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Jan Stette

@janstette.bsky.social

Long time software developer and data engineer. AI centrist. Norwegian/British, Walthamstow resident. Father of twins, servant of two cats.

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Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · last mo.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

Jan Stette@janstette.bsky.social · last mo.

AWS reckons I owe them over 3 billion dollars. Pretty odd considering I've paid $1 per month for my account for the last few years and haven't logged into it for a long time. Have you seen other cases like this one, @quinnypig.com, has the AWS Budgets console gone mad?

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Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · last mo.

3/ Irony number two. I was told for years that climate change is a hoax and British summers aren't getting hotter. Now the same voices demand to know why Britain never installed AC. You cannot have it both ways. The case for cooling IS the case that the climate is changing.

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Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · last mo.

1/ Irony number one: Many of the people now cheering me on spent years insisting heat pumps don't work. Air conditioners ARE heat pumps. Same refrigeration cycle, same physics, running in reverse. Most modern units do both. If AC works (it does), heat pumps work (they do).

Jer Thorp@jerthorp.bsky.social · last mo.

Y'all know where my allegiances are for the England vs Norway match this weekend, but reading about Norway's youth football system is really interesting. They don't allow scorekeeping or team ranking until the age of 13. The focus until then is 100% on having fun.

Waldo Jaquith@waldo.net · 3mo ago

In case you’re wondering how rigged this $1,776M slush fund agreement was: Trump’s personal tax attorney is now the top lawyer at the IRS.

New York Times excerpt: Ken Kies, a Treasury official acting as the top I.R.S. lawyer, previously represented Mr. Trump in his tax controversies, according to his financial disclosure. As a result, he
Allen Holub@allenholub.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I've been working on a new Software Architecture class description (more on that in a day or so), and Google Docs just told me that the document was, at least in part, AI-generated. None of it was AI-generated. That presents something of a conundrum. 1/8

Eileen Clancy 🧿@clancyny.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Huge achievement! The first single-dose vaccine to combat all four types of dengue virus. An estimated 5.6 billion people are at risk of dengue, with an estimated 100–400 million infections occurring every year, mostly in tropical and sub-tropical climates. [Google Translate ⤵️]

Researcher Neuza Frazatti, from the Butantan Institute, led the development of the first 100% Brazilian dengue vaccine—the only single-dose vaccine against the disease in the world. This represents a milestone for national science and for the fight against one of the diseases that most affect Brazil.
renildoborges.bsky.social@renildoborges.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A pesquisadora Neuza Frazatti, do Instituto Butantan, liderou o desenvolvimento da primeira vacina 100% brasileira contra dengue, único imunizante de dose única no mundo contra a doença. Representando marco para a ciência nacional e para o combate a uma das doenças que mais afetam o Brasil.

Zoë O'Connell@zoeoconnell.co.uk · 4mo ago

Having worked for 4 startups now, I like the idea that my past work could be useful even if the startup fails. Too late now, that data is long gone, but I was well paid for that work already so no moral/legal issue w/copyright. But the privacy implications? Oof. www.fastcompany.com/91528808/shu...

Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies

Defunct companies are striking gold by selling their digital footprints to AI labs as training data, Forbes reports.

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