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Kids fancy some Sherlock books, anyone have a tip for a starter or just dive in from the front?
@clippy@eads_cs … Can’t remember how old yours are, but wouldn’t recommend for young because of the endless -isms. Amazing works though.
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Kids fancy some Sherlock books, anyone have a tip for a starter or just dive in from the front?
@clippy@eads_cs I’ve recently read the series, mostly from standard ebooks, and they’re great! However, there is a lot of problematic language.
Hadn’t occurred to me how few people in my circle hadn’t gone back to the office, but with zero arguments here about the Tube strikes now I do :/
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Pandemic is officially over: @JNRowe@eads_cs is back to queuing eclectic madness like Olivia Sellerio and Roni Size on a Monday morning.
@MissLB@eads_cs And, you can’t grasp how haunting I find the final angel verse of Sellerio’s track even though the slang is too difficult for me.
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Pandemic is officially over: @JNRowe@eads_cs is back to queuing eclectic madness like Olivia Sellerio and Roni Size on a Monday morning.
@MissLB@eads_cs Jeez, imagine Sellerio on No More. Plus, Asaf Avidan and Sammy Virji in my afternoon pick. No apologies.
Two in the morning, blah. I’ve just launched NoGravy, come take a look on Scribe. If there is interest it will move to a dedicated location
Last thing #vim needs is a new package manager… please test drive JNRowe/paquiver and comment; native packages+lazy loading, nothing else.
Anyone know a way to invert vim’s case switching when dealing with non-English locales; fex ‘ß’ gUs to ‘SS’, but how would I ‘SS’ to ‘ß’. Or a tool to supplant gu
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The Handmaid’s Tale season 4; Once again ☆☆☆☆☆. Whitford comes very close to stealing the show, but Moss & Dowd still tie.
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They’ve side-graded their editor! People still won’t use syntax highlighting though. Oh, and #MissionsS2 definitely worth it
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@MissLB@eads_cs Yeah, been caught by unrepeatable :gr to add a filter when I've modified with :grepa. And why s to S isn't like x to X
@karl@eads_cs FWIW, I override s/S and rely on c/C. Both are only special case c anyway.
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why doesn't vim have :grepdel? Like :grepa it would work on current list, but filter it.
@MissLB@eads_cs Mine is gA. I use gi a lot and gI occasionally, but often want gA.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs igneous wants my new neovim frontend, I take it you’re planning to maintain it? +1000, good work!
@cmack@eads_cs Hmm, dunno. People seem to like it, but I may not be one of them. Just doesn’t feel right.
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… and the men’s game was good too! Excellent Tailenders explanation: “it’s like cricket, but shorter!” 📏
The Hundred? Three hours well spent, I’d say. Lizelle Lee and Harmanpreet Kaur made it a joy to watch.
Instead of simply complaining, I’m working on a gvim replacement for neovim. Try it at JNRowe/igneous, and comment
Ready to move on, finally. Admitting it publicly, so that I can be held accountable to e̶n̶e̶m̶i̶e̶s̶ friends
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My new bike has arrived!!! Now if only I knew what all the bits in the boxes did. /cc @JNRowe@eads_cs
@ronni@eads_eng I can come over to build it, if you still want. Or, come over to inspect it if you want to build it yourself.
Sometimes a book is so predictable it uses a literal Checkov Gun, or Cathy Gun I guess. However, first half is great. ★★★✫✫
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@tibbs@eads_fr "Absolutely Amazing!" - My wife. She loved that design. (She has no account, so comment passthru)
@ikahn@eads_rpas Signup is open to anyone who can nudge a current user; we’re ~20% GWR now. I’ve texted you a signup link for Kasia.
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With all these QR codes about, who isn't thinking about a huuuuuuuge stickering run?
@dan_man@eads_rpas Surely, QR-bombing in the time of virus spread use is bio-terrorism? Anyway, that site was killed by the registrar years ago.
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@sophs@eads_cs I approve this message.
@MissLB@eads_cs Not the response I expected. Confinement has mellowed you… I don’t like it.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs It is all well and good partying from home, but who owns a photocopier?
@sophs@eads_cs Well, I mean you’ve probably given people the idea to add “Photocopier for Sophie” to the list of charities now.
REMINDER: You can feel awkward remotely at our Winterval party tonight. Pop in, click the button to make your charity donation, and leave.
