ftl ✅ @ftl@awoo.space
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
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@eldang ugggh me toooooo
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OH: "Well, so far the infinite monkey theorem is just giving us an infinite number of JavaScript frameworks, and no Shakespeare"
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1984: We can't talk here, they might have bugs to wiretap us.
2018: Bug, order me some pizza!
Sent my last texts before my shuttle gets in to work... now I can just wait. See you all after the workday when I'll check on what happened.
re: VOTE. (Election musings)
Better people than I have been fighting for civil rights for decades and centuries; worse people have been fighting against them for even longer. Progress is measured in generations, and the social forces involved are bigger than any one person, and even bigger than any one country.
All we can do is make our time, our place, just a little bit better with our involvement.
re: VOTE. (Election musings)
Tomorrow we need to take a few days off. Rest. Either mourn or celebrate. And then remember that the fight continues. If we win, we can't get cocky; it only takes one election to change course. If we lose, we can't give up; same reason.
(2/n)
VOTE. (Election musings)
Well, today's an election. Vote, if you haven't yet.
I don't know what's gonna happen today. Anyone who claims confidence is overconfident. If Democrats overperform polls by 2-3 percent, they can take house and senate; if Republicans outdo polls by 2-3 percent, they do. And a few percent is well within normal polling error. Regional differences matter too. So who knows.
But what I do know is what we need to do tomorrow. (1/n)
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I just tried out the Lime electric scooter hire thingy. The app happily tells me my journey was “free of C02 emissions”, but when I got home I read about how they are charged. Apparently there is a network of Uber-style self-employed people who *drive* over *in their own cars* to pick them up and take them home to charge overnight. So my so-called environmentally friendly journey is just going to force someone else to do the same journey in the car to put the scooter back. What a joke!
Played #deltarune ! (Chapter 1). It was very engaging. Reading all the commentary on it is fascinating too.
Too bad it sounds like we'll have to wait a very long time to get the rest of it.
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*me, going on TV in front of millions of people in 2018* ive invented my own genre of music, i call it Computer Beat, because it is, as far as I know, the first music to ever be made using a computer. its the first time its ever been done
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@aldeka Please don't eat your ballot
Sure there's a lot of wealthy people running for things, but this isn't what we mean by "eat the rich"!
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iOS when you connect to a new PC to charge like "do you trust this computer" my friend I have never trusted a computer in my entire life
I've been slowly doing a bit of textbanking. Gotta do at least something, and textbanking is the kind of thing I can do in small chunks in spare time and still feel like I'm contributing...
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you, a reasonable human being: software is really bad, wow. maybe developers should try harder?
me, a software developer, shivering with anxiety, sublime text open with twelve projects: I M T R Y I N G
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Intend your pun, weaklings.
@WAHa_06x36 @Gargron Pretty sure it is.
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First you turn "favourite" into "like", then you make "like" do stupid shit, then you have to remove the "like" because it does stupid shit 
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
