Steve Evans
@gorbag.com
Retired software engineer still occasionally coding. User of Gentoo Linux.
Mastodon: @gorbag@social.linux.pizza
Mastodon: @gorbag@social.linux.pizza
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Q: what kind of algorithms does an AI produce
A: the bubble sort
-- swlabr
A: the bubble sort
-- swlabr
December 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Q: what kind of algorithms does an AI produce
A: the bubble sort
-- swlabr
A: the bubble sort
-- swlabr
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Having been born on this day in 1957, I am somewhat susceptible to tv adverts we see at this time of year, ones that use the festivities of the 1970s as a means of evoking nostalgia for Christmases gone by. I think this one may have gone a bit too far however.
December 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Having been born on this day in 1957, I am somewhat susceptible to tv adverts we see at this time of year, ones that use the festivities of the 1970s as a means of evoking nostalgia for Christmases gone by. I think this one may have gone a bit too far however.
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taranis.ie/datacenters-...
this is an essay on this fucking stupid idea, just hitting the technical issues
it's time to cover this one. what are *your* favourite writeups on why data centres in space are just fucking stupid?
this is an essay on this fucking stupid idea, just hitting the technical issues
it's time to cover this one. what are *your* favourite writeups on why data centres in space are just fucking stupid?
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.
taranis.ie
November 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
taranis.ie/datacenters-...
this is an essay on this fucking stupid idea, just hitting the technical issues
it's time to cover this one. what are *your* favourite writeups on why data centres in space are just fucking stupid?
this is an essay on this fucking stupid idea, just hitting the technical issues
it's time to cover this one. what are *your* favourite writeups on why data centres in space are just fucking stupid?
Next pub the the Wheatsteaf Swindon
October 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Next pub the the Wheatsteaf Swindon
Next pub the hop Swindon
October 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Next pub the hop Swindon
Next pub the beehive Swindon
October 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Next pub the beehive Swindon
Start of a pub crawl at the Queens Tap Swindon
October 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Start of a pub crawl at the Queens Tap Swindon
Next pub the coronation
September 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Next pub the coronation
start of a pub crawl at the Shakespeare Tavern
September 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
start of a pub crawl at the Shakespeare Tavern
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It's 2031. The world looks on as qualifying for the 2025 Baku Grand Prix looks finally set to complete.
September 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It's 2031. The world looks on as qualifying for the 2025 Baku Grand Prix looks finally set to complete.
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One of my very favorite things in the industry is managers who have commit access and can just skip code review for "little changes" without consequences
September 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
One of my very favorite things in the industry is managers who have commit access and can just skip code review for "little changes" without consequences
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Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns
September 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns
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This is a strong piece. Whenever we talk about immigration, we should emphasise that the economy is heading for broke without it. Rational countries at this point would be rolling out the red carpet for immigrants. Instead, we’re being ridiculous, awful, and self-sabotaging.
Labour, Tories and Reform are talking about trying to shrink the UK’s working age population by curtailing immigration. Here’s an excellent summary of why this approach is catastrophic even solely on economic grounds. www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/nans-not-b...
Nan’s Not Bankrupting Britain (But Politicians Might Be)
Pensions, productivity, and the myth of the migrant “drain.”
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This is a strong piece. Whenever we talk about immigration, we should emphasise that the economy is heading for broke without it. Rational countries at this point would be rolling out the red carpet for immigrants. Instead, we’re being ridiculous, awful, and self-sabotaging.
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Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
September 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
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The eminent cosmologist and humanist, Carl Sagan, writing in 1995:
September 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The eminent cosmologist and humanist, Carl Sagan, writing in 1995:
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August 30, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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i'm actually cataloguing the failed prospective successors to "AI":
* quantum computing
* small nuclear reactors
* humanoid robots
* "biotech" (yet a fuckin gain)
the *actual* tech revolution is renewable energy, but VCs aren't interested because it's an ordinary business and not bubblenomics
* quantum computing
* small nuclear reactors
* humanoid robots
* "biotech" (yet a fuckin gain)
the *actual* tech revolution is renewable energy, but VCs aren't interested because it's an ordinary business and not bubblenomics
i wonder what their next "disruptive idea" is when AI finally collapses under its own weight/inability to continue to raise infinity dollars
we still haven't seen any brain chips in the wild
we still haven't seen any brain chips in the wild
August 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
i'm actually cataloguing the failed prospective successors to "AI":
* quantum computing
* small nuclear reactors
* humanoid robots
* "biotech" (yet a fuckin gain)
the *actual* tech revolution is renewable energy, but VCs aren't interested because it's an ordinary business and not bubblenomics
* quantum computing
* small nuclear reactors
* humanoid robots
* "biotech" (yet a fuckin gain)
the *actual* tech revolution is renewable energy, but VCs aren't interested because it's an ordinary business and not bubblenomics
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Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".
(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)
(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)
August 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".
(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)
(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)
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July 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Flexible working
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
July 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Flexible working
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
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Trying to think of other revolutionary products that consumers repeatedly had to be tricked into paying for rather than ones that consumers loved and demanded
Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit.
It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.
It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.
July 19, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Trying to think of other revolutionary products that consumers repeatedly had to be tricked into paying for rather than ones that consumers loved and demanded
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A brief, species-wide experiment in trying to connect everyone together is coming to an end
✏️ @mattmuir.bsky.social
✏️ @mattmuir.bsky.social
Social media is dead – you just haven’t noticed
A brief, species-wide experiment in trying to connect everyone together is coming to an end
www.thenewworld.co.uk
July 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
A brief, species-wide experiment in trying to connect everyone together is coming to an end
✏️ @mattmuir.bsky.social
✏️ @mattmuir.bsky.social