@bmwhocking

Happiest Outdoors, Whitewater, Climbing, Gliding • Occasionally political, dislike accepting inequality as part of life • he/him

 New Zealand
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Joined February 2010
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#Laniakea our home #supercluster. Alwayse good to know the name of the place you live #space #astronomy #science youtu.be/rENyyRwxpHo

Laniakea: Our home supercluster

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Poor PHP, long live PHP technical debt.
HSVSphere
@HSVSphereOct 21
The most battle tested, widely used and hype-free web solution, the one that you totally should not move off of because being widely used and [...] obviously means its secure and well architected, is going to be exploited extremely widely in an hour :P
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Tweet of the year.
F. Andy Seidl
@faseidlOct 18
Ukraine is moving Russian data to the cloud.
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Voter suppression may just win National the election. Make sure your friends are registered to vote.
henry cooke@henrycookeOct 19
There are just six days left to enrol, but we are about 130k behind where final enrolment got to last time - when people could still enrol all the way through election day. It is becoming very hard to see this gap really closing in such a short time.
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Going to be really hard for the anti AI crowd to argue with this. Both from a technical & social perspective Linus lays down a good argument. Be interesting to see how many in the open source community disagree with this.
The Lunduke Journal
@LundukeJournalOct 15
Linus Torvalds says, rules prohibiting AI usage are “UTTERLY STUPID” and “idiotic”. For the Linux kernel, Torvalds says, “we’re not going to make stupid rules that say ‘you can’t use tools for X’”.
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Peak Twitter, a Ukrainian drone manufacturer trolling Russian internet executives after blowing up their data centers? I here @FirePointUA offer extended guarantees of downtime. Just provide latitude and longitude.
Fire Point
@FirePointUAOct 11
Replying to @yandex
Dima, have you tried turning it off and on again?
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This data-centre blowing up has made the online world a far happier place.
Rumpelstilzken@stay_wokenessOct 11
Faszinierende Technologie: Die Ukraine migriert russische Bots in die Cloud.
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Phone 5%, car 20%.
Raven
@ravenunrealOct 11
At what battery percentage do you start panicking and searching for a charger?
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It will be interesting to see how the luxury Saloon market adapts. Will it sell or are we going to be stuck with SUV’s at all levels of the market for the next decade or two.
carwow
@carwowukOct 7
REVEALED: Jaguar Type 01! Jaguar has finally unveiled the long-awaited, highly anticipated Type 01! Here’s what you need to know… 🔥 A tri-motor setup puts out 1,030 hp & 1,365 Nm!! ⚡️ 0-62 mph in 3.2s! 🔋 Up to 450 miles range! 🤯 24-inch OLED touch-sensitive digital drivers display! 💵 Expected to cost around £120,000! 📅 Goes on sale in 2027! So, was the Jaguar Type 01 worth the wait? 🤔 Read more: bit.ly/-Jaguar-Type-01-Revea…
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Really don’t get why the EU commission didn’t just use wire.com. End to end encrypted business comms messaging platform. Developed and hosted in Switzerland, with self hosting options for enterprise / govt.

Wire | Secure Messenger for Organizations (End-to-End Encrypted)

Collaborate without compromise with Wire, the trusted platform for millions worldwide. Stay in control with end-to-end encryption that's invisible, flexible collaboration, and intuitive user interf...

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POLITICOEurope
@POLITICOEuropeOct 1
The European Commission has rolled out an alternative to Microsoft Teams. But officials using it aren't impressed, with one describing the tool as “absolute shit.” vist.ly/5kje9

‘Absolute s–t’: EU’s Microsoft Teams alternative draws bad reviews from officials

The U.S. would “instantly” win a hypothetical tech war, an official moaned.

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I have a feeling we will move towards country’s having quotas of methane in the atmosphere at any single time. Almost no nation includes agricultural methane in their emissions controls atm. The EU has no plans to. Granted NZ’s LNG terminal is a really dumb idea.
Matthew Withy@MatthewWithySep 30
Ok I had to chuckle at the inclusion of a planned LNG import facility on that list.
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Another clue. List seats are allocated by the Saints-Laguë iterative formula. Not by adding % together. SL is an updated version of the Jefferson / D’Hondt method (yes that Jefferson). D’hondt favours larger parties & works better with 2 parties. SL is basically size neutral.
Ben Hocking@bmwhockingSep 28
The whole playing games with MMP thing demonstrates why several generations of kiwis are terrible at maths. If you want a national govt, party vote national. If you want a Labour govt; party vote labours Greens govt, party vote green.
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Our royal commission into voting systems picked the Sainte-Laguë method because it produces the most proportional results relative to votes. It also is a very very difficult iterative formula to game, unlike the D’Hondt / Jefferson formula.
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The whole playing games with MMP thing demonstrates why several generations of kiwis are terrible at maths. If you want a national govt, party vote national. If you want a Labour govt; party vote labours Greens govt, party vote green.
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I really hope we don’t do this in NZ. So many reasons a home may be empty. If any govt wants more affordable housing, build more state houses. Lots of vacant land lots they can purchase and build. That will drive down rent. Policy’s like this add uncertainty, not solutions.
Matthew Pennycook MP
@mtpennycookSep 27
It’s not a silver bullet but bringing more empty homes back into use can help solve the housing crisis. Today, we’re announcing strengthened powers for councils to take control of long-term empty homes and use them to house families in need.
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Best investment any govt can make is in education. In terms of taxation, we get far more back from young educated taxpayers than we pay in. Incentivising more educated kiwis to stay in NZ is a good thing for NZ’s long term outlook.
henry cooke@henrycookeSep 27
NEW: Labour announced it would write off 10% of the value of student loans for students who stay in NZ for at least three years (and didn't benefit from fees-free). If loans are less than $2k in value they would be written off. Party says it will cost $583m.
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Love it when CEO’s come out with total bullshit to try keep their share price high. Pretty sure knowing basic arithmetic & the order of operations (BEDMAS) will still be required.
Polymarket
@PolymarketSep 25
JUST IN: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declares children won't need to learn basic math skills in the AI era.
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Currently debugging an issue in a C code base. Really makes me appreciate Rust’s syntax & the Rust compiler. Even with AI assistance this cleanup job is painful. The further I go; the more memory leaks & hastily built functions I find. Sadly can’t rewrite the project to rust.
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These fake news articles, generated by AI & paid to boost are dangerous. Can easily see how someone could think it was an actual news article about an actual event.
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Ponsonby if we dumped special character areas.
Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
@UrbanCourtyardSep 20
new American superblock. One parking garage per block shared by residents who want to pay for parking. Interior streets are pedestrianized Courtyards provide protected yard space in the middle of dense, amenity-rich neighborhoods
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KDE bringing out a fight club policy is fantastic. The first rule of LLM usage is you don’t talk about LLM usage.
The Lunduke Journal
@LundukeJournalSep 20
KDE is working on an official AI / LLM policy, and it reads like the rules of Fight Club. In short, KDE’s AI policy: 1) Encourages using AI, as long as a human is kept “in the loop”. 2) But you can’t tell anyone that you used AI. “Don’t disclose LLM usage”. “Don’t add ‘Assisted-by: [some LLM]” (as is done in the Linux kernel). “Nobody in KDE should know if you use an LLM”. In other words: “Welcome to developing KDE with AI. The first rule of developing KDE with AI is: you do not talk about developing KDE with AI.” invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma…
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Love the bit about requiring people to take responsibility for their code and not use “the AI wrote it” as a reason for any issues.
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