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otherdog

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Bored of billionaires and cruelty masquerading as necessity. Loves a comfy chair and a strong tea.
Former VP of Engineering. Hobbyist gamedev.
He/him - supportive of anyone that needs it.

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RickiTarr, to random
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Tell me a silly/funny childhood story!

I'll start:

One time in Sunday School, the teacher was talking about the difference between humans and animals, and mentioned that Animals had Tails and humans didn't. I let her know this was not true, because my Dad had a tail, just in the front, instead of the back. The teacher was silent for several seconds, and tried to correct me in a church appropriate way, but I doubled down, and insisted that my little brothers also had front tails too. This got so heated that the teacher had to go get my parents to take me out of Sunday School.

otherdog,
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@RickiTarr I was with my mum in a toy shop and I picked up a toy Dukes of Hazzard car (you know the one - ahem) and on the box it said “General Lee Does Wheelies!!” My mum said “Would you like me to get that for you?” and as my reading wasn’t great I replied “Nah it’s ok, it says on the box it only generally does wheelies and I’d prefer something that does wheelies all the time”. She patted me on the head and we moved on.

bagder, to random
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"maybe we need this in the future" is a bad idea for writing good code. If we need that flexibility in the future, other things will have changed as well. Better do it then, not complicating matters now.

Turning down needlessly flexible code like a boss.

otherdog,
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@bagder You wouldn’t believe (actually you would) the number of arguments/ discussions I’ve had on exactly this topic (“mythical futures”). And it keeps cropping up.

otherdog, to linux
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Second monitor recognized and setup like a champ. I do love Gnome.

otherdog, to wwc
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Do I set my alarm for the England game? 🤔@wwc

otherdog, to programming
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What I have learned about Event Driven Architectures is that if they have been in place long enough and have grown to a certain size, then practically nobody knows what’s going on. It just becomes an enormous data observability and metrics puzzle.

otherdog, to random
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I am absolutely going to continue watching just on the off-chance that any of this ends up making any sense at all.

otherdog, to random
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Well this is awkward.

verge, to random
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Here’s the Elon Musk interview that got Don Lemon’s show canceled https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/18/24104708/elon-musk-interview-don-lemon-show-canceled

otherdog,
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@verge “Free Speech Absolutist”. 🤡🤡

otherdog, to apple
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I forgot how genuinely scary Alien Isolation is. Trying to avoid the androids alone is giving me heart palpitations. Really very impressed by the iOS port.

otherdog, to random
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Glad I stayed to watch that, I got a bit emotional at the end.

otherdog, to linux
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And boom, everything got installed on the new SSD. All hardware recognized including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. That was by far and away the easiest OS install ever and looks like my hardware build was fine, phew! I’ll list the parts tomorrow.

otherdog, to random
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I've got a lazy eye and quite frankly the rest of my fucking body as well.

otherdog, to wwc
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Just got back for the second half and saw the score. This should be interesting. @wwc

otherdog, to bookstodon
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I have been so intimidated to start this (been on my shelf for months) but I think with the weather getting cooler and the nights longer, it’s time. @bookstodon

otherdog, to wwc
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This ref is a trip. @wwc

otherdog, to random
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My fortune cookie from tonight’s takeout just said “Make a bad situation into good by turning coal into a diamond”. Great advice IF I WAS A WIZARD.

otherdog, to linux
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was Slackware on CD via mail order. Would have been the mid 90s so version 2.0.0 maybe? It genuinely opened my eyes to what could be possible for a community built OS. Watching the last 30 years has been quite something to behold.

otherdog, to random
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Great, Tornado sirens at midnight.

otherdog, to linux
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It is try and build new Linux PC day today and work can’t finish quick enough. I hope I don’t screw it up.

otherdog, to random
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Wow huge news from Klopp.

otherdog, to wwc
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I have watched A LOT of soccer today so it is fitting that I get a completely inadequate amount of sleep tonight to be up at 4:30am for more soccer. @wwc

otherdog, to animals
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Yet another sticker of my dog, angry about not getting fed a nacho, goes up in a dive bar toilet. Several around town now.

otherdog, to animals
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Sun’s out.

otherdog, to animals
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Please give me a chip. I’ve been good.

otherdog, to random
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Gotta say the total eclipse today was stunning. Watching it get gradually darker and then to see the black disc in the sky for a few minutes was truly memorable.

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