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Wow, some really central piece of internet infrastructure just fell over. A lot of big names all affected at the same time.

https://downdetector.com/ https://x.com/_odddie_/status/1220440268291395585

If you have comcast, you literally don't get this joke, because your computer can't look up the DNS for twitter. https://x.com/TheOnion/status/1220420801461178372

What is an L? A humble lego with no ego.

My youtube recommendations have converged on a local minimum and no amount of page refresh can get the algo out of this deep pit. The objective function is like going down to an infinite negative singularity. I'm going to have to switch to incognito or go to bed.

how do you get unit test coverage for:

try:
a = 1+1
except:
LOGGER.warning("Someone changed that code, didn't they")

Seems like there should be a functional programming trick to do it with lambdas and what not.

#python

Which car postpones the world burning by the most days?

7% chance of Trump out, Election betting odds still hates Pence (so even if trump left, only 0.4% chance that Pence is prez in 2020). Maybe this means all the numbers are +/- at least 7% wrt the gap between betting odds and reality.

https://electionbettingodds.com/

You can hear lots of angry shouting with megaphones outside my hotel in Richmond. Helicopters are back.

These folk want a replay of 1865 https://x.com/socialistdogmom/status/1219246707684397056

Richmond this morning a few blocks from my hotel. Conservatives decry peaceful protests but engage in this sort of protest https://x.com/socialistdogmom/status/1219239465048297472

What are we doing to get royal status?

Product endorsement for the day: The Babe Ruth donut at Sugar Shack. Available in Richmond & some other places in Virginia. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1219028322077769728/photo/1

Sticker on sign in Richmond https://x.com/mistersql/status/1218997695299321856/photo/1

So I learn selling meat with salmonella is not against the law

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/he-helped-make-burgers-safer-now-hes-fighting-food-poisoning-again/2020/01/18/5b979cf8-38ad-11ea-9541-9107303481a4_story.html

Favorite faux currency.

(Plastic gems are worth the most with my kids)

Going to Richmond this weekend. Fingers crossed we don't cross paths with the domestic terrorists.

Googling how to hold a funeral for a dead pixel.

Drat, I read this as a $500+ kilobuck job. I guess if you monetize your Django apps, maybe. https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1217854359641280512

Does water vote and how many Electoral votes will it have on the new map? https://x.com/mistersql/status/1217931406183190530

Too bad sea level is the result of a nonlinear process, or we could have a "http://when-will-florida-sink-below-the-sea.com" website.

Is me having a bad experience in Florida a good reason to wish it would sink?

Yes. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1217931406183190530/photo/1

Last time I looked at Edge seriously it didn't have plugins. I assume it still doesn't. I mean, why should I spend any time checking in periodically to see if it is a Browser or a weekend hobby project? https://x.com/bugbytesinc/status/1217923173267714079

IDEA: software development class, but first hour is spent learning how to pick Kpop tunes to listen to while working.

Why does pylint hate forests?

[R0912(too-many-branches)]

Thread https://twitter.com/abachman/status/1217795309490839552

Fortunately our leaders listen to technocrats about risks regarding near-extinction level events & implement prudent precautions despite inconvenience to the current way of doing business. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1217796399187791876

Prediction: If we don't develop phage therapy or the like, the end of antibiotics will come with a 75% drop in world population. Most analysis only look at how many people die *now* from ABX resistant & ignore that no ABX means black death all over again, but with better vectors

(Just kidding, taxes are the membership dues of civilization, those who can pay and don't, really shouldn't get any more services than the deer and rabbits get.) https://x.com/mistersql/status/1217570802444296192

IDEA: what if IRS is subject to GDPR, can I assert my right to be forgotten?

Blue Labs needs techies and data science, data analyst folk. DC and elsewhere. https://twitter.com/apiology/status/1217542789514375178

4 more followers and I will have a 1337 following

They're all good candidates, Brent. 12/10.

Why isn't this code running?!

def do_it():
return
blah_blah();
blah_blah_blah();

Oh.

So this typing website, before you learn to type, you need to create an account and password and know how to type a complex password blind. Lesson one is just pushing f and j over and over.

The people who control their time and the people in purchasing are different people. So if takes >3 months to get any thing approved (IF approved, 15% chance), then you should do it yourself it if takes less than 9 months. Your pay is the same either way.

This is the way. https://twitter.com/brandonsavage/status/1216055766752354305

The syntax for try-except-pass.

# pylint: disable=bare-except,broad-except
# noinspection PyBroadException
try:
do_it()
except BaseException: # noqa
pass

Administration (of you know who) is trying to end remote working policies for Federal workers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-remote-work-rises-at-us-companies-trump-is-calling-federal-employees-back-to-the-office/2020/01/12/37aad040-2d80-11ea-9b60-817cc18cf173_story.html