@ut5

fad survivor. tweets are my own.

Joined April 2009
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because we’re here on earth to fart around
Brennan Schlagbaum, CPA
@Budgetdog_8 Mar 2024
It’s crazy to me people still don’t do grocery delivery in 2024. It’s like $5. Minimum wage is a higher dollar per hour.
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Oli Dugmore
@OliDugmore4 Oct 2023
Trainstopping

Trainstopping: Rishi Sunak cans HS2

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Britain is a dying nation in need of new curators | Stewart Lee theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Britain is a dying nation in need of new curators | Stewart Lee

The Tories’ scorched earth policy has wrecked our rivers, our NHS, our freedom of movement. Now even 6 Music is at risk

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Clippy@TheClippy5 Feb 2023
Liz Truss can make a comeback but I can’t? I was an Office Assistant for 50x the time she spent as the UK’s Prime Minister! And I’m 50x more useful, too.
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juan
@juanbuis7 Dec 2022
this is my world cup
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juan
@juanbuis6 Dec 2022
sorry i can’t come tonight, i’m watching the rock paper scissors simulator season finale
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I have to say, I was surprised by some of the things I learned writing this. For example, did you know ESB Networks quietly started monitoring every smart meter-connected house at 30 minute intervals in October? thegist.ie/the-gist-how-smar…

The Gist: How Smart Is Your Meter?

People are being told to switch to smart meters to save money. Except, something is up with the whole project. This is the Gist.

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PLEASE Don’t follow the advice of The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Rt Hon Theresa Coffey @theresecoffey Only use prescribed antibiotics Finish the course Don’t use left over antibiotics Never share with others (Share widely)
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Jonah ꙮ@jonahedwards9 Jul 2022
There's psychic debugging, and then there's this
screenshot of text reading: I once had a small fleet of SSDs fail because they had some uptime counters that overflowed after 4.5 years, and that somehow persistently wrecked some internal data structures. It turned them into little, unrecoverable bricks. It was not awesome seeing a bunch of servers go dark in just about the order we had originally powered them on. Not a fun day at all. You are never going to guess how long the HN SSDs were in the servers... never ever... OK... I'll tell you: 4.5years. I am not even kidding. Let me narrow my guess: They hit 4 years, 206 days and 16 hours . . . or 40,000 hours. And that they were sold by HP or Dell, and manufactured by SanDisk. Do I win a prize? (None of us win prizes on this one). These were made by SanDisk (SanDisk Optimus Lightning II) and the number of hours is between 39,984 and 40,032...

ALT screenshot of text reading: I once had a small fleet of SSDs fail because they had some uptime counters that overflowed after 4.5 years, and that somehow persistently wrecked some internal data structures. It turned them into little, unrecoverable bricks. It was not awesome seeing a bunch of servers go dark in just about the order we had originally powered them on. Not a fun day at all. You are never going to guess how long the HN SSDs were in the servers... never ever... OK... I'll tell you: 4.5years. I am not even kidding. Let me narrow my guess: They hit 4 years, 206 days and 16 hours . . . or 40,000 hours. And that they were sold by HP or Dell, and manufactured by SanDisk. Do I win a prize? (None of us win prizes on this one). These were made by SanDisk (SanDisk Optimus Lightning II) and the number of hours is between 39,984 and 40,032...

Lilly Tao@girlhacker9 Jul 2022
My husband correctly guessed what caused today's Hacker News failure. He'd experienced it before. news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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Susie Dent
@susie_dent6 Jul 2022
Word of the day is 'filipendulous' (19th century): hanging by a thread.
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UK should immediately ban use of live facial recognition, warns report ft.com/content/25303ee6-9605…

UK should immediately ban use of live facial recognition, warns report

Independent review found an ‘urgent need’ for new legislation on biometric technologies

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Please don’t boo. Pass it on. #BritishGP #F1
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Anon Opin.
@anon_opin18 Jun 2022
Any piece of music playback software incapable of sorting an artist by album release date should be prohibited. Who the fuck listens to albums alphabetically?
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Carol Fanning@carolbrady05 Jun 2022
Why #Pride is important #Pride2022 #PrideMonth 🌈
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Ben Kentish
@BenKentish17 May 2022
The Treasury stopped funding for Crossrail 2 just 18 months ago, saying it would “free up investment" elsewhere…
Sky News
@SkyNews17 May 2022
PM Boris Johnson says mass transit is "vital" for levelling-up as it means people can travel from where they live to "where they can have a good high-wage, high-skilled job", and adds 'we should be getting on with Crossrail 2'. trib.al/nbOrHLl 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube
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The F1 Debate Show@F1_ds1614 May 2022
Whenever I see Sam Ryder I just see Valtteri Bottas with long hair 😭 #F1 #Eurovision
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Help! Have you seen this bear? My daughter took her beloved bear (and originally mine so very old and precious to us) out with her last Saturday in Edinburgh around Eric Liddell centre/Holy Corner/@waitrose #Morningside area of Edinburgh. Reply or DM if you’ve seen him. Please RT
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Gary Robertson@BBCGaryR1 Mar 2022
Join us. We're looking for a passionate, insightful journalist to produce Good Morning Scotland, Lunchtime Live and Drivetime ⁦@BBCRadioScot⁩ & make the best radio around. More details here: Senior Journalist - Radio News | Jobs and careers with BBC careerssearch.bbc.co.uk/jobs…
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It's been eight years since @aaronsw took his own life. Aaron had been charged with 13 felonies under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (#CFAA) for violating the terms of service on the @JSTOR database of scholarly articles. 1/
A 2009 portrait of Aaron Swartz. Image: Sage Ross https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aaron_Swartz_2_at_Boston_Wikipedia_Meetup,_2009-08-18.jpg CC BY-SA: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

ALT A 2009 portrait of Aaron Swartz. Image: Sage Ross https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aaron_Swartz_2_at_Boston_Wikipedia_Meetup,_2009-08-18.jpg CC BY-SA: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

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Terminally ill people are treated worse than animals and Britain should legalise assisted dying as soon as possible, the Queen’s former physician has said thetimes.co.uk/article/dying…
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