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@pa@hachyderm.io

Dad, old-time low-level dev, white-hat hacker.
Jack of all trades, Master (M.Ing) of one.
Born at 320ppm.
Melting metal for pleasure, servers may or may not be by accident.

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benroyce, to ai
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this is not #AI

this is not a scene from a movie

this is simply a one in a billion video shot at the right time at the right angle by a teenager in #portugal a few days ago, may 18/ 19

fucking amazing! positively biblical

#space #meteor

experts say it was a #comet fragment, a few feet wide

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/blue-meteor-falls-through-the-sky-over-spain-and-portugal/news-story/7bd39d794d6a5e79feade5723e4d4787

amazing meteor video

pa,
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@benroyce The amount of profanity in this video is going to become a rosetta stone for future generations. 🤣

Viss, to random
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they put ai ...
into the ssh terminal.

pa,
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@Viss this is not how I saw that going...

mariyadelano, to actuallyadhd
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Question for fellow @actuallyautistic and @actuallyadhd neurodivergent folks:

How do you explain your ideas to neurotypicals?

I constantly struggle because my brain has made connections that are not obvious to others, and when I try to guide them through my thinking I confuse them with details or by skipping explanations that seem obvious to me but completely surprising to anyone else.

Frameworks, links, anything is appreciated!

pa,
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@mariyadelano @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd I often go with: "you busy? do you want the whole story of just the executive summary?"
If they answer "whole story", it's a pleasure to let them have it. And possibly a lesson learned for them. 😂
If they just want the cliff notes, I pretty much go with the advice given in the old 70s book "the one minute manager", which basically says people want the conclusion and easy-tu-understand stories with no nuances.

sebwhatever, to actuallyautistic
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@actuallyautistic tell me you are without telling me you are autistic.

pa,
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@sebwhatever @actuallyautistic "I have a bit of a long to-do list before I can leave the house this morning, I'll text you when I'm done. Hopefully it doesn't get any longer before it gets shorter."

dave, to actuallyautistic
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@actuallyautistic Saw this at the pharmacy and picked it up... curious to see what it says.

pa,
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@Susan60 @dyani @dave @actuallyautistic yeah likely that... if I recall correctly, the "title writers" are a totally different breed than article writers.
<trawling wikipedia>
Yup. A Quora response says the titles are written by copy editors, and lo and behold, copywriting is done by marketing:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copywriting

dgar, to random
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What do you call a man with a piece of wood on his head?

Edward.

What do you call a man with three pieces of wood on his head?

Edward Woodward.

What do you call a man with four pieces of wood on his head?

I don’t know either, but Edward Woodward would.

pa,
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@dgar my poor ear corrupted by American english took way too long to get that. 🤦‍♂️
Here, have a cartoon. (Not mine)

Claydisarray, to actuallyautistic
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Echolalia.

So THAT'S why I've had a refrain from Glenn Miller's Pennsylvania 6-5000 stuck in my brain for the last 40-odd years. :blob_laughing:

@actuallyautistic

pa,
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@Claydisarray @actuallyautistic OMG. I didn't know the name for that swing but... how many here remembers/knows it's actually how phone numbers used to be pronounced?
It's said the phone number PE-6-5000 (we'd now say 212-736-5000) is disconnected now, but the tower to be built at the address of the old Penn Hotel, wants to leep that same phone number... 😂

pa,
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@Claydisarray @actuallyautistic here's a wikipedia page with lots of trivia about it!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEnnsylvania_6-5000

ashleyspencer, to actuallyautistic
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I googled “autism and traumatic brain injury” hoping to find something about living with both at the same time.

ALL the results were studies done to see if TBIs cause autism. 😒

Not one article, reddit post, quora post, was about living with both. Ugh.

@actuallyautistic

pa,
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@ashleyspencer @actuallyautistic fwiw Google went to hell some time ago, with barely any result on the first page that isn't spam, ads, or clickbait. It's become so useless that I've went back to my pre-Google habit of running searches through 2-3 search engines when I really need to find something.

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