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Rick Scott
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Travel nerd, language nerd, software nerd, systems nerd. Trying to make the world a better place. Available for hire! Looking for a remote devops, backend dev, or SDET role.
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Rick Scott
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Rick Scott
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oh ghod, "lessons learned" type incident reports are like catnip for me. random wikipedia articles are good & all, but I could sit there and watch workplace safety accident reconstruction vids all day, with NTSB reports being an extremely close second
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Rick Scott
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hmmm. could it be...self-confidence? a flair for fashion? her outgoing personality? or simply her resolve not to give a single care about what small-minded people think? 😊
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Tobias Geyer (he/him)
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Now it makes total sense that they suggested to change the label on the "Ok" Buttons to "Yolo". I thought they were joking!
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Rick Scott
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awww, that's sweet of them! they left in some iconic bugs for you to find, as a treat 😊
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Rick Scott
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"There are seven billion people in the world," rah replies, ending the sentence with the *snick* of an opening switchblade. "No one will notice if you're gone."
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Rick Scott
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anyone else have an arrogance heuristic as part of their mental model of software quality? like, the more a company insists that their software is bug free, the worse it's likely to be 😂
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Rick Scott
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discussing UK politics with someone who doesn't follow it is always good fun "...wait, why is there a guy on stage dressed like Darth Vader" "ah, that's Count Binface", you say, before carrying on as though nothing just happened
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Rick Scott
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she's not even going to make a concession speech aaaaaaaaahahahhahaahah 😂
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Rick Scott
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come on rah, don't hold back, tell us how you really feel about her
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Rick Scott
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Thérèse Coffey is gone 🎉
www.bbc.com/news/uk-poli...
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Rick Scott
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yeah let's put it this way, that shit didn't get any manual testing 😅
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Rick Scott
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ask me how I feel about a proposal to split our product into 8 different interdependent modules, all of which our customers can freely pick and choose between 😅
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Cocoa
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I need end users to understand that 'just keep the old UI and the new UI!' is almost always a non-starter particularly with 1) a thing I am doing for free in my spare time and 2) have been asking for feedback on for the last six months
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Rick Scott
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PSA: pertussis/whooping cough is making the rounds again in some places; now is a good time to get your booster if you're due. doubly so if you're around small children at all
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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rahaeli
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Get a TDaP booster if it's been more than five years and extra especially if it's been more than ten years! Pertussis (whooping cough) immunity wears off over time and it's currently circulating again! You do not want whooping cough!
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Rick Scott
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indeed, when I asked my doc if Tdap was covered (since the public schedule seems to indicate only Td) he said "I'd never give you only Td, the pertussis is by far the component that wears off the most" 😅 so learned something today too! 😊
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Rick Scott
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@rahaeli.bsky.social I got my Tdap booster just now because of your reminders; thank you! 💪😊
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Rick Scott
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call me petty but I'm pretty chuffed to see DW listed in front of all the other services in section B I definitely read that as "H.B. 1126 regulates some services offered by the following of NetChoice’s members: (1) Dreamwidth; (2) a bunch of randos of lesser import" 😅
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Rick Scott
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yeah, all those big long ingredient names in sunscreen sound awful, I'm sure these all-natural leaves are much better for your skin
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Rick Scott
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alternatively: a journo up here, assigned to cover a tournament with no prior knowledge of the sport, came away with "wow, T20 cricket really is the MMA of bat & ball games" 🤣
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Rick Scott
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heh, even without the sport-specific jargon, there are some amazing turns of phrase you never hear in everyday use here
eg this last tournament, I heard things like "Oh, Australia has got themselves in a spot of bother here" so often it became an in-joke between @marafish.bsky.social and I 😅
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Rick Scott
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this is unironically one of my favourite things about watching cricket -- the commentators tend to hail from a mixed bag of commonwealth nations, and they bring accents to match 😍
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Rick Scott
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showed this to my son and he immediately replied "ok but now we need someone to transcribe the pidgeon notation"
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Rick Scott
