Jim @sullybiker@sully.site
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The worst thing to come out of the pandemic were the always-on remote working toolchains, and the expectation that you never stop working.
A lot of rain this afternoon. We need it.
It reminds me of that scene in Smokey and the Bandit 2 where someone keeps saying no while being handed more and more money, until they say yes.
@mntmn The internet has created this idea where you have to google everything, but I know with the reform that whatever it is, it's almost certainly in the handbook.
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By 2026 Covid policy is going to be “Smell this Tabasco and if you can’t you can go home half an our early as long as you work through lunch”, and you pay for the Tabasco.
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Today in 1921, 103 years ago: in Paris, the Conference of Allied Countries establishes that Germany must pay as war compensation 226 billion marks in 42 annuities (until 1963) .1924: in Russia, Petrograd -formerly St. Petersburg- is baptized Leningrad.
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Get Ready for the Great #AI #Disappointment
https://www.wired.com/story/get-ready-for-the-great-ai-disappointment/
“Some people will start recognizing that it was always a pipe #dream to reach anything resembling #complex #human #cognition on the basis of #predicting words.”
@mntmn Every time I have to use the reform manual (needed to look up some battery compatibility) I realize what a great job you all did with the documentation. It is some of the best I've seen and the renderings are superb.
These airline CEOs shitting all over Boeing may have a point, but they are ignoring the fact that they pressured Boeing for years to deliver airplanes at minimal cost.
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"The Czech state administration will stop providing its services over IPv4 on 6 June 2032" 👍👍👍
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Just as i was falling asleep i thought of what seemed like a really good idea for a post and when i woke up i racked my brains until i finally remembered it. However I am grieved to announce that the thing i was trying to remember is the phrase “Captain Corelli’s Pangolin”
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Very annoying that the total solar eclipse will come a couple months before the 221-year double cicada brood emergence in blatant violation of biblical plague order
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Today in 1910, 114 years ago: in the Iranian province of Luristan, an earthquake killed more than 5,000 people.
My son saw the pictures of the new shuttle exhibit, where the Orbiter will be mated vertically to its stack in the original launch configuration. He did not read the article and ran into tell me it was flying again. I wish I could bottle that enthusiasm.
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Today in 1998, 26 years ago: Space Shuttle program: space shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-89 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
Today will see the first temperatures above freezing in over a week.
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