Florian Haas

@xahteiwi
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Humanism, open source, some music, art, and nonsense.

Account is locked; a significant fraction of what I post is followers-only. Got a blank or nonsensical avatar, no visible activity, no pointers to your identity? I'll ignore your follow request. I might choose not to accept it for other reasons, too. ๐Ÿ™‚

Sometimes I ask questions here. When I do, I would ask you to please reply with your own thoughts, not an LLM's.

Trรถts auf Deutsch derzeit unter @xahteiwi.

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Pronounshe/him
Native pronunciation[flo:สian ha:s]
Web sitehttps://xahteiwi.eu

Feel free to read up on the history of the ISO 9000 series if you don't believe me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9000_family

ISO 9000 family - Wikipedia

Imagine someone rewrote the Kama Sutra three times, and the final accepted version covered only masturbation.

Then you'd have a good understanding of the evolution of ISO 9001.

I wish I was joking.

Pet peeve: ignoring a non-breaking space, and breaking a line anyway.

Yes, of course it's the vendor with the ass in the middle.

Can someone who happens to know tell me if any part of Google Edu contains any remnants of what used to be the Apache-licensed Google Course Builder (released c. 2012)?

(Boosts for reach appreciated.)

After the apocalypse, some historian will write that "move fast and break things" precipitated the downfall of human civilisation.
If you speak of "AI teaching assistants", ask yourself: AITA?
Yes I do understand that there's confirmation bias involved in things one considers to have turned out right. I accept that this might influence your answer.

Serious question, if a little philosophical.

If you look back at big personal decisions you've made in your life that turned out right in retrospect, what's an accurate way to describe most of them?

A โ€” I made them quickly.
B โ€” I mulled over them for some time, and modified my thoughts, so what I eventually decided was better than my initial hunch.
C โ€” I spent a long time thinking about them, but in the end I went with something that largely matched my initial hunch.

Boosts appreciated!

A
32.4%
B
21.1%
C
46.5%
Poll ended at .

It looks like Joe is introducing a new generation to Rory Gallagher's music and there is nothing, I repeat NOTHING, wrong with that.

https://youtu.be/vp9cRofCP4Y

Joe Bonamassa - "Walk On Hot Coals" - The Spirit of Rory Live From Cork

YouTube
This week's flavour: salty.