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@justdavenow89 Maybe this is me at my most libertarian but I think the moment you hold public office you should be allowed a yearly jab or two

John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, left hooks a protestor in the face after being egged by him in the street (2001)

@thetrainline some of the most obnoxious UX possible. Just default to single adult. I understand (but hate) the booking dot com integration, but needing to set a passenger is just pointlessly irritating, especially when in a rush.

@LukeParkerDev Gemini is too badly behaved to be trustable. It'll happily create random files in the root of your working dir without asking, then you say no, don't do that, and it apologies and rm's your entire filesystem

ill bless my timeline with this on a sunday. gemini 3.1 pro is the ONLY model I've seen REMOVE heaps of shitty code to refactor with a net-negative churn. do with that what you will.

@zirtsxu7267 I thought this was a reference to Herbie Hancock and then I read the replies and realised you're all a bunch of nerds

@ext87 @HSVSphere > "The people here at Apple don't just create products — they create the kind of wonders that have revolutionized entire industries." Oh no

@HSVSphere Looks like RHEL: jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/…

Does Apple run MacOS on their servers

@SUDHIRT64354301 @fesshole God I fucking hate this AI generated patter

@fesshole That’s not shame, that’s peak primary school parent culture. One minute it’s quick chat after drop-off, next thing the staff are running a full café service for you both

A friend and I used to natter for ages when we both dropped kids off at primary school, long after the kids had gone in. We were once out there so long the lady in the office brought us out cups of tea. The shame

@char1iewatts They trash the brand so people aren't sad when they close stores down

I see changing the name went well then

@alys_key This was the funniest one I got

Does anyone else get these weird promoted tweets with a nonsensical caption and picture of Robert Peston?

@DrSue64 The audience seems to have been particularly bad this year, shouting and heckling and getting chucked out, it's a shame

I get overstimulated easily so I need to drink beer to calm down. Need to drink 10 beers before it's even noon. Because of my gifted child adult ADHD

@a16z What is a "hiking cycle"? Googling it just gives me things about literal bikes

S&P 500 sold off by ~10% during the Iran conflict and made a full recovery just 11 trading sessions later. It constituted the fastest V-shaped recovery on record. More charts: a16z.news/p/charts-of-th…

@susie_dent There were* a word for (It's been my lifelong dream to correct Susie Dent's grammar. I really hope this doesn't backfire...)

A question: what are the things you wish there was a word for? And have you come up with your own word to fill that gap?

@snoopy_dot_jpg I had a server compromise the other week and asked opus to ssh in and investigate and it refused to do it. Asked gpt and it was like "say no more boss" and got to work. I thought anthropic models were meant to be the lesser guardrailed ones...?

my own personal AGI moment arrived last week: gpt 5.5 completed our mandatory HR training videos for me, driving chrome via devtools opus 4.7 was a huge wuss about the whole thing and refused while aggressively lecturing me. i can understand why pete hegseth banned it

@jonathangrahl The thing that annoys me the most is when AIs write comments that explain what they did, rather than the current state of the code. I try and put custom instructions to say comments should only be useful to a new observer, not say what had changed

How do I stop Opus 4.7 from writing shit like this.

@danbarker I keep coming back to and thinking about this post. One of the things I think people struggle with is implied risk, which is usually really not that bad. Eg. Vanguard's VWRP says it's "6 out of 7" risk, even though it has returned on average 9-12%pa. Needs better education

I've been on the peripheries of a few campaigns like this. Usually it works roughly like the following: 1. The government puts pressure on firms to try and achieve something - eg, trying to get the industry to push UK investments more, or to encourage people to put more in UK investmentw. 2. The firms don't want to do that, or they're already doing what they can, but want to retain good links with the government, so they come up with the idea of a joint marketing campaign to promote UK investment. 3. Most of the firms realise it will achieve very little, but will keep the govt on-side. 20 firms each agree to put up £800k for an initial year, with the possibility of continuing for another 2 years. A small cost individually for big financial firms. 4. There's then a process to appoint media and creative agencies to come up with a concept, and get paid a few hundred thousand pounds. 5. There is collective realisation there is nowhere to actually point people who see the ads: they can't go to an individual website to open an investment account, as there are 20 firms involved. And if they send them to a central place, there is little they can put there, other than info on how investing works. 6. They also have the problem of getting 20 firms to agree the creative approach. 7. So then it all ends up a bit 'lowest common denominator' - they come up with a bland cartoon mascot, and infantilise the audience as there's always worry that people won't 'get it', and the only reference points for campaigns like this are other bland mascots. 8. There's then a big launch, with the headline number of 'up to'£50m to get press coverage, though usually that assumes it will run for several years and none of the firms will back out. 9. The campaign launch, and criticism of the launch, generally gets more coverage than the campaign itself. The £50m sounds good to the press, as it is big enough to sound impactful, but sounds wasteful to others. 10. At the end they're not sure how to measure its effect, so all of the firms involved are asked to supply numbers on how well the campaign has affected them - they all scrap around to find the most positive numbers they can, as they don't want to look bad, and then centrally they add that to a 'brand recall' campaign which asks if people have heard of 'Savvy Squirrel', and if they've thought about investing more in the last 6 months. Ie: nothing which really indicates that the campaign has helped people to invest more, bit things that will sound broadly positive. 11. Everyone in the industry pretends it's gone well, as they want to appear successful to each other, snd want to keep the govt on-side. The media agencies pretend it's gone well, as if it continues they get paid for another year. But nobody's fully sure if it made a positive difference, or no difference, or if - counterintuitively- it was worse than doing nothing, as it took up time and money that could have been used more wisely. And then it continues till it fizzles out, or the next government is in place. Not saying it is the case here, but having seen a few of these I have suspicions!

@gleno86 Don't forget referring to an area as a "moment"

#InteriorDesignMasters Drinking game 1x shot for 'signature style' 1x shot for 'bringing the outside in' 1x shot for 'luxe' 1x shot for 'statement piece' 1x shot for 'lack of coherence'

@kdx1e Sorry, hair dye. Think I skimmed someone else's reply and blended them together in my head. Either way, colouring of some sort, not blood, guts, goo, etc

@spanglewang it’s hair dye

the morrisons bathroom has clearly had a rough day

@chribjel What is? A stock changing by less than a percent?

okay this is hilarious

@JezyGray Do you not have a severance period you have to finish before leaving? Because I imagine many would say what you said and then realise they have to stay for another 3 months as per their contract.