Barry McGee

Hottest of hot takes: Musk just bought Twitter with the sole aim of returning a Republican administration in 2024. Trump will be reinstated within weeks.

@newsmulg They’re just had a refill - all petrol pumps operational again

No petrol at Tesco in Newtownbreda. Price was listed as 136.9p as far as I can remember. I'd imagine among the cheapest on the market at the moment

@markbtuk Repeating this for THIRD time then I'm done - BBC DC correspondents are US focussed & have 0 context on NI. I'm sure many would love if local journalists stayed away from the unionisms junket to US to hear Trump joke about a United Ireland but that's not how free press works.

@barrymcgee Now you're being obtuse. As long as BBCNI knows how to use satellite links to its DC correspondents, it can have a think about actually using one instead of squandering our license fee.

Did Stormont Ministers travel to the Washington in business class? @endamcclafferty asked the dFM about the value for money of sending four Stormont Ministers to the US during a cost of living crisis. The dFM said it was value for money and she attended 15 events in 4 days.

@markbtuk Ah, you've figured out Google afterall 👏🏻 So your suggestion is ELP is gonna walk round all week with a satellite link back to Ormeau Ave, aye?

@barrymcgee @DarranMarshall @endamcclafferty Equally slowly - **Satellite link** You're defending stubbornly like an ex-BBC employee.

@markbtuk @DarranMarshall @endamcclafferty Fucking hell Mark, the answer is in black and white in the screenshot but I'll repeat it for you in simple terms no worries: ** local context **

@barrymcgee @DarranMarshall @endamcclafferty So are you going to completely avoid the question Barry? What was the value of sending Enda when BBC has a team of DC-based staff?

@markbtuk @DarranMarshall @endamcclafferty Google.com can easily answer these basic queries Mark, I suggest you make better use of it?

@barrymcgee @DarranMarshall @endamcclafferty Ah now Barry. Enda poked the value for money hornet's nest. So here's the crux. BBC has a team of DC-based correspondents. What was the need for him to jolly on across the water?

@markbtuk @DarranMarshall @endamcclafferty The BBC's mission is to inform, educate, and entertain all audiences. It's not there solely to provide markbtuk from Twitter, with a football pitch for a head, value or benefit. FFS man, get out of your hole 🤣

@barrymcgee @DarranMarshall @endamcclafferty I'm guessing the terms "benefit" or "value" didn't quite make it all the way into your thought process.

@Iancampbell1967 Good man Ian - hope you took a minute to breathe deeply and enjoy the blue sky.

After 8 days in my flat with my blinds shut due to severe anxiety today I’ve come outside for a walk. I just had to do it.

@markbtuk @DarranMarshall @endamcclafferty You literally just engaged with his output from the US.

@DarranMarshall @endamcclafferty Hi @endamcclafferty Can we ask you about the value for money (i.e. our money - the licence fee that pays your salary) of sending you to the US for no apparent benefit to anyone but you?

@davidwkerr @gordonlyons1 @America250 @SenCapito What inspiration we can take from the USA who had the wisdom to jettison crown and monarchy 250 years ago, became a republic and has never looked back. Let's all drink to that! 🍾

@gordonlyons1 @America250 @SenCapito Gordon, this has been a fantastic initiative which has clearly generated significant political interest and support in Washington. Well done!👏

Last night was all about the Ulster-America Connection as I hosted a joint event with @America250 to celebrate the role of the early Ulster Scots setters in the foundation of the US. We are using that link to promote the Northern Ireland of today and all we have to offer.

For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year.

@EllliotttB AI = Actually, India

Going to be very funny when it turns out humans are cheaper than tokens

@LVGstl @clareanneath ...and if they have reflux or not for the first 6 months.

@clareanneath This entirely depends on if your baby sleeps and eats well. 😵‍💫

I’ll go first. The newborn stage isn’t the most difficult stage, it’s the easiest.

@GBNEWS Was it the GB News office?

Irish woman wins £23,000 payout after boss repeatedly shouted 'potato' at her when she entered office gbnews.com/news/irish-wom…

@lady_valor_07 Start a pension and contribute to it regularly, without fail.

I’m 25. Give me oddly specific life tips. No general ”surround yourself with positive people” tips. I want the most random, specific advice possible.

@bcherny @DeanBuilds22 Why isn't this just baked into the system prompt?

@DeanBuilds22 It looks for obvious wins and also specific code smell, especially around inefficient code patterns

In the next version of Claude Code.. We're introducing two new Skills: /simplify and /batch. I have been using both daily, and am excited to share them with everyone. Combined, these kills automate much of the work it used to take to (1) shepherd a pull request to production and (2) perform straightforward, parallelizable code migrations.

@GergelyOrosz Nine Fives is the new Five Nines

On one end, the Anthropic team is a massive user of AI to write code (80%+ of all code deployed is written by Claude Code). They ship amazingly fast. On the other hand, seeing these beyond terrible reliability numbers suggests there might be a downside to all this speed:

@khandelwaldiv @GergelyOrosz For the majority of companies, 'surviving' is not the goal, 'thriving' is the goal. Revenue of X has since tanked and outside of tech and right wing circles, X is seen as a toxic cesspit. Musk's finance circumstances and subsequent influence is incredibly unique, absolute outlier

@GergelyOrosz It's not confidence being copied. It's the math. Musk fired 75% — Twitter survived. Block fires 40% — stock +25%. Every CEO now has proof that headcount was the problem, not the solution.

Hard to read too much into the massive (40%) Block layoffs in its rationale or not, because Jack Dorsey has always been very unpredictable on how he ran his companies. But it's true that in uncertain times, CEOs look for certainty, and someone acting confident is often copied.

@AlexKane221b Does this now mean @williamcrawley will have Sir Oink A-Lot on the Talkback speed dial instead of @benhabib6 ?

There is no way for Advance UK to dress this up. Absolute disaster. Months and months of hammering Reform—which got almost 29% and added on almost 15%.

@CiaranDunbar He's tireless on bins, ICBMs and potholes tbf.

I am surprised, but clearly he put the work in behind the scenes.

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