Notices by Chris Ford :tw: (cford@toot.thoughtworks.com)

@skinnylatte Similar for me, but (for good or ill) Australian coffee has now infiltrated a large portion of the world so it's not a problem like it was when I left.

@skinnylatte You just aren't ready to confront the terrible beauty of a diverse world before breakfast.

@benroyce @mcnado Speaking of nuance, Khomeini died of a heart attack in 1989.

"There's a subtle slide from a question about effort and time, something informational, to a committment."

- @kevlin on estimation

https://youtu.be/aTpnGG6e0yY

It's my experience that you get better alt text not by asking yourself "What is in this image?" but "What is the purpose of including this image?"

@quinn 1500 years of empire to come then?

(40s white boy here)

Can you learn charisma?

In any armed conflict, each combatant kills on average less than one enemy combatant.

DALL-E can't successfully do this: "Make me a picture of Europe with UK and Switzerland missing."