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I love SQLite but OMG the bugs from namespace pollution in Python
So I was doing an insert: Do you see the bug that caused a silent failure of the INSERT statement? Yep, that should be self.cursor.rowcount in the try block; there were zero diagnostics and zero exceptions and zero failures, just nothing being written to the database. Literally zero diagnostics, I just had to mess with…
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Argentina has just elected a radical libertarian lunatic as president; I’ve no idea how much real power this person has, but judging by this video Rishi Sunak should now be gearing up & hoping for Falklands2.0 whilst Argentina gets run into the ground
After all, as late PM James Callaghan put it, “I wish I’d had a war…” ChatGPT says:
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Assuming that #SamA goes back into #OpenAI, there is only one thing I am worried about
Basically: we will never hear the end of artificial intelligence doomers complaining that the company had gotten so close to self-immolation, and how it could have spared us from having to deal with all of this novelty and innovation – which is clearly the wrong thing to inflict upon humanity when the world is so…
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Family Television
1979: watching Life on Earth with my parents 2023: watching Planet Earth 3 with my family Still David Attenborough
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It’s not yet an addiction but eBay second-hand books are really really attractive
I could say in my “in my teens” but it’s more meaningful to say “30 to 40 years ago” there were few things I enjoyed more as a young nerd than finding a first- or secondhand bookshop and browsing it for several hours on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon; quite a lot of my library…
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We’re back where we were during Brexit, with hot-head know-nothing MPs and ministers insisting that they can write legislation to change global reality, without any recognition of the limitations of their power. They have confused legislation for daydreams and clauses for omnipotence.
https://iandunt.substack.com/p/rwanda-this-is-what-happens-next
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So now we get to see what happens when a world-leading startup decides to step back from the cutting edge
Last time somebody made a miscalculation(?) this big, Meta rapidly stepped into the breach. I wonder who it will be this time… https://www.threads.net/@carnage4life/post/CzxYbBkrFzy/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
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Apple will apparently adopt #RCS end-to-end #encryption in 2024 to solve various monopoly and user issues with respect to Android; we can’t tell if RCS is truly worthy of the description #EndToEndEncrypted
So this was published in The Verge: “Later next year, we will be adding support for RCS Universal Profile, the standard as currently published by the GSM Association,” an Apple spokesperson tells 9to5Mac. “We believe RCS Universal Profile will offer a better interoperability experience when compared to SMS or MMS. This will work alongside iMessage, which…
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I wanted to have kimchi on a hot dog for dinner but ran out so had to fake it with sriracha and sauerkraut…
Tell me I’m not the only person to have ever done this?