to support that claim either.
CO₂ loses its warming potential as its concentration in the atmosphere increases. That is a scientific fact, not my opinion, nor theory.
Charlie Chuckles@CharlieChuckler
@ChrisMartzWX CO2 is the climate control knob. If the Earth did not have atmospheric CO2, there would be no greenhouse effect, and solar energy would simply radiate out into space without bouncing back - and the average surface temperature on Earth would drop to -18°C (0°F).
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