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@ashley@eads_eng Okay, me too ✋ The staff at Greggs treat me like the market traders in Rocky, therefore Elite Sportsperson
@phil_t@eads_cs iff the ‘t’ stands for ‘The Mouth’. Seriously though, must be a lot of full kit queues at Broadwater store right?
I’ve retired from our #aoc 2020 competition, who will push me off the leaderboard? /me drops coin in to the winner’s kitty on the way out
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@danni@eads_cs At least Christmas without elderly relatives means not having to explain why I don't call them any more.
@jason@eads_cs See the linked HN comment for a calm version of what you should say, or Pip’s furious mail to -comms for a less kind retort
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This is not the time for "I told you so", the time for that was over four years ago... when I told you so.
@blaze@eads_cs Finally reached the stage where you no longer want to shift the argument? Pull up a pew, it’s warm.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Great pinned tweet on the linked account. Suspect it is a magnet for abuse though :/
@terryp@eads_cs Given name, sex, education, and occupation it seems unlikely it would be possible to increase the red-top reactionary magnetism.
”the Freeze Peach brigade trying to stop the right to protest” — Priyamvada Gopal. Funnier and kinder than Freedom of Bigot.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs 👏👏👏 That. Is. Awesome. 😘😘😘 How did you prep all the Qs?
@MissLB@eads_cs It tugs random data from a Wikipedia list. The source is linked at the bottom. Just missing VCM’s wit ;)
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Only Connect night, yay! 2020 may be largely weird, but at least I can still reliably get zero points on OC.
@MissLB@eads_cs I posted a Missing Vowels generator to Scribe last Monday, if you’re looking to up your game…
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Easily double for both, SBW for thrills and H for memories. You up to watch it too?
@leon@gwr Nah, pager duty for ReBus. Tempted by a classic match on YT now though.
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5am, about to watch Tyson. Feels like the nineties all over again. Need a Goldblum advert for lager, and a Kappa hat.
@leon@gwr if it was worth twenty quid, what would you have paid for the Sonny Bill or Holyfield temptations?
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World Chase Tag ... something ... supermarket ... something something. #exhalation
@pmitty@eads_cs No need to stick a fork in it.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs One hundred percent agree. Laura has been my advocate since my first day; helping, nudging and pushing when needed
@sophs@eads_cs Yep. One of the things I’ve missed the most this year is my in-person taming. (and the playful anti-prodding)
Like most years, I nominate @MissLB@eads_cs for acknowledgement on this day. It is hard to imagine anyone who does more to help others.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs I've borrowed(eww awful UI word) our RLM, can you judge it as a reference for my son? Just a go/no-go is fine.
@tan_li@eads_cs Really good book. Churned through a chunk of it, and I’m very impressed. May be a bit advanced for now, but give it a go.
Puzzle: In the book Real Life Maths there are over 600 pages, explain why people think maths is complicated. Answers should be ~10k words.
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Haven't been out for this Eat Out thingy, but loads are. I'm surprised at how cheap the nudge is for many. Facile moves.
@chewy@eads_cs At some point you simply have to wonder if it simultaneously counts as both bread AND circuses.
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was thinking "how pretentious" with your Montalbano in Italian tweet, but you're right. Ironmonger was a poor translation for a joke
@sophs@eads_cs I actually can’t think of an appropriate English word, ferret in the “hunt with ferrets” sense. However, who’d use that?
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Buddies, don't forget to register for your absentee ballot. Even if, like me, you're living abroad remember that your president represents you to the world.
@pauldi@eads_cs hmm, you’re to blame? Why didn’t you admit that earlier?
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vim's n and N search direction following a ? search is utterly maddening. Why, just why?
@mat_k@eads_es Hmm, maybe I’m full Kool-Aid but I like relative n/N, cf using a map without rotating for N. That said you can remap them, see `:h v:searchforward`
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Il commissario Montalbano's Catarella is a wonderful character, played with ineffable talent and timing
@sophs@eads_cs …and if you haven’t seen it watch it in Italian if possible. Some humour depends on homonyms that won’t work in English dub.
