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With duchamgpt-v2.3 you can generate as many images of banana and banana-esq items affixed to surfaces as you can imagine, or, rather, not imagine.

So much of the media we consume has been focus-grouped, sanded down, moderated, de-fanged and otherwise diluted into bland corporate mush that it makes sense that we'd want to be a…

My wife's floristry business has been blocked from being able to access facebook advertising and permanently restricted in how she is able to interact with her customers in part be…

I'll stick my head above the parapet and say that as a content consumer I really like Instagram and it genuinely is my favourite social media platform. I'm probably an atypical use…

Facebook was doing this for a while on business pages, but it looks like they've backed out of it now. Around 2 years ago you were only permitted to see content 'above the fold'. S…

That series has always been a joy to read. Whenever I want to know what the established wisdom in making a classic dish are I'll check to see whether she's covered it first and use…

It never seemed important to the CEO of a previous company I worked for that we had something to say, only that we gave off the impression that we had something to say. We hired an…

Yes, you're out of touch. Access to the internet is seen as a luxury when you're relying on charitable donations to put food on the table.

This isn't totally related to infrastructure but figuring out what you should build, from what you could build is something I've struggled with as I've moved about the engineering …

I've not encountered this format before, it looks really interesting, certainly much more human friendly than JSON. Thanks for sharing.

The story I've heard a few times is that students who are expected to perform poorly in their GCSE's or A-Levels get expelled for minor behavioural infractions prior to their final…

Seems fine to me. As this has been encouraged but not mandated by your organisation it seems pretty benign. From what I understand about this sort of initiative it's about creating…

I found the Planet Money episode Big Rigged surprisingly moving. It covered the business model of American trucking company Prime through the story of Kimberly. It was the all too …

I enjoyed playing around with this and I got real value out of it as a discovery tool when I filtered to showing aclaimed fiction. I know its survivor bias, but I dont want to wast…

Fair point, overwhelmingly white was poorly chosen - should have left it as problem with diversity.

If it helps normalise the removal of problematic terminology in tech then this feels like a positive thing. Software development has a troubling history of being an overwhelmingly …

Ignoring the bad faith questioning, I dont have to provide a gold standard in order to criticise Amazon. Everything I've said is extremely well documented.

Amazon is a great evil. It will not be remembered as a company that has had been a positive influence on the world but as a company that has treated its employees (both hourly and …

Planet money ran a typically excellent episode on why the Dow is a terrible mechanism for measuring the health of the economy. About the only redeeming feature it had was the lengt…

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A couple of years ago I was about to become redundant and blanket uploaded my CV onto a number of job boards, including Monster.co.uk. I quickly found a role by applying to a compa…

I just successfully changed it, but it was a janky experience. Until I added an account to the mail app, the preference used to change the default email reader remained greyed out …

Also try clicking a mailto link. I'm sure that about once a day I see the dialog asking me to add an account into the default mail app. Basic integrations between MS Office apps al…

I read this as "If you need to use stack overflow then you're not a real programmer. " Was that your intention?