techterrier

891 karma · joined October 12, 2015

Startup software engineer. http://terriertech.io

techterrier··on 'Right to roam' movement fights to give the commons back to the public

all the keep out signs on picturesque parts of southern ireland (eg galway) are helpfully translated into German.

techterrier··on 'Anti-sex' beds have arrived at Paris Olympics

yeah, that'll totally stop them :/

If startups are a casino, VC's are Tony Soprano, offering you another 100k after you've already lost everything you have. Smiling away, tell you it'll all be fine.

techterrier··on Tips on how to structure your home directory (2023)

just put everything on the desktop, then its all in one place.

techterrier··on Flyweight: A Node.js ORM Specifically for SQLite

I wanted to like kysely / prisma, but totally useless if you have any geospatial data in your system

techterrier··on I made ChatGPT to rewrite the CV to match the job posting

how often does it add qualifications you don't have?

techterrier··on Waymo outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles

Like crappy little trains with no capacity?

techterrier··on Are electric cars too expensive to tempt motorists away from petrol vehicles?

Just get rid of the damn cars.

techterrier··on Behind the scenes of Sound ID in Merlin – Identify birds using your phone (2021)

thats Birda!

techterrier··on OpenAI negotiations to reinstate Altman hit snag over board role

seems he had a side hustle: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-19/altman-so...

techterrier··on Cats are no match for New York City's rats (2018)

what New York needs is a few dozen Patterdales[1]...

[1] https://preview.redd.it/meet-billy-the-8-y-o-patterdale-terr...

techterrier··on Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral

Heres cockney gangster 'Bricktop' from the Guy Richie movie Snatch, talking about birdwatching https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRRrlrMDAd-a2sn1d81lTKA

techterrier··on YouTube cracks down on synthetic media with AI disclosure requirement

The David Attenboro 40k lore channels were hillarious

techterrier··on Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'

local landowner* was getting cross with all the people coming to see it. I've had a couple of run ins with them walking the dog there

* edit: i mentioned this on another forum and was corrected- the land is owned by the National Trust, my run ins were probably with a tennant farmer.

techterrier··on iNaturalist strikes out on its own

our own app Birda has this issue too, most of the 1 star reviews are 'not the app I was looking for' or 'not a game'

techterrier··on HuggingFace Training Cluster as a Service

lowest price from the dropdowns...$43k

techterrier··on Expo – Open-source platform for making universal apps for Android, iOS, and web

No longer true.

techterrier··on Expo – Open-source platform for making universal apps for Android, iOS, and web

widgets!

techterrier··on Stack Overflow Is Down

Hopefully it's enjoying a comfortable retirement now that GPT is here.

techterrier··on All Roll Is B-Roll: Adam Curtis Goes Quiet

Adam Curtis: QAnon for BBC 6 music listeners

techterrier··on The ‘devil bird’ lands in New York, with more likely to come

Theres also Birda, the gamified version of eBird...data ends up with the scientists all the same

techterrier··on Rishi Sunak sets up review to tackle 'anti-maths mindset'

crypto enters the chat

techterrier··on If PHP Were British (2011)

no.

techterrier··on GeoDesk is a spatial database engine for OpenStreetMap features

We use BigQuery and it works great for us!

dataset: https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/openstr...

techterrier··on The last three years of my work will be permanently abandoned

ditto, thanks Eric!

techterrier··on Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)

any tweeps who've engineering experience with algo feeds, if you fancy a short stint in #techforgood i'd love to hear from you... dom@birda.org

techterrier··on Electric Cars – fuel duty and road tax: how to replace £35B annual revenue

hell hath no fury like a mildly inconvenienced motorist

techterrier··on Electric Cars – fuel duty and road tax: how to replace £35B annual revenue

I dont think a carsalesman is going to feel overly demonised by being reffered to as part of the car lobby. He does know better than to conflate road and vehicle tax however.

techterrier··on Electric Cars – fuel duty and road tax: how to replace £35B annual revenue

*listen

techterrier··on Electric Cars – fuel duty and road tax: how to replace £35B annual revenue

commonly used by people who disingenuously use it's etymology to imply that all 'road users' (by which they mean cyclists) rather than 'vehicle users' should pay it

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