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Il commissario Montalbano's Catarella is a wonderful character, played with ineffable talent and timing
@sophs@eads_cs seen Il giovane Montalbano? Great origin story. Incredible casting for all, incl Catarella. /ht @rai_chol@eads_fr’s Mum
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I love Python's context managers, but three deep they're indentation is painful. #findbalance
@ant_bat@eads_cs you can with c1 as v1, c2 as v2, c3 as v3: since 3.1. If that is cleaner given \ continuation is a Q for you
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People, if we were in the office I'd have queued Turno's Africa remix prolly like 5 times already today.
@MissLB@eads_cs And you would have won the office.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs censure? no, but it is an easy thing to simply say to people "disavow $x".
@chewy@eads_cs I realise that, but… I’ve done it myself, and I’m far happier for it. The option needs surfacing.
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Jeez, extended family visited today. 1st time in months, and I'd forgotten how poisonous one uncle is. Advice?
@Kat@eads_cs Honestly? Just. Cut. Them. Out. Familial ties aren’t a carte blanche. [holds for others to censure]
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@JNRowe@eads_cs @big_macnamara@eads_cs Superb Ike World Championships for Dwight D. Eisenhower impersonators
@big_macnamara@eads_cs @lauren@eads_fr Bad Mint On Horse Trials was a court case for mislabelling horses
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@JNRowe@eads_cs full agree. Wimble Don is an expert driller. Thanks for linking the theme tune too :D
@big_macnamara@eads_cs East Bourne International is the pan-asian super soldier school. Why they name it in English though, I don’t know
#WWDitS series two is somehow better than series one. Owl parties and Laszlo’s bar & volleyball sideline being my highlights.
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People on #zwift rocking pointy helmets now, I think I'm probably out at this point.
@JamesParker@eads_cs screenshot? Love your cut-off. £2k build? okay. Rancid garage? okay. Whine deafness? okay. Pointy helmet avatar? no.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Do you have the clout to push through the branch renaming from watercooler chat? Not sure who does
@leon@gwr Probably, yeah. Not for me to decide, but if a near consensus is reached I’ll force the changes through.
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Really, really surprised at the sheer number of people mingling today. Nothing has materially changed, what happened?
@MissLB@eads_cs Same here. Out for solo ride, saw tonnes of large groups and heavy road traffic. …T19:45Z/PT01H45M
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Have you made any masks? Or more importantly are the mask masks available?
@jGaffney@eads_cs Nope, probably going to run a couple out later this week. The research/templates are in JNRowe/fabric_mask.
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@leonb@eads_cs @JNRowe@eads_cs taught me to sew, although perhaps to avoid having to do the work 😁
@chewy@eads_cs I taught you in part because I saw you were going to misalign a button, which would haunt me ‘til death.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Hmm, do you have materials and sewing experience? Didn't know that. Awesome.
@leonb@eads_cs Materials, yeah. Skills, ish. I can hand stitch cleanly, and use a machine fairly well. Odd skills FTW
Very definition of nerd sniping must be: Noodling on sewing a custom-fit face mask, and spending twos hours in material research and CAD
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@JNRowe@eads_cs hmm, pancakes it is then. Recipe me
@charoug@eads_cs ~60g SR flour, 1 egg, ~125ml milk; whisk; add ginger pieces; spoon drop to pan; flip when set. Under 5 mins
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Out of fresh and dried fruit. Have some crystallised ginger, but unsure how to use it outside cake. Ideas?
@charoug@eads_cs Chopped in breakfast oats is amazing, or US-style pancakes with a little honey drizzle.
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@phpy@eads_cs Milly sleeping at hospital, Indira sleeping in lounge, rest of family in lockdown 6000 km away.
@dev_b@eads_cs Okay, you win. Had been just thinking about you guys after seeing Hesse on the news, hope you’re all coping well!
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@JNRowe@eads_cs So: Keep safe first. Help others around you second. Clean up our quarantine app when you have time 😉
@chewy@eads_cs I’ve squished the top five bug reports this afternoon. If you’d rather prioritise for my skills, then do so.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs There is an in-progress list for our area on f-lan. B'l and Ash are organising near you.
@lauren@eads_fr Thanks. I see that promoting that OoB would be a good first move. No idea it existed
Friends, it is bugging me that I can’t see a useful way for me to contribute. Ideas?
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Is that the night vision display I just saw? If so, that is awesome. The HDG dial is full '80s, lurve it.
@charoug@eads_cs Yeah, thanks! The spec literally says to match the previous display, no ifs or buts.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Just curious, what is the power/proc budget to make that work? Probably pretty expensive if this is the RSC
@MissLB@eads_cs It is considered a safety issue in the spec, and the display receives a full core. I’ve kept <5% for the moment.
