π Five Cards - https://danq.me/2024/10/07/five-cards/
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Five Cards
It's a bit hard to perform close-up magic to an audience 40 metres deep, so I pre-recorded my favourite card trick! Then I talked over it, explaining to colleagues from my division why it's my favourite bit of slight-of-hand, and what great magic tricks haveβ¦
π Hurricane Milton - https://danq.me/2024/10/08/hurricane-milton/
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Hurricane Milton
From safely outside of its predicted path, just around the Yucatan coast, Hurricane Milton seems like a forboding and distant monster. A growing threat whose path will thankfully take it away, not towards, me. My heart goes out to the people on the otherβ¦
π Firsts and Lasts - https://danq.me/2024/10/14/firsts-and-lasts/
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Firsts and Lasts
I was listening to the bats flying silently above me while I watched the Perseids, the other month. When was the last time I was actually capable of hearing their echolocation? I simply can't remember, because it didn't feel significant at the time.
π Sick words - https://danq.me/2024/10/14/sick-words/
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Sick words
This evening I pushed against my illness-addled brain to try to sit in on the fortnightly Zoom call with the Three Rings dev team. Unfortunately it seems like the primary symptom of my cold is an inability to string words together. At one point, I apologisedβ¦
π eBay Balance - https://danq.me/2024/10/15/ebay-balance/
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eBay Balance
eBay UK have changed their terms to (a) remove seller fees for most private sellers, but (b) instead of paying-out immediately, payouts are four times a year (or on-demand) [ src: https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/selling/spendable-funds/ebay-balance?id=5305 ]β¦
π Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres - https://danq.me/2024/10/16/google-turns-to-nuclear-to-power-ai-data-centres/
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Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres
As Google invest in next-generation nuclear generation to provide electricity to their energy-hungry AI datacentres, so they can keep providing shit answers to everyday questions, I'm optimistic that maybe after the LLM fad fizzles out we'll be left withβ¦
π Facebook AI Training Opt-Out - https://danq.me/2024/10/16/facebook-ai-training-opt-out/
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Facebook AI Training Opt-Out
And while we're talking about AI. It took a disproportionate about of time to find the right (tiny) link, but eventually I managed to opt-out of my content being used to train Facebook's AI. They don't make it easy, do they?
π Zero - https://danq.me/2024/10/17/zero/
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Zero
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Owned PRs... one, but it's approved and just waiting for the right moment to merge That's got the be the first time in... literally years... that I've ended a workday so "clean". Feels amazing.β¦
π Fixing BBC News... Yet Again - https://danq.me/2024/10/19/fixing-bbc-news-yet-again/
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Fixing BBC News... Yet Again
@BBC_News_Labs@social.bbc continue to keep adding more and more non-news content to the BBC News RSS feed (like this ad for the iPlayer app!), so I've once again had to update my script ( https://danq.me/bbc-news-without-the-crap ) to "fix" the feed so thatβ¦
π Geohashing expedition 2024-10-22 51 -1 - https://danq.me/2024/10/22/geohash-2024-10-22-51-1/
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Geohashing expedition 2024-10-22 51 -1
My sabbatical might give me more time for geohashing, so long as the numbers come up right. So let's take an expedition up Harcourt Hill with the dog (plus video)...