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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C++ pointer named "that" that points to a random instance of a class.
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"To Serve Man, with Software" https://blog.codinghorror.com/to-serve-man-with-software/
Great blog post, sums up a lot of my feelings about working in tech in 2017. There's been a lot to grapple with this year.
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Don’t let people tell you “there are always a few bad apples”. That’s not how the saying goes. It’s actually “a few bad apples spoil the bushel” - in other words, if there are a few bad apples, that’s cause to believe the rot has spread and it’s time to throw the whole thing out.
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TIL “tamale” (cornmeal and filling wrapped in corn husk) and “tomalley” (edible fat in a lobster) are unrelated words; I always figured “tomalley” was a corruption of “tamale”.
Nope: “tamale” is from a Nahuatl word meaning “wrapped”, and “tomalley” is from the Carib word referring to that part of the lobster.
@noelle it's because his hands are too short! The stress lines are in his arms as he's trying to bring his hands together, but he's got little dinosaur arms that can't reach each other!
@Elizafox Like a souped up version of the procedural filibuster. Ugh.
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tired: Fast Fourier Transform
wired: Slow Artisanal Hand-crafted Fourier Transform
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In about 1-2hrs I'm going to kick off my Christmas Stream \o/
Me and Loa are together going to not starve, in Don't Starve Together
You can check in on https://twitch.tv/maloki
I am currently hosting someone, who's doing a 24hrs stream, so you got something to watch in the meanwhile!
See you later!
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(With apologies to a couple of friends I know working in blockchain startups) is blockchain the ultimate example of putting technologies before actual needs? The first thing I learned from innovation training was "Problem First": find the right tech to solve a problem, not the other way around.
"Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain"
https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-a-use-case-for-blockchain-ee98c180100
via @Gargron
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What English word has three consecutive double letters?
"Bookkeeper" (although I'm told there are others).
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What English word has nine letters and only one vowel?
"Strengths".
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From what English word can you remove four letters and have the pronunciation remain the same?
"Queue".
Politics, economics
@Angle@witches.town universal basic income, universal health care, free education. Paid for by progressive taxes.
A lot of terrible consequences of our economic system would be ameliorated if people were really, truly free to leave jobs.
Holiday travel (?)
@jaycie wait, how does that work?????
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Politics, Facebook
As an aside, it's a dark year for the tech industry when a major news magazine can ask with a straight face whether one of the largest and most successful tech companies can be tried for crimes against humanity.
As Facebook is the #1 site on the web, part of my job on the Edge perf team is to make sure that Facebook runs fast. It's hard to find any corner of the tech industry that doesn't have blood on its hands. What a demoralizing time to work in tech.
@Gargron The scientists that could come up with theories like that and prove them were kept far, far away from a 22-million-dollars-a-year contract paid out to a friend of a high-ranking senator.
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Why the fuck did chiropractic get associated with mainstream med? That's not far removed from saying palm readers are legitimate hand doctors. Chiropractic is actually pseudoscience and has nothing to do with your muscoskeletal system.
USPol
@Azure Yep
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@wxcafe@social.wxcafe.net fscking hilarious
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
