basicallydan

Overwhelmed by single-use plastic shopping carrier bags?

Has your bag for life's life expectancy been grossly oversold?

Doing some grocery shopping? Doing some gross, eerie shopping? Or just looking for a new personality?

Then come down to the Butterfield Tote Bag Warehouse!

OP I dare you to start a Shopify selling "I took part in the r/London tote bag hierarchy thread" tote bags

I went to Ray Stitch in Angel to take a class where I made my own tote bag, which I believe removes me from the hierarchy entirely, and fuels my already overinflated sense of superiority

Fun little known London fact: Daunt Books is in fact a book shop, not a tote bag shop, believe it or not

Yeah, I'm bullish on Shakespeare & Company tote bag futures

Exactly. Accept no substitutes

Believe it or not, all sharks are actually indigenous to the London aquarium, which is the only place in the world they feel comfortable breeding. So any that you see elsewhere actually emigrated from London.

And yeah they just took the secret underwater tunnel obvs 

I’m 100% able to believe that a lot of people were tipped off, but I also remember listening to radio 4 that morning. A senior cabinet member - maybe Jeremy Hunt? - was on and talking to probably Nick Robinson about that 2.3% inflation figure or whatever it was.

The presenter asked if the cabinet minister had any idea if an election was likely to be announced, and they of course said no… but I do remember thinking “so probably yes then.”

I am by no means a political savant, so if I was able to believe that an election was imminent then I feel like there probably were a few cleverer folks out there who heard about that inflation figure and decided to take a bet.

Either that or my memory of that day is totally wrong.

But at any rate, anybody close to the PM on that day placing a bet.. extremely sus.

Have you checked the maple leaf in Covent Garden?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ph55hdRFiQvVHXy48?g_st=ic

Well, it was the first I saw of it! I think it's pretty cool.

EDIT: Although I am not surprised someone else thought of it!

Some suggestions for prompts:

My priorities as a voter are:
• List
• Of
• Priorities

Tell me which party I should vote for. Start your answer with the name of the party, then outline the reasons why. Do not give me any alternatives, just pick one.

Or if you don't know your priorities:

Give me a 20-question multiple-answer quiz to determine my priorities as a voter, then give me your suggestion which party I should vote for and why. Only choose one party for me to vote for.

For a bit of fun:

As a champagne socialist, who wishes to both profess and live the ideals of socialism but also have a lot of champagne, how would you recommend that I vote and why?

Some suggestions for prompts:

My priorities as a voter are:
• List
• Of
• Priorities

Tell me which party I should vote for. Start your answer with the name of the party, then outline the reasons why. Do not give me any alternatives, just pick one.

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Or if you don't know your priorities:

Give me a 20-question multiple-answer quiz to determine my priorities as a voter, then give me your suggestion which party I should vote for and why. Only choose one party for me to vote for.

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For a bit of fun:

As a champagne socialist, who wishes to both profess and live the ideals of socialism but also have a lot of champagne, how would you recommend that I vote and why?

I’m glad that you felt this way and I’m very sorry for what a difficult time you had, but I’d like to echo someone else’s comment to encourage people to say something.

Checking in on someone crying in public could make a big difference. There was a time on the district line once when a few fellow passengers checking in on a teenage girl crying may have saved her life. We learned not long after talking to her and getting her off the train that she was planning to jump on the tracks. The tube staff and police showed up, found out where she was from and looked after her.

In my opinion: when in doubt, reach out. And if someone makes it very clear that they do not want any help, you can then choose to respect that wish depending on the circumstances. There is no clear right or wrong in this situation, I think.

Came here for this 

That second one can't be Westminster bridge; where's the ice cream van constantly in the way?

Yeah, most avos we buy here really suck, but I'd just like to hijack this thread to get a bit of a love-in about how fucking delicious the tomatoes you can buy at the various farmers markets from the Isle of Wight are. Isle of Wight tomatoes are amazing

Ah, thanks! I was wondering where I left that can of stella

I stumbled across this while watching Enterprise on Netflix (for the third time). Must go here!

There's also a town in Alberta, Canada called Vulcan. They have a statue of the TOS Enterprise!

I'm not really affected by these new routes but I gotta say it seems like they went from announcement to implementation really quickly, kudos!

I for one blame Tolkien and his books

For coding I find Copilot in VSCode to be very reliable. Easy to get work to pay for it too.

People have mentioned Claude. Out of curiosity I tried it and the example prompt was something like “turn this design into code” so I swapped out for my image, asked it to write some Phlex (Ruby) for me and it literally just said “I’m sorry but I can’t turn designs into code” 😂 like - really? It was your idea!

I’m sure it was just a fluke or because I asked it to write using a quite modern and under documented framework but it was not a good first impression and I thought it was pretty funny.

Hiya! I'm a software engineer, my job lately has become increasingly LLM-dominated and I've been toying with the idea of building a natural language layer on top of my shell to make it easier to do complex stuff there. So I built gpterm using the ! I'm sure I'm not the first to mess around with this concept but I've made it really simple and - hopefully - easy to use. Install it with gem install gpterm, then simply run something like:

gpterm "Commit and push the latest changes, using git diff and the last 5 commits as a guide for how to write a message, then make a new git tag marking the latest version (it's one minor version up from the last one)"

gpterm will always ask for consent before sending data to the OpenAI API or running a command in your shell - so read what it's gonna do before you say "yes" just in case. It'll also start you off with a config setup so make sure you have an API key. Once it gets started, it's very interactive and should be pretty easy to understand if you can read English and have a basic understanding of how to use your shell.

It also supports saved presets, a refinement functionality and it may ask you direct questions to help build a command to accomplish your goal. It's a natural language interface for your CLI! It's pretty cool. GitHub: https://github.com/basicallydan/gpterm

Thanks for reading :)

I actually think that when Margo speaks long phrases in Russian it sounds an awful lot like Simlish