I started reading Pattern Recognition. Odd that I don’t think I’ve done so before.
It’s a good thing that it seems to be Complicated to install Linux on a Mac Cube, because I do NOT need to be buying one of them off eBay right now.
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Martin, Regulus Tithonium
@tithonium@clacks.link
mastodon 4.7.3+clacksAdmin of clacks.link
Software Architect/Server farmer. Aretic. Hegemon of Mars (deposed). Athazagoraphobic. Glucodivergent.
Late-GenX Doomer. Swears a fair bit. Sarcastic by default. Rarely uses CWs, sorry.
Definitely needs a hug.
Unclean on OPSEC.
Cheers for the Tin Man.
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Testimonials that were _totally_ about me, honest:
"so old and yet so adequate"
"both usable and hilariously impractical"
“a very large amount of weird and dubious”
"a lot of very frustrating fun"
"as horny and incompetent as ever"
"not difficult. just somewhat tedious."
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@ISDNcow@clacks.link - Random snark and libidinous whining
@jatvoisluga@clacks.link - Random other crap, largely song lyrics
@cyborgfolly@clacks.link - Crossposts from my linkblog
(BTW, it's /dʒɪf/)
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Just to amuse myself, and maybe get out of the house, thinking I might drive up to, I don’t know, Concrete? Siri says it’s supposed to be sunny today, but right now visibility is about 2-3 miles.
Oh, wait, she heard me dictating that, and now says it’s only going to be partly cloudy. Literally two minutes apart, and she can’t even agree with herself.
It seems my employer _may_ be going to start rating us by both how much we use AI and how many merge requests we generate. It may be time to gtfo.
I’m a senior/principal ruby/rails dev (~20y); before that focused on perl, but I can and will work in just about any language except Java, given a chance to scrape the rust off (or learn, which I do startlingly fast).
Resume: https://martintithonium.com/
#GetFediHired #FediHire :boost_requested:
Got a LinkedIn contact about a job that sounds A LOT like my last job. Like, enough that I asked if that’s who it was.
You know, the job I was fired from for telling the finance bros running the place they couldn’t treat engineers like shit and still get good results?
Does anybody want geek.bargains, nerd.bargains, or tickybox.xyz? They're all expiring this month and I'm not planning to renew them.
I was just reminded that I got to make the following joke today:
Product Manager: "I don't drink Coke."
Me: "Of course not. You're supposed to snort it."
It went over well with the people in the meeting, which included my ex-boss and my grandboss.
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Found a pizza place that had it and also cheese bread BOGO, and also discovered I have a credit from a company lunch I couldn’t use yesterday. So, basically free (I bumped the tip up and paid the difference).
Listening to book, losing focus, drifting off.
Turn off book, try to nap... wide awake.
Fuck you, brain.
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@Anoia@mendeddrum.org brother. And I believe that may be the only time a sibling is ever mentioned.
We gave rocks anxiety, and they gave us depression: a programmer's memoir.
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net Be honest, you enjoy harbinging.
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net I am, speaking medically, metaphorically, and morally, worse for having been exposed to this.
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I did change my name, a bit over 16 years ago now.
When I was 14, I started using a local BBS. My login was ‘martian’, and all of my in-person friends were also on the BBS, and everybody - in high school no less - started calling me ‘Marty’ for short, rather than my given name (Adam).
So when I grew up and got a job, everywhere I went I had people call me Marty. I was even marty@amazon.com when I worked there.
Then one day, when I was working at Popcap Games, I was playing the Robotron game in the break room, and got on the high score board. I always put my initials as “MRT” because if you pronounce it it’s “Marty”. That’s when I realized I needed to choose a name that actually formed those initials.
Finally got around to going to the courthouse to file the paperwork a couple years later.
TFW you can’t tell if the overwhelming sense of doom is coming from the lack of sleep or the all-hands meeting.
If I don’t SEE you, I don’t have to fucking KILL you. This can’t be that hard to understand, even for a spider.
Wow, Platform Decay was nicely dense for its length.
I’d’ve given Naja a gun.
Ooh, looks like Chambers has a new book coming in October.
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It was worth what I paid for it ($5.16)
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It unglitched. And I launched the Star Child.
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@djwudi@tenforward.social @moira@mastodon.murkworks.net we care very much about your privacy. That’s why we want to acquire as much of it as we can. More please. More.
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@corbden Why are you like this? (Rhetorical)
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@corbden This morning, I woke up, laid in bed, decided to check the Internet before making a decision about getting up, checked work slack, and saw I had literally just that moment been messaged by a coworker about a problem they were having and could I help. I rushed out of bed, took my pills, got dressed, and helped them resolve the incident. As a result, I’m a little offkilter, a little unstable, not really feeling it today.
And then I read this… [sigh]
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@ISDNcow@clacks.link Yes, but your problem is that the number of circumstances where “You’re very nice! May I put my penis in you?” is an appropriate salutation is vanishingly small, and we haven’t attended that sort of function in over a decade.
And even when we did that wasn’t the sort of thing we were capable of saying.
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@Alice@beige.party I have a 3d /print/ of my teeth from the last time I got a crown. I used to keep it next to the bathroom sink, as a warning to my real teeth.
If you don't provide an rss feed, you're not a news site, you're an advertising site.
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@realtegan@wandering.shop I’ve been happy with my Henson AL13. Does fine standalone but even better after a pass with the Norelco OneBlade, since I only actually shave once a month or so.
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@cyborgfolly@clacks.link why aren't you including the source in the mastodon post? [sigh]
Recruiter email for a staff engineer at an AI-focused mortgage software firm using typescript. Sigh.
"Hey Siri, what apples are in season at the moment?"
"I think apple.com can help with that."
"Fuck you for that answer."
"I wont respond to that."
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@djwudi@tenforward.social … why did my client include @moira@mastodon.murkworks.net in that reply? Weird.
Experimenting with other energy drinks, because why not.
Welch’s Grape Ghost is… surprisingly pleasant?
I don’t know if I’ll get it again, but I don’t hate it.
A smart thing to do, rather than sitting on the couch wishing for the sweet embrace of brain death, would probably be to look at more job listings.
I’m clearly not going to, but felt I should at least call myself out for not doing so.
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net that’s what makes you a good harbinger. You harbinge well.
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@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space @foone@digipres.club this is an astoundingly niche joke.