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Which reminds me, I probably ought to work out my Christmas order at my favourite local(ish) cheese shop, before they sell out of all the good stuff.
https://liverpoolcheesecompany.com/

Mattress arrived in a ridiculously small box.
Apparently rolled up and vacuum sealed. Good packaging I guess if the mattress can stand being rolled up for months on end.
Instructions seem to imply it'll take up to 72 hours to reach it's full shape and possibly I ought to not be sleeping on it until then. 🤔
It'll get 13 hours or so at least till bedtime but do I really wanna sleep on the sofa for another two nights while it recovers from their abusive packaging? Hummm.
If I follow instructions it'll not be slept on until I get home after Xmas.

We called them programmers back when what they made were programs. Now that they make apps, they ought to be called appers.
Don't come at me with "software engineer" until I hear you calling apps "software engines."

As I mentioned in a prior post the House - with many D's in support! - passed HR 7006, a bill to fund various parts of the Federal government.
The house should have voted it down - but they chose to feed the trump beast in an act of abject appeasement.
I am sure that Congress critters will say "these are benign things that ought to be funded". And in that they are mostly right.
But we know that trump will simply grab any funds and apply them elsewhere. Congre…

Something that just drives me up the wall about this particular area of Git (merge conflicts) is that, beyond the all-too-typical Git problem of sloppy terminology, this is bad feature design. In most situations, “use ours” and “user theirs” are •both• the wrong answer! There are two doors, and they’re •both• trapdoors.
If you have a merge conflict, that means that you changed something •and• somebody else changed something, and your job is to •synthesize• both changes. To use one is to discard the other, which is usually not what you want!
The thing Git (and every Git GUI) ought to surface is a three-way merge: show me what I changed and what they changed ••relative to the nearest common ancestor••. Yes yes yes, I know it’s possible to finagle that into view with Git. It should be the danged default. It is what I should see first. It is what I should see if I have no idea what I’m doing.
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When I was a little one, I was told that I ought to follow the path set for me, and I'll eventually find happiness there. It's just around the corner, just walk forward and don't stray. So I ran ahead, only to discover another segment of the same road, even more bleak than the previous one. And I heard again: just a little more. Finally, I realized that this road only leads to my grave, and there's no reason to hurry; and the only way to find happiness, is to actually stray from it.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/115741596746900837
This, kids, is why when relying on containers, we should ensure that (at least):
1. Their filesystem is READONLY (example: if you are using Python, generate your .pyc files when creating your OCI image, not at runtime)
2. They run under a non-privileged user
And, at the host & network levels:
3. The private network is properly segmented.
4. We have firewall rules to control outgoing traffic and traffic between subnets.
This is not paranoia not overengineering, shit happens, we ought to be careful.

I said 'no' to something! And I did it quick, which ought to help the organizers find someone else.

Maybe I ought to learn Dvorak layout for neuroplasticity reasons and also to be even more annoyed by being unable to get a decent ANSI keyboard in Europe

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
-- Samuel Goldwyn

I've never used #Signal, since I don't like the idea of an app that's in any way bound to my phone number. But these days I sometimes feel like I ought to install it just to spite all the haters.
Not that I have anyone to talk to…

So, now that Orange Trump is sabre rattling about invading and militarily taking Greenland from Denmark we ought to remember the Satyandra's adivice: That those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it.
So let's remember some history...
The news is that Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and other European nations are starting to build up defense forces on Greenland and in the waters around it.
About 20 years ago the US participated in naval war games with variou…

AP declares that CA passed Prop 50... although their title ought to be, "Democrats rebalance House seats after Trump's Republican election rigging in Texas"
✅ Election results live updates: California voters approve new US House map designed to boost Democrats in 2026
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Election Night highlights: Democrats notch wins in first major elections since Trump returned to power
Election Night winners include Democrats Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City, Abigail Spanberger for governor of Virginia and Mikie Sherrill for governor of New Jersey.

Sunyaev–Zeldovich detection of hot intracluster gas at redshift 4.3: #GalaxyCluster in the early universe is 10 times hotter than it ought to be, which may reshape how we think these enormous structures formed.

«[…] there is a choice to be made. We ought at least to ask if universities exist to sort and qualify, or to form and transform. AI forces the question.»
The end of pretend – AI and the case for universities of formation https://wonkhe.com/blogs/the-end-of-pr

The end of pretend – AI and the case for universities of formation
Jim Dickinson reflects on the end of scarcity, the rise of AI, and the challenge to a system of higher education built on pretence, performance and proxies Jim Dickinson reflects on the end of scarcity, the rise of AI, and the challenge to a system of higher education built on pretence, performance and proxies

Over the weekend, I tried to understand TikTok. And the only way to try to understand something is to try to do it.
So I made a short piece about something I thought ought to have got more urgent attention during the Presidential campaign- the deepfake video that surfaced.

@… cross that with the infinite monkey theorem and you might be on to your next screenplay idea. Think Shakespearean Planet of the Apes. Ought to be good for at least a couple of sequels…

HALP

❝He was completely unable to understand why. He kept arguing that since the LLM isn't an actual conscious person (which is correct), it ought to be treated like a slave, and that the arc of technology is to give everyone access to their own virtual slaves.❞
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Just a reminder:
Each of you ought to take a look at your state's "unclaimed property" website. You may find something owed to you or to someone you know.
The amounts can be trivial or they can be large - and you won't know until you check.
Usually getting the funds owed to you is as simple as filling out a government form on a web page (and perhaps submitting something that proves you are who you say you are.)
Here is the link for California:

That article is a giant PR puff piece for an AI detection company. Nature ought to know better and should be ashamed of itself.
That’s not to say initial accusation isn’t credible; it certainly is!
But…just look at this reporting. Note how •completely• credulous it is about the accuracy of Pangram’s product.
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#WritersCoffeeClub
18. Are there writing ‘traditions’ which ought to be preserved?
19. If you were to teach a writing course, what would be the most important lesson?
20. If you write instalments (issues, chapters, etc) what’s the average length of one instalment?
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18. I dunno. Are there?
19. Any writing "rule" can be broken. But extraordinary choic…