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speedfox

speedfox

@speedfox_uk

A programmer with a soldering iron. LibDem. Proudly banned from r/GreenAndPleasant/

London, England Katılım Temmuz 2012
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speedfox@speedfox_uk·
A few months back the @higherordercomp released a new programming language called Bend, that claimed to be able to run any code written in it as if it were multi threaded. So, I tried it out, and this is what I found: blog.speedfox.co.uk/articles/17253…
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ライオン Lion
ライオン Lion@LionBlogosphere·
POSITIONALLY, Harry Potter is an alpha male. Famous in the wizarding world because of who is parents were, and star Quidditch player, which is the wizarding equivalent of being quarterback of the football team. And occasionally does other heroic things. But TEMPERMENTALLY he's an extreme beta. He has no desire to be a leader or in charge of others and has extreme social anxiety around girls. I think that in real life, his positional alphaness is so strong he wouldn't stay beta. But I think J.K. Rowling is trying to teach young males the lesson "don't be like Harry." Take the bull by the horns. Don't have oneitis. Or maybe she just thinks that beta Harry Potter is more relatable to the kind of boys who read books.
ライオン Lion@LionBlogosphere

Was just watching the movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire where Harry gets a date to go to the ball with Parvati Patil, a very nice and cute girl who's totally into him, but he blows it because he's a pathetic beta male. So frustrating to watch.

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speedfox@speedfox_uk·
@1van556 @pegobry_en Did you mean Tempest, not Typhoon? Also why would putting a Catapults on the QEs put that program under threat? Is it just funding?
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Ivan I@1van556·
@pegobry_en Catapults can be retrofitted to the QEs and operate Rafales (French PA2). The real problem is that a CATOBAR carrier would put the European fighter program (Typhoon) under threat.
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speedfox@speedfox_uk·
@WhiteBabyFac This won't apply if there is any deliberate dishonesty at play. There are too many stories of people changing as soon as they are married. Six months is a short time to hide something, especially if not living together.
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White Baby Factory@WhiteBabyFac·
People who are willing to get married within 6 months of meeting actually take the marital commitment more seriously than people who insist on dating for multiple years before getting engaged. The long-term daters have the attitude that they need to be in a relationship for years so they can see the all the negative aspects of the other person. They don't want to commit until they feel confident that the other person doesn't have any negative traits they haven't seen yet. What's the implication here? If their boyfriend or girlfriend does have issues that they didn't know about, then the marriage was a mistake. They'll more likely want a divorce if unforeseen character flaws do arise after marriage. They're trying to prevent this at all costs by dating for years before marriage. Those who are willing to marry within 6 months are sending the opposite message: They may not be aware of every negative aspect of the person they're dating, but they'll make the commitment anyway. They're showing that they really are willing to stay together for better or worse. Imperfections might surface a few years into marriage, and that's okay. They're willing to accept that as part of marriage that they can deal with instead of viewing it as a dealbreaker. Just my opinion, what do you think?
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Sandra K Eckersley@SandraEckersley·
All 20 Australian University Vice Chancellors are paid more than the Chancellor of Cambridge University. Why? It’s a rort. #auspol
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speedfox@speedfox_uk·
@floboflo Only half the story. The lifestyle change is bigger too. I did the reverse, coming from Perth to London rather than going to Sydney or Melbourne. Part of the reason is that the move to London was the bigger change.
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Florence Lox 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Florence Lox 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@floboflo·
When Brits move to Australia for ‘a better life’ it’s worth noting that what’s actually happening is them preferring to move to the other side of the planet instead of a country in Europe and having to learn a foreign language. If they spoke German in Australia literally no Brit would move there.
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speedfox@speedfox_uk·
@Arrogance_0024 Because the people running our countries saw the result of following Bush into Iraq, and don't want to repeat that mistake.
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Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷@Arrogance_0024·
Why did NATO allies follow Bush in Iraq but refuse to follow Trump in Iran? What exactly has changed? What is the "problem" now? Or should I rather say: WHO is the problem??
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speedfox@speedfox_uk·
@s8mb But is it lower by the amount of time you lose in the commute?
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Sam Bowman@s8mb·
I’m not a “work from home” guy by any means. But I’ve done it a bit lately and it’s certainly nice to see my family during the day. I can see why it’s so popular. But, and it’s a big but, my productivity is unquestionably lower. There’s just no substitute for the office.
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speedfox@speedfox_uk·
@gerrewyn @TheEcho13 Yeah, but that's way different to fetishizing virginity. Let's not pretend these things are even remotely alike.
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Gerrewyn✝️@gerrewyn·
@TheEcho13 Seek Christ. Purity is very important. I maintained mine for my wife, as she did for me. You should for yours as well.
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Echo 🔆@TheEcho13·
Men foaming at the mouth and fetishizing virginity is so incredibly creepy. Some of the worst experiences I ever had with men were how excited they got over virginity and how desperate and disgusting it made them.
girlsay.@_GirlSay

