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Admirer of dogs, programmer, OSS/privacy advocate, *nix nerd. More than a passing interest in medicine and astronomy. Mostly the dog thing though. I was already an accomplished em-dasher back when ChatGPT was still being correctly characterised as an LLM.

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Allen Holub
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Software engineers also know that managers will treat their estimates as promises. Bad managers demand estimates so they can pass the blame to the programmers when the project fails, which it always does, given a fixed scope and budget. 3/6

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Combine that with the fact you can't extinguish them, you just have to wait them out, and you can probably kiss goodbye to whatever your car is parked inside or near. That includes your house. They are terrifying.

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So you're telling me Israel got an average of 8 points from every public voting block? That's a big bill from Twilio, Benjamin. #eurovision #boycotteurovision

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#dogsofbluesky

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This is my dog. His name is Goose, and he is brilliant. He's the main reason I get out of bed in the morning. #dogs #WeDontDeserveThem

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This is my dog. His name is Goose, and he is brilliant. He's the main reason I get out of bed in the morning. #dogs #WeDontDeserveThem

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Anton Gerashchenko
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Leniie Umerova, a Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar activist, recounted her nearly two-year imprisonment in Russia after being abducted by Russian security forces while attempting to visit her sick father in Crimea. She went through physical and psychological abuse, interrogations and solitary confinement

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