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Silver line trains running at 15 minute intervals, is it the weekend? And I had to drive past three closed metro stops to get to Reston station. Who is running this place?

Here, let me save you some time.

`terraform plan && terraform apply && terraform plan && terraform && apply terraform plan && terraform apply && terraform plan && terraform apply && terraform plan && terraform && apply terraform plan && terraform apply`

Any polysci people here know if democracy is over in Italy and Sweden? Are they conservatives that could lose the next election or is that the end of elections where the ruling party will respect a defeat at the polls?

A design program increment, a development program increment, a testing program increment and a looping back to the design program increment to iterate. https://x.com/NotMyAgile/status/1574387564844404736

WaPo: "7 things to know today: Hurricane Ian; Russia shooting; Italy election; Rihanna; asteroid collision; and more"
Me: "That last one solves all the earlier ones, right?"

Wooden medal for today's 5k, kind of an oxymoron https://x.com/mistersql/status/1574037227595874306/photo/1

Today is ASL day. Did you know paper towel machines at highway rest areas speak ASL? I said "give me $&#@ paper or I'll disassemble you & flush you down the @#$& toilet" and it worked! 👋🧻

Anyone worried about the decline in culture? "Ask a Ninja" has hardly any views on youtube. I asked Alexa to play Three Wolf Moon & she didn't know what I was talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPB45AUmchM

IDEA: 5k race where they hand out the medal at the start line and take it away at the finish line if you're slow for your age range. Economists say this is a lot more motivating & incentives matter.

I have evicted
the objects
that were in
the cache

and which
you were probably
requesting
for deserializing

Forgive me
they were delicious
so unused
and so stale

Can I stop and say what an awesome data set pubmed is? It is a govtech gem. I wish all scholarly articles were there.

An yet, their UX for their saved search/saved record/collections feature is the pinnacle of anti-user, user hostility?

Lazy social conservatives retweeting each other since 1886 without so much as doing a pubmed or google scholar search to see what sociologists have to say about the matter. https://x.com/paulisci/status/1572713537910476801

BETL - bribe - extract transform - load https://x.com/yayalexisgay/status/1572308385080479745

tech interviewer: "Do you have any questions for us?"
me: "Who is this bus driver that keeps running over software developers? What are you doing to protect your staff? Do you have any leads on this serial killer?"

Me: "What's this symptom?"
Dr Google: "Oh that! You'll probably die"
Me: 😰
Dr Google: "Hold on, you're not dead yet? You'll be okay, for a while. You are mortal, though."

META: on one of my twitter accounts, the algo gives preference to tweet storms. This is the slippery slope towards this site turning into http://blogger.com

Tim Horton's product dev: "We got these donut holes, donut balls things what should we call them, we can call them Tim's ..."
Tim Horton: "Timbits"

So to over simplify, the gov guidance was "have you tried not writing insecure code?" i.e. using project management tools (priorities, project phase gates, etc) to solve a technical problem (finding bugs & fixing them before someone exploits them)

https://swagitda.com/blog/posts/securing-the-supply-chain-of-nothing/

Too many people at the airshow to tweet pictures of the planes. Cellphone towers must be overloaded.

Actually, what's stopping red states from emptying all their prisons & bussing them to neighboring states & doing the same for everyone else that needs social services, e.g. homeless, people with drug & mental problems, the unemployed. This can't be new ground in federal law.

Gotta mention that the tips go right through skulls. These things could have revolutionized ancient warfare. https://x.com/USCPSC/status/1570839973691281409

There has to be a better way to run netscape navigator, this in browser simulator is dog slow

https://oldweb.today/?browser=ns3-mac#https://billhunt.dev

Half of all DC workers are WFH, 37% of Fairafax and MoCo workers are WFH.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/15/dc-work-from-home-census/

PDF wrapped around html wrapped around canvas wrapped around excel data source. https://x.com/pcrickard/status/1570769253179228171

Your trash miles are

How long until wikipedia needs a disambiguation page for cryptofascism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-fascism

Wow. Just wow. People could switch to EV just because they hate price haggling. Or better yet, shut down all the dealers and mail order the cars directly from Michigan. https://x.com/GuyDealership/status/1570062956364468224

And remined him that we kicked his great-*-grandfather out in 1783 https://x.com/POTUS46Archive/status/1570076153984991232

When you want to avoid passing variables through a call stack... you want to know what's simpler than global variables? Smashing your hands with a hammer. Do that next time you get the urge to move 25+ variables to a global just to avoid passing them as args.

This a right hand or left hand chart https://x.com/mistersql/status/1567195257342656515

IDEA: links to pubmed, but you can't get a cryptographically signed link until you pass a quiz that demonstrates that you read the article and understand it.

IDEA: 5k Donut race, but instead of getting a donut, you race across a very large torus

IDEA: back up your code by registering your copyright and sending in a deposit to Library of Congress. (I'm joking, afaik, LoC doesn't expect two copies of everything you copyright)

https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/detailed-record/13563283