“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
- T.S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets, 1943
After 20 years, I am back in Washington, DC to work on science policy in the U.S. Senate. In the very same building, on the very same floor where my journey began.
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Angel at Edmonton
Another version of this photo taken at Edmonton Green. The bus station has canopy covers that resemble angel wings. So here's Andreya posing as an angel with a big bus roundel halo above her.
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Not sure about *angel* wings, those look more like wings of a bat.
But a cool photo nevertheless! 😀
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Rewatched these two episodes and gosh, I simultaneously think the writers deserve a lot of credit for the swings they took, and that they're a great example of the limits inherent in Trek as an ongoing examination of the liberal political imagination…JP on cohost
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Me in the 1990s: This Star Trek TNG episode "Darmok" is ridiculous. These aliens could never travel the galaxy on metaphors.
Me in a 1:1 with my manager just now: Pam, at Dunder Mifflin, her pictures identical.
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Medida adotada pelo ministro Alexandre de Moares vale até a empresa cumprir decisões judiciais e pagar as multas fixadas.noticias.stf.jus.br
The ruination of Twitter is hitting crowdfunding projects hard. Which is lousy because that's where so much innovative and interesting writing can be found these days. Do take a look, support if you choose to, and boost the signal, please and thank you.
Over on my blog, details of the latest ZNBLLC Kickstarter
to give you 3 new great anthologies AMPYRIUM: MERCHANT WAR, SKULL X BONES and WERE-2
julietemckenna.com/its-znb-kic…
I mentioned my Ampyrium short story a while ago. I’m thrilled to say I’ll be returning to this fascinating shared world with one of this year’s ZNB anthology projects. As regular readers will know,…Juliet E. McKenna
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This is great and actually explains a few things that I sort of knew but often figured out by trial and error.
I especially like "[USB] has the huge upside that you can generally plug a USB device into your computer without having to spend a lot of time thinking about the details of the interconnect.
Fortunately, USB-C, Thunderbolt, and Lightning have come along to fix that."
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In May this year, Peter Hendy pressured my now-former employer Systra to sack me by threatening them.
Why did he do this? Because I'd highlighted safety and accessibility issues at Euston station. He is unfit for office and should resign.
politico.eu/article/uk-rail-mi…
Peter Hendy threatened to withhold public contracts while seeking disciplinary action.Jon Stone (POLITICO)
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I became a councillor to change people’s lives. It left me drained, bewildered and burned out | Kimberly McIntosh
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
A career in politics was my dream, but the pressures were too great. Quitting was best for me and for those I was there to serve, says author Kimberly McIntoshKimberly McIntosh (The Guardian)
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So if you’ve ever picked out paint, you know that every infinitesimally different shade of blue, beige, and gray has its own descriptive, attractive name.Janelle Shane (AI Weirdness)
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I just asked a chatbot to provide a third-person narrative of a chef making a specific sauce, to see how it would gender the chef. The chef was male.
You got that right... even ChatGPT fails the Béchamel test.
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I did actually ask ChatGPT this and it did indeed do this. Here's the prompt: "Provide a third-person narrative of someone watching a chef making a Béchamel sauce."
What I got back indicates ChatGPT has been reading too many Mills & Boon novels.
The last two paragraphs contain this:
A soft sigh escaped Evelyn’s lips as she inhaled the subtle, comforting aroma of butter and flour blending with the richness of the milk....
Evelyn’s gaze lingered on the chef’s hands as they worked with practiced ease, never hurried, always deliberate. He tasted the sauce, nodded in quiet satisfaction, and Evelyn knew—without a word being spoken—that the Béchamel had been brought to perfection.
Ya know what? I'm gonna toot my own horn today On Here Specifically.
I have already received at least a dozen thankful comments/replies for letting people know they can slow down door closers. A lot of people have been living with irritating bangs in apartment buildings and whatnot.
And thanks to watching a YouTube video, their life is now better. I didn't sell anything to them, I just decided to share some knowledge in my own (hopefully entertaining) way.
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Via @ottocr.at on Bluesky:
Putin, after 10 days of Kursk catastrophe, summons Stalin’s ghost:
Stalin: “What’s happened?”
Putin: “Nazis are at Kursk! My army is beaten! What should I do?”
Stalin: “Do like me 1943. Send best Ukrainian troops to the front, and ask the US for arms!”
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So in a root cause analysis sense, I'm having trouble deciding if the root cause is (a) invading Ukraine or (b) consulting Necromantic Stalin for advice.
Both pretty bad moves, honestly.
On my quasi-blog: "Code review antipatterns".
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Great article, thanks for writing it!
Though I'd like to ask about an edge case: what do you do if it's a senior dev reviewing a junior dev's patch?
Does that count as permanent or temporary authority?
Is "I want you to learn" a legitimate purpose of it, or an "other goal" ?
Is that an okay situation to criticize based on design principles, or what features should go in the code at all?
this is a great list of anti patterns, fortunately we have tools and processes to help with many of them!
Like: make it clear which changes are deal breakers and which aren’t - some projects use the “nit” word.
Batch up the review comments and submit in one go when all the changes have been reviewed.
Use code suggestions so the submitter can easily apply small changes.
Normalise putting non breaking changes in a follow up PR.
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The Helm Wind is a strong north-easterly wind hitting the southwest slopes of Cross Fell in Cumbria.Met Office
New cool brand ideas for bathtub brewers:
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