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dan, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Happy 41st birthday :-)

dan, 2 months ago to random

It has now been 6 years since I was banned from home decor.

dan, 11 months ago to random

New phone. Looking forward to all the time I’ll save dialing by storing my contacts… on punch cards!

dan, 2 months ago to random

I'm hearing that Broadcom has quietly decided to stop renewing VMware employees' H-1B visas as a way to lay them off without having to pay severance, and, wow, what a shitty thing to do.

dan, 5 months ago to random

can’t believe my dishwasher is WiFi-enabled and it’s not even going to send me a wrapped email telling me how many dishes I washed in 2023, what even is the point?

dan, 6 months ago to Cats

Three years ago today, Pixel came back from the nuclear vet after having radioiodine treatment for hyperthyroidism, and we got to finish off 2020 with an angry radioactive cat.

Fortunately, she is doing well now and now has 18 half-lives.

#cats #catsofmastodon #caturday

A tuxedo cat in front of a bright yellow 1960s geiger counter. It's reading about 1 millirem/hour

dan, 2 months ago to random

Yesterday I found myself sitting at 40,000 feet over the middle of the Pacific, miles from any civilization, when my phone popped up a notification that one of my cats had used the litter box.

This is a level of technology I could never have dreamed of. Or necessarily wanted to.

dan, 1 year ago to random

Happy International Pallas Cat Day to all who celebrate!

an angry fluffy Pallas cat snarls at the camera
a cold Pallas cat in the snow puts its feet onto its fluffy tail to keep warm
four adorable Pallas cat kittens

dan, 10 months ago to random

Oh great, Grace Hopper -- the world's largest gathering of women and non-binary technologists -- is being held in Florida later this year. I can't imagine any way that might go badly...

dan, 8 months ago to random

I love how some UW student was so enthusiastic about the kalua pork in the food court that they FOIAed the recipe.

https://imgur.com/tZ3TTSt

dan, 6 months ago to random

For an embarrassingly long time, whenever @irene mentioned something called a “CardiB”, I was convinced it was a database.

dan, 23 days ago to random

delighted to learn that my wine cellar is the example used to explain cache hierarchies in UW's introductory courses

(the wine fridge in my kitchen is labeled "L1 cache", the cellar is main memory, and the offsite warehouse is the archival block store)

dan, 10 months ago to random

Since we are talking about things named X today for some reason, did you know that the X Window System was originally started in Barbara Liskov's group because the Argus distributed programming language needed a graphical debugger?

dan, 3 months ago to random

someone seriously decided it was a good idea to have my dishwasher send me this notification

dan, 5 months ago to random

Huh, rapeseed (canola) is also a brassica? xkcd really had it right...

dan, 2 months ago to Cats

Max, Pixel, and Minion would like to wish everyone a happy National Napping Day.

#cats #catsofmastodon

A tuxedo cat sprawled out on a white (human) bed
An absurdly fluffy white cat, curled up and napping on a colorful rug

dan, 9 months ago to Cats

Max and Pixel do not understand why I have to get out of a perfectly good bed every morning.

#cats #CatsOfMastodon

dan, 11 months ago to random

from a meeting today: “let’s not use the word ‘blacklist’, it’s non-inclusive. Instead, please use the word ‘shitlist’.”

dan, 1 month ago to random

I don't understand why everyone here isn't already talking about how James Mickens spent his sabbatical recording a metal album where all the band members are himself.

https://tentimesyourmaster.com/

dan, 5 months ago to random

Academic/research lab time-management tip: if anyone asks you to chair a committee, always ask if you can run the committee in any way you see fit. "uh, sure, I guess?"

"Great, I am disbanding this committee; it no longer exists."

I have eliminated multiple unnecessary committees this way.

dan, 27 days ago to random

currently attempting to use an ethernet interface called "enp8s0f0npf0vf1" and cannot help but think

STATEMENTS DREAMED UP BY THE UTTERLY DERANGED

THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS

dan, 1 month ago to random

Can't believe Seattle requires cats to be licensed, everyone knows that cats are libertarians*.

• "convinced of their fierce independence while dependent on a system they don’t appreciate or understand"

dan, 19 days ago to random

Today I ran Wireshark over X forwarding over ssh over ssh over a VPN over a VPN over ssh over a VPN...

...so that I could look at some packets that contained a UDP/IP packet inside an Ethernet packet inside a VXLAN header inside a UDP/IP packet inside an Ethernet packet inside an ERSPAN packet inside an Ethernet packet.

I understand that every problem in computer science can be solved with another level of abstraction...

dan, 1 month ago to random

Went to the Japanese store to stock up on non-essentials

dev, 1 month ago to random

Just learned about two bit floats, want to use them,,,