Brett Percy
@thelonelyant.com
LabVIEW developer and test automation specialist
https://theLonelyAnt.com
Check out GDevCon ANZ #2 at https://gdevconanz.org.au/
https://theLonelyAnt.com
Check out GDevCon ANZ #2 at https://gdevconanz.org.au/
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Brett Percy
@thelonelyant.com
· Oct 29
There's a fair number of LabVIEW devs on BlueSky now, must be time for a Starter Pack
go.bsky.app/HK4gywE
go.bsky.app/HK4gywE
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A mosquito just tried to get me but I got it first and then I entombed it in sticky tape and will now bury it so that it survives for millions of years and future humans can bring back today’s humans and let them roam around a fenced park eating the tourists of the future.
Life finds a way.
Life finds a way.
January 9, 2026 at 11:54 PM
A mosquito just tried to get me but I got it first and then I entombed it in sticky tape and will now bury it so that it survives for millions of years and future humans can bring back today’s humans and let them roam around a fenced park eating the tourists of the future.
Life finds a way.
Life finds a way.
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a very important superpower you can develop is learning to enjoy having a bad time, it's cool and fun to do shit that sucks
Being unable to tolerate frustration + chasing social media clout gotta be a big reason why ppl jumped on the gen ai machine to churn out slop
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
a very important superpower you can develop is learning to enjoy having a bad time, it's cool and fun to do shit that sucks
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Also, if he was a female CEO, he would be in jail for fraud by now.
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Also, if he was a female CEO, he would be in jail for fraud by now.
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The first three presentations from our 2025 conference have been added to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/channel/UCpi...
Christopher Farmer: youtu.be/h3qQg9qjgSE
Elijah Kerry: youtu.be/dymHV5LGrY0
Fabiola De la Cueva: youtu.be/Y0RrgmLcCX0
Stay tuned - more to come.
Christopher Farmer: youtu.be/h3qQg9qjgSE
Elijah Kerry: youtu.be/dymHV5LGrY0
Fabiola De la Cueva: youtu.be/Y0RrgmLcCX0
Stay tuned - more to come.
October 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The first three presentations from our 2025 conference have been added to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/channel/UCpi...
Christopher Farmer: youtu.be/h3qQg9qjgSE
Elijah Kerry: youtu.be/dymHV5LGrY0
Fabiola De la Cueva: youtu.be/Y0RrgmLcCX0
Stay tuned - more to come.
Christopher Farmer: youtu.be/h3qQg9qjgSE
Elijah Kerry: youtu.be/dymHV5LGrY0
Fabiola De la Cueva: youtu.be/Y0RrgmLcCX0
Stay tuned - more to come.
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I thought that adding more computer would fix the problems but now I just have different problems and less money.
October 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I thought that adding more computer would fix the problems but now I just have different problems and less money.
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modern screens are silent bc they’re ambush predators
September 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
modern screens are silent bc they’re ambush predators
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Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
September 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
No way that seven people could fall victim to groupthink , that’s never happened before
September 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
No way that seven people could fall victim to groupthink , that’s never happened before
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it feels good to be on the right side of history
August 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
it feels good to be on the right side of history
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"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough."
— FDR, 1940
— FDR, 1940
August 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough."
— FDR, 1940
— FDR, 1940
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Urgent cheese recall across most of Australia - multiple stores - listeria issue.
au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/urgent-recal...
au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/urgent-recal...
Urgent recall on multiple cheeses sold at Coles, Woolworths, Aldi, IGA
Several cheeses sold at supermarkets nationally have been recalled over contamination fears.
au.lifestyle.yahoo.com
August 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Urgent cheese recall across most of Australia - multiple stores - listeria issue.
au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/urgent-recal...
au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/urgent-recal...
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Just gotta get through this week and then what? Another week to get through? And then let me guess, getting through more weeks? I know a scam when I see one
August 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Just gotta get through this week and then what? Another week to get through? And then let me guess, getting through more weeks? I know a scam when I see one
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Dear young men,
I've been married to an amazing woman for nearly 23 years, now. Here is a list of things this person owes me:
1. Not a goddamn thing. Not food, not comfort, not sex.
I'm in a relationship, not a fucking lease. We give to each other out of love, respect, and joy.
Learn that.
I've been married to an amazing woman for nearly 23 years, now. Here is a list of things this person owes me:
1. Not a goddamn thing. Not food, not comfort, not sex.
I'm in a relationship, not a fucking lease. We give to each other out of love, respect, and joy.
Learn that.
August 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Dear young men,
I've been married to an amazing woman for nearly 23 years, now. Here is a list of things this person owes me:
1. Not a goddamn thing. Not food, not comfort, not sex.
I'm in a relationship, not a fucking lease. We give to each other out of love, respect, and joy.
Learn that.
