Dave
davemck.bsky.social
Dave
@davemck.bsky.social
Glaswegian nerdy type, former rocket surgeon, now doing controls & model based design. Massive fan of MATLAB, Simulink & test driven development (TDD).

#MATLAB #Simulink #TDD
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For some reason, I bought a 3D printer a few weeks ago. Goodness knows I've not got the spare time for it, but it's been quite nice to muck about with.
I've slowly been printing some Warhammer like bits because one of the kids has some Warhammer friends, who really have Warhammer Dads.
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The Steam Awards 2025 is open for nominations! Now through December 1, make your voice heard and nominate your favorites from this year.

Finish your tasks and get your Steam Awards Nomination Committee Badge.

store.steampowered.com/steamawards/...
November 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I'm giving a conference talk next week about the story behind our Bluesky account, which means I've spent much of the last week thinking about how to best articulate the advantages of sharing your hog on the Internet

bsky.app/profile/them...
more users are joining
and the hog grows longer
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Found a really strange LLM bug! This is the latest OpenAI model:
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Six doesn’t even have an A in it
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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This morning we sent Calum to a primary school picket to see why English lessons are stoking community tension👇
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/dalmarnock-f...
School protests and anti-migrant paranoia in Dalmarnock
Plus, the well hidden beneath Glasgow Cathedral for centuries
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Messages from school to my parents in the 90s: Fill in the slip at the bottom & bring in £2 for the trip to the zoo
Messages from school now: Your child's exam schedule is on Zoop, login via the LernPortal to access it, the results will be on HoneyTree, their homework is on Zappp & NumberHub
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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And yet again, Jared Kushner is at the center of charting American foreign policy.

A man with no official position. A man in bed with any number of foreign regimes. A man whose only credentials are his relationship with his father-in-law.

www.wsj.com/world/trump-...
November 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Two long-serving peers - Labour peer David Evans and former army chief Richard Dannatt - to be suspended from HoL after parliamentary watchdog ruled they broke lobbying rules -
@direthoughts.com
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Two peers suspended from House of Lords for breaking lobbying rules
Lord Evans of Watford and Lord Dannatt were filmed breaking rules, in undercover footage recorded by Guardian
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Look at this rectangular dog
November 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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The end of the international space station feels like a crime and a heartbreak at the same time
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Planning to start your Christmas shopping this weekend?

I've got you covered with over 100 links to charities, museums and small businesses selling interesting things which will bring joy not landfill.

#GoodGifts
Good Gifts 2025
Use your Secret Santa or present giving to support charities, museums and small businesses.
madlinblog.wordpress.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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This is partly right.

You *also* crucially need to plough enough money into the infra - tracks, bridges, signals - to make sure what runs on them can run reliably. And you can do that from taxation if you want to.
Essentially the best way to run a railway is for it to be owned by a development corporation, and then frankly whether that corporation is state owned or privately owned is sort of a much of a muchness:
The missing piece in Labour’s rail renationalisation scheme
Whether trains are public or private is not the deal-breaker for a well-functioning service — it is about a better delivery model
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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In lovely science news, it is now official: I am the inaugural Writer in Residence at the Royal Institution to mark 200 years of the Christmas Lectures: www.rigb.org/explore-scie...
Tracy King announced as Writer in Residence to the CHRISTMAS LECTURES
Critically acclaimed author appointed as Writer in Residence to the 2025 CHRISTMAS LECTURES from the Royal Institution.
www.rigb.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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This observation, and the discussion below it.

At one level I miss this: really sharp people picking over the politics of the day (some of those replying I know offline).

At another level: I can't bear it, as that whole Brexit process was such a pointless waste of time.
(Once again) this is a Brexit reflection. ‘Global’ Britain was meant to mitigate losses from Brexit and surpass EU membership. That ‘vision’ was based on trade deals and liberalised ‘fair’ immigration. The latter is now being dismantled and the former relies on no defunct liberal multilateralism.
Trade folk (including myself) are unconvinced there is much of a growth dividend for Rachel Reeves from agreements with India, EU, and US. Just as there's no evidence of positive impact from independent UK trade policy since 2021. www.politico.eu/article/rach...
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.

It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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This is a VERY long piece about solar geoengineering that starts, scientifically speaking, badly, but gets better, but still has a few issues.
The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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There was actually a time quite recently when the Young People still used Tinder

(Published around the time of Dawn Chorus Day)
November 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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I look forward to hiring a Chief AI Officer whose job will be to just tell anyone who suggests using AI for anything to shut the fuck up.
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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GPT would have been such a great technology if LLMs were just used to augment search engines. Their natural language processing ability means they can find relevant content no matter how you phrase your query. No more keyword matching, just ask a question, or describe what you’re looking for. 1/2
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Postbox bollards outside the Post Office. Absolutely delightful.
#WorldBollardAssociation 📮
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Idk I actually found this very easy. I raised taxes on gambling and the wealthiest and then spent it on the poorest. I even reduced the basic rate of income tax. Baffling, I know.

www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
November 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Comicking
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM