Joe Chacko

Wry tweets about food, politics, technology, and life.

[Joe Chacko @joechacko]

Royal Mail's payment confirmation does not fill me with confidence:

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@FirstSouthYorks apparently, the best way to make sure the 272 is running to plan is to check the FirstBus Sheffield website, the FirstSouthYorks twitter feed, the Sheffield County Council website, and the Derbyshire County Council website. Why is this so hard in 2023?

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Pleasing result on my first ever #leetcode problem:

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OH at hospital reception (in England)
Receptionist: Where are you from?
Patient: Scotland
Receptionist: So your nationality is Scottish?
Patient: No, it’s British

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@drjasonfung @livinlowcarbman What are the units on the y-axes on this graph? (The complete guide to fasting , p135)

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@fesshole Plot twist — the “friends” have figured this out and use the voice chats to talk about you.

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@geoffdoesstuff @tanja__eder Maybe you need to make your point more strongly. Make it a power-point.

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Blown away by @picocli — an extremely useful CLI library in just one source file. Now it is the work of minutes to add a new subcommand to a utility I use and maintain.

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@jacquilinlin @HelpSheffield That was my first thought too. I tried a couple. The first had “stopped doing that for health and safety reasons” and the second “put them all in the bin straight away so we don’t have any.” I sensed a pattern and ceased that line of enquiry.

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Where can I get some broken terracotta? @HelpSheffield

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@Helenintgarden @HelpSheffield Thank you! Stephen at Blue Elephant Pottery generously donated a couple of buckets of shards so I am sorted for now. I may come back to you later though.

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@Helenintgarden @HelpSheffield I need assorted sizes for filling gaps in stone walls (galleting). Flat(ish) pieces, 1"–6" long.

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Join us on Sept 15th to learn about the many new enhancements in @OpenLibertyIO & #WebSphere Liberty 22.0.0.7,8,9. Developers will be on-hand to answer all your questions!
Register here: https://t.co/1eDtbqSYlS

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@dutchadain @jjrscott @BigGiraffeAW “Too thin” — fair enough, it isn’t really a mainstream paper with such a low circulation

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Join us next week, Aug 24th @ 11am ET, for our #WebSphere Automation Expert TV session. Learn how WebSphere Automation gives operation teams the insight needed to resolve memory leaks quickly - https://t.co/uXafv1v2Ow

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Don't miss the #Liberty team on August 16th joining the App Transformers #ExpertTV show where they'll be demoing the same #OpenLiberty application being deployed and managed in multiple VM and cloud environments.
#CloudAgility #CloudNative #Java

https://t.co/E5bHJSoJuW

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10 mind-blowing AI websites you probably didn't know existed:

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Now at 2 different time slots!
Wed Jun 8 @ 8:00-9:00 am ET:https://t.co/pSUzBO041R
Thu Jun 9 @ 3:30-4:30 pm ET:https://t.co/IGJ4l9KkEl
#ibm #meetup #Java_API #MicroProfile #OpenLiberty #Kubernetes #CloudNative #MicroServcies #12factor #JavaInnovations #ApplicationModernization

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@scott_kurz Swear all you like — we can’t hear you!