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speedfox@speedfox_uk·
@MidyettRox @wrathform @GenAI_is_real Yep, it's justifiable if your company is a 3 person startup with 5 competitors in the same space looking to eat your lunch. It's not if you're a mag 7 company with billions in the bank.
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Chayenne Zhao@GenAI_is_real·
unpopular opinion: 16GB is plenty if software engineers actually cared about memory efficiency. chrome eating 4GB for 12 tabs is not a hardware problem its a software disgrace. docker consuming 2GB idle is not a feature its laziness. we live in an era where people optimize every single token to save $0.001 on API costs but happily ship electron apps that eat 500MB to display a todo list. if the industry treated RAM the way we treat inference compute - obsessively measuring every byte - 16GB would feel luxurious. the hardware isnt the problem, the software is @adxtyahq
aditya@adxtyahq

never buy a 16GB RAM laptop in 2026. you’ll regret it within a week

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ganesha redgrave@discostuart_·
The concept of new towns kinda confuses me because why are we starting from scratch when so many medium sized towns should just become actual cities (Chester, Margate, Grays, Wrexham) that frankly need jobs and things to do more than housing
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speedfox@speedfox_uk·
@ScottGoetz_ @AaronBastani @AndrewOrlowski Being pro all low carbon forms of power (which wind and nuclear both are) is not an incoherent position. You can criticize it for other reasons but it makes sense on its own terms.
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Scott Goetz@ScottGoetz_·
@AaronBastani @AndrewOrlowski Which is totally incoherent with your current celebration of wind power as you have doubtless been informed by several others.
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Andrew Orlowski@AndrewOrlowski·
When the lights go out in the Bastani household because we’ve dismantled our modern energy system and made it reliant on the weather - like medieval peasants - do you think Bastani will still be blaming “the boomer Murdoch press” ?
Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani

Britain is presently generating 71% of electricity from renewables and is exporting some to boot. Nuclear plus renewables is presently 85% of all electricity being generated. Good things are possible. Ignore the boomer Murdoch press.

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speedfox@speedfox_uk·
@wraith_ @ChrisO_wiki Starmer was very anti Iraq at the time, so it's probably the same insticts that drives him here. Principled not cowardly.
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wraith@wraith_·
@ChrisO_wiki The problem was I don’t think it was down to his cunning smarts but more of a cowardly I don’t know what the fuck to do so I’ll do nothing and worked out well for him (minus the part where US relationship is now fragile)
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speedfox@speedfox_uk·
@AaronBastani Interesting that you didn't say Gordon Brown, especially if we are just sticking to their time as PM.
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speedfox@speedfox_uk·
@AaronBastani @shashj Isn't the whole point of us using trident the fact that it's cheaper than building our own?
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Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani·
@shashj That doesn’t require flushing money down toilet with trident, however.
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Shashank Joshi@shashj·
British nuclear weapons mean that Russia is highly disincentivised to conduct attacks that would make the British state desperate, incl. in the context of a wider war in Europe. Any sensible disarmament advocate would grapple w/ this argument rather than pretend it does not exist
Pavel Podvig@russianforces

The UK would have arguably been much better off in many ways had they ditched their program ca. 2007, when they discussed it. One needs to be a high priest of nuclear theology to explain (still unconvincingly) what's the purpose of UK nuclear weapons is.

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speedfox@speedfox_uk·
@suchnerve "how much money they waste on the monarchy". Do you think if we moved to a President it would be any cheaper?
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Vivian@suchnerve·
“@[-]: The only problem with that system is how much money they waste on the monarchy, how much they can get away with, and the fact that they still can't get anything decent done in the country.” Oh I know. Only referring to the powerless monarch cultural release valve idea.
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Vivian@suchnerve·
The only pro-monarchy argument I’ve ever found even a little compelling: a legally powerless monarch serves as a cultural pressure release valve for the human urge to worship larger-than-life symbols which would otherwise be misdirected at the constitution by refusing to amend it
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speedfox@speedfox_uk·
@tomhfh It needed to go to Blackpool, as part of a bigger project to make Blackpool into Europe's Las Vegas. Just dumping it in London is too small an idea.
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Tom Harwood@tomhfh·
Sometimes I think about how we could have had a London Sphere by now if our politicians weren’t all allergic to economic growth.
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Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani·
Start a podcast called “beyond the bubble”. Interview one of the most powerful people in the last government.
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford

Exclusive: Angela Rayner is preparing to launch a podcast called Beyond the Bubble as she seeks to broaden her appeal before a potential Labour leadership contest The former deputy prime minister has interviewed Lord Gove, the former Tory cabinet minister, as the star guest on the pilot, which is focused on housing Rayner and Gove both served as housing secretaries and the two recently gave evidence together to a parliamentary committee about leasehold reform. Both championed legislation to give leaseholders and renters more rights while they were in office The two are understood to get on well despite their political differences. Gove, who is now editor of The Spectator, is said to have joked to Rayner after their appearance before MPs that she had been like Annie Lennox to his Dave Stewart from Eurythmics In the first episode Rayner conducts other interviews with people across the country about housing. The show was produced by Global, which owns the radio station LBC, but it is not yet clear if it has signed off a full series thetimes.com/article/468db5…

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speedfox@speedfox_uk·
@Sam_Dumitriu The advice suffers the same issue all advice about "screen time" suffers from: it conflates a bunch of activities that should not be lumped together. 3 hours playing Mario Kart with a sibling is not the same thing as 3 hours staring at TikTok in your bedroom.
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Sam Dumitriu
Sam Dumitriu@Sam_Dumitriu·
I don't think the advice is awful, but it is worth noting that the extent to which it is 'evidence-led' is overblown. The recommendations are based off a literature review where most of the studies are non-causal, cross-sectional, and heavily confounded. Honestly, we really don't know how bad (or not) screen time is for kids. The advice itself is informed by the review, but it is highly precautionary. At every point, they err on the side of caution. In my view, when the Govt puts out advice they should be careful to communicate when we're dealing with a precautionary best-guess, and when we're dealing with 'vaccines stop this virus/smoking causes cancer' tier information.
Bridget Phillipson@bphillipsonMP

This government is on the side of families. Whether that is tackling the cost of living, or helping navigate the rapidly changing online world. Today, we publish non-judgemental, practical tips, developed with parents, experts and led by evidence to manage under-5s’ screen time.

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