David Aldridge

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CTO at http://consonance.app
Living in Aberdeenshire
Publishing, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, AWS, Oracle ACE alumnus, three cats.

As I understand recent news, the US immigration authorities are going to use records of taxes paid to find people to deport.

This doesn't seem to be productive or beneficial to society, but I suppose that's not the point.

The internet of things is truly a wonder. 😝

#dishwasher #parody #iot

Telling Evri that they haven't collected a parcel from me ...
Today I had cause to use PostgreSQL as a calculator. It was convenient.
Because it's only 3 miles from BBC Broadcasting House?
How can you be that wrong about hippos?

Gosh, if only there were some kind of existing mechanism for restricting peoples rights to copy the work of others that all AI companies could respect so that others don't profit from their investment in creativity.

🤔

Alternatively, "AI bros who voted for leopards-eating-faces party never exepected leopards to eat their face".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9vm1m8wpr9o

OpenAI says Chinese rivals using its work for their AI apps

ChatGPT maker says it will need extra protection from US government, following emergence of Chinese rival, DeepSeek.

BBC News

If AI is so fucking brilliant at helping developers write better code faster, how come the western AI companies' systems need so much more hardware?

I'll answer my own question: because AI can only help you write tiny, well-defined functionality, and has no concept of the entire architecture of an application.

In the same sense that the word "Madrid" is a Spanish word that means "the capital city of Spain".

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Here is the newspaper announcement of Noah passing: https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/family-notices/death-notices/gibbs-h0011871-v1/

The livestream of the funeral, which will happen at 3pm London time on 14th January, is at: www.williamtfraserandson.co.uk/live-stream

GIBBS

Inverness Courier