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simian60.bsky.social
Just opened the dishwasher after a few days away in the deep southwest.
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In a pub in the arse end of Truro. Just outside is a man desperately trying to smoke in between bouts of gut wrenching coughing and hacking. Inside two more men are loudly discussing the benefits of custard on various desserts. And a bar maid is being chatted up by a lad lying about his GCSEs.
simian60.bsky.social
Thought my hotel room was unnecessarily cold.

This is about 2 meters above my head.

Thankfully it's motorised.
simian60.bsky.social
God that thing is unbearable. Do people really want that kind of sickly affirmation? Or is this just a bit of American culture that doesn't translate?
simian60.bsky.social
You just need to zoom in a bit:
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maps.app.goo.gl/synfybyfHg3D...

I get updates on the views of my 1* review of the Red Cross museum.

The large number of 5* reviews always reminds me of the 'Art' episode of Spaced: "No, we did valuable work."
maps.app.goo.gl
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Obviously the main problem is that anything bolted to the brickwork will come off with a couple of blows from a lump hammer...

...but the mechanical wheel / button locks all use the same mechanisms that you can unlock without the codes about as quickly as you can with them with a little skill.
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Most of them are so shoddily made that you can non-destructively open them without the code in 30 seconds.

So best to check they don't invalidate your home insurance first.
simian60.bsky.social
The synagogue attack was under 'Manchester', and the mosque attack is in 'Sussex' because that's how the BBC news website works. Both are currently in "Top UK news" - the front page, but as nobody died the latter story will drift off the front page quickly.
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Yeah, I don't think any of her albums have reached the top 100 in sales but it's probably not the right metric these days.

On the other hand there's no real distinction between a band and a solo artist. Hardly any albums are the work of just one person.
simian60.bsky.social
As long as live albums count...
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Back in for ShitKid though. Not completely lacking in musical taste.
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The dog has gone to sleep in the kitchen rather than listen to 酩酊麻痺... More of a Taylor Swift fan I expect.
simian60.bsky.social
What on earth is it doing?
simian60.bsky.social
91 GB and 12% progress for half an hour now. Not sure MTuner is the tool for the job...
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All I want to know is what's allocating all the memory. Surely a few hundred stack traces and some bucketed allocation counts can't be that difficult?
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An internal build tool is somehow using 7.5GB for a task that should take a couple of hundred MB.

VS performance profiler: used all 261GB of free disk space, failed.

MTuner: crashed PC.

A rewrite of the suspect module and we're 'only' using 3.5GB.

VSpp: same
MTuner: currently running at 91GB...
simian60.bsky.social
SWT often remind me of that bit in the hitchhiker's guide where the passengers are indefinitely delayed by the absence of lemon scented napkins.
simian60.bsky.social
Sad techie that I am I wrote a wordle solver that used the list of possible & used so far words and a maximal reduction algorithm to work out the best starter word on a given day, and the best 2nd choice, etc.

It averaged 3 guesses.

Obs I then completely lost interest in the now solved problem.
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My experience of people doing this is that they're simply believing what they are being told, and that it is the social norm. It's not radical if it's what everyone else thinks. They might start out a bit... legitimate concerns... but it's mostly misplaced trust in sources.
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Two new problems in interviewing:

1. CVs that look like they're generated by ChatGTP. Gave them benefit of doubt at first but straight in the bin from now on.

2. People not turning up. Used to happen a bit, now happening a lot.
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"more than enough bedrooms to go around" is amazing.

The Green Party should put that on the cover of their next manifesto.