Gimmie, gimme, now. One of these bastards was biting me this weekend. https://x.com/NPR/status/1557117794713575425
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95 out, feels like 103. When the UV index gets low enough I'm going running to see what I am made of.
Hypothesis: 99% sweat.
Does anyone know of python's or other languages' way to handle date fragments, e.g. a column with sometimes year, sometimes month-year, sometimes a full date where 1982 != 1/1/1982 or other such strong assumptions?
Work From Home was a mess until a critical mass of people were doing it. Work From Snowpiercer (a train that moves continually through all countries), work from under the bed covers (can't wake up or get out of bed), work from the bathroom while showering, work from campground...
...have yet to prove themselves as viable. "But what if I get all my work done while working from the foam dance stage at all night rave in Benidorm Spain? If I can get my work down while snorting crushed oxys, how would my employer know & why would they care?"
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So many British and Canadian and Australian youtubers. Would you give youtube fame a go if you knew you had health insurance?
As soon as get Hawaii, I'm going to do youtube full time.
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IDEA: Bark Run, but instead of dogs running 5k's on weekends like you thought I was going to say, it is squirrels going up really tall trees.
I'm thinking about logic & logical programming. What are people using for logical programming & is anyone productively using it for argumentation/philosophy? Seems to me most arguments are either small (few propositions where the problems are not logic problems, but disagreements
with the truth value of axioms) or the logical problem is so large, it isn't the sort things people do in arg/philo, but are instead databases (think prolog) or circuitry (think how logic is used to simplify billions of transistors)
♡ 1 ↻ 0Also, just about all programming languages have the basic logical operators, just about no one is putting an argument in the form of python (or are they?)
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15 minutes until the next 5k starts. Today is a run with George Washington's ghost at Mt Vernon. Already saw wild turkeys, also expecting to see snakes.
The 9yo son did a 41m personal record. Very light turn out, first time that this themed run has happened (purple heart org)
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1- the Atari controller will give you mean RSI https://x.com/joeybagovdonuts/status/1555747501667401728
I see on Strava people are out running in this heat.
IDEA: dark mode on nytimes, but it makes the background black, the text white and all the good news stories disappear.
I just know there has to be a Gettiest problem.
People also ask indeed. If story points were just another way to express hours, we'd just use hours. People should see that as a signal that these are not hours. If people just can't grok the math, maybe don't ask them for a metric they don't understand. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1555597164465766403/photo/1
So, tell me the kurtosis of the distribution of ticket durations? I swear, if kurtosis was adopted by scrum, google would start compiling
How many hours is 2 standard deviation?
...is a kurtosis of 0.03?
...is a variation of 4?
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Some one should work out which pypi packages have lots of downloads and are linked to a Gitlab repo & fork it to Github.
Oh you joke, but to get a MS SQL cert you need to know how to create a linked server to an excel file. These generally don't support INSERT/UPDATE so of course you need to use spOA* eg. sp_OACreate for creating COM objects in any language that supports COM, like C++ or VBScript. https://x.com/GarvinCasimir/status/1555283436352446464
And of course the excel files should be on Samba servers around the world and the COM objects should be COM+ objects hosted on win98 machines in Thailand.
♡ 0 ↻ 0I hear you, I hear you, why Thailand? The humidity will wreck the machines. Tape up the fan vents to keep the humidity out.
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IDEA: Terminal UI (TUI) running app. Set your keyboard on the floor and run on it- each mashing of the keys registers as a step.
IDEA: Strava, but for laying on the couch. Add GPS & social features so people can see I'm king-of-the-couch for the couch downstairs.
"Business Analyst" funny how a job about semantics (creating clear communication between business and IT dept) has come to mean any sort of job, from Technical Architect to Project Manager to odd-job office secretary, as if words mean nothing, not just contingently, like but ever
Oh it gets worse. The phrase BA gets used in 4+ industries
- Business, sort of accountant/consultant for business process improvement
- IT, writes the specs for techies
- Journalism, specializes in articles about business
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You get a pay cut, you get a pay cut, you all get pay cuts! (Funny how rent & home prices are exploding in good times, bad times, all the time, but only when yogurt goes up 15% does society think something drastic needs to be done) https://twitter.com/mattcampux/status/1554848640686063618
ad: "Scope to make annual salary between $ 50,000 - $140,000"
translation: We're happy to underpay you by $90,000 if we can get away with it.
