Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org
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Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
Will code for pie. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
Aside: why do Americans pronounce kilometer "kilAHmitER", but don't pronounce metadata "metAHdatAH"?
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Techwank peaked around '12, when it was still called Cyberfap
So the saying about "what happens in Vegas" isn't true?
I mean we're swapping land now, right? While we're at it, we should probably give Florida to the Palestinians. They'll make better use of it than the kind of people who are there now.
I wonder if Ukraine would be willing to give up Crimea if it received Alaska in return? And the US gets, say, the Altai region, which I hear is very nice.
@sundogplanets @aeftaw @PalmAndNeedle @ADMP @mikemccaffrey
It sounds like the illumination per area would be insufficient to even overcome the internal losses of the solar collectors, let alone produce _any_ net power. Which means you recoup your costs in approximately ∞T, where T is literally any unit of time you care to use.
I'm reminded of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. At one point a "soletta" is launched, which allows them to focus intensified sunlight on selected areas of the Martian surface, but which is promptly misused for, shall we say, suboptimal purposes.
I'm sure they'll have a good talk after Putin's done laughing his head off at all the cheap, incompetently applied gilding and trailer park bling all over the white house. This is a guy who's spent the last quarter century surrounded by Tsarist luxury.
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Quite apart from which, the insanity of making laughably trifling attempts to geoengineer or "terraform" the Earth while simultaneously declining to stop DEterraforming it with both hands is hard to even state properly.
"A very courageous decision, Minister."
Pardon in 5... 4... 3...
20% as many factual errors would still prevent a human being from being hired by anyone except a Republican administration or Fox News
What a great sentence. It's an exact cognate for "proactively shutting the gate after the horses have bolted":
"Google Cloud has implemented preventative measures in response to the identified events that precipitated this disruption."
"Preventative measures in response to" the precise conditions that occurred. I have had to work with colleagues who fix bugs this way, the famous "if this one thing happens, don't do the bad thing" clause. It basically just makes for less-maintainable code, often introduces new bugs and is a way of avoiding the difficult question "why is the system innately unprepared for this eventuality and even capable of producing this outcome?"
Let's make sure I've got this right:
Person who proclaims her own innocence of the crime of which she was convicted also proclaims the innocence of someone willing and able to pardon her.
Well. Glad we cleared that up!
I just need advanced filters that let me do things like "hide gif-only replies".
I've got an even better idea: why don't we build a fusion plant on the sun?
I bet a riot van is a lot less fun than it sounds
- Enthusiasms
- 🏍️ 🪂 🚀 🎷 🔬 🔭 🎞️ 🐧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
- Theme music
- Lalo Schifrin
- MBTI
- mTBI
Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
Will code for pie. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
