I find it incredibly funny that someone had to fill in a form confirming that the light switches and plug sockets are included in the sale of my flat. Does anyone ever tick the no box on that?
@saraislet it’s ok, because they’re projected to only be a fraction of the emissions from business travel. (Which according to their own website makes up 68% of all Carbon emissions by PwC)
Was reminded today that Bonzi Buddy was derided as spyware two decades ago for doing considerably less than the telemetry in virtually every modern application.
The fact that Microsoft Teams 🤮 contains a feature called "Teams" where actual teams can create a Team, and at Microsoft the teams working on that feature probably have a Team to discuss the Teams feature, suggests that there exists a Microsoft Microsoft Teams Teams Teams' Microsoft Teams Team.
@herdingdata because we all carry tricorders in our pockets that function as communicators as well.
Slightly sad at the stream of notifications I’m getting from Apple Health telling me, more or less, I’m not longer at EMF. Calories burned down, steps walked down, hours standing down, hours slept up.
@jonathanmatthews this is kind of my job now, so I have an entire spreadsheet of these things from recent research. Do you care about CPU architecture, how many network interfaces do you want, and do you want mPCIe storage or onboard eMMC?
I’m mostly running balenaOS because they’re single purpose appliances rather than general purpose servers, but they’ll basically all run whatever distro you like.
@fesshole I’d probably attempt to cook them like meat balls, seeing as how they’re, well, meat balls.
Went to the pub last night and only quite late did I remember I’d promised the boy we’d go to the fun fair. I’m pleased to report that while it was touch and go I managed not to throw up on any of the very spinny rides.
@rachel it’s important to have aspirations in life. (I can’t do more than 1.3)
Google: "You can now track sustainability in our cloud dashboards."
Also Google: "You should query those dashboards via GenAI."
@pikesley MFA fantasy is when the only method available is SMS right?
I've created a basic app for searching an aerial photo using text queries. That's right, you can search for "roundabout" or "school playground" on an image of a city and get pretty good results!
Have a play with it here: https://server1.rtwilson.com/aerial - it's set up with an aerial image of Southampton, UK
Under the hood this uses the SkyCLIP model and the Pinecone vector database.
#geospatial #ai #vector #ml #embedding #gis #remotesensing #aerial #python
@gsuberland it drives me mad. Your metrics are not my concern, and I’m definitely not subscribing to your channel before I’ve actually seen something you produce.
I am of course not willing enough to bet on that not to get up early. That would guarantee an 8:20 arrival, and answering the door to a surveyor in nothing but my boxers, which isn’t a thing anyone should have inflicted on them that early in the day.
I’ve got an appointment with someone to come look at my flat tomorrow, which has been automatically scheduled for 8:20-9:20am tomorrow. There should be a law against scheduling things before 9:30am. Also willing to bet I’ll get up early to make sure I’m ready and they’ll show up at 9:20, when I’d have been up anyway.
@herdingdata yeah, I have similar issues. My reminders app is full of recurring daily (sometimes multiple times daily) reminders which I’ve become blind to. I’ll just tap away the notification before processing it.
@herdingdata this is great, I want to set one up and have it send me notifications of regular tasks which I’d then be able to put on a big spike like a kitchen.
How many professional programmers are working on pointless and/or actively harmful products?
Give me your best guess.
(If you vote, please boost to diversify the results. It’s polite.)
Options: (choose one)
@alice_watson more relevantly “it was determined certain technologies” is a masterpiece in passive writing. It was the technologies, we had nothing to do with this.