Weldon @weldon@librem.one
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Joined Aug 2019
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"You shouldn’t name your variables after their types for the same reason you wouldn’t name your pets 'dog' or 'cat'."
-- Dave Cheney
TIL that Amazon's new AWS sdk is available on Linux, but only if you install... Homebrew.
That's right. Even if you're on RHEL 8, you have to install Homebrew.
I hate this timeline.
Ouch. First workout in 6 months. It gets easier every day, but you have to keep doing it every day. That's the hard part.
Through many contracts --
Venal, wasteful --
Oversight was minimal
He is the very model
Of a modern Major General
Well, the dog clearly has expensive tastes. He keeps trying to open the Moët & Chandon.
I'm going to write a movie about cheese eating zombies called "Last Train to Boursin"
Somehow I only just realized that Albert Hofmann and Abbie Hoffman were two different people. I had this vague image of a button-downed scientist taking a hit of acid and founding the Yippies. But no.
Interestingly, Hofmann was 30 years older than Hoffman, but outlived him by 20 years.
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imagine if everyone in advertising were doing literally anything else
Hot damn "Knives Out" was the best murder mystery I've seen in years.
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John Shirley (one of the original writers of ⭐ #StarTrek: Deep Space Nine 🌟 ) just joined the #fediverse one hour ago! Give them a warm welcome!!!
Was just reading their https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shirley and damn they have been productive!
Welcome to the #fediverse @GrandHighInquisitor!
No, *you* are making a table of all the 10-digit prime numbers compatible with the North American Numbering Plan.
Also: 8675309 is a prime number, and the hypotenuse of a primitive Pythagorean triad. I'm convinced Tommy Tutone had a secret life as a mathematician.
https://de.trit.us/screwpine.html
Screwpine and the power of the mother-in-law card.
A VIP-only, luxury personal travel system based on skyhooks: yeet the rich.
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Follow @indiarxiv , First preprint repository of India, setup for Indian Research scholars and the works in the context of India. It is aimed to increase the momentum of science and for dissemination of research.
Did you know you can rearrange the letters in "Banach-Tarski" to spell "Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski"?
OK, Mindunters is really good. But nobody, and I mean nobody, hears that somebody works at Quantico and assumes they mean the FBI.
"The node.js ecosystem is where the jobs are now," I tell myself, "Stop being a snowflake and learn React."
"Oh... God."
"Oh.......... God."
"Oh Christ almighty let me unsee the class definition I just saw."
Aggressively generalist
Joined Aug 2019
