Dickon Hood
dickon@splodge.fluff.org
<p>I'm me, the only Dickon Hood on the Internet that I've ever found.</p><p>I'm a software engineer by trade, living (and working from home) in a tiny Northamptonshire village, just outside Towcester. splodge is my instance, for F&F. If I know you and you want an account, just ask.</p>
Posts
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Post #2458008
Took the big dogs around Hazelborough. Would have been nice had it not been for all the dangling caterpillars -- just found one now, and we&#39;ve been back an hour.
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Post #2458007
Language runtimes shouldn&#39;t support #Windows. It buggers up pathnames, and wrapping them in some arbitrary object to get around Windows&#39; brokenness just makes it more difficult than it needs to be on any sane OS. Yes, I&#39;m looking at you #Python and #Rust.
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Post #2428815
Got a #spam this morning from a spammer flogging &#39;an #AI sales tool&#39; -- quite why he / she / it thought I have any interest in such a thing I don&#39;t know -- and asking for a call sometime next week. So a spammer is trying to get an in-person meeting of some sort to flog an #LLM bullshit generator, rather than use the LLM bullshit generator at me. Unless they just have. I think I see a flaw in their business model.
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Post #2187866
The kitten was purring, hard. #catsofmastodon #dogsofmastodon
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Post #2187865
Went foraging yesterday. ~500g of wild garlic. Private woodland, I&#39;m the only one who picks it. Did about 1% of the plants (3-4 leaves only per plant on the bigger specimens) over about 5% of the patch. You wouldn&#39;t know I&#39;d been.
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Post #2187864
Bedtime. #catsofmastodon
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Post #2187863
Second at the quiz, down &#39;t Mill. Bah. (19/20 in the first two rounds, then a rather nice &#39;ten well done doubled to twenty, ten well done, and ten well done&#39; for the next three -- got a few boos, that; nobody else was close -- and fell apart in the final two. Two orders of magnitude out on the tie-breaker, which is what lost us first.)
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Post #2187862
I&#39;d democratate, but no locals here for me. We did that last year. And elected a couple of Lib Dems and a Reformiac.