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OK, my amateur take on the OMB policy for forcing feds back to work prematurely-- it looks like someone in the administration wants to, but no one else does & the document is watered down.
You can lead a horse to the edge of a cliff but will they jump?
https://www.govexec.com/management/2020/04/white-house-instructs-agencies-begin-process-returning-some-employees-their-offices/164757/
META: what corporate comms offices hate: personality in messages. what is the only thing that can get attention on twitter? personality.
IDEA: Zoom haircuts. "Ok, move to the left, no the other left! higher higher, now cut! cut again! no! not like that!"
negative oil prices just means the simulation broke and datatype for OIL_PRICE went past the max value and is now negative. We should be able to infer what kind of CPU & type system reality is running on. Or this is a buffer overflow and OIL_PRICE was clobbered with garbage.
I bet West Virginia thinks they're going to become the neutral tax haven state. https://x.com/alfred_twu/status/1252295832088440835
Everyone should get one of these cheap $20 oxymeters. If your score is <90, you go to the hospital if less than <80 panic & go to the hospital. Your fever does not give you any such clear actionable signal. https://x.com/efwjames/status/1252610502309679105
COBOL is the scapegoat for IT orgs that had legacy apps & maybe still have one that for some reason was never decomissioned. But IT orgs blame their problems with their Java apps on the COBOL app, even if there is no direct connection.
Org name where I saw this withheld. https://x.com/IBMDeveloper/status/1252586637114191875
So someone in the managerial chain at Blackboard doesn't listen to the dweeb techies because they are just a bunch of dweebs. These are the companies that need discipline in the form of bankruptcy-- you can't get their attention otherwise. https://x.com/nduley/status/1252537663581753350
Etsy hasn't even shipped my masks yet and the administration is considering forcing federal employees to return to the covid distribution centers, I mean offices.
If I was a foreign adversary working in PsyOps, I'd be encouraging mass gatherings. Too bad the more likely explanation is stupidity. https://x.com/Brad7News/status/1252229262784049152
Worlds largest Covid party https://twitter.com/Brasilmagic/status/1252085770711597070
Ok, I think I've tracked down enough sources of food that I don't need to go to in a grocery store ever again.
It reminds me of the 2000s when I stopped going to video rental stores, banks, utility payment centers, certain retail stores, etc.
Where I'm getting groceries & food, probably obvious to most of y'all now, wasn't part of my mind 2 months ago https://link.medium.com/tcG8TTRrN5
It is everyone's civic duty to sign up for boxes & cheezy doodles & the like to arrive by mail, so we don't have to shop at physical grocery stores so often:
https://www.mysubscriptionaddiction.com/best-subscription-boxes/best-snack-boxes https://twitter.com/elgreg/status/1251632523916034055
The food shortages are extending into virtual reality. https://x.com/MSgtGunny/status/1251564378656301057
Difficult times. Wills, living wills, picking godparents.
But the most difficult choice you will ever make, is which snack box subscription to subscribe to. This is harder than comparing hotel points programs.
Grocery haul. Scrubbing protocols initiated. Probably got 85% of order https://x.com/mistersql/status/1251519436504342533/photo/1
If airlines are "too big to fail"-- just like banks-- they should be required to get government approval before they overinvest and gamble on buy airplanes they can't afford in downtimes. Or let 'em die like the cruise industry-- that's the free market.
Youtube algo fail: doesn't realize all I want to see is "groceries by mail videos" and that if it isn't from the last month, it is hopelessly out of date. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1251503100575264768
Weird ways to get food that I'm using/plan to try
The "pantries": amazon, boxed, taret. Weird selection-arrives in the mail. Reasonable prices.
Meal kits: purple carrot, etc expensive, involves some work. $10 a meal
Surprise Subscription boxes: eg. snacks-of-the-month boxes. No choices. $$
Ugly veggie box: Imperfect foods. Reasonable prices.
Restaurant food by the tray/bucket: Farewell.
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IDEA: If you get covid & if your phone could send to all the phones you got near a coupon for discounted time on a vent & increase sales at the hospital--the tech & privacy problems would be solved tomorrow. When co's can send a coupon society finds a way.
When adtech realized they could build a surveillance system to rival 1984, the CIA & the panopticon all in one & sell air fryers, they didn't have a long debate about privacy. They implemented it, it became a fait accompli & laws just smoothed over the rough edges.
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IDEA: instead of home delivery of milk, a weekly delivery of a bucket of cooked grits.
tired: me
wired: grocery haul youtube videos from the good ole days
The stockmarket (rally now?), election betting odds (coin flip?) all think there will be no consequences to any of this for anyone. Unless there are consequences, this is going to happen all over again in September.
Americans: Our latest SUV is a living room on wheels.
Iceland: Hold my bjór. https://x.com/olafurw/status/1251146996636778497
Ah ha! Now "Law of Demeter" makes sense. But what are pants? https://x.com/daedtech/status/1251122009305726977
Why are covid masks like jedi lightsabers and you have to make your own
Taiwan was responding to Covid on Jan 1. https://twitter.com/WBYeats1865/status/1212430526826479616
Greater DC area python celebrity developer on the job market https://x.com/kennethreitz42/status/1250795971262414848
I'm going to be a maximal shut-in while I watch the clown show from my window for the next 5 months. If schools are open in September the kid will bring home Covid though, so there are some bounds too how long I can keep the clown show out of the house. https://x.com/drewharwell/status/1250795027682471939
Retweeting the good ole days from a month ago when you could find kale. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1238288176118202368
It is a golden age of online tech conferences and meetups & I'm too busy.
My new jobs:
- Phys Ed teacher
- Math teacher
- Reading coach
- Household CDC. Not even governors have authority on my reopening plans.
- Part time chef
- Online grocery sniper
Weird, if it snows a lot now, schools will stay "open" https://x.com/waldojaquith/status/1250392874891587584
This is true or false. https://twitter.com/szul/status/1250225723371147265
Whoa, on a youtube *LIVE* video, you still have the button to play at 2X speed. It works! I turned it off right away because I don't want to lose half my life.
0's, 1's and nulls https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1249906545917186054
What is the word for wanting to know a word of dubious re-use value? https://x.com/mistersql/status/1250083557122457600
what is the word for the paralysis you feel when you're uploading 4gb across an unstable connection at 1.8mb per second and you think anything you might do on your workstation will jinx the upload
I'm transitioning to formal work pajamas. https://twitter.com/feadog/status/1250050528337371136