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Someone at work asked me if "dim_users" is a reference to stupid people and now I can't stop thinking about it #DataBS

Strava must have changed their inference provider since they now automatically show the AI summary of your activity without any interaction.

Loved @zaltzcricket.bsky.social's reaction to the Ben Stokes surprise retirement announcement.

random thought: Iron Man is actually a Fe-male........

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Not a fan of this "Message on LinkedIn to get around email consent" marketing pattern.

Oh look, it's the monthly installment of the Amy's Baking Company episode of Kitchen Nightmares.

When sledging goes too far...

If search engines had launched today, tech influencers would be falling over themselves labelling the use of search operators like +/-, " ", allintitle, allinurl, site, etc. as "search query engineering" 🙄

I just love this game and the creator so much!

That brief instant when I have to turn off Pi-Hole to see if a website is broken (it's always a digital marketing adjacent site.... :eyeroll: ) because of it makes me feel so icky.

I can't talk to or about anyone named "Mauro" any more without going "SHUT THE FUCK UP MAURO" in my head, why Linus why 😭

Well I enjoyed it.

Just realised that "Copilot" is an anagram of "Clip Too". Microsoft's marketing team is really missing a trick by not pushing the "AI Clippy" angle!

Daily life in 2025. #AI #Tech #JustLetMeBe #FFS

Today I came up with a new word: Clunktional Adjective. Something that's clunky but otherwise functional. Useful for describing a proof of concept or first (and sometimes final) pass at a solution #rstats #databs

Having a baby is lot like Brexit: - it was a marginal 50-50 decision at best - everything's become more expensive, "but it's not really about money" - every decision involves all sides yelling at each other as "negotiations" - freedom of movement has decisively been ended

Well this saves me a tonne of work bring sdf into my codebase! www.getdbt.com/blog/dbt-lab...

I start all my LLM chats with "AI, kya bolti tu?" #hindi

When Kier Starmer says "AI" it's the same as a person in the 1970s saying "computers". Just imagine he's saying "computers" and you'll understand the depth of his understanding of the whole thing.

Surely, SURELY, a basic bit of knowledge for experienced engineers joining an established team with a large codebase would be to NOT disregard Every. Single. Convention. of that codebase 🤔 Surely.

Nothing like the first day of a new year to truly test your code's assumptions. #DataBS

I know it's mostly my fault for allowing queries like this on my estate, but a "scroll to searched term" would be nice as well... #DataBS

Very glad for my 12+ year-old Raspberry Pi that just keeps chugging along blocking gunk from my home network!

It's been many years since I last daily-drove a Windows machine for dev stuff, and I still miss Notepad++ when opening random text formats that are not part of a "project". Zed comes the closest to being that "lightweight, but can do everything" editor replacement, but something's still lacking.

Here's a quick write up I did on the new uv package manager by Astral. I walked through setting up a new project, creating the repo with the GitHub CLI, and then using uv to actually manage dependencies. Plus, how to convert existing projects to uv. #DataBS #DevOps whtwnd.com/chriskornaro...

Tbh it's not that bad having low standards for pop culture quality. It just means there is more stuff that'll make you happy.

This burgeoning trend of growth hacker types sending LinkedIn connection requests just so they can hassle you without the inconvenience of an unsubscribe link is... annoying. Marketers will do literally anything to get around informed consent.

Your annual reminder that an employer's end-of-year review form is NOT PostSecret.

Netflix's 3 Body Problem wants to tackle difficult scientific and moral and philosophical challenges, but also has lines like "We sponsor your ILR", and some guy taking a GWR train from Brighton (ish) to London 🤦‍♂️

Hi, can you help me? I want to develop a model that makes risk predictions. Use logistic regression. Can I use some more modern techniques, like AI? Use a neural network with single non-hidden feed forward layer that outputs to a single dimension using a sigmoid activation function.

PySky, what is your favorite automated documentation tool? Investigating to round out the docs of an internal platform I'm working on, and want something a bit more detailed than just a docstring-generated list of methods and inputs. One thing I'd like is class diagrams of derived classes #python

The modern data pipeline is ELELTLELTLTLTLTL

Never thought of it this way 😲

The living documentation #dataBS #dataSky

What are some approaches to data contracts? Any pointers to previous discussions or resources much appreciated! #DataBS

Good morning from London, #DataBS / #DataSky -- a question for the hive mind please 🙏 When would it be appropriate for an organisation to pay for Snowflake, BigQuery as well as Databricks?

But can it export to Excel?

This is a test post for Bridgy Fed.

A lot of the vile bullshit said and done by the UK government makes more sense now through the lens of this statistic that the UK median age is nearly 41. Young people are simply not viewed as worth considering.

Yeah, capitalism-shagging run amok 🙄

Contrast the different reaction when OpenAI does it vs when the Internet Archive does it.

I put on Sky F1 for some toddler screen time and they're showing the drivers playing basketball instead, very difficult to manage expectations like this. Now I have a toddler yelling at me demanding "formula cars".

Ugh this style of writing pieces like Michael Learns To Rock songs is really annoying. www.espncricinfo.com/story/icc-wo...

Resolving to order in Hindi the next time at my local chippie.