Tristan Colgate-McFarlane

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IT worker (Unix, k8s, Go), but here for art (cartoon, poltiical cartoons, animation, photography).
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No shade on Burnham , but it feels horribly likely he's going to lose this by-election, and simultaneously hand the Manchester mayoralty to someone else too. I know few people care for Labour at present, but putting yourself in Labour's shoes... all of this is a fucking stupid idea.

#UKpol

Seals On 35mm Film: Sleepy seals

📷 Zenit-E 🔎 Prinzflex 135mm
🎞️ #AgfaAPX400 #35mm

Donna Nook, Lincolnshire

#Wildlife #DonnaNook #FilmPhotography #Seals #Photography

Welcome to the club. This is every job in tech now besides CEO.
The moment I get a whiff that an email has been written by an LLM I am instantly disinclined to answer it. Presumably I'm not the only one. Why write if no one wrote to you. Why read it if no one wrote it. Why reply if no one is going to read it?
There an element where this is probably just my own bias, but I can't help but feel there might also be something innately human in that reaction.

I mentioned before that I really like this photo, but didn't know why. I decided to post it for critique in a few places (mentioning my own confusion). I got some really nice feedback. Definitely going to try printing it at some point.

#BelieveInFilm

Every AI Bro: We are here to save humanity. We will start by making electricity, water, and electronics more expensive in order to build a machine to put you out of a job. You may begin showering us with gratitude now.

RE: https://toot.community/@tmcfarlane/116567935993059335

Still remains one of the greatest achievements of my life.

@robpike From The Practice of Programming to the Byte Order Fallacy, I have been sharing your writing with junior developers as I mentor them.

Lately I've been dealing with juniors that don't like to read, and I'm worried.

Last year, as I was getting close to retirement I was joking about being called back in to unf&$k systems that have been written or updated by AI - but now Im not sure I want to anymore.

Brit here, how are American's paying 25% less than me for a roll of HP+, when I live less than 20 miles from the factory!

Honestly, I don't think switching PMs makes sense. No one else being in office is going to do anything to sort out issues that are mostly global. It's just going to be even more instability, and then more f'ing clamour and then some how labour will flop into a general election and it'll all start again. Nothing will change because this is all largely about two wars we aren't in.
That said, Jess Phillips resignation probably makes it inevitable. People actually know of her.

#ukpol