Aaron

If your brain is moved to another body, isn't that a body transplant instead of a brain transplant?

Who needs a reference manager when you have a "bigbib.bib" with thousands of lines?

One of the biggest advancements in LLMs was rebranding lying as hallucinating.

Picture of the pink part of the northern lights, using a park map sign to shelter from the streetlights. Some tree branches are also visible, adorning the border of the photograph.

Tried my best from here in Wrocław. This was taken near Park Szczytnicki.

There's currently a Cloudflare outage. That means OpenAI is unreachable. Vibe coders must be in absolute shambles right now.

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.

Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.

If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

I hate how most operating systems assume they are installed on laptops these days. I had my PC running a 21 hour transfer overnight. It went into hibernate after 45 minutes to "save battery power."

Another day, another horrible Android UI update.

I can't figure out if companies misusing memes in advertisements is out of touch or a legitimate marketing strategy.

Why don't people understand that air conditioning doesn't work when the windows are open? This bus has air conditioning, but all the windows are open, so it doesn't matter.

Just stripped down and cleaned my mouse, and pulled all the keys from and cleaned my keyboard. They feel so good to use now. ☺️

I finished the Polish course on Duolingo. It only goes up to A2. I've become so disillusioned with the app that now, after a 1414 day streak, I'm going to let the streak break and uninstall it.

There is no Epstein list and there is no war in Ba Sing Se.

To be honest, I didn't know TRACE was still in orbit. It was before my time in Solar Physics. I've seen some of the images, and they're pretty incredible.

Other than Windows, I think VSCode is the best thing Microsoft has ever put out. This comes from a guy that used to use Emacs.

Krispy Kreme donuts with "RASTI" iced on them.

RASTI donuts are very TASTI #NAM2025

Just got Rick Roll'd at the National Astronomy Meeting reception #NAM2025

Good luck to all my colleagues flying from Edinburgh to London for Hinode/IRIS. The Royal Highland show is on.

The home page of a website should be a log in page, not an account creation page. Looking at you, Overleaf.

My Pyrex measuring cup just shattered. I didn't think it was possible. I feel kinda betrayed.

Remove a letter, ruin a band

David Owie

Your greatest enemy is your past self.
Why did past me write the code like this?

Screenshot of part of the same email that reads, "Dear Doctor Name" received by another user.

Snap!

Bottom left corner of a keyboard missing the Ctrl key.

And she gave away the secrets of her past, And said,

Now that I think about it, French toast (pain perdu) is just the western version of egg fried rice. But instead of old rice, it's old bread.

May the Fourth be with you 🖖

I fear I may have lost my PyPI account. I've lost access to the primary email address, and without reverifying it, I literally can't do anything (I can't even change the primary email).
My only hope is the University of Glasgow IT helpdesk...

I tried to use Minecraft as an analogy to explain voxels in a lecture, and my students said they didn't know what Minecraft is. o.O

While many critics of AI might hope that familiarity with the tools – with their frequent hallucinations and often outdated knowledge bases – would breed contempt, the opposite appears to be the case. Those Britons who use AI chatbots more frequently are the most likely to think they are good at pretty much all of the tasks listed.

This Yougov survey contains an important finding: people who rely heavily on ChatGPT rate it as being "good" at tasks that we ABSOLUTELY know for sure it is very bad at

imo, this is a strong piece of evidence these heavy users simply do not ever check outputs

yougov.co.uk/technology/a...

I love how Lufthansa's Help & Contact page has no contact details.