Steve Powell
@azuredatafool.bsky.social
Cat slave. Data wrangler. Data Pipeline whisperer. Reluctant DIY prole. Lego addict. Can’t sing, dance or tell jokes but still basically a nice guy.
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Tomorrow is gonna hurt after 4 days of progressively later get ups
So I wanted custom SVG icons in the conditional formatting on my Power BI report. I found the answers and wrote a blog post so I don't forget how I did it and the brilliant resources I found to help me out. #PowerBI #SVG hatfullofdata.blog/power-bi-cus...
Power BI - Custom SVG Icons, Themes and Measures
Lets use measures to do conditional formatting with icons and add our own icons using a theme file
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My wife keeps making Eton mess cos it has fruit in it and we’re on a diet apparently. Not entirely sure of the logic there but I’m staying quiet and enjoying having dessert more often.
The track up to the roof at York Minster was worth it.
Is it the summer? Are we out on a day trip on a word day? Is there a cathedral involved? Will there be a pub lunch later? Anyone who knows us understands these are entirely rhetorical questions…
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Code Craft & AI – Zoom, Multiple dates and times - September 1st 18:45 BST SOLD OUT October 6th 18:45 BST £99 + UK VAT Large-scale studies by the DevOps Research & Assessm...
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It was fascinating to watch the moon transit from one side to the other. Glad we managed to find what must have been the last pair of eclipse glasses and phone lenses covers in the country
Did an interview last Friday where the candidate had obviously plugged the teams chat into ChatGPT. Given they were pretty basic questions & a couple were asking for an opinion this was a bit dire. On reflection his CV was a bit too good. I am feeling very very old and more than a little jaded.
The monologue podcast this week is epic.
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 4w agoAnalysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...
Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...
The AI Demand Bubble
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Can we make it a rule that all future party political broadcasts have to be performed as a song?
Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 4w agoThere now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
This could very well be the most important story in politics for the last decade and a half. Please read and share this equally harrowing and illuminating account by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social of just how dark the money in politics pit really goes. Absolutely mind blowing.
Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial
The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, wh...
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My wife and I are currently competing on who has the most impressive pile of tissues from the cold she has kindly shared with me. Right now she’s winning, but only just.
Molly is doing her dramatic death pose (malnutrition induced no doubt) again. She’s started holding her breath when she knows I’m looking!
Making your tech teams available to the business on Teams is the single most productivity destroying thing a business can do
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I need to move to Tromso. It’s currently 22 degrees cooler than it is here.
Molly is deeply unimpressed at how warm it is. Mind you so am I and I’m not wearing a fur coat.
Our next event is on 2nd July with @andycutler.bsky.social presenting My Dopamine Has Gone Missing: A Tale of Frustration & Enlightenment. and Steve Powell @azuredatafool.bsky.social presenting Change Event Streaming: Great feature lousy documentation. Please see www.meetup.com/mcrdataplatf...
The Big Questionᵀᴹ flooding my social media is "What do we do about the downstream bottlenecks that AI's making much worse?" Suggested solutions range from the sublime to the ridiculous. Let's get the LLM to do it. LOL. Let's just skip review. Sheesh! We've known the real solution for decades...
I did 2 episodes of “For all mankind” and lost interest a while back. Was probably busy with a work thing. Have picked it back up and am now hooked. Am bingeing the entire first season and it’s amazingly good.
