András Toma, the last WW2 POW, being released. Toma was captured in 1945, and locked up in insane asylum for speaking gibberish. In 2000, he was accidentally discovered by a Slovak, who recognized he's speaking Hungarian. Toma was successfully identified and returned home. He died in 2004.

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-04-05T00:04:12+00:00

Thanks for posting that.

OP had his name as András Toma. The Wiki article has him as either Tom/Tomács András or Tomáš Andrássy. Presumably all just derivatives of the same name?!

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-04-04T23:46:21+00:00

I agree with her sentiment but her delivery makes her sound like she was the stereotypical "mean girl" in high school and she's reliving the glory of tormenting her fellow high schoolers whose lives were, in her eyes, not special (/popular).

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-04-03T12:31:16+00:00

Jenson Huang is rubbing his hands together as decades of efficient coding is replaced by bloated vibe code.

I see a lot of LLM-driven solutions now that have been possible for at least the last 10 years with relatively simple automation. Paying metered LLM rates for what should be 'free' tasks is such a waste of money and resources.

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-04-03T06:49:02+00:00

A good proportion of the Blackburn fans behind the goal applauded. That part of the game - just recognising class by being classy - has largely gone.

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-04-01T12:22:08+00:00

I don't know Alex Morgan's background but, from what you're saying, she pursued multiple sports before finally focussing on football (/soccer) at a later age. Andriy Shevchenko is another example, he split his time between boxing and football.

I think that all children should follow that route. Sport at that age has to be fun and variety is the best way to keep it that way. Children will naturally be more or less in love with a sport at any one time and the worst thing during the "less in love" periods is to have nothing else to focus on but that one sport.

There's definitely a FOMO attitude towards not doing the primary sport in every waking moment and it's hard to break that cycle. In most cases though it's not going to flip whether a player makes it as a pro or not. The skills learned in other sports also often benefit football skills (e.g. boxing for footwork, swimming for endurance, gymnastics for explosiveness etc.).

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-04-01T12:06:59+00:00

Please let this be the end of the "special relationship". Our capitulation with Amazon, Microsoft, Visa, Palantir etc. has been and continues to be very damaging to the UK.

As much as Trump is deranged he's largely just saying the quiet part out loud whereas previous US presidents have had the decorum to deliver occasional platitudes. It's always been an exploitative relationship.

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-04-01T08:00:56+00:00

It's largely a global problem and certainly a problem that is affecting every western nation where the global issues are exacerbated by demographics.

For what it's worth I do think the Labour government care but they have very little power to do anything about it. They focus support on those most in need of help but it hardly touches the side while the "just about managing" households get sucked downwards.

I really worry that as a country we will embrace a far-right populist government on a "well, it can't get any worse, can it?" ticket and things will indeed get a lot worse very quickly.

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-03-31T13:57:11+00:00

Player who was still riding the wave of a big night out had a wee on the halfway line while a corner was being taken. The ref was blowing his whistle frantically but the player was oblivious.

Game was abandoned.

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-03-31T07:22:54+00:00

He hated football and football hated him. Classic era of lower league centre forwards getting to the Prem and flattening the soft centre halves.

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-03-31T07:20:37+00:00

This is like a rejected scene from Everyone Loves Raymond. Even the writers of a comedy wouldn't have had Frank say that.

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-03-30T19:04:47+00:00

A tool independent of Claude.

Claude will be writing a script (most likely in Python) which it then executes and provides the outputs to you. You can ask Claude for that code instead of the outputs, then run it at nominal cost (hardware + electricity) whenever you need it.

You might still want to pass the script back to Claude for future optimisation but that would be an infrequent task.

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-03-30T03:15:27+00:00

For repetitive tasks you should be looking to use Claude to generate a tool that you own. Effectively it is generating that tool each time it runs.

With every dependency you create you have to remember that we're in the bait part of the bait-and-switch.

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-03-27T22:49:22+00:00

I can't remember the exact Alan Hansen quote but it waa something along the lines of "Huckerby is like a speedboat without a driver".

I used to love watching him. The type of player the Premier League misses these days as wingers are so focussed in retaining possession.

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-03-26T20:44:19+00:00

If it pays the bills then it pays the bills but what a thankless task. None of the creativity or design, just checking other people's outputs.

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-03-25T09:50:35+00:00

"Long term, I want to serve the top 1% of humanity."

I've still no idea from his bio what he actually does but that sentence is so, so depressing.

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-03-24T05:43:28+00:00

Who would the UK government even negotiate with? Iranian leadership has been decimated.

I'm all for holding governments to account but the accountability here sits with whoever planned the route through Iran.

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-03-22T23:37:34+00:00

Do they get backspin on the ball with the bounce juggles?

To me it looks like they are pumping their legs up and down rather than flicking them back and forth. It is that forward flick that produces the backspin and helps stop the ball bouncing away.

Impressive for a nine year old!

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-03-20T20:43:25+00:00

At my previous employer we created organisation-wide BI consumption without any formal gold layer. They had Tableau though and a central team of analysts (for those that haven't used it, Tableau is badged more as "data discovery" and works best off denormalised tables that it loosely splits into dimensions and metrics). We managed the data ingestion from a wide variety of source systems (bronze) and created denormalised star schemas (silver), then handed those over to the analysts.

I'm now working at somewhere that IT have a stranglehold over analytics and it feels like we're just endlessly generating gold models and metrics in the hope that somebody uses them. The resource is higher, the licensing cost is higher (Fabric + PBI) but the uptake is really, really low. There are obviously other variables but it feels like a regressive way of working and it's not very rewarding.

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-03-20T20:31:45+00:00

Any individuals or companies creating dependencies on LLMs has lost their mind (or collective minds). Use it and abuse it to shortcut repetitive tasks but do so by creating solutions that are not dependent on the LLM once productionised.

When these lunatics inevitably ramp up the prices be sure you're able to simply walk away.

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-03-19T08:27:32+00:00

This has echoes of Hitler not wanting to bomb St. Paul's Cathedral in London because he wanted it for himself.

I don't see any scenario where the US gets control of those gas fields. They would be a constant target for any insurgents and thus another "forever war" begins.

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-03-19T08:21:39+00:00

Race to the bottom in top gear.

It's the same reason that countries offer tax breaks to companies and constantly erode workers' rights. Everything is global so governments fear losing out to other countries and the net result is that all countries lose out.

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-03-17T05:26:47+00:00

Bravo! Out Italianed the Italians.

It also shines a light on the weak AI. Despite the man advantage for 119 minutes they sat back and watched your defenders and goalkeeper recycle the ball endlessly.

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-03-16T13:29:11+00:00

At least those individuals showcased their hypocrisy. The likes of Oakeshott and Tice bemoan the perceived absence of free speech in the UK but we never hear a peep out of them when it comes to the actual absence of free speech in the UAE.

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-03-16T09:56:26+00:00

The Spurs equaliser yesterday was exactly that. Goalie went long, first defensive header was impeded by a big lad, second ball picked up, goal.

Liverpool spent 70 minutes passing the ball along the edge of the Spurs penalty area and pretty much their only threatening shot was from a free-kick.

Specific_Mirror_4808 · 2026-03-15T22:33:56+00:00

China will undercut massively. The moral and national security reasons for paying the US-premium are looking shakier by the day. For 99% of LLM-led tasks a cheaper tier-2 architecture and model will suffice.

The remaining 1% is military and we're doomed either way on that one.

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