Nezumi @Nezumi@computerfairi.es

I'm watching through the Matt Smith episodes again, and there's this plotline about Amy cheating on her fiancée (Rory) with the Doctor, and everyone is shocked to learn she kissed him...

Except in the first episode, it's established that she works as a kissogram, so her kissing other people shouldn't be surprising at all?

Like, they write her as having BOTH an openness to kissing others AND a closed relationship to kissing, and that makes no sense

People evolve and change over time.

You can't say that you will have the same aptitudes in 20 years that you had in high school.

I reserve the right to allow my career and profession to evolve and change over time as well!
Damn this bullshit of being stuck in the same job for your entire life!

ox -> oxen
fox -> foxen

that's just how language works

I made a thing with one of those generators

https://computerfairi.es/media/Jiy73mra_1t70cdwOtQ

bunnies good too

squirrels are good please protect squirrels

the european one will run at 50hz, and the american one at 60hz.

If you're considering putting together a hadoop cluster to do stuff to things, maybe make sure it's not 235 times faster to just throw it through awk

https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html

The Los Angeles Times is now unavailable in Europe because of GDPR

...

WHAT THE FLYING FUCK WERE THEY DOING WITH BROWSING DATA THAT MEANT THEY COULDN'T JUST CHANGE A COUPLE OF LINES IN THE PRIVACY POLICY TO BE IN COMPLIANCE?!?

Double whoops on me, I forgot to add context with a non-LA Times story link: https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/the-la-times-isnt-letting-europeans-read-its-site-thanks-to-the-eus-new-internet-rules.html

Happy GDPR day, Europe! I read that it won't actually fix anything, but like shining a light under the kitchen cabinets & sending the roaches scurrying for cover, it'll reveal just how bad data mishandling has gotten.

Swiped from https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/999616307241906176 on birdsite:

NPR has the best creative solution. (You can shortcut it by replacing "www" with "text" in the URL.) https://computerfairi.es/media/_7qtaotMWoqCRAl_vqU https://computerfairi.es/media/pgoIMpkj0wtCx3WaMEg

someone: the truth always lies in the middle
me: you owe me 2 million dollars
someone: wha? no
me: as the truth lies in the middle, you owe me 1 million dollars, money please.

unfriendly reminder that benheck and eevblog are shitty and bigclive is the only good EE youtube channel

friendly reminder that bigclive is super funny and has a bear pride flag proudly displayed in his website so you know he's good

Yes adafruit, you lot get it

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-crickit-creative-robotic-interactive-construction-kit

"Sometimes we wonder if robotics engineers ever watch movies. If they did, they'd know that making robots into slaves always ends up in a robot rebellion. Why even go down that path? Here at Adafruit we believe in making robots our friends!"