# don't write code like this.
def add(a=42, b=13):
return a + b
Defaults are not a place for you to put the argument values you want to execute right now.
# okay
add = lambda a:0, b:0: a+b
# better
add = lambda a, b: a+b
add(42,13)
If it is specific, it isn't a default
15 minute warnings for Zoom #outlook meetings are the worst. I'm guessing they intensively tested each range to work out that most people are latest & forget about the meeting altogether with a 15 minute warning.
Business Analysis is in a large park knowing acronyms, i.e. STUPID - Syllables That're Urranged In Duck-rows
INVEST, MoSCoW, SWOT, SMART, etc.
Stockholm syndrome APIs/tools
- vi
- regex
- bash (the programming language)
We pretend that if we are fans and friends of these that they won't murder us in our sleep, but murdering you in your sleep is all vi, regex and bash's syntax can think about.
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Once comments are added, regex is no longer any more concise than other string manipulation APIs. https://x.com/adamzielin/status/1554800540198002689
"yes we have no bananas" lyrics says it is a sandwich- "I only want a hotdog sandwich", so it is settled
ref https://www.flashlyrics.com/lyrics/louis-prima/yes-we-have-no-bananas-00
This is a good library. +1 https://x.com/playwrightweb/status/1552975463995215873
Many tweets about this recall grabbed random stock images to illustrate the recall, except this one https://x.com/KENS5/status/1554202857104105478
IDEA: BRD site where you can post business requirement documents, but only if they are less than 280 characters. You can like 'em or parrot them back, but you won't be able to dislike them without replying with a short essay.
DALL-E
1) Invented a new pizza box style
2) Does not seem to understand a pizza should fill the box.
3) Someone scraped off some of the sauce.
4) Nightmare faces & hands https://x.com/mistersql/status/1553847380641996801/photo/1
This AI invents a new style of pizza box and really, I think all people are going to pay attention to is the nightmare faces & hands.
"Wow your website can search data from 100s of years ago to present. I don't like the color scheme"♡ 1 ↻ 0Notches, lots of them. Stackable. Pizza box that opens to reveal another pizza box inside it. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1553848509379518467/photo/1
♡ 1 ↻ 0AI doesn't know what blacked-out logos are.
I guess it has an opinion on if Chevy could make an electric cross over version of the discontinued Malibu- yes but it would look a lot like any other Malibu. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1553850171666169858/photo/1♡ 0 ↻ 0Fully automatic oatmeal machine. Check the "Tal meti mat" screen for error messages. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1553861778848759811/photo/1
♡ 1 ↻ 0Best I could do to illustrate a tourist wrecking a Toyota 4Runner by driving off a cliff in Iceland. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1553867887617757184/photo/1
♡ 0 ↻ 0This would be an awesome party for 10 year old me.
AI mom created music playing Star Wars action figures out of clay. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1553878972592685058/photo/1♡ 0 ↻ 0"RAV4 inside a drive through bakery in Reykjavik Iceland. The car broke through the wall, there is a lot of glass on the ground. Bread and pastries scattered everywhere." https://x.com/mistersql/status/1553881204189007875/photo/1
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Checks out - "Under da sea"'s Copyright registration - https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/detailed-record/8875036 - from back in 1998. https://x.com/davidhogg111/status/1553552433372188672
1988. sigh. no edit.
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Did not win the lottery. Now checking to see how to return all this $1.2B of merchandise I can no longer afford.
DALLE doesn't realize that hands are hard to draw and you don't even need hands on a snake. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1553388500271112192/photo/1
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I'm simulating those top-of-the-tweets icons. I feel eleft out.
LIFEHACK: Do your knees crack going up and down stairs? Easy, just don't bend your knees going up and down stairs.
Now, what to do with all this power https://x.com/mistersql/status/1552320356580458496/photo/1
pylint:"W1201: Use lazy % formatting in logging functions (logging-not-lazy)"
me: "I'm using the standard lib logging library, clearly I don't care about performance or I'd be using one of those high perf drop in replacements like picologging"
Conference room air calculator- calculate how stupid your conference room is making everyone (via CO2 cognitive impairment)
https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/pollution-concentration-rooms-d_692.html
Fart Cherries, I'm not buying that https://x.com/mistersql/status/1551693472435998721/photo/1
Virtual 5k races are the NFTs of the running world- 100% profit if you can convince anyone that the database entry has value & to spend money on it. Opposite to NFTs tho, it is 100% honor system! Like *nothing* to engender trust at ALL. And people still spend $ on it