David Brower's avatar

David Brower

@dbrower.bsky.social

100 followers 465 following 1114 posts

Husband, dad, database bit head, occasional blogger, ex-sound engineer, lapsing cyclist.


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

It’s been a long time since Socks.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes


Reposted by David Brower

Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
[ View ]

Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.

17 replies 318 reposts 1032 likes


Reposted by David Brower

Matt Seybold's avatar Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social
[ View ]

“Patriotism I s a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn’t a foot of land in the world which doesn’t represent the ousting & re-ousting of a long line of successive ‘owners,’ who each in turn, as ‘patriots,’ with proud swelling hearts defended it… 8/9

1 replies 65 reposts 375 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

“but I’m vegan!”

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


Reposted by David Brower

Brendel's avatar Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social
[ View ]

Everyone is always afraid to say why people like Trump or Marie Le Pen have some level of popularity and it’s just that there’s a lot of people in the world who believe in racism. You end up with these goofy ass explanations for Trump where it’s NAFTA or shit and it’s like no you know what it is

56 replies 475 reposts 1906 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

Sounds like a standing problem.

1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

It is a stupidity enhancer

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


Reposted by David Brower

Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
[ View ]

the President's powers to help people's pocketbooks through, say, student loan forgiveness? overreach, tyrannical the President's powers to help his own pocketbook by selling pardons or using the awesome powers of his office to commit bald-faced fraud? approved, good, immune from prosecution

4 replies 50 reposts 278 likes


Reposted by David Brower

David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

Dysentery - illness or natural cleanse?

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes


Reposted by David Brower

Anil Dash's avatar Anil Dash @anildash.com
[ View ]

The only advice I’d give the Biden campaign is to go to war with the NYT. They’re even less popular than Biden or Trump, would form a good rallying cry, and reframes the campaign to be an underdog attempt to push good policy against elites who don’t want it. “NYT is for the billionaires, we’re not.”

32 replies 160 reposts 815 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

Does that mean the liquor license at the Bedminster Golf Course/Cemetary can be revoked?

1 replies 0 reposts 7 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

it goes without saying.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

who is suggesting that about the man who moved the embassy to jerusalem?

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

An ancient, fragile major award.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

My argument at the time was that it was about the number of entities the human manager of the system could reasonably keep track of and prioritize against each other.

0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

I thought 7 was the right scale for a thing 20 years ago. Now users are doing like 700.

1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

Nah, it'll be an F-150. Murican.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

Wish I knew the source:

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

Hey, tech people. I have a son w/2yrs experience looking for backend/fullstack work in the Bay Area. He's mostly Java proficient, and has CS/BS from UC Santa Cruz Anyone want to pass on a lead?

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

you are more than twice as big!

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

That is a "color of your urine" chart, by the way.

4 replies 0 reposts 12 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

Truth about how Paxlovid “works”

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

Neither snow nor sleet nor directed energy weapons shall stave this mechanized messenger from the swift completion of his appointed rounds.

0 replies 0 reposts 5 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

A bit too on the nose, I think.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


Reposted by David Brower

Cav, Gentleman Rogue's avatar Cav, Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social
[ View ]

Hey girl, I noticed you staring at your cup of coffee but not really seeing it, as if you were completely defeated by the overwhelming depression caused by knowing that no matter how many advancements human civilization makes we are doomed to repeat the same horrors until we destroy ourselves. Sup?

1 replies 2 reposts 16 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

It's the only way to be sure.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

Back in the day bytes were whatever size you wanted, sometimes six bits, sometimes nine. Then on an Rs232 serial line there were start bits and stop bits and parity to count too. I always divide/multiply by 10 for rough conversion

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

Otto has been tragically underused in her career.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

When they can afford more polygons. It's 8-bit now

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

When I was young, Republicans were mostly sane, and there were some racist Democrats. Now I old, with money, and R's have gone beyond Bircher-dom, and collected all the racists and Nazis. No thanks.

0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

The peasants ARE revolting.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

Damn, I’m so glad I’m nearing retirement and won’t have to care professionally about thins nonsense.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

make a band milder Orchestral Maneuvers in the Light

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

Yes, I believe you should take it as personally as the violinist who asked Philip Glass if he was trying to break their wrists.

0 replies 0 reposts 5 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

At the theater, the “short” ones are better. Binging them over a holiday, the long ones are better. (pause is your friend)

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

After their miserable start. As the announcers frequently put it, "And the big red 'E' lights up on the Rheingold Scoreboard!"

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes


David Brower's avatar David Brower @dbrower.bsky.social
[ View ]

Mets playing at the Polo Grounds.

1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


Reposted by David Brower

Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
[ View ]

If you think airports in the US can be unpleasant, wait till you see what happens in India

23 replies 52 reposts 462 likes