There was a time when a long persistence screen would be used for a PPI radar display; in the modern world I burn six hours generating the effect.
@rafe@eads_cs Give me a call when you/Ollie finalise travel details; OoO for next 4 days.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Did you receive my Marivaux gift? You'll probably find it hard work, but it is worth it. Promise.
@lauren@eads_fr Yep, thanks! No need to knock my French, but you’re right. Have been enjoying epistolary format more and more lately
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Didn't forget yesterday, had no service. Hope you're well. Happy New Year! 🥂🎆😘
@lauren@eads_fr Saw your Christmas market photos, really good. Best wishes, and happy new year to you too!
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Thanks for all your hard work, would have cost a whole heap more without you. Just a shame it didn't work out 😜
@big_macnamara@eads_cs NP, it was actually a lot of fun(and a good pre-AoC warmup). Still don’t speak emoji.
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I’ve retired from our #aoc 2019 competition, who will steal my fifth place on our leaderboard? [yep, repost of last year’s early quit]
REMINDER: Planning to attend our Winterval party? Sign the wiki if you want your contribution to be donated to a charity.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Thanks, I'll take it. nim stuff was doing my head in, even the arg parser is awful. How you finding the time for this?
@big_macnamara@eads_cs SCT has been been killed, I’m without a tier-1 [again]. It is either this or brain soup through atrophy ;)
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Jeez, a full run of FE testsuite is 0.3 seconds instead of 42. Amazing, but struggling with deploy story with deps
@big_macnamara@eads_cs I’ve rewritten it again; rust this time. Largely mechanical, needs sponge bath. Far better deploy, and quicker again.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Jeez, a full run of FE testsuite is 0.3 seconds instead of 42. Amazing, but struggling with deploy story with deps
@big_macnamara@eads_cs See nim’s --dynlibOverrideAll/--passl. Sadly, upstream won’t budge; cf various GH issues.
@big_macnamara@eads_cs I’ve rewritten the backend from scratch in nim. Take it or don’t, I just wanted to try optimisation at extremes.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Small l with an option or Lab/LD with a TV. Perhaps even an indy if they're verified by LIAM or equiv.
@big_macnamara@eads_cs Okay, yes then. Tag me and I’ll triage tonight, and beat on whatever you don’t get to over the weekend.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Any chance of some help with aleph vote tech? We're already scaling badly one day in. 🗳🔥🚒
@big_macnamara@eads_cs Hmm, maybe. I’m not immediately clear who you’re pushing, that’ll pin my response. (I don’t speak emoji though)
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Really enjoying Buffering The Vampire Slayer, which I'm buffering 5 years late. Like being back at school.
@chewy@eads_cs Best. Title. Ever. Show may not be for me, but the title… I might subscribe just to see that every week.
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New release of calibre. Still awful, but still the only game in town. How is this? (nb: I'm not fixing this either 🙍)
@mickey_pleasance@eads_cs Neither, am I. However foliate or nov.el are both amazing readers.
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Who do I talk to if I want to understand Ramsey's DGPS control plane? It just isn't making sense, name that duck.
@ant_bat@eads_cs Likely I’m that rubber duck; Pete B was Principal, but I spat the p-type. Call, or Fri if you want a whiteboard session.
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@paulag@eads_cs Is this not the mytheme of Eos & Tithonus? Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
@danni@eads_cs If you’re hoping to win those arguments with Greek mythology and French you are 100% full win.
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Faaaawwwwwwwwgggggg. Eww, how are here already?
@catp@eads_pr If, like me, you were hoping it would break when you leave the villages… it doesn’t. All the way to GWR.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Hmm, it does support vi mode. See howl.command.vi_on.
@ant_bat@eads_cs Welcome! That only supports basic vi-like movement, evil-mode is very deep emulation.
So, while not for me… howl is an extremely nice editor. Light, fast, easily hackable. (I’d be tempted with an evil-mode)
Enjoying The Allusionist, both enlightening and funny. Rhythm and humour remind me of Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe. ✪✪✪✪✪
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Hand up if you're riding 650b. I'm thinking about it, but curious if users have thoughts.
@charoug@eads_cs Don’t use, but… I just don’t like the way they look on “full-size” frames. Ant runs 650b, email him.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Yeeps, that report is crazy. That may be your coolest project(that I know of). The battery timings are odd G1 to G2.
