Bradalot “

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Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like bananas.
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Tech Project Therapist (moderately retired).
"He has a keen appreciation for kitsch."

Disclaimers:

Boosts ≠ endorsement.
Toots ≠ truths.

ProTip: All the cool content is in the Alt Text.

Risk Up Front - Managing Projects…https://www.amazon.com/dp/1544510861
Lupita Nyong'o Will Play Helen Of Troy In ‘The Odyssey’ — And Elon Musk’s Reaction Was Exactly What You’d Expect

The tech billionaire doubled down on his criticism of Christopher Nolan’s star-studded film adaptation.

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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

— Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

Despite the law bearing his name, Goodhart didn't actually say "once a measure becomes a target it stops being a useful measure." What he said was that "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes", and the part of that that we don't talk about nearly enough is "for control purposes"; the implied question that's quietly (and conveniently, I think) elided in the simplified rephrase is "control of what, by who, and to what end."

TIL: If I set Firefox config setting privacy.resistFingerprinting to True (it is False by default), then many web sites (hello 🦋) that allow me to upload images and immediately show thumbnails will fail.

Probably blocking canvas read, I guess.

But doesn't it feel like security risk to generate thumbnails on the client rather than on the server? Smells like XSS.

TikTok - Make Your Day

https://cementiris.ajuntament.barcelona.cat/ca/actualitat/nit-dels-museus

"La Col·lecció de Carrosses Fúnebres serà present amb una exposició molt original titulada “L’Últim Viatge: Llegat dels rituals de comiat”. Una crònica cultural a través de les figures de Playmobil. No us la perdeu!"

Figures de Playmobil!

#Barcelona #NitDelsMuseus

NIT DELS MUSEUS | Cementiris de Barcelona CBSA

"Ask a silly question [to AI]..."

No — it's a coincidence. Benjamin Franklin's surname comes from Middle English "frank(e)" meaning a free landowner or someone of frank status, from Old French/Frankish franc. The verb "to frank" (make postage free) and the adjective "frank" share the same root, but Franklin's name isn't the reason the postal term exists. Franklin was appointed the first U.S. Postmaster General (1775) and did advocate postal reforms, but the postal meaning of "frank" already existed in English before him.

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In this household, we care about inflation.

Q: What's purple and commutes?

A: An abelian grape.