I can vote to expand sports betting, but no one asked me if we should have Prize Linked Savings Accounts (instead of interest you (might) win all of the interest the back would have paid to a pool of you & other similar account holders).
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MD voter cheat sheet https://twitter.com/pwthornton/status/1310596618534686720
I got my ballot. Time to start voting.
Masks work & cut spread in half. https://x.com/AliNouriPhD/status/1310769390279892992
Content-Security-Policy has been around since 2004? How is it that I haven't encountered it until now?
What animals have taken over your old office?
ref https://x.com/seywarddarby/status/1309559422696521735
What animals have taken over your old office?
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Bad gateway. No bytes for you.
Stop leering like that, it makes people uncomfortable. Just talk to them if you have something to say. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1310659168781598722/photo/1
Amtrak techies add feature to show you how full the train is in real time: https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/09/25/amtrak-train-social-distancing-covid/
The President just doesn't want to pay US taxes: "In 2017, the president’s $750 contribution to the operations of the U.S. government was dwarfed by the $15,598 he or his companies paid in Panama, the $145,400 in India and the $156,824 in the Philippines." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html
My voting plan:
1) Requested ballot, will return to drop box instead of mailing
2) If the ballot doesn't get to me, I will vote early in person
3) Searching VA houses on Redfin so I can help turn/keep VA blue next year
4) $ == votes at some ratio, so donating down-ballot
I found in the git diffs why Atlantis was destroyed
-resource "city" "atlantis"{}
+resource "city" "Atlantis"{}
Ha ha! You guys are all me now, half-incapable of reading social cues. You can't read the room because
- 90% are afraid to turn on the cameras
- 90% turned off the camera because vpn was about to die
Y'all have taken a long walk down the autistic spectrum.
This is the right answer if you are applying for a job as an astronomer & they ask "Where do you see yourself in 5 billion years?" https://twitter.com/shustada/status/1309149372114964486
Setting my zoom background to a picture off of Redfin. I think I just saved myself $625,000
status: downloading webex.exe for every single meeting.
Looks like it self-deletes to keep the drive from filling up wiht webex.exe, so webex knows about this problem.
Sometimes airplanes get measles and should be vaccinated to prevent that https://x.com/poppy_haze/status/1308408732632657922
re: transfer of power
seems like most tin-pot dictators graduated to dictators by building up a parallel loyal org, otherwise the legitimate one isn't going to obey orders that break norms. Where's the brownshirts?
What is the right answer? Wrong answers only, please.
I ordered the X Box XXX and it was only $20. Ships in a discrete package. I guess because it is digital and not analog. https://x.com/maloonds/status/1308504678376837121
I can upgrade my xbox (bough via gamer pass sub) in 16 months.
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-all-access/upgrade/eligibility-check
http://Ancestry.com has this machine generated bio, "So and so was born in Foo town, got a degree in Paletontolgy, got married at age 38, etc" I need one of those, except it generates the bio for the rest of my life.
e.g. "Matt took out a 30 year mortage, knowing full well he would be 77 were he to pay it off, 11 years after full social security eligibility, like that will ever happen"
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There are probably 0 Fartlanders in the country: http://howmanyofme.com/search/
(reports <123, but it reports that for all nonces)
Let's play xbox. Nope, they lawyers have f*K'ed it up and the minigame is to try to accept the privacy policies. It seems 4 gamertags in my house are now children & need a parent.
My dad is 80 something and does not need to sign my privacy policy, thank you.
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SAFe is some sort of backlash against Scrum & Scrum like things.
It's official- covid is an aerosol (think of seeing your breath on a cold day, that fog doesn't fall to the ground like a rain of pennies) & 6 feet & a face shield won't save you.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/21/cdc-covid-aerosols-airborne-guidelines/
RE prices in DVM will over next 5 years
This house costs $525,000 + $250,000i
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House shopping is exhausting and I haven't even visited a single house.
ActBlue is a civictech masterpiece. https://x.com/KaivanShroff/status/1307167641770102784
Oh boy, this isn't good for civil rights & so on.
SAFe is something about telling senior managers how to coordinate their projects. No one tells senior managers what to do. Middle managers do what senior management say. If it doesn't constrain the leaves on the org tree, it constrains no one. (cf microsoft's org chart)
Scaled Agile (SAFe) is most related to
Recap of our current lifestyle, aka clown show. [I gotta find another phrase, the comparison is unfair to clowns]
Title implies going to school is a better. No. Article makes it clear handling the pandemic like, Taiwan or Germany did was the alternative
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a34028673/parenting-pandemic-zoom-school/
"After we told you that 'I don't know' wasn't an acceptable answer for 'how long will this ticket take' you committed (your prof rep!) to 4 hours. Why isn't it done yet? The acceptance crits are clear: turn a square into a circle without rounding errors" https://x.com/EmilyKager/status/1306761438828965889
Election Day, (in VA), is today. And tomorrow. Pretend there is no tomorrow and vote today. https://x.com/MattForDelegate/status/1306925943894745088
Any IT Project Manager types looking for their next move? Library of Congress work. From where I sit, I see projects going to production, so that's an important sign of org health.
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/579129500
Software design patterns, if I recall correctly is the idea that if C++ has design flaws calling for lots of boilerplate workarounds, then programmers in other programming languages should have to suffer the same.
Icelandic jokes always feel like insider jokes. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1306642489156173825
right wing authoritarian-anarchist: "The government should exist only to enforce (brutally if necessary) freely entered contracts"
left: <writes contracts like below>
rwaa: "No, not like that, just contracts that support my socio-political world view" https://twitter.com/ericmoritz/status/1306610047657676801