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Around the holiday season there is an uptick in sightings of squash-sauces.

With the current regulatory environment, I think the only thing that would stop Apple from sabotaging the equipment of its customers is if we stopped buying their stuff. I guess Apple's got nothing to fear, it isn't like the Windows phone ever went away.

I met my wife on @okcupid, not sure my wife would have signed up in the first place if she had to provide her real name (which happens to be globally unique, literally no one else in the world has the same name).

If someone's location is ABC -> XYZ (such that ABC, XYZ are valid airport codes)

Gamblers really hate Pence. They think there is a 50% chance Pence will be President (via impeachment/resignation) but only a 6% chance he will parlay that into a 2nd term in 2020.

https://electionbettingodds.com/

My iphone got perf-bricked last update too. It was a good phone. https://x.com/BBC/status/943851875706826752

1 trillion of government borrowing means an offsetting 1 trillion of of taxes when it comes time to pay off those government bonds later. Back when I was in economics class, *conservative* economics said this sort of Keynesian stimulus would be an ineffective wash.

2017: Use ORM for simple cases, SQL for complex cases.
2018: Use SQL for simple cases, use ORM when some 3rd party library gives you no other choice or if they've kidnapped your children and have already mailed you their fingers.

So if you try to make coffee with a Keurig cup your 2 year old bit into, it create a coffee-ground volcano with grounds flowing out all cracks in the Keurig and a sort of lousy Greek coffee with a tablespoon of grounds on the bottom and another TB floating.

Kids are more popular that you think dinosaur. https://x.com/mistersql/status/943272506445778945/photo/1

Fking Starbucks won't give you what you ask for and gives lames excuses. Talking about you Smithsonian Zoo Starbucks.

UX oversight- the kids have transformed everything in the hotel into a toy, but there aren't in fact any toys.

Everytime someone clicks like on your social media, a small round cookie pops out. https://x.com/mistersql/status/942837226496552960/photo/1

Trains falling off rails is what happens when no one invests substantial money into rail maintenance for decades. DoT, Amtrak, et al, should be funded well enough to do something about this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/us/amtrak-derailment-washington.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=66238219&pgtype=article

The Atlanta Airport just wanted to feel like the rest of us in the country, in the dark, powerless and surrounded by chaos.

Dr. Gaius Baltar co-authored the technology behind Waymo, the self driving car, so really we can all sleep soundly at night. https://x.com/DerekDaczewitz/status/942491326058287104

with only 1 try to get a password right, why bother with username/password at all? The UI would just be a "password" reset cycle & no option to ever enter your username & password.

I might get a $2000 tax cut ignoring health ins, home prices, higher interest rates. I plan to give $2000 to anti-Republican advocacy causes this year, I encourage you to do the same. https://x.com/mpiccorossi/status/942430874901073921

On mac-chrome on Clozemaster, the French robot speaks like it is on crack-espresso, but the Icelandic robot speaks slower than colloquial English. Does that just mirror reality?

At best a semigroup- while mathematicians multiply, they don't have an identity element, i.e. no way to create clones. https://x.com/reesevans/status/942372425970409472

A: First Name?
B:Alexa-Siri-Cortana
[Hello? Would you like to buy something?] [Hello? I'm useless, but I heard my name.] [Hello?]
A: Uh, do you have a middle name?
B: Okaigoogle

Continuing to do Clozemaster practice for FR, ES, EO, IS and you will never believe the astonishing things that foreigners do with prepositions. I'm like, je ne l'avais pas vu venir.

A few queries of the Exchange servers & chat logs of the military & federal agencies probably could turn up thousands of soldiers and feds for purging. (Or re-education camps, I hear they are popular in similar regimes) https://x.com/ericgarland/status/941633332252639238

Android/iOS app notifications are the worst. The are developers showing how much the f*ing hate their users. I mean, like hey man, I never met you and I didn't kill your puppy when you were 5. Direct that rage elsewhere.

Well, I guess this is symbolic of current leadership. https://x.com/RobertMaguire_/status/941715143150526465

I am copying all my django code to my celery workes and my celery worker code to the django UI.

I only know one truth: It's time for celery to end.

We have no idea what will happen without net neutrality, but money will change hands and it will be going from your to ISPs, the only question is how much and what path it will take.

Without specialization, you can only do 2 or 3 meetings a week. With specialization, everyone can do 40 or even 80 meetings a week. https://x.com/neurobashing/status/941393385449050114

I keep typing "things" instead of "thinks" -- it is like my typing has a cold. g and k aren't even close on the keyboard. Tank you berry much for your addention aboud dis.

META: Twitter doesn't honor "turn off retweets" anymore. Has anyone figured out a work around for this? It is like twitter really wants me to write my own customer twitter newsfeed reader.

Since this was the conclusion that the FCC head wanted, did the FCC fill in the forms themselves? https://x.com/acdha/status/941292042952626177

If society wanted net neutrality, the gamergate folk, the libertarians, the right of center, misogynists, should have voted for someone else last year.

Pro-Authoritarianism & contempt for democracy also includes contempt for what anyone things about net neutrality.

#alpinelinux
Why does this fail:
apk add openssh

And this succeeds:
apk add openssh --no-cache

Wow, I can't tell you how many head hunters, HR and hiring agents I spoken to that just hold contempt for the idea that culture matters, except as a way to dismiss a candidate for reasons they can't put into words. https://x.com/cotterpinx/status/940956039855378432

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DBCC CHECKDB;
DBCC CHECKDB; https://x.com/DruidSmith/status/940631432682262528

The Blini Coefficient is getting flatter every year. https://x.com/kylehill/status/940420757687095297

Don't think of it as a manufacturer installed keystroke logger--t is a faster way to send customer service requests to your manufacturer.