Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
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Cambridge Liberal Democrat. Techie. One time pilot.
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@futurebird The cardboard box that a filing cabinet comes in can make a den for several small children - just cut a door and a window.
December 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
@futurebird The cardboard box that a filing cabinet comes in can make a den for several small children - just cut a door and a window.
@mike As a required exercise at work I asked an AI to generate a web application wrapper round an existing piece of back-end code.
It generated something that looked like it came from 1995 - pure HTML, no styling at all. But it did work, and you could see everything at one on one screen, no […]
It generated something that looked like it came from 1995 - pure HTML, no styling at all. But it did work, and you could see everything at one on one screen, no […]
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December 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
@mike As a required exercise at work I asked an AI to generate a web application wrapper round an existing piece of back-end code.
It generated something that looked like it came from 1995 - pure HTML, no styling at all. But it did work, and you could see everything at one on one screen, no […]
It generated something that looked like it came from 1995 - pure HTML, no styling at all. But it did work, and you could see everything at one on one screen, no […]
@futurebird All I had to do was refuse to specify my date of birth when they demanded it. I'm now locked out.
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
@futurebird All I had to do was refuse to specify my date of birth when they demanded it. I'm now locked out.
@oksii33.ukr.monster But it seems that the Russians have now rejected their own plan.
December 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
@oksii33.ukr.monster But it seems that the Russians have now rejected their own plan.
@futurebird The nearest I'm usually likely to get to "RTFM" is "oh, sorry, I thought I'd documented that adequately, which bit is unclear that I need to work on?"
December 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
@futurebird The nearest I'm usually likely to get to "RTFM" is "oh, sorry, I thought I'd documented that adequately, which bit is unclear that I need to work on?"
@jon The first time I saw on the display at King's Cross that my train was going to depart from platform 0 I thought that must be a placeholder, they don't know the actual platform yet.
November 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
@jon The first time I saw on the display at King's Cross that my train was going to depart from platform 0 I thought that must be a placeholder, they don't know the actual platform yet.
@mattblaze Well, there is such a mechanism, if the national legal system fails - the ICC.
November 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
@mattblaze Well, there is such a mechanism, if the national legal system fails - the ICC.
@servelan pw;dr
The Gleaner has been publishing (online, at least) throughout.
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/
(We still haven't heard from acquaintances living in Shaw Castle above Maroon Town. But I'm sure they've got better things to do than update everybody they know, even supposing they do […]
The Gleaner has been publishing (online, at least) throughout.
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/
(We still haven't heard from acquaintances living in Shaw Castle above Maroon Town. But I'm sure they've got better things to do than update everybody they know, even supposing they do […]
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November 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
@servelan pw;dr
The Gleaner has been publishing (online, at least) throughout.
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/
(We still haven't heard from acquaintances living in Shaw Castle above Maroon Town. But I'm sure they've got better things to do than update everybody they know, even supposing they do […]
The Gleaner has been publishing (online, at least) throughout.
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/
(We still haven't heard from acquaintances living in Shaw Castle above Maroon Town. But I'm sure they've got better things to do than update everybody they know, even supposing they do […]
@adwright Yeahbut the USA has been bombing the shit out of all sorts of people across the globe for decades with no comeback for the people involved. Why is this particular incident being considered a special case big deal?
November 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
@adwright Yeahbut the USA has been bombing the shit out of all sorts of people across the globe for decades with no comeback for the people involved. Why is this particular incident being considered a special case big deal?
@keefeglise If anyone wants to preserve a view all they have to do is buy it and refrain from developing it.
(OK so that's not actually *guaranteed* to work - if the development is thought sufficiently important a CPO is legally possible. But in practice they pretty well never happen (for […]
(OK so that's not actually *guaranteed* to work - if the development is thought sufficiently important a CPO is legally possible. But in practice they pretty well never happen (for […]
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November 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
@keefeglise If anyone wants to preserve a view all they have to do is buy it and refrain from developing it.
