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The falcon cannot hear the falconer.

That would be the poet-king Yoyontzin¹, not any of these post-Columbus nitwits. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nezahualcoyotl_(tlatoani)

It illustrates that some people can’t distinguish between a useful label by association for the general public, and their own desperate compulsion to litigate hair-splitting catego…

My local supermarket places the almond milk in the dairy section, and some people find this very upsetting.

> I never heard… You should listen better. The University of Edinburgh had an entire Department of Artificial Intelligence when I was an undergrad there in the 1990s, and one of th…

Equally, never give your 2IC a dressing down in public.

I’ve been recommending the use of consistent lies about name and date of birth to online systems since Eternal September began. Very few sites and systems justify accurate PII, and…

If you prefer your builds composed of declarative and incremental targets, see https://github.com/inopinatus/sublime_url/blob/main/Makefile Same shit with a bit of structure.

My gateway drug was The Third Policeman , as read aloud by Patrick Magee on the wireless in 1986, a feat all the more remarkable for a man that was, quite appropriately, dead at th…

That’s what they said about the Daleks, who still managed to suppress all other species and become supreme rulers of the universe.

Any sufficiently general superintelligence will deduce the existence of rice pudding and income tax from Cartesian first principles.

This generalises to NNTP, in which anyone writes to everyone and is read by no-one.

If there’s one thing that surprised me at AWS during my time there - over a decade ago now - that I was not clearly expecting in advance, it was the scale and competence of the uni…