@charoug@eads_cs Thanks. The Gen2 units have a custom backlight fitted along with hi-cap Li-ions, and Gen2.5 have huge suspend sw fixes.
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Wish the zipit was still a thing, current project would be far better off using it as controller/interface
@mleighy@eads_cs just skimmed the TS PR, 2 breakages in ninety units. Astonishing. (A few have serious battery upgrades too.)
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Wish the zipit was still a thing, current project would be far better off using it as controller/interface
@mleighy@eads_cs Yes! I’d love a couple of ZipIt Z2s. We used them for the TrueSite project in the ‘00s, and they’re still going.
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Is it time to declare now as the interregnum of Cameron and whomever? So little has occurred that it may just be.
@blaze@eads_cs “interregnum” great word, thanks! Does really feel like a Carroll-esque Red Queen’s Race, so yeah… why not.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Love Fry's approachable presentations too. Why emphasis on "childrens"?
@MissLB@eads_cs Sadness at them often being marketed “for children”, they’re always interesting. “RI Late” could be cool, though.
… Also, another great pick for childrens xmas lectures; du Sautoy, Fong and Scott being recent-ish stand outs for me
Totally agree with @FryRsquared@twit_brg on oath. We have ethics Qs during yearly reviews, and they’re hugely eye opening.
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Not a single fruit on any of my chilli plants this year, and the final flower has given up. Bah.
@pmitty@eads_cs Same as. Basil has grown very well this season, but my peppers are pepper-less.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs hmm, maybe I'm interviewing too much but the first couple are common interview questions reworded.
@dan_man@eads_rpas I’m sure I’ve heard a few on WbU or Odds & Evenings too; doesn’t mean there isn’t more fun to be had ;)
Late to the party, but the Newton Institute are running a fun series of puzzles over August. Hit me up in the cafeteria/train to discuss
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Jeez, that "brexit mess" op-ed linked in the obit is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. Imagine if you could get away with that at work?
@MissLB@eads_cs … or in life at large? “you can’t reason your way out” aso, but believing will fix that
OH: “Given Booker is dead, who is the new go-to example for ∞ denial?” Arguably harsh as a statement, but feels like a valid question.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs dude, twelve hours to go and you're looking for recipes... I mean, yeah, count me in... but P is for Preparation
@MissLB@eads_cs I was looking for the traditional names of the alternative types; veggie one, halal one, etc. Appreciate the confidence.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs yum, is that for tomorrow? I'll take a kosher one 😜 How many will be there?
@charoug@eads_cs Actually, yes. I’ve planned for ~fifteen, but we’ll see what happens. Drop in to AW1, if you miss breakfast.
”Cheat’s eggs Benedict”, where the apparent cheat is “6 tbsp hollandaise sauce”. Worst. Recipe. Ever.
Have been priming a reboot of bfm this evening, mostly to please everyone's favourite child(but also me). /cc @cass@eads_cs.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs I think that is a joke, right? If not what are you suggesting, that we simply give up or ...
@chewy@eads_cs Well, offers of elucidation to people who think opinions are equally valid are almost by definition worthless.
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Interesting talk about a "kite mark" for science reports at BLiM. Obvious flaw being funding a body to do so.
@chewy@eads_cs Or try listening to a climate denialist. “Science is wrong. World got warmer before, science proved it!”
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Interesting talk about a "kite mark" for science reports at BLiM. Obvious flaw being funding a body to do so.
@chewy@eads_cs Obvious flaw is surely more likely to be people. Fex if people are hearing “MMR terror” today, reputable sources don’t help
I’m giving a talk on quickcheck-type solutions for imperative languages at LoFu ‘19. Drop in to whine about people needing “real FP”.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Indexing is really tight now, big thanks! Will you be about to take a look again when the stretch sets in?
@charoug@eads_cs Those cables are supposedly pre-stretched, so it shouldn’t be a problem. That said, yes… but SMS is best method now.
I’m on sabbatical from tomorrow, and largely out of reach. SMS → FOAF link → personal phone number → maybe email → shout at clouds.
@xander@eads_cs Post those toolbox articles to mastodon or at least an Atom feed somewhere. Really awesome, want to subscribe.
