23 and me wants me to count how many moles I got on my arm. I checked google images and I'm glad it is 0. You should check your arm too. It never occured to me that one of these could be on my arm without me knowing. https://x.com/mistersql/status/965616286423306240/photo/1
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Sophos Mac doesn't actually do virus scanning, it just attempts to unzip all the file on my disk until it runs out of drive space, crashes and repeats. It rivals bitcoin for how it wastes electricity.
It is a logical necessity to think that this box either means logical necessity or it is a unicode error. Internet logic is the valid set of deductions you can make despite the unicode rendering errors of the operators. https://x.com/mistersql/status/965411666761601025/photo/1
Elon Musk could have resolved the Russell's teapot conundrum by buying Russell's teapot & launching it into orbit between Earth & Mars, but no, we have to launch frivolous things like a roadster.
ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
Oh we thought we understood frivolous "Clearly we have a great deal of evidence against teapotism. For example, as far as we know, the only way a teapot could have gotten into orbit around the sun would be if some country with sufficiently developed space-shot capabilities had...
♡ 1 ↻ 0shot this pot into orbit. .No country with such capabilities is sufficiently frivolous to waste its resources by trying to send a teapot into orbit. Furthermore, if some country had done so, it would have been all over the news; we would certainly have heard about it.
♡ 1 ↻ 0But we haven't. And so on. There is plenty of evidence against teapotism."
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As a DBA, what sort of hill would you die on your for beliefs regarding databases?On the other hand, a ML model probably could work out the religion, visa-card status of anyone on twitter with at least 80%+ accuracy. https://x.com/WebDevLaw/status/957256426392494080
I used to be annoyed by the words epistemology, teleology, ontology, etc, 'cause I confused them & forgot what the meant. Maybe I should call 'em "know-stuff-ology", "purpose-stuff-ology", "what-is-there-ology"
I learn in French they pronounce clown like English clone, so I imaged this:
Object funny_copy = obj.clown()
Lambda are functions that can take map of inputs to output where the inputs and outputs can be functions, too. Why they don't get names bemuses me. (seems like I'm not the first ref: https://gist.github.com/ericelliott/414be9be82128443f6df ) https://x.com/mistersql/status/965016508249276416/photo/1
All of a sudden I've taken a keen interest in propositional/predicate logic as applied to *English* argumentation. So I'm looking at college textbooks which routinely sell for $50-$100+ but the previous editions sell for as little as $2! e.g. Elements of Reason, Muson et al
Big snowflakes, so we got one precondition for accumulation. Still not cold enough.
Windows 10 + Toshiba + Atheros == Wifi never works without 10-15 minutes of futzing. Someone allowed a crappy component into the chain and now all three brands are poop in my mind.
With schools, military, federal employees, post office, contractors, people on social security- that is a lot of people. If the US gov't required flu vaccinations or made them free at the door, we could really pump up vaccination rates https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/health/flu-vaccine-effectiveness.html?hpw&rref=health&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well
You are a backend dev. But we don't have an server admin, so you're dev ops. But we don't have a front end dev either. Actually, we don't hardware nor money for an AWS account. You will get a bag of sand for making silicon chips. https://x.com/seanwalberg/status/964620313781768192
Hand copying Atari BASIC programs from the book "Basic is Fun" to Atari to see what they'd do. The closest thing that still exists like this would be coding Kata. https://x.com/jesslynnrose/status/964449981070536705
Craigslist's flagging system is so broken, they might as well not have a flagging system. I don't understand why backpage got legal attention when Craigslist is effectively a sci-fi anarchy.
For the price of a stupid Mexico wall, we could build between one and six space elevators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator_economics#Cost_estimates_for_a_space_elevator
In the future people will marvel at how we were able to communicate with a system of thousands and thousands of identical squares. https://x.com/KeithBroni/status/955407409513750529
META: for every sort of measured metric on twitter, there is a form of automated spam that has ruined the metric- trending topics, follower counts, all of it. Without removing bots, the explanation for everything is bots.
aaSAaaS= "-aaS" Acronyms as a Service.
Preferred peanut butter
Two things I'll never touch: bitcoin and uber. The former is for circumventing laws involving money and illegal transactions (gambling, drugs, extortion), the later is a means of circumventing business licensing & labor laws. It crimtech.
