Bruno Nicoletti

Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www.armizare.uk. I paraglide when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www.armizarepress.com #HEMA #paragliding

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2026-05-09 10:08:02 UTC

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@nprofile…qynj @nprofile…x9tq Unfortunately first past the post voting in the UK makes that a much harder thing to do.

2026-05-02 17:53:18 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq How much does it matter if it goes over 100%? What amount of debt is actually critical? The Reinhart-Rogoff paper that warmed the heart of fiscal conservatives everywhere was proven to be bollocks, but folks still cling to it and use it a justification for austerity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt

2026-04-24 12:10:31 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y And Norway put all the money they earned from oil and gas into a sovereign wealth fund whose income now covers about 20% of their government’s expenditure. The UK’s plan under the then Labour government was to do something similar, but Thatcher came in, sold it all off and used any revenues they received on the sugar rush of tax breaks to bribe the middle classes.

2026-04-12 08:07:13 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq Along with storage alongside generation so you can buffer excess power when the grid is saturated. That can be built much faster than interconnects.

2026-04-10 11:52:18 UTC

Sam Altman has so much faith that his software won’t kill or harm people that he needs a law to protect him from any consequences of it doing so.
#nevent1q…cjl6

2026-04-01 10:00:36 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq Ember believes that China cut its fossil fuel use by 2% in 2025, mainly due to their massive expansion of renewables. So renewables growth is out pacing demand growth. This is hopefully a turning point given that they haven’t slowed down the pace of their renewables roll outs.
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/china-energy-transition-review-2025/

2026-03-31 16:40:39 UTC

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@nprofile…3src It's a work in progress, but many mines in Australia are currently transitioning to electrification using renewable generation to power it all. For example Fortescue is going all in on eliminating all fossil fuels from their operations, including electrifying giant earth moving equipment. They, and many other miners, are powering their remote sites with wind and solar to cut down on millions of dollars worth of diesel they otherwise have to burn.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/fortescue-lays-out-plans-for-biggest-wind-farm-in-australia-to-help-eliminate-fossil-fuels-at-giant-mines/

2026-03-23 12:41:13 UTC

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@nprofile…3src I’ve been snowed on in Iceland in the middle of July!

2026-03-23 10:05:32 UTC

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@nprofile…8mxe @nprofile…x9tq You also want to spend money on backroom people to support the frontline staff. So your specialist heart surgeon should be seeing patients, not handling appointment bookings, cleaning the operating theatre or dealing with patient car parking. It's a system level design thing. Where appropriate, spend a bit more in backroom staff and get much more out of your frontline staff.

2026-03-10 07:51:20 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq There isn’t enough oil and gas left in the North Sea for us to stop importing the stuff, and even if there were we’d still be exposed to global prices and we’ve never had enough to influence that. So reducing the “windfall tax” is just special pleading to not pay the UK for extracting our natural resources, it would have zero effect on any price we pay. Sod ‘em. Take the proceeds of the throw it at building renewables, storage and interconnects.

2026-03-09 09:35:34 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq Have they run a similar analysis on whatever Reform happen to be spouting at the moment?

2026-03-09 09:34:03 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq On top of that, from my understanding he was much prouder of his often overlooked The Theory of Moral Sentiments than The Wealth of Nations.

2026-03-01 14:54:31 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq It’s a replay of what they did with Royal Mail, which is slowly dying because of the cherry picking of services that other mail providers can do to undercut RM which has the universal service obligation. Same will happen with the NHS.

2026-03-01 14:40:17 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq What’s wrong with “distorting” the labour market anyway? Lack of regulation tends to benefit one capital over labour. And what about the regulations limiting the scope of union behaviour? Does that not “distort” labour markets? If capital can organise (which is what a company is, along with trade associations) why not labour?

2026-02-06 22:08:10 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y To me it looked like the team was cheered but when Vance appeared on the giant screen the booing started.

2026-02-06 18:52:31 UTC

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@nprofile…g0zc @nprofile…xuzd Give Farage free rein and I think it will get pretty ugly. There are no real institutional checks in the UK as parliament is sovereign and can legislate whatever it wants.

2026-02-06 18:04:50 UTC

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@nprofile…g0zc @nprofile…xuzd We had Johnson as PM, who is basically a poor man’s Trump who can quote the odd bit of Latin. I’m still angry that, while foreign secretary, he went to party with a KGB agent directly after a NATO meeting discussing the Skripal poisonings. No consequences for any of that, all fading away into the background. The UK political establishment is rotten, maybe not as bad as the USA, but rotten nonetheless and somewhat better at stringing sentences together.

2026-01-31 10:06:56 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq Why didn’t they hit the ground running with this 18 months ago?

2026-01-09 22:19:30 UTC

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@nprofile…g0zc I use “and” and “or”, I prefer the aesthetics . Also “not”, I started using that one after it took a day to spot a typo bug along the lines of “if (!!condition)”. I must have looked at that line dozens of times and I was blind to it.

2025-12-26 18:11:12 UTC

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@nprofile…hzyj My websearch turned up nothing. Is this price for end users or cost to operate? (Either way I have my doubts). If the first, prices are currently completely artificial. If the second, it means that AI models will be stupidly cheap to run and all the money being spent on huge data centres will be thrown at soon to be stranded assets.

2025-12-26 11:35:54 UTC

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@nprofile…hzyj It’s just social darwinism in a new coat.

2025-12-24 16:13:38 UTC

Dear Fediverse. I’m thinking of adding a wiki to my historical martial arts club’s website. I need it to be self hosted and free. There are quite a few of these out there, what do folks recommend?

2025-12-12 11:52:31 UTC

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@nprofile…hzyj For some reason we have far to many people sick and unable to work in the UK and the government wants to cut back on benefits paid to sick people. Completely unrelated, our medical system is overloaded and people can’t get prompt treatment and the government wants to slow that down even more. I wonder if there might be a link?

2025-12-04 17:08:19 UTC

So Reform just took a £9 million donation from a cryptocurrency backer based in Thailand. Which of course will have no influence of the party’s priorities.
Why are donations of that size to political parties even legal?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farages-reform-uk-handed-36351307

2025-10-24 18:24:54 UTC

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@nprofile…stct How?????

2025-10-14 16:11:58 UTC

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@nprofile…tj3s How is that a feder? Looks like a lovely blunt to me.

2025-06-15 17:44:24 UTC

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@nprofile…d6h6 Professional visual effects software (eg: Nuke, Maya, Houdini) runs fine on Linux, and Linux is generally the platform of choice for the people doing VFX work. While the state of photo editing and graphic design is pretty sucky. The last I looked GIMP still had a terrible UX.

2025-04-07 15:46:26 UTC

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@nprofile…59k6 The tariffs idiocy was all explicitly laid out months ago, even if the exact details weren’t exactly clear. So I don’t think it counts as a black swan event. More like giant locomotive steaming down the tracks, seen miles off, with the world’s economies tied to the tracks like a helpless innocent.

2025-04-04 22:02:23 UTC

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@nprofile…59k6 Just a bunch of linear algebra and some activation functions?