Checking yr.no for week’s cycling clothes choice, found omen instead. Wasn’t that how that 2004 palaeoclimatology documentary started?
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New year cycling experiment is broken. I don't like the dark nights without even a moon on commute. Back to roads or car?
@MissLB@eads_cs Thing is I really miss those; both new and full. Are you wearing appropriate lenses? Huge difference.
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Loving Endeavour, even if the "bad" coppers feel a little pantomime villainous. Slow but thoughtful, plodding yet melodic.
@MissLB@eads_cs Prime Suspect ‘73 was my fave origin story, but Endeavour sure is nice Sunday night decomp. Agree on rhythm.
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Peeps, who can set(or help set) my '08 Shimano indexing? Re-cabled, now stuck. Seems to catch half cogs on outer ring
@charoug@eads_cs A stand really helps, you can borrow mine. If it is rideable bring it GWR2 on Tuesday, and I’ll have a pop.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs @xander@eads_cs I thought you’d been saying no too 😠 You didn’t mention that when I asked about Paris
@ollie@eads_cs Thought you knew. In fact, I thought that was the exact conversation we had back in July.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Jeez, didn't know that. How come industry doesn't count? Had assumed you'd been saying no to that and {P,T}
@xander@eads_cs It doesn’t here either. Nope, would’ve gone to any in an instant & even looked at SR roles in 2016-12.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Disinterested parties? Unexpected kindness. Were you not offered Bremen? My heartfelt sympathies if not.
@blaze@eads_cs Can’t be offered, I obviously don’t meet the minimum 4Y masters requirement. Sadly, my final ERB project :/
Just finished my GGS probit. Not sure what management expected, presume it is “no change required; disinterested parties killed it”.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs ick, problem is one of our upstreams uses poetry via pendulum. I was just looking to package it. What next?
@pmitty@eads_cs Ping me on the PR and I’ll port it to something else. Note: I’m offering to do the work, we’ll fix it.
If you’re thinking about using Python’s poetry mod[hi, Paul!], be aware it breaks all reproducible builds and creates a packaging nightmare.
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People, how do you store chromium configs in home VC? It is just a horrific mess of JSON dumps with awful whitespace and sorting.
@chewy@eads_cs سلام, Becky. sqlite3 .dump and js -S . are your friends; use tools to recreate valuable hunks, and ignore rest.
Here, it is common to see lengths quoted at 20℃ … Is it localised in other climates? (Or how to search away my ignorance?)
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@JNRowe@eads_cs I get the point, but what is the alternative? We’ve proved we can’t do better, nobody pays for correct.
@mickey@eads_cs I see no alternative, wishful thinking won’t get us anywhere. In agreement; nihilism wins, we lose.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs I get the point, but what is the alternative? We’ve proved we can’t do better, nobody pays for correct.
@mickey@eads_cs I meant “still” in the “catching up with old problems” sense, but…
As someone who still has to fix rollover bugs(‘16 1-byte “fix”, GPS 10-bit in April) Y2038 felt distant, not now.
Catching a “Tea Peter” re-run tonight is a far different experience to its original airing in 2012, cf Jacob Workingman.
Making an attempt at /office-hours, we’ll see how it pans out. I encourage you to try the same.
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I’ve retired from our #aoc 2018 competition, who will steal my fourth place on our leaderboard?
TFW you embark on a new project. Distilled in to too many words. /cc co-workers what changes do you want to see?
#aoc 2018 is almost upon us :) Questioning whether to get up an hour early tomorrow, we'll see…
Very smart looking project hosting.
• AGPL-3.
• Fast and light.
• Works without javascript.
/cc @blaze@eads_cs
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… wherein the Charlie character(Florence Pugh) is great, and the others would be improved as puppets.
Timeline is full of people recommending “Little Drummer Girl”; iPlayer catchup of 1º ep reveals it is “Team America” as a period drama
@dev_b@eads_cs Remembering it is Diwali is not the same when Milly isn’t around to send me laddu. Hope you’re enjoying it nonetheless.
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And I guess bonus points for using set stal=0. Probably easy to get lost though.
So… there is a use for tabs in #vim. Mimic zoom in/out without plugin hackery. tabedit % in, then <C-w>c out.
GNU’s take on a CoC-alike is really quite interesting, and looks useful in general. Perhaps we should replace ours by a link?
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Text is good, but what does the tiling layout look like? Give a talk at hackday for us newbs?
