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Also Seneca: “they say let’s go visit desolate lands - but why - for everyone always flees himself, but what good is it if he doesn’t escape.”
“There is no easy way from Earth to the stars” – Seneca 40 AD
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Ridiculous that programming languages bundle CA certificates.
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Christ was forward deployed by God the only difference is he said “It is done” and really believed it. But it wasn’t “done done”. Hmm. Maybe JC was a dev after all.
“Forward deployed engineer” My brother in christ, you sell b2b SaaS
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Imagine saving the unbaptised children and losing them all again in a bad merge.
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Great - an extra hour of you useless cunts.
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A new york Core i7 is an everywhere else Core i9
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one day you wrote console.log("here") for the last time and didn't even know it
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It seems clear that the decision has already been made within the bowels of the British establishment that direct conflict with Russia will take place. Now it's about frightening the public into supporting the idea, or at the very least accepting it as inevitable. This is the march to WWI redux, and as then so now, much of what passes for the left in Britain will go along to get along to become willing participants in the patriot game. And such is the parlous state of life for our young working class men on our housing estates and schemes -- looking out at a future of no future at all -- the generals, the arms manufacturers, and the Eton wankers will have no shortage of willing pawns in their game. Lambs to the slaughter. They need this war. They need it in order to maintain control over a system that has create far more problems than it could ever solve. Eduardo Galeano said it best: 'The marketplace of fear requires a steady supply of monsters.' Putin's Russia is the monster being used to scare us now, like children being red a bedtime story. Back then our parents would tell us that if we were bad, the bogeyman will come. Now our supposed leaders are telling us that it's the Russians who will come, unless we obey. Russia is the enemy 'without' being used to try maintain control 'within'. It's not Putin or Russia they truly fear, it is us. They can feel the winds of discord blowing in their faces, and now it's about turning that discord into war fever. They lied to us about Yugoslavia. They lied to us about Iraq. They lied to us about Libya. They lied to us about Syria. They are lying to us now about Russia. Siegfried Sassoon reminds us that war is 'The hell where youth and laughter go.' The fight of our lives is upon us to prevent them sending the youth of our time into the same hell as the youth of Sassoon's time was sent. Never again.
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you're going to accelerate whether you like it or not
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Has the political order been given to target Trident. Or are we still running with Geoff Hoon-era “reduced readiness to fire, measured in days, not hours” nonsense. All while poking a bear with a stick. Literally a stick. Since we have run out of ships, shells and bullets.
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Cyberattacks, huh? And you wonder why we are in this mess, ex defense secretary? 😂😂
Russia doesn't need to invade Britain to threaten Britain. When I warned in 2024 that we had entered a pre-war world, it wasn't simply about the prospect of tanks crossing European borders. Russia has developed ways to threaten our security without triggering a conventional military response. Cyberattacks, sabotage, disruption to energy supplies and attacks on critical infrastructure can all cause enormous damage without a shot being fired. Look at the numbers. Russia is spending over 7% of its GDP on defence. Its military expenditure has effectively trebled since 2021. Meanwhile, the number of nationally significant cyber incidents handled by Britain's National Cyber Security Centre rose from 89 to 204 in just one year. Not all were Russian, but the figures illustrate our growing vulnerability. Lord Peter Ricketts, Britain's former National Security Adviser and former head of the Foreign Office, is right to warn about the threat to our essential services. But here's the fundamental question: we spend a great deal of time debating whether Britain has enough missiles, aircraft, warships and troops to defend itself. And rightly so, because there are serious concerns about our military readiness. Yet are we devoting anything like the same attention to defending our electricity supplies, hospitals, banking systems, water networks and communications? The next attack on Britain may not look like the start of a war. It may look like an ordinary Monday morning when everything suddenly stops working.
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We've reached a point where half of modern developer tooling exists solely to solve performance and configuration problems introduced by other modern developer tooling.
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You actually may as well have those 10,000 Claude tests Literally no reason not to. It’s redundancy. And yes they test the actual code.
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Prepare for mobilisation but we are still a signatory to Mutual Detargetting. We are not a serious country. WW1 General mentality but British Army has 2 weeks ammunition so even that is a joke.
Army chief says politicians to start 'frank conversation' with public to prepare for war trib.al/tnbIX0Q
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Avoiding great power wars is meant to be the point of nuclear weapons. Oh, wait, UK actually doesn’t have any way of launching them. Explains it. Such bullshit the public should be furious treating us like Ukrainian cannon fodder.
Army chief says politicians to start 'frank conversation' with public to prepare for war trib.al/tnbIX0Q
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Hot take: “Vibe coding is only for small projects” is going to age terribly.
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openai researchers be like "i never learned how to talk to women. i was too poor, and then i was too rich"
OPENAI to EMPLOYEES: If someone is trying to seduce you, first consider — could they be a spy??? OpenAI is warning its employees about honeypot spies and strangers with children in playgrounds ... a very fun one with @georgia_wells and @MeghanBobrowsky: wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-companies…
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France built 42 nuclear power plants in the 1980s. 42!! What an insanely inspiring country this used to be.
France used to be Badass in the 70s.
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Calling Vibe Coding "slop" while having a career built entirely on copy pasting from Stack Overflow is peak irony.
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This is why banks require two weeks holiday so that unusual trading patterns are identified. Well that’s not why this company requires Claude — but will soon be. And it makes sense because AI code is not incentivized by anxiety about job security (be that out-right fraud or prospective backdoors).
I was catching up today with a friend living in the UK, who confirmed the pattern: “You need to be on your toes. At my company, one team had a quieter period(it happens in DevOps), and only 30% of their commits were ‘co-authored by Claude’, so management fired the entire team. All 9 people”😬 This is a multinational financial institution. Employees are *EXPLICITLY FORBIDDEN FROM WRITING CODE* themselves, under real threat of being fired.
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