Arthur Nicholson-Gumuła

Software developer and general nerd; Keen musician and linguist; Proud Northumbrian; Xennial =D

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@mixedracedman @Steven_Swinford It's absolutely possible to be successful and incognito. By definition you just don't hear about the incognito successes 😂

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@ElizabethKeesey @susie_dent Has always been regularly used in a pitmatic dialect though...

c.f.
"I should gan hyem" (I should go home),
vs.
"I should'a went hyem" (I should have gone home)

While "I should'a gan hyem" feels quite unnatural...

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Why must I have to confirm this again and again. And be accused of "probably breaking the law" just because I don't watch TV.

Surely this is a waste of time for an ever increasing proportion of the population...

They're just irritating us all because of the 10% I guess?

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@King_Iggy_ @csanyi_andras @marcgravell Indeed, there's also open source implementations and, god forbid, actual developer documentation 😅

I can see a future paradigm where Q&A sites like SO are no longer but documentation/code samples become a staple to feed LLMs (even if another LLM has actually produced them)

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@Aaronontheweb "et al." != "etc." 😅

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@PhatBoyG @ddoomen 90% of the reqs went away having used the system for a while.

This obviously isn't the case for all customers, but there's definitely a lesson to be learnt that "you aren't the first person to ask for that" ☺️

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@PhatBoyG @ddoomen I've just "finished" a D365 Project Ops implementation for a customer in 3 weeks, from requirements to go live.

Obviously they had special reqs to begin with, but I convinced them to go OotB with min customisation for 2 months.

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And (a slightly chubbier) Dr Spengler as the pediatrician 😂

Wow, haven't seen it in decades but this film is a veritable cornucopia of pop culture references

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Second scene of #AsGoodAsItGets has an unnamed Jewish couple, sitting at Jack's table - Dr Cuddy and Dr Taub on #House 10 years later ☺️

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And Darla as "the receptionist"...

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I found that a little rude to begin with, but then he cancelled 10 seconds later anyway, still 5 minutes away...

I'm swallowing my annoyance at "people" and their attitudes

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@JohnnyP69248589 @BBCBreaking Moron.

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Ok, so I obviously knew Joan Wilder was also Jessica Rabbit, but I totally never realised until tonight that she was also Chandler's Dad... Never put two and two together after all these years..! 😅

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Well that's very telling about the current state of the UK economy... 5%! 😳 #MicrosoftAzure

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I'm not at all one for conspiracy theories or anything, I normally roll my eyes. But the two of us work from home and get quite a lot of deliveries. On at least 3 occasions I can think of, I've had an "undeliverable" or "you weren't home" when we blatantly were. So yes, this one.

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I know I shouldn't laugh at this, but decades later and poor Ensign Kim still can't catch a break 🤣

https://t.co/UhCDLMn9VQ

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Banning ads for crumpets 🤣 Could you imagine the French banning ads for Croissants? Haha

https://t.co/c1XZeKogKx

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In the final scene of #FinalDestination, the random (uncredited) French guitarist is played by #BSG's Felix Gaeta 😂

#BattlestarGalactica

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Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.