nullifidian @nullifidian@qoto.org

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How do I get my rush of validation now?! 😄

I have taken the Twitter bot offline

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Good results so far.. some server admins told us to fuck off and wouldn't even listen. But quite a few so far have told me we are now removed from the block list. Several others are reviewing our timeline and will make a decision.

I expect many instances wont listen since they never bothered to fact check the accusations in the first place. But the fact that in less than an hour many have already agreed to unblock us is enough for me to consider this a successful interaction.

pinterest is an infuriating parasite

It's time. #cats

You can go months in London without seeing any colleagues whilst commuting.

This morning I saw two. One fully 5 stops before work.

Obvs didn't speak to them. I'm not a monster.

One of the worrying issues when validating code, scientific code in particular, is the use of undocumented numeric literals, more popularly known as Magic Numbers. The lack of documentation complicates the V&V process; sometimes the meaning of a number is obvious from context but often it's not. What should be an exercise checking that a value is appropriate turns into a search for what that value represents.