re: USPOL
@natecull Typically, "needing votes" means you need them to vote for it. That's not really the case here - if all republicans vote against, the law still passes.
pass -funsafe-math-optimizations to your compiler to allow it to do math optimizations that are fun and safe
@magicalmilly I thought you should know that another "free speech advocate" is Very Concerned about your use of profanity and wants me to censor you.
Hi everyone--we've had a big influx of spammers and trolls lately, so far all on other servers. Please report them when you see them, and make liberal use of the block button.
This current wave is pretty obvious trolling with blatantly racist content. I encourage folks to report the account and not respond. We will suspend these assholes as the reports come in.
1951:
<< Professor Douglas Hartree.. told me that, in his opinion, all the calculations that would ever be needed in this country could be done on the three digital computers which were then being built—one in Cambridge, one in Teddington, and one in Manchester. No one else, he said, would ever need machines of their own, or would be able to afford to buy them. >>
http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/literature/reports/p014.htm
2019:
Google, Amazon, Facebook, uh.... Alibaba... Azure...
He was so wrong. We needed five.
If you want this in sticker form, feel free to print it yourself--consider the art licensed CC-BY.
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re: Serious pronoun grammar question
@wilbr I've always used plural all the way through, so "they have".
https://twitter.com/MikeDrucker/status/1137068315229208578
<<Twitter is fun because you get to be like, “Ducks are good” and someone in your mentions will go, “Um, I’m sorry but my brother is married to a duck scientist and this is a harmful view” and then someone else pops up going, “Your silence about horses is extremely telling” >>
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.