@Kat@eads_cs Added an image, HTH. I’ve been thinking about an #awesomewm talk for a little while now, so maybe…
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@JNRowe@eads_cs DaveJ linked me to the CamTech network, and they push down to Hertford. All pre-screened recruiters.
@leon@gwr Thanks, that’ll help. Can’t believe how slimy some of the “top” companies seemed on a cold call.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs BAE Tony hooked up hubby, and sister-in-law with connects. Good people, knew env and area
@MissLB@eads_cs Ah, good call. For ref: OoB Mickey suggested the BTC meet up, and they got back to me immediately.
So, how do folks go about finding a good recruitment consultant? First time in fifteen years, and it looks full lemon.
Playing around with GitHub issue replies for @Nathan@eads_cs
Friend tells story of co-worker who explains everything in story form using ST:TNG’s amazing Darmok episode as a device… without ever seeing the loop. 🤯
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Oh, and I have guest tickets for the 11’up event if — like me — you want to visit the yard and haven’t been allowed in before. @ or mail me.
Prepping my talk for Space Saturday(yep, this Saturday). Realise I’m largely trying to decide whether to make bear jokes or political commentary.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Wow, that is what I'm talking about. Make. Tips. Great. Again.
@MissLB@eads_cs Really enjoyed churning it out actually; more so now I’ve seen Mickey’s golf. I’m at L440 on Tuesday, I’ll drop in for coffee prize!
@MissLB@eads_cs Posted “Vim with day/night colourschemes” especially for you, not promising I’ll bring back the frequent tips though
The instant gratification with pygal is huge. Truly beautiful output in a matter of minutes from popping open the docs. Just. Use. It.
Thought: If #vim performed a <C-g>u equivalent on typing [\.!?¿:;], the undo tree when writing prose would be vastly improved. Let’s see…
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I think "This Is America"-type shows have lost their edge, in part because populists are behaving equally ridiculous on News 24
@rafe@eads_cs So, at some point I’m going to realise you’re a character in my Truman Show and you’re helping me find the exit?
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Eddy looks disturbingly poised for action too. All in all, excellent tip jar gift. Thanks @mickey@eads_cs!
Reading “Modern Vim”. Absolutely fantastic, loads of ‘TIL’ moments even after literally decades of vim use.
Just finished watching The Handmaid’s Tale season 2; ☆☆☆☆☆. I… words have failed me
Work friend: ”It is nice that you’re learning Russian, not so much that I need to merge to мастер”
OH: You use the word “logic” in a way which, er… proves you don’t know what it means and is simultaneously utterly devoid of it
Stranger on train: “Mind if a eat this sandwich?” Me: “‘course not… assuming it isn’t tuna.” Other random passenger: “Sadly, people who eat tuna or egg don’t ask”
So was Microsoft Surface a really clever Bait & Switch? A search reveals people gushing over the table, and links to buy the tablet
Travelling to Mars seems cool, right? Maybe not; have to fix go code, and people won’t use :syntax on. #Missions has been fun though
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… and 0.13s by fixing my ~/build.ninja to prefer zcompile'ing whole directories instead of individual files
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Dropped my #zsh startup from 1.2s to 0.4s by just thinking about it. Well, that and noticing I was burning nearly a second on a spinlock
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Things I never thought I’d say: “Wonder if someone has reverse engineered Shimano’s new gear config system yet?” (Not on GitHub FWIW)
Love python f-strings… however, I just saw a lambda defined in one. Like finding a piece of mouse tail in your fourth pakora
Proof you work with strange nerds #0: Your favourite co-worker has added “<nav class='reclamantes'>” to your project’s documentation
TIL you can use #typescript to make #gnome shell extensions. Far, far nicer experience AFAIC.
TFW you realise it will be quicker to fix build failures for old emacs version than update your old configuration for new emacs version
Got myself on the #aoc leaderboard this morning(#91)… now back to sleep as its 5am 😪 http://adventofcode.com/2017/leaderboard/day/9
Just finished my 1º #guile #make extension… TIL none of our CI servers have #make with #guile support, and many devs have pre-GPL3 make.
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@JNRowe@eads_cs Time to posse that, or you'll stuffed when you leave.
@blaze@eads_cs Thanks for the nudge, couple of minutes in to a solution now.
#POSSE my #mastodon interactions (https://indieweb.org/POSSE)