periodic reminder that Barcelona has a supercomputer inside an old church and it's one of the most rad things you can see
@anon_opin they’re like shipping containers. Duplicates exist around the place but so long as they’re not both in the same place at the same time it doesn’t matter.
You know what would be a good use of all this ML driven analysis of videos YouTube are doing? Penalising any video in which the person on screen uses the phrase “like and subscribe” or similar. I’m so bored of being told to hit that notification bell, I do not, ever, want a push notification because someone posted a video on YouTube.
@andrew yeah, for a long time I’d decided I couldn’t do it. Thought I was ready but it would seem not, spent some time afterwards feeling like I’d been punched in the gut.
I just watched Children of Men for the first time in a decade. Please send pictures of kittens to help me recover.
@LevelUp @anon_opin I know this doesn’t matter to Trump but I’m not sure he has authority to legislate on what straws restaurants provide.
@pikesley I mean there’s LEDs, lasers and an arcade, so yeah, it’s like EMF if EMF also had a billion screens showing football and served shit beer.
I’m in a recently refitted bowling alley and I think it’s about 80% RGB LED strip by volume.
@tommorris @skylar the one time I’ve ever full on yelled at a colleague was when my employer’s CTO suggested in a meeting about an outage caused by someone being asked to ship “urgent” code at the weekend for a demo “maybe they should just not make bugs”. (He was the ex-CTO within 6 months, so there’s a happy ending there)
“There’s a phone in the room, I can use it to delete the files”. It’s taking a while though because they have to wait for three firewall hacking progress bars to empty.
Also a Big Tech CEO just got a standing ovation from a crowd of journalists for saying people won’t be tracked on his new platform, before immediately sitting down to dinner with the head of the CIA.
Watching Jason Bourne, mostly out of a sense of completionism after watching the rest of the series this week rather than with any expectation of it being good. If you’d like to know how bad their impression of hacking is someone just said “use SQL to hack their database”.
Washing Machine Engineer: This program is precision designed to provide longevity and comfort for green cotton clothing.
Me: Mixed.
@anon_opin I both agree, and am sure the washing machine engineers despair at how much nicer my clothes could be if I just sorted them and used the proper programs.
@CatherineFlick I’ve come to the conclusion that other than retargeting things I’ve browsed ad targeting is a myth. It’s very rarely any more specific than I’m an adult man who lives in the UK.
@baiteh @anon_opin succor, so named for the brief reprieve offered to the players at half time.
@q the end of the Union.. The complete breakdown of law and order as brothers fight against each other in the Great ICO War.
@John Office of Standards for Education? It’s a stretch but then the civil service loves an obscure acronym.
@tommorris @jackeric I really wish this weren’t so real. Reminds me of being young and naive at a marketing agency and wanting to properly architect a Facebook app for a well known nappy company.
My boss took me to one side and said “it’s fine; we all know nobody’s actually going to use this thing other than the person who’s buying it”. He wasn’t wrong.
@CiaraNi hell, I do this stuff professionally and have done for a long time. I want my personal computers to be as boring as possible because after 8 hours of computer whispering I do not want to be doing more to get to a point where I can sit down and play a game.
Every marketing email you’ll receive today:
Roses are red, violets are blue. Fuck it. That’ll do.