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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Twitter just suspended the fake 'Nicole Mincey' account, and many others.
https://mobile.twitter.com/joshtpm/status/894369140852609024
But for those of us who were watching during GamerGate in 2014, which *pioneered* these tactics - it feels really frustrating watching the normal world struggle to absorb this new reality that vast chunks of social media accounts are not just fraud, but *weaponised fraud backed by literal Nazis, some of whom are Russian military*.
It sounds weird just to say it, right?
But that's the sitch.
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I boosted @GinnyMcQueen's toot about this earlier, but Yonatan's response to the Google manifesto deserves a non-CW toot. I know and trust Yonatan and there is substantial wisdom here. https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-manifesto-1e3773ed1788
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Honestly if you think that emotions are the opposite of logic and you managed to graduate with a four-year degree, Computer Science or otherwise?
Your alma mater NEEDS to revise the Critical Thinking/Introductory Philosophy section of its GE requirements. Immediately.
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Two weeks until the moon eats the sun, make sure to buy your sun death insurance this week before the price goes up! ☀ 🌜 ☠ 💵
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In response to twitter's brand guidelines: mastodon's elephant friend is in fact an elephant (fluffy), and also a friend. you can draw him with other elephants, he likes company
Stealing a Reddit thing because I just want to talk to people
@abbenm the box of Cranium: Third Edition. Could also be something in one of my other board games
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I found this chart here with explanations. https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2015/05/the-many-flavors-of-unemployment/
According to any of those measures our recovery LOOKS good, all those numbers are back to where the were before the recession.
What's off about the country isn't being captured by any of those employment numbers...
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@woozle @noelle @Elizafox There's a bunch of them. It's hard to discuss them without context, though. I'm used to hearing unemployment numbers, and can tell that unemployment rate of 4% is low, 10% is high and bad, from lots of context... but labor force participation - is 65% a lot? A little? Know even less about other measures of unemployment.
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WHY AM I PUNNING THIS HARD TODAY
GOOD LORD
IT'S CATURDAY NOT PUNDAY DAMMIT
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I know a physicist who said that if they ever discovered a viable theory of quantum gravity, they would be sure to publish it on April 1st.
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elevator pitch
why is this elevator tilted forward. this isn't normal; what's going on. anyway give me venture capital
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What's your opinion on the usage of patreon related to the ban of IGD
if you missed what happend, have a read here:
https://frama.link/ouoAa4Vj
The reason I'm asking is cause you might be one of many using patreon.
I'm not wanting you to stop, but would like if your desicion is a concious desicion, instead of just repeating what most ppl are doing.
If you relay on patreon, a message pointing out to your patreons what happend to #IGD would break the silence
Silence can be violent
Resume Content; Question
@adeptomega IMO include them. Could be a positive if the place you apply uses those and you get the "yes they can use our tech stack and they have used version control" checkbox. Unlikely to draw serious in depth follow up questions, data analysis positions using R don't require git gurus.
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https://toot.cat/media/eOsjvgFzkENB3DCeYyA
one of those flappy flutterbug things
(Butterfly walks onto a bar...)
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reel programmers
worked with magnetic tape
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dota-driven development (n.)
a programming paradigm in which the development stage is made as agile as possible so you will be able to deploy early and just play DotA for the rest of the day
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someone should cosplay Ganondalf and send me pictures
@tcql I looked it up, apparently it was. "ETOPS and systems functionality and reliability test for the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 Ten engine." https://twitter.com/jonostrower/status/893155797122732032 http://aviationweek.com/awincommercial/boeing-traces-787-shaped-flight-path-across-us
I guess they just needed to keep the plane in the air for a while, so might as well have fun with the flight plan since they don't care where they're flying.
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
