Greg Turner (@gsta) profile picture

Code at Octopus Energy. PhD in Interactive Systems and Creativity. Erstwhile CEO/CTO. They/them, if you please. @gsta@mastodon.social

Melbourne, Victoria
Joined May 2008
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Why is it that Britain has a terrible reputation for food, yet nearly all international celebrity chefs are British?
0%They hoard the good stuff
0%Quirky Brits ≠ Yummy Food
50%They're not, but you are
50%Colonialism again
2 votes • Final results
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"If you gave him an enema, you could bury him in a matchbox" - Christopher Hitchens, still apposite today.
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Maybe Elon was misled by the name “private” jet. It should be called a “your privacy is important to us” jet.
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Hi! Union carpenter here. We would have gone on strike the first day of unilateral changes-by-CEO and ground the company to a halt until our negotiators had control of the situation. Hope that translates into clickity clacky for you, I know you laptop-class people have trouble
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Pauline Hanson experiencing the denial, anger, bargaining, arrogance, depression and intolerance stages of grief all at once
Conservative uproar as new evidence emerges of @TamePunk being rude to many more ministers than previously thought.
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With all these politicians getting taken down by nepotism, it's a relief to see that so many of their former classmates are so well-qualified to step into their shoes.
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Greg Turner retweeted
look do you want her to smile or not you shower of clowns
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Wordle 234 5/6 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 "A rainforest"
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WHAT'S THAT IN YOUR RIGHT HAND THEN
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It uses a list of 5-letter words sorted by usage frequency, which you may be vaguely interested to see here github.com/cogat/wordle-solv…
For those who are short of RAT tests, need to do many at once, and are expecting negative results: you could economise by combining the samples like they did for PCRs.
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You need an extra Q-tip :). If result is positive then you need to use possibly 2 more tests to narrow it down (or assume both positive), but if result is negative then that’s 1 test saved.
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Also I said “RAT test” everybody. It’s 9am in the morning so redundant grammar redundancy is still allowed.
Wordle 200 2/6 ⬛⬛🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I wrote my own solver tho
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Wordle 201 4/6 ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟩⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Own solver again
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Wordle 202 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟨🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 That was fun
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