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Recovering UK IP lawyer/Barrister. Now mostly geeking. Toot very little law.

likes: Cameras/coding/cars/singing/mead/electronics/Linux/Open Source/latin.

Foul mouthed: says fuck & cunt a lot: lector cave.

dislikes: Rights holders(MPA etc.)/identity politics toots/wokery/FOSS bores & Richard Stallman.

Politics: centre right with bits of lefty/voted Brexit (deal with it)

geek: #ML/#statistics/functional languages (#OCaml, #Idris, #Erlang)/p2p/#Macos/#Linux/#NNTP
Enthusiasm != competence

I'm finding the gameification of Duolingo increasingly irksome
@jef Miller got behind him on all fours, Bessent shoved him, and little X punched him in the eye. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.

Australia looks like selling our Jindalee over-the-horizon radar technology (JORN) to Canada, in a move that will likely upset Trump. The USA was originally going to be the customer, but Trump happened, so ...

The sale is worth $6 billion, on a roughly $1 billion investment cost, so not a bad return.

The UK might be sniffing around, too.

The news: https://youtu.be/jleRLW3LS8A

Background on the system: https://www.dst.defence.gov.au/innovation/jindalee-operational-radar-network

#Australia #Defence #Jindalee #JORN

Canada swoops in front of US to buy world-leading Australian radar technology | ABC NEWS

YouTube
@tersenurse @mattblaze The reviews are already filled with 1* reviews from certain customers disappointed to find out they confused Greenland with Norway, and that it wasn't assembled by Slartibartfast
@EricFielding @varmazis @munin thanks for the information. I will try to tell more plausible jokes here in the future.
@munin @mattblaze oh my god, I could totally believe that as the reason

filed under “Reddit comments that didn’t age well”

#crypto #cryptocurrency #Terra

Turns out that 90% of coding is debugging 3rd party libraries. #whatfun
Can I just say "stuff the foosyball tomorrow"? Thank you for subscribing to my newsletter.

Photographers often debate when a zoom lens is a preferable choice over a prime lens. I'm going to say this is solid evidence for the former position.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/07/09/elephants-tourist-trampled-to-death-spaniard-taking-photos/

Elephants trample tourist to death after he left car to take photos

Herd reacted to protect their young from perceived threat, wildlife experts suggest

The Telegraph