David Burrows
dburrows.bsky.social
David Burrows
@dburrows.bsky.social
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multiple-model agnostic, writes code, mostly javascript/typescript, old school film, tv, sci-fi & comics nerd, ex-Yahoo!, currently at Starling Bank (opinions my own)
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“Turns out you need a shitload of money to be broke” is the 21st century in a nutshell
People did warn me when I was younger to pursue high-paying fields, and I always shrugged them off. I thought, “I’m not a materialistic person, I don’t want to live in luxury—I’ll be fine making a modest salary. Money’s not important to me.”

Turns out you need a shitload of money just to be broke.
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The nice thing is that when a dude claims women aren't into [practically any hobby], he's telling us all that the women who are into it have pre-screened him for us
"Women are not usually into science fiction"is legitimately one of the stupidest, most divorced from reality sentences I have ever read in my life
okay grandpa, let's get you to bed
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I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone
Could have easily watched another 5 hours of Mr Scorsese
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Gotta be honest - it was absolutely impossible not to laugh. My face hurt by the end of this.
Cackling at @mikeflanaganfilm.com trying to remain composed as Garth Marenghi describes the plot to his script for Bitchfinder General 🤣
There’s no excuse for any leftist or center left head of state to not to go carbon neutral, implement free healthcare and lifetime free education now. Trump is showing you can just do anything you want so why not do things that will actually make the world better and ignore the right?
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just played the videogame area they based on your subconscious and it‘s a visually plain tutorial level?
“America the beautiful awaits” says the ad. Looks pretty ugly to me at the minute
I really hope Plur1bus is as good as it looks
Far too many newsletters that I’d love to subscribe to but would cost thousands of pounds a year and frankly don’t generate much content. At some point they’re going to have to invent the magazine again (Magletter, Groupstack, whatever)
Very shortly after that got X11 working and upgraded to Mosaic for the full grey background, black text, blue hyperlink, square image GUI experience. Seem to remember if was quite a bit later that we got things working on the Macs.
Seeing a lot of web nostalgia and remembering the first time I got on the web, must have been around 1994 at Plymouth Uni - logged into a Sun workstation, then had to log into another Sun box that had an internet connection, then start Lynx, a text browser, and connect to the internet, ASCII only
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Everything Worse
@walshfreedom.bsky.social I thought you'd want to see this. People are waking up. I hope it's more numerous than that. But it looks like we're seeing people starting to wake up.
Star Wars franchise is cooked
whelp, I’ll be thinking about the Steven Soderbergh movie about Ben Solo until the day I die, I guess. we could’ve had it all.

apnews.com/article/adam...
Trump literally tearing down the White House, the writing on this season of USA is truly basic
Karpathy does a bit of a “state of the union” of AI in this podcast, he’s far more realistic about what’s actually going to happen over the next few years than anyone else I’ve heard, well worth a listen www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-kar...
Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away
"The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”
www.dwarkesh.com
The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, I’m not a big fantasy reader but this was excellent, like a bloodthirsty and even more cynical Terry Pratchett, first one I’ve read of his and definitely not the last. Look forward to the adaptation by (checks notes) James Cameron(!) if it makes it to the screen.
It’s nearly always a DNS issue
“If our world survives, the next great challenge to watch out for will come - you heard it here first - when the curves of research and development in artificial intelligence, molecular biology and robotics all converge.”

Not now Pynchon!
Fantastic article by Pynchon written in 1984 on luddites, tech, science fiction, everything. More relevant now than when it was written.

"To insist on the miraculous is to deny to the machine at least some of its claims on us”

archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
Thomas Pynchon
archive.nytimes.com
Trump is trying (and failing) to bail out Milei, but there’s nobody to bail out Trump. 3+ years left on his presidency, hard to believe we’re not even a year in.
Just realised watching The Family Stone at Christmas is going to be extra sad