Bitcoin can "work" as a speculation asset & criminal currency without my participation, but can't work as a currency without near universal acceptance. Uber unfortunately can work, as long as the government allows technology to trump existing laws, regardless to my participation.
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IDEA: bitcoin, but I sell mattcoins, which I sell a fixed amount to speculators, those speculators may not re-sell, so the day when the market can't find a bigger fool will never come. Like bitcoin, mattcoin is useless for transactions or buying goods.
IDEA: bitcoin, except instead of solving a math problem to earn a coin, you have to write over the top blog posts defending libertarianism and cryptocurrencies and harass skeptics & nonbelievers online.
You have an app, if it breaks you got 24 hours to fix it & if you don't you're canned. Do you want this:
Colocated at hoster == "still a box in a datacenter, but someone else owns the data center, i.e. on premise, but someone else's staff, building and box"
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This infinite loop sure is taking a long time to finish.
Specification thinking (popular with a stereotypical engineers) is really magical: One can succeed by fulfilling the infallible specifications of an omniscient customer. That inside of this is near pure rationality (eg writing code), it is surprising it is wrapped in superstition
Real customers are stupid and don't know what they want. So success can't be fulfilling a specification that someone delivered to your desk unless you believe fairies wrote it.
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WRT to philosophy, I'm more of a...
On the topic of automatons, Rene Descarte tortured & killed dogs to illustrate to his guests how they were automatons incapable of feeling pain. The continental philo would lock onto the horror of it all, the analytic philo would start listing pros & cons.
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Who controls a name? If more than one function controls the name, it just isn't a good career choice. https://x.com/mistersql/status/963172934494932992/photo/1
Add this to your architecture so it will scale. https://x.com/mistersql/status/963149533860454400/photo/1
This image, oddly enough, does not scale and has been cropped.
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ORMs exist to save you from dealing with the painful simplicity of SQL in favor of exquisitely impenetrable errors and internals of whatever happens behind that .save() method.
It is 1918. You have two unsolicited requests for job interviews from IBM. You thought 100 years of time travel would be enough to escape the recruiters. https://x.com/ThatEricAlper/status/962188018978193408
Periodic reminder- Twitter *wants* nazis to have a voice on Twitter- they *don't have a technical problem in removing them*.
Change your locale to Germany (in settings) & the Nazis are gone. Change it back to US & twitter *wants* you to see nazi content.
I just refuse all Doctor prescribed drugs (did so just recently!) I figure someone in the supply chain is trying to get me addicted. https://x.com/nguyenist/status/962453465116106753
By drugs I mean the lengthy list of highly abusable drugs, especially opioids, but also adderall, xanax and the like.
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Sophos for mac has to be the worst virus scanner that ever existed. It is like a thermal malware hellbent on cutting my CPUs life in half. It keeps my machine locked up for 1/2 hr a day & is slowly destroying my battery.
If you code on a boat you could be docking your solution in Great Bay on St. Martin's Island. https://x.com/daveaglick/status/961678861544120326
The apache spark error message's call is large enough to have its own palpable gravity. Literally nothing is capable of displaying it in a default buffer.
This was actually a reason I refused to get any coffee at Dunkins even when I was visiting Boston
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/02/07/dunkin-donuts-joins-eco-friendly-parade-will-switch-to-paper-cups-by-2020/?hpid=hp_no-name_hp-in-the-news%3Apage%2Fin-the-news&utm_term=.f19d3a2a12c7
By reading this retweet you agree to hold me harmless, but don't hug me, plz. I'm not a lawyer, but by the power vested in me, you're now a lawyer. By reading this tweet, y'all agree to help me move my couch & buy me a latte. My boss doesn't trust me, so they don't endorse this. https://x.com/internetrebecca/status/961366490917277696
This "spend your social security money now for parental leave" is a crap idea.
Retirement plans make it hard to spend that money *now* because people will spend it all now if they can & then we'd have the problem of penniless retirees again.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-paid-family-leave-plan-would-punish-those-who-choose-to-have-kids/2018/02/07/dc612c0c-0b85-11e8-95a5-c396801049ef_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-c%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.71135f9db873
It isn't like having kids keeps you from ever needing to retire, if anything, it makes you age faster. And the subtext here is that if you have kids, then those kids will personally take care of you through all of retirement.
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This programming methodology beats all others. https://x.com/LogicalDiagram/status/961259727966687232