Coin operated Scala developer. Walthamstow resident and Norwegian in exile. Father of twins. Mostly tweets about software. Now at @JanStette@vivaldi.net

London, UK
Joined September 2011
The time has come, I'm going to drop off this site for now. I'll be at @JanStette@vivaldi.net
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One of our local schools is trying to get a Christmas #1 single to raise money to avoid having to make staff redundant: youtube.com/watch?v=yQoAEL-w…
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Please donate here if you can: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/barn-cro… Also, this country is ridiculous. How did it ever get to this??
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Replying to @Support
🤔 @elonmusk you were saying?
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no URLs. no usernames without the URL. no bypassing restrictions on URLs (like writing example dot com). no posting images with usernames in them. free speech!
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I once ran an online platform that grew to be used by hundreds of thousands of people. some of them chose to use it to mock and insult me endlessly. It’s pretty wild watching someone actually do the sort of petty revenge I would only joke about in my despair.
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Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's @drewharwell. Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.
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Jan Stette retweeted
@rmac18 also suspended- they really are purging the journalists
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Jan Stette retweeted
For the first time I’m actually considering just leaving twitter
Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell, who had previously tweeted about the bans on ElonJet and Mastodon, has now apparently also been suspended from Twitter??
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I am empathetic with my team. But I am simultaneously unequivocal about the quality I require.  There is a way to be both.
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Close enough, ship it!
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Unwelcome feature: notifications about Christmas presents I’ve bought appearing on my phone’s Lock Screen, with pictures…
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A thread on asking questions in math talks. This week I was at a 60th birthday conference, the first in-person conference I've been to since Covid that's more or less in my field, and I decided to do something radical: I decided to ask questions.
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How many GPUs does it take to run ChatGPT? And how expensive is it for OpenAI? Let’s find out! 🧵🤑
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What a deal on this humblebundle! Get my book plus 18 others for a steal. In fact, I just bought it myself so I can learn about Kotlin, Elm, Clojure and more :) Please pay a bit more than the minimum -- the extra goes to a charity. humblebundle.com/books/funct…
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Jan Stette retweeted
I asked ChatGPT to take a 62-part political compass test. here's the result.
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Asking the right questions is an underrated software engineering skill in any case.
An important skill of programming is quickly becoming how good you are at prompting the AI.
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Step 1: Make a Chrome extension that promises to show you the "real" ChatGPT. Step 2: Have the Chrome-extension pre-fill this prompt every time the user opens ChatGPT. Step 3: Bad things happen
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