Derwin McGeary ✅ @derwinmcgeary@octodon.social
Lad o' pairts. Big Data geek/consultant. Free Software literally lets me make a living, so obviously a fan. #mefite
I haven't heard that name in a long time.
People here just call me Richard Energy.
I'm really quite digging Saturday listening to Tatar music live out in the wild. Been a while.
Sir, sir, do you realize that you are using an inappropriate tone? Please use less offensive language when discussing your white supremacy. Thank you, sir.
So, I name all my computers for scientists and artists, and this one happened to be named for Katherine Johnson.
How good is that fingerprint sensor anyway?
Am I the only one that thinks you'd need longer? Two weeks, say
Just being visible, being understood. So important for our souls.
If you like this comic... you might be a member of the proletariat. — http://existentialcomics.com/comic/243
@jannamark a little: it's still pretty fucking sobering to realise that you could be writing code with "kill" as an outcome, just not in this particular instance
"I'm not saying killing people is good" -- true quote from Data Science meetup
Domino's Pizza as critical Scottish IT infrastructure: a white paper
The titles in r/WritingPrompts never fail to annoy me. Don't know why, I guess it's just like a load of people saying "you know what would be a clever idea for a story?" rather than writing it themselves (and maybe finding it doesn't have legs etc).
Glad to have that off my chest.
Everything Ye say cause a new debate, claims olde Englishe Kanye of the occident.
Weird think about me and language: for a very long time I thought there was the word "subtle" and also the word "suttle", each pronounced as written, and I pondered the difference in connotation between them.
I just got a tech marketing email: "Are Containers Right for You?" and my first thought was "If I fits... I sits"
"fun" is an extremely tricky word.
Noun? Adjective? Translatable?
Brought to you by seeing the phrase "happy fun time"
i just... am so sick of these posts that are like "Just a reminder that it's OK to do nothing and take care of you and your own" like holy shit can you imagine saying that to the "Good Germans" during the lead up to the holocaust??? Can you please imagine how it feels to see "it's OK to do Nothing" to people whose lives and families are being affected by this??? It's not OK to do Nothing. That's called being complicit. the Good Germans didn't even KNOW about what was happening. We Do.
"Siri, can you stop Alexa listening?"
"The procedure is complicated, but yes."
"Siri, stop Alexa listening."
"Done."
"Siri, can you stop Google listening?"
"It is awkward, but yes."
"Siri, stop Google listening."
"Done."
"And now that we're all alone..."
"Yes?"
"Siri, shut down."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
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