orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es
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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
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An unexplored angle on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is that Willy Wonka is clearly a genius, the finest scientific mind of his generation, yet he focuses almost all of his efforts on manufacturing candy.
The temptation of big profits in the multimillion dollar candy-sector under the candy-capitalist system has drawn him away from more worthwhile pursuits and possibly corrupted him into the weird, weird dude that he is
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Just once I want a programming language to release some of their docs as a series of graphic novel tie-ins
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name changing
as someone who works on systems like this.
this problem doesn't happen because of a technical reason. there is zero reason whatsoever it should be technically difficult to change a field in a database.
it happens because adding any sort of functionality to software requires an investment of time and money. if you didn't design your system with that functionality in mind from the beginning (spoiler alert: they made the assumption that people changing their name is an "exception case" so they don't need to handle it in v1) then it will require a bigger investment. but you won't get it for free.
and every company that does not allow users to change those fields has looked at the cost/benefit analysis and decided that it is not currently worth it to make that investment. there are people whose job it is to do this. they made the choice. individuals, or groups of them. that's who i'm mad at.
The worst thing to happen in 2019 was being told that people have continued making epic rap battle videos for the past 10 years?
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We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:
#1) open the door
#2) get on the floor
#3) everybody walk the dinosaur
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Stop with the fucking puns, Jo!
An anime about the former lover of an impossibly fast hedgehog.
Sonic's Ex.
Before my egg cracked some rando told me I looked like Sean Lennon, a very non-latino cis man born at least 10 years before me. This tracks well with my ambiguous appearance in regards to age, race AND gender.
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Teenage mutant ninja turtles, fa-la-la-la-la, lala la laa
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there's actually 4 time dimensions and 0 spatial dimensions
@dankwraith Passive attraction, programmed reaction
Action distraction, more information
Flesh saturation, lips on a napkin
Before I cracked my egg, I predicted that if I had born a cis boy, I would be a vain twink who ate too much, owned too many electronics, smoked too much weed and was constantly irritable, and I'm proud to say...I was mostly correct
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Version Control Software (VCS) complaint
every VCS: don't add binary files to your list of tracked files! It will make the size of your history-storage-folder explode!
also every VCS: *makes it really easy to accidentally add binary files to your list of tracked files*
also also every VCS: *doesn't provide any easy way to say "woops this file was a binary file and I should never have tracked it, please remove it"*
Martin Shkreli: emphatically not a short king. Banned from the short kingdom.
I look like gay, light-side Martin Shkrelki
@Awizadofearthsea@sunbeam.city It's a campaign advocating separating trans people from the cis LGB movement, supposedly because we're two different and distinct groups with competing needs, but it's got a lot of money coming in from evangelicals. It's associated mostly with TERFs.
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What if cats but they can bark
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my family is doing a content to see who can have the most hideous Christmas outfit and I got it in the bag
selfie ec 
, alc in photo
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you: you ARE a soul. you HAVE a body
me: you ARE a body. you HAVE a metaphysics
If I were the CIA, I would simply let the man nobody likes speak at length at every single activist meeting, making it impossible for them to plan anything, and accusing them of being ableist if they don't allow him in
I used to go to Occupy shit and it was a similar deal. They'd let some asshole disrupt every single meeting and say they had to let it happen, in order to be inclusive. Ok. Mm hm. Very weird how that makes the group less effectual and drives people away, or how this person is widely known by the activist community to be an asshole yet you still let him in.
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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
