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Being forced to deal with the government for work, CW: All caps, frustration, venting. 

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Serious "What If" Question 

If you could snap your fingers and make the internet: • Cease to exist
• All memory of it vanishes
• No modems either
• Software is sold and moved primarily using thumbdrives

Would you do it?

Fucking damnit... looks like the evap coil on our fridge went boom.... it is not cooling below 60F and there is a ton of water and condensation

Atleast all the meat is taken care of, stuffed in cooler with ice, same with fresh veggies meant for this week.

Have a tech that will be coming out to look at it tomorrow.. hopefully shit won't be too pricey.

The Asian Restaurant Heuristic wins again: the scary looking hole-in-the-wall with a flawed rating from the health inspector is *superb*.

That feeling when you can't remember if you took your pay attention pill or not, :blobwaitwhat: and you're weary of taking one 'cause if you take two it makes you vibrate out of your body :blobastonished:

Things I wish people would tell me:

It's okay to be queer and not be some counter-cultural revolutionary. It doesn't invalidate you or make you any less of who you are, and it doesn't mean you don't belong. It's okay to just be who you are - and if that means just living your life and trying to find peace, that's perfectly acceptable.

Decided to see what would happen if I trained a neural net to write names for self-aware AIs.
May I present: GPT-2 trained on AI names from Iain M. Banks's Culture novels
aiweirdness.com/post/185883998

a game is always better when it lets you be a lizard

US Politics: Nancy Pelosi 

I fucking hate Nancy Pelosi.

Her seat would better serve progressive interests if it were filled by a fucking Republican, and that's not something I'll say about literally any other elected official in office today.

Elsewhere, #HugATailDay is a thing on Fridays. If you need a kobold tail to hug or a kobold hugging your tail, just ask!

Kill Staging/DevOps 

Me.. sitting in a CI/CD transition meeting with one of the teams my team supports.. half awake as they discuss all this effort to bring parity to staging (because they don't do parallel stacks in staging but we do in prod for them)

"Here me out... OR YOU COULD JUST DO IT IN PROD!"
"What?! Do it in prod? But... testing?!"
"Do it in prod! After all last deployment that we just rolled back before this meeting tested perfectly in staging but because of factors we literally could not replicate anywhere but PROD.. it failed. So... you should just do it LIVE but you know.. with feature flags, incremental roll out and parallel stacks so we can fail back to known good builds... which we already do.. in PROD!"
My boss in a private message: "Are you upset at me for scheduling this meeting at 8am?"
Me: "Only slightly... but I am 100% serious about killing their Staging instead of having them waste a bunch of time trying to replicate what they have already built in Prod.."

TL;DR

DO IT LIVE, DO IT IN PROD (Assuming you trust your Devs.. if not.. well.. shit)

Work, Guns, team building 

So I got dragged to "Sporting Clays" as a team building exercise at work.

After a practice round... I hit 22 of 25 shots right handed and 6/10 left handed shots because my shoulder was hurting and my boss dared me to do it.

I've not shot a shotgun in probably 4 years... and shot clays in 15

political hot take 

Politicians are weird, defective caricatures of people, and campaigns are weird rituals to try to convince us that’s what people are like

If your tail isn't wagging intensely when you exclaim "Kobold!" what are you even doing?

"You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse driving consumerism, don't you?"

BTW: Good Omens is delightful and a roaring fun read so far. And the show is a lot of fun too. Too bad the fundies got Netflix to stop making more of it.

Thanks brain... sure did enjoy the not sleeping last night... welp.. work time on not quite 3 hours of sleep :(

If you want headpats from a kobold,. you need to crouch down or offer us a stepladder.

"irritation" is core to the experience of most video games; it creates a sincere experience of triumph

HRT, my personal trans experience 

-- Swimsuits are bullshit sometimes, but i need to get one that fits and can withstand the way I play. The pride-pandering impulse purchase was just a little bit too small to be comfortable or Rex enough for all these chocolate curves.

-- Diving after a 17 year gap has made me realized just how much my bio-frame has changed from the cached tactile map from my Varsity days. There are a couple of things there that weren't there the last time.

-- Feeling my tits bob and float on the surface at the shallow end is such a fun and silly feeling. I love it.

I forgot just how much fun playful immersion is. I haven't played water in 17 years. And I didn't realize how much I missed and needed it. I'm gonna be in the fabrication lab for a while. Gotta start speccing out a water-play frame and platform.

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