I've been married to an amazing woman for nearly 23 years, now. Here is a list of things this person owes me:
1. Not a goddamn thing. Not food, not comfort, not sex.
I'm in a relationship, not a fucking lease. We give to each other out of love, respect, and joy.
Learn that.
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Text 33. All of politics in one comic
"Mad" by @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/mad/
"She is still learning" by @cupcakelogic.bsky.social
cupcakelogic.tumblr.com/post/1243923...
"I want things to be different" by @alexnorris.bsky.social
webcomicname.com/image/152958...
"Mad" by @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/mad/
"She is still learning" by @cupcakelogic.bsky.social
cupcakelogic.tumblr.com/post/1243923...
"I want things to be different" by @alexnorris.bsky.social
webcomicname.com/image/152958...
July 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Text 33. All of politics in one comic
"Mad" by @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/mad/
"She is still learning" by @cupcakelogic.bsky.social
cupcakelogic.tumblr.com/post/1243923...
"I want things to be different" by @alexnorris.bsky.social
webcomicname.com/image/152958...
"Mad" by @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/mad/
"She is still learning" by @cupcakelogic.bsky.social
cupcakelogic.tumblr.com/post/1243923...
"I want things to be different" by @alexnorris.bsky.social
webcomicname.com/image/152958...
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Automated systems to which we delegate life or death decisions need to have SO MUCH REDUNDANCY because the cost of getting it wrong is so high.
"Go fast and break things" attitudes are cute for code. Not cute for real life engineering.
"Go fast and break things" attitudes are cute for code. Not cute for real life engineering.
tests like this are sort of worst case for camera-based systems because those systems are trained on footage of real people and that dummy neither looks nor moves much like an actual person HOWEVER--and this is FUCKING KEY--that's irrelevant if you have REDUNDANT SENSOR SUITES INCLUDING LIDAR
“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.”
@cbsaustin @velez_tx
@cbsaustin @velez_tx
June 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Automated systems to which we delegate life or death decisions need to have SO MUCH REDUNDANCY because the cost of getting it wrong is so high.
"Go fast and break things" attitudes are cute for code. Not cute for real life engineering.
"Go fast and break things" attitudes are cute for code. Not cute for real life engineering.
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GDevcon agenda is out 👉 gdevcon.com/presenters/
That's going to be a fantastic event, as usual. See you in September in Brighton!
That's going to be a fantastic event, as usual. See you in September in Brighton!
Presenters - GDevCon
These are our presenters for 2025! Take a look at what they will be covering in Brighton. If you want to be part of GDevCon but not as a presenter, then perhaps you’d like to facilitate a GDevCon Hu...
gdevcon.com
June 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
GDevcon agenda is out 👉 gdevcon.com/presenters/
That's going to be a fantastic event, as usual. See you in September in Brighton!
That's going to be a fantastic event, as usual. See you in September in Brighton!
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And this is why having American aviation communications rely on Starlink was always a terrifying idea
June 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
And this is why having American aviation communications rely on Starlink was always a terrifying idea
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Getting stuck while we're writing is a feature, not a bug. It's the point of the exercise. It's what happens when we are trying to express something we have not expressed before. That friction forces us to make the tools we need to understand and express it. Getting stuck is how we make meaning.
May 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Getting stuck while we're writing is a feature, not a bug. It's the point of the exercise. It's what happens when we are trying to express something we have not expressed before. That friction forces us to make the tools we need to understand and express it. Getting stuck is how we make meaning.
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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The prophecy has been fulfilled and epsilon is, actually, extremely funny in "haha these people think we're too stupid to understand math" way.
Which I am but my husband isn't, and he's made me a meme which explains everything.
Which I am but my husband isn't, and he's made me a meme which explains everything.
April 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The prophecy has been fulfilled and epsilon is, actually, extremely funny in "haha these people think we're too stupid to understand math" way.
Which I am but my husband isn't, and he's made me a meme which explains everything.
Which I am but my husband isn't, and he's made me a meme which explains everything.
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We don't need to have an April Fools' day this year. We've been through enough
March 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
We don't need to have an April Fools' day this year. We've been through enough
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My favorite thing about Bluesky is that it has recaptured the old social media experience of:
"I made a cool thing!"
"I like your cool thing! I also make a thing."
"Thank you. Your thing is also very nice! Someday I may try to make that thing."
"I made a cool thing!"
"I like your cool thing! I also make a thing."
"Thank you. Your thing is also very nice! Someday I may try to make that thing."
January 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
My favorite thing about Bluesky is that it has recaptured the old social media experience of:
"I made a cool thing!"
"I like your cool thing! I also make a thing."
"Thank you. Your thing is also very nice! Someday I may try to make that thing."
"I made a cool thing!"
"I like your cool thing! I also make a thing."
"Thank you. Your thing is also very nice! Someday I may try to make that thing."
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The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.
February 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.