Dr Stuart Woolley
@FractalDoctor
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Meritocratic software type; (e/acc) Singularitarian · Accelerationist Writes far too much on @Medium Worries more than is optimal Send 🧀 + 🍷
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Joined March 2017
Doctor Who, pre-woke. Bring it back. https://t.co/gXa5G9MteY
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Software Engineers who made grep, cat, cut, find, ls, less, and sed really cooked here. 50 years later and it’s still bread and butter of data analysis. And it still works better than most of bloated alternatives.
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When you take into account battery storage, and weather, solar isn't as cheap as is widely thought and subsidies cannot continue indefinitely. Solar is great, and I fully advocate for it, but it isn't a panacea and "calling it cheap is misleading". https://t.co/miVALGbfPm
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Management are annoying at the best of times, and incompetent pretty all of the time. But, their behaviour during the Christmas period, well, it has to be witnessed to be believed. Witnessed, preferably, from a distance. https://t.co/9HOQe7RIR3
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A field guide to management during the winter migration.
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What sprung to my mind was whether he was dressed as a chicken or an enormous cock. I guess it doesn't matter at this point.
Labour are postponing FOUR key mayoral elections until 2028. Keir Starmer is running scared. Let the people vote.
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Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage.
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This is silly by Elon. He thinks that just because we’ve criminalised speech, logged non-crime hate incidents, rolled out mass surveillance, expanded the Investigatory Powers Act, added facial recognition, censored the internet, eroded away jury trials, tried a bit of pre-crime
The UK is a police state
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It's so utterly depressing in Christmas markets, surrounded by concrete barriers, metal posts and hoardings, and looking over your shoulder every time you hear a loud noise or shout. This year, I'm just not bothering and am sticking to Wetherspoons, or a bottle of red at home.
🇩🇪 Nothing captures the spirit of Christmas in Germany like walking through a Christmas market in an armored vest.
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Much as I dislike Meta, you have to wonder if the EU has anything else to do besides investigate and legislate everything it sees. Why doesn't it go after Microsoft and the slop it's forcing on people in Windows 11, that at least would be fun to watch. https://t.co/ImWUmsxvCH
ft.com
Brussels concerned US tech giant’s business terms may prevent competition from third-party AI providers
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Sometimes you get caught up in solving a problem in your 9-5 day job, toiling away in the corporate dystopia. Unfortunately, you have to make sure someone notices, blow your own trumpet, and we all hate doing it. Free to read. https://t.co/VC9I6cDf62
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Sometimes you let yourself go, but must always make sure someone notices.
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One of the best reasons not to stay in the shower too long.
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The greatest Christmas number one there never was, right up there with get your black bin bags.
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Meetings are mostly soporific corporate theatre, but occasionally a manager will accidentally say something concrete - an actual decision, commitment, budget number, milestone, or headcount. It's up to you to make sure someone witnesses the event... https://t.co/d3lZjonHOt
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We all shovel that, err, sand from one place to another — but it’s worth noticing what might sometimes be buried within it.
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Genius. "The Your Party delegates, with their piercings, hair dye and wild staring eyes put me in mind of the citizens of Mega City 1 in Judge Dredd..." https://t.co/ISNZ8Hx6ST
spectator.co.uk
Kemi Badenoch has had some thoughts on the Labour party. When pressed by the Telegraph on who or what would come after Rachel Reeves in the terrible event of her being defenestrated, Kemi mused,...
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100% correct. What the EU excels at is self-sabotage through endless overbearing legislation, bureaucratic overreaching, and endless vacuous press releases. https://t.co/jvRoHV3d79
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It badly needs access to reliable fossil fuels from dependable allies like the US
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$MSTR marketing genius: "Let's try really hard to showcase our offerings without sounding like a pyramid scheme" "FUCK it's a triangle again"
You don't get it. It's not a pyramid scheme, it's a flipped spaceship scheme
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It can't go fast enough. Along with nuclear fusion, aggressive investment should be made into pursuing genuine AI. That's AI and not "AI", which the likes of Microsoft el al. intend on forcing into all of their products in the hunt for monetisation. https://t.co/SnoopvV2Rl
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In Silicon Valley, rival companies are spending trillions of dollars to reach a goal that could change humanity – or potentially destroy it
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This is surprisingly common and, I think, typifies the utter bullshit nature of work in general and how we fight back in little passive aggressive ways.
I like to put a plausibly-deniable typo in every external document I work on. I've just sent off a funding proposal with the word "sharted" instead of "shared" on p79.
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Should I Become A Manager? tl;dr No, of course not. Don't be ridiculous.
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On the seductive horror of becoming what we mock.
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