convenient.email
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
The worst part of relistening to @ttwasteland_ is that Hub didn't know / wasn't a backslash for the longest time.

This is also the problem with listening to Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
@Titan Up The Defense
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2020-09-21 23:41:08
This is a good time to remind everyone that under the Obama administration the executive branch claimed the authority to kill any person, no matter their citizenship status, without trial the moment they stepped off of US soil

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2020-09-22 00:30:35
Me: I want to open an image
Linux: *Opening Internet Explorer in Wine* here you go boss
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
They're 1% of the way to a second joke!
2020-09-21 09:58:46

Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan friendica
It is the same joke. They have only one joke.
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2020-09-21 17:30:42
Me:
*Points to networks*
Them:
Is this software?
Also them: you're a software engineer now.
Me:

silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
Ok
But always choosing the top, centre, or bottom has worked. No one would *care* if the crop wasn't aware of the photo. We used to have that, and it worked fine.

In fact, part of this was noticing that many apps that display twitter data still do this.
2020-09-20 18:03:47
thanks to everyone who raised this. we tested for bias before shipping the model and didn't find evidence of racial or gender bias in our testing, but it’s clear that we’ve got more analysis to do. we'll open source our work so others can review and replicate.

https://twitter.com/bascule/status/1307440596668182528

twitter.com
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2020-09-21 16:43:30
@HippyWizard The story with the world on the back of turtles strangely applies here, too.

It's biases all the way, but not necessarily only the ones you were expecting, which is why you need to have your team as diverse as possible to defend it against its own biases lest those go unnoticed.
@Silverwizard
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
I think it would be fun to build a theoretical lesson plan for teaching modern Christianity to Jesus. All the surprising rules, events, and so on.

To be clear, this would be Jesus at time of ascension. I assume he's kept up.
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2020-09-21 16:08:37
I’ve always suspected ‘who gets to work on public projects’ is a large cause of inequality in tech. It took me a long time to figure out how to negotiate for this in my career.

https://twitter.com/geofflangdale/status/1307988229149265920
Sunnyvale, CA
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
Machines don't learn
Machines (well computers) do math
Sometimes we give machines results and have them do math until we agree the math creates the results we started with

Then we get them to do that math a lot
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
"Everyone who has been here more than six months agrees that we need a full rewrite to get anywhere. But the consultants think it might be savable" - My last manager
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
Today my dad reminded me that we used to have 28.8K modem and wifi in our house
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan friendica
I only remember 56K and it was RJ-45 way into broadband.
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
I wrote a script for my wife, I wrapped it in Zenity, and I made her a UI tool to make pictures ready to upload
It took two minutes, and it took her seconds to use, I love it when computers work
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
My wife keeps listening to a song where the lyrics are "Ice cream chiller" said a lot. I can only assume it's a post-irony song from an alternate universe with a serial killer called the "Ice Cream Killer"
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2020-09-20 18:01:21
We may use libraries 9/10 times in the real world, but learning the fundamental patterns matters as a jumping off point for bigger-picture design. For example, I couldn't write caches if I didn't understand the ideas behind searching, sorting, etc.
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2020-09-20 15:21:41

silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2020-09-18 17:47:09
@choffstein @pat_wilson Does that mean it's impossible to keep the truck in the center of the road?
@Corey Hoffstein @pat_wilson
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
I've gotten good enough at OpenBSD's ksh that I can no longer use tcsh on FreeBSD without slowing WAAAAY down. Damnit
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2020-09-18 13:26:20
cops just love putting their special fake flag on everything

imagine if you called up, like, an HVAC repair guy and he came in with a special logo representing how HVAC repair is the thin line between order and civilization collapse, and that means he is allowed to be racist
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2019-09-11 15:24:39
The Bush administration was fucking wild, and often just deleted shredded lots of stuff the moment there was a FOIA request. They routinely framed journalists making FOIA requests as terrorist enablers.

https://twitter.com/EweFunky/status/1171806466405294080?s=20

twitter.com
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
Ok ok ok
Hear me out

People keep making Disney crossover ideas

But John Constantine Hellblazer and Harry Potter are owned by the same company
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2020-09-17 19:00:15
ACAB... The police, on the other hand... Am really feeling "don't stand so close to me" this year
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2020-09-16 22:27:37
do more with less

do more with less, but understaffed

do more with less, but understaffed and in a pandemic

do more with less, but understaffed and in a pandemic and now add more services but fewer safety precautions

lol, why is morale so low

you're lucky to have a job, lol
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2020-09-16 22:04:38
@HippyWizard *blows up an entire race of aliens*
1 day singularity dooms Opposite humanity.
1 god singularity dooms Opposite Creation.
@Silverwizard
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
X-Men whatif story if Gene Ray became the Pheonix
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2020-09-16 00:18:19
My daughter refuses to fill this out, pointing out the many fields that prove that her teacher is trying to steal her identity

silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2020-09-15 20:48:06
Friend is getting laid off due to COVID.
Anyone looking for a good SOC analyst?
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
So, uh, plan for the future:
If someone is on their notice period, don't release an experimental unstable code branch to production and then put them as primary on-call

The kindest thing they will do is quit
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2020-09-15 13:47:49
Yes, sir, I can see how hiring a bunch of 3rd party developers might seem like a slam dunk. 😭
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2020-09-14 16:03:04
password rules that indicate something is seriously broken in your webapp stack

Image/photo
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
People talking about JLA monitor duty is gonna make me write some "Ops on the JLA Watchtower" fanfic
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2020-09-14 18:29:37
Sony:
PlayStation 1
PlayStation 2
Playstation 3
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 5

Microsoft:
Xbox
Xbox 360
Xbox One
Xbox One S
Xbox One X
Xbox Series S
Xbox Series X
Xbox Chain of Memories
Xbox 358/2 Days
Xbox Birth by Sleep
Xbox Re:Coded
Xbox 3D: Dream Drop Distance
Xbox HD 1.5 Remix
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2020-09-14 23:21:57
Purging RSS feeds of sites that no longer bring me joy.

If your site doesn't offer RSS, it will never bring me joy.
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2020-09-14 22:58:32
#

#miniillustrations
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
12ish years after seeing it the first time, I now understand why everyone who had read the book hated the Night Watch movies
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
Art Heist Documentary: "Here's info about the artist, and... I bet he might have fucked"
Actual Art Heists:

The Great Chinese Art Heist

Is the Chinese government behind one of the boldest art-crime waves in history?
www.gq.com
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan friendica
I didn't get your joke, but the article is great at showing how ingrained western imperialism is. While Norwegian law enforcement probably got China's motive, other quoted people are absolutely dumbfounded that they might want their things looted during a retaliatory military campaign back.
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
I think my new fridge is ruining my wifi network. Fuck.
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan friendica
I first read "I think my new fridge is running my wifi network" and I was perfectly cool with that.
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2020-09-05 14:00:23
Think Being a Cop Is Easy? I’d Like To See You Get Called an “Asshole” and Not Commit Second-Degree Murder Afterwards
Think Being a Cop Is Easy? I’d Like To See You Get Called an “Asshole” and Not Commit Second-Degree Murder Afterwards
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
2020-09-04 14:15:39
The police are dropping Nazis off at protests.

https://twitter.com/NoahHurowitz/status/1301873210988822528

twitter.com
silverwizard
silverwizard friendica
I want to talk a little about bounded creation. I am going to be sliding a little between programming and D&D - since I don't think the idea is different for me.
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