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Jeff Smith

sumisu3@mastodon.nz

<p>Sauna サウナ, wine, craft beer, beer brewing, 日本酒, BBQ, chilis, guitar, French Horn, Flügelhorn, jazz, Irish Setters, vinyl &amp; books. 30+ yrs in IT - mostly for Silicon Valley startups building the Asia Pacific business. Old Unix and Emacs guy. Finnish/German/Chicagoan in NZ via Japan and now a proper Kiwi. </p><p>Follow me over at mastodon.beer <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.beer/@sumisu3" class="u-url mention">@<span>sumisu3</span></a></span> for <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/beer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>beer</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/brewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>brewing</span></a> related.</p>

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    Finally watching Il Mare. On my list for a long time. No interest in watching the white people version. Just like Shall We Dance where the Japanese version was so much fun. And The Ring. Watch the original

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    Isn’t this just straight up embezzlement? https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/creditors-of-spqr-restaurant-lose-23-million-as-liquidators-wind-up-company/V6VLSQDXPNAQDNIEXOURKAGMV4/

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    Why do we tax the labour of workers? We work to live, to survive. We don’t get to subtract our life expenses from our income and declare zero profit and thus avoid taxes like corporations can. Income of workers is the easiest to tax and the corporations are happy to oblige. I remember when Steve Jobs, the iCEO, famously took a $1 annual salary. “Wow!” many people said, “he is really committed to bringing Apple back.” Sure it is a gamble taking everything in equity, but when you do hit the ja...

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    Found a container of dolmades in the freezer yesterday morning. Defrosted, warmed up and all gone already. What a treat to eat those in the middle of winter season with no grape leaves. Trimmed the grape vine today also - so this spring will be another round of making them.

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    #JukeboxFridayNight Blind Boys of Alabama Amazing Grace (to the tune of House of the Rising Sun) https://youtu.be/0SmthYxI5aA

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    @marcoarment@mastodon.social if we think about it - programming languages have largely been about enabling yet another layer of abstraction and becoming more human friendly. From flipping switches, to assembly/machine language to C to Java, Perl, etc … (except Perl, that was an abomination). Natural language to an LLM that will use whatever language is appropriate seems like the natural next step.

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    David Bowie Diamond Dogs https://youtu.be/DGXunkHZ7CA #DogsCatsAndOtherPets #JukeboxFridayNight

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    After brewing the Polotmavé today (I have the previous batch still on tap and will pour a glass soon) I decided to drink an Altbier first. #Altbier #Bier #HomeBrew #beer