(OK so that's not actually *guaranteed* to work - if the development is thought sufficiently important a CPO is legally possible. But in practice they pretty well never happen (for […]
(OK so that's not actually *guaranteed* to work - if the development is thought sufficiently important a CPO is legally possible. But in practice they pretty well never happen (for […]
@bencurthoys "But it really is a 'preference' cookie, it encodes information about the advertisements that we think the punter will prefer to see, that's not 'evil'."
November 28, 2025 at 10:47 AM
@bencurthoys "But it really is a 'preference' cookie, it encodes information about the advertisements that we think the punter will prefer to see, that's not 'evil'."
@sundogplanets These days in the UK the law is believed to be such that reference letters usually basically only say:
"I confirm that so-and-so worked for us from [date] to [date] and didn't have his hand in the till."
"I confirm that so-and-so worked for us from [date] to [date] and didn't have his hand in the till."
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
@sundogplanets These days in the UK the law is believed to be such that reference letters usually basically only say:
"I confirm that so-and-so worked for us from [date] to [date] and didn't have his hand in the till."
"I confirm that so-and-so worked for us from [date] to [date] and didn't have his hand in the till."
@keefeglise Difference being that you pay tax on interest from a bank account, assuming you've already used your ISA allowance, but you pay essentially no tax on low coupon gilts held to maturity.
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
@keefeglise Difference being that you pay tax on interest from a bank account, assuming you've already used your ISA allowance, but you pay essentially no tax on low coupon gilts held to maturity.
@keefeglise Only if you don't believe in MMT.
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
@keefeglise Only if you don't believe in MMT.
@keefeglise Tax on investments does seem to be somewhat optional if you've got enough money - ISAs, pensions including salary sacrifice, lack of CGT on gilts, and probably others.
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
@keefeglise Tax on investments does seem to be somewhat optional if you've got enough money - ISAs, pensions including salary sacrifice, lack of CGT on gilts, and probably others.
@taylor Once Upon A Time there was the Windows Style Guide which everybody (more or less) followed (more or less) and you could use any application without any of this modern hassle.
(OK, so Microsoft nicked it from an IBM style guide, but that's good, actually - the more consistency the better.)
(OK, so Microsoft nicked it from an IBM style guide, but that's good, actually - the more consistency the better.)
November 26, 2025 at 8:47 AM
@taylor Once Upon A Time there was the Windows Style Guide which everybody (more or less) followed (more or less) and you could use any application without any of this modern hassle.
(OK, so Microsoft nicked it from an IBM style guide, but that's good, actually - the more consistency the better.)
(OK, so Microsoft nicked it from an IBM style guide, but that's good, actually - the more consistency the better.)
@miffyhelen Hmm. Though there is an obvious counter-example - we have for years now accepted television sets that can't be used if the remote control fails.
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
@miffyhelen Hmm. Though there is an obvious counter-example - we have for years now accepted television sets that can't be used if the remote control fails.
@miffyhelen Why would anyone ever buy anything like that?
First rule of buying IoT gadgets is that they should fall back to manual controls if all the smart stuff fails.
First rule of buying IoT gadgets is that they should fall back to manual controls if all the smart stuff fails.
November 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
@miffyhelen Why would anyone ever buy anything like that?
First rule of buying IoT gadgets is that they should fall back to manual controls if all the smart stuff fails.
First rule of buying IoT gadgets is that they should fall back to manual controls if all the smart stuff fails.
Still, the alternative, going to the bank branch, would have been even more hoop-jumping. IME that involves sitting for an hour watching someone type numbers I've given them into a computer, they then say "OK, all done".
Here, I've worked out what's going on: If you've actually stuck it out for […]
Here, I've worked out what's going on: If you've actually stuck it out for […]
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November 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Still, the alternative, going to the bank branch, would have been even more hoop-jumping. IME that involves sitting for an hour watching someone type numbers I've given them into a computer, they then say "OK, all done".
Here, I've worked out what's going on: If you've actually stuck it out for […]
Here, I've worked out what's going on: If you've actually stuck it out for […]