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your language learning tip of the day: vowels aren't real
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Rick Scott
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it always blows my mind how freely we can remix vowel pronunciations and still more-or-less understand each other or as my son once put it: "hit 'em with the schwa" 😂
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Rick Scott
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aaa, cool! is this just the free-form word order of a language that has a case system being imported into a language that doesn't have one? or is it something with more structure than that? 😅
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Rick Scott
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I'm also not surprised that most of the western US is red...although the deep red Reno-SLC axis was a little surprising to me 😅 also not surprised that there are bright red areas in Florida (because Snowbirds) or in northern Minnesota (possibly the state most culturally similar to northern Ontario)
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Rick Scott
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first of all...it's not a surprise the areas of Michigan close to me are different. there's a distinctive accent shift as soon as you cross the border -- eg when Michiganders say "solid" it sounds like "salad" to us which is kind of wild given I can literally see Michigan from my house 😂
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Rick Scott
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lol I wouldn't go so far as to say that 😆 it just doesn't really account for.... (suspenseful music) .... Canadians 😅
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Rick Scott
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omg, that's amazing 😊 I switch as well, but I don't think I've ever done quite that quickly my vocab definitely drifts more towards the UK when in Europe. some of that is intentional, because I know it's more familiar to English speakers there...some less so 😅
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Rick Scott
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my result, with my hometown marked 😅
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Rick Scott
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yeah, I made a point of picking up y'all for similar reasons, coincidentally around the same time I was visiting Georgia. I imagine it must sound mystifying coming from someone with a Canadian accent, but I don't care; I'm weird in lots of other ways too 😅
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Rick Scott
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{let them fight.gif}
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Rick Scott
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when I say that Toronto Pearson is bad, don't just take my word for it: my learned friend here is an renowned expert on passenger experience ⤵️
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rahaeli
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reposting this just to see @questauthority.bsky.social's face
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Rick Scott
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I was gonna say, can't help but wonder if the MPAA and RIAA might have some opinions about this 😅
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John Walton
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Toronto Airport is so bad, like… the weird Sauron sculpture in international departures is not the worst part about this airport, somehow?
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Rick Scott
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I am pretty sure every Canadian has a trauma response to Pearson, and it has everything to do with Air Canada and nothing to do with that sculpture
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weeder
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Shopping on Amazon, which do you feel is the most trusted brand: Furologee, HOOBRO, YITAHOME, or Yaheetech?
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Shannon Mattern
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"We never thought huge swaths of art and history would be erased because it was a business expense." Some people — like those who work in/with or advocate for public media, public digital infrastructure, and archives — sure saw it coming!
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Rick Scott
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no word of a lie, one of the proudest moments of my professional life was when I got to write a ticket with the title "Deal with edge cases induced by non-linear time" 🤪
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Rick Scott
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omg, preach 😅 it's more like "computer time exists in a 12-dimensional space, each of which thrashes about like some kind of freaky astral tentacle, repeatedly slapping you upside the head when you least expect it"
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rahaeli
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My MCAS folks! Anyone in Germany have any recs for getting a H2 antihistamine through telemedicine or even slightly sketchy means?
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Rick Scott
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speaking as a lifelong tech nerd, if I were to go to grad school, it would be for sociology. the mechanics of how computer systems work are positively boring compared to studying how people shape them and how they in turn shape people. I wish more folks in the tech industry appreciated this. 😥
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Rick Scott
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dear ghod sometimes the web is a small place. (I used to work with Ross at Socialtext 😅)
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Rick Scott
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and ideally, in the long run, you move towards making your releases so small & frequent, and your ability to detect and recover from problems so robust, that shipping a release no longer feels like a cliff-edge event any more 😅
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Rick Scott
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go/no-go on a release should be a team decision, where everybody has input into the risk/benefit tradeoff of shipping now vs further investigation and from a practical perspective, the tester is often the person on the team with the _least_ clout and least ability to influence decisions 🙃
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Rick Scott
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software QA / SDET job postings with "block releases if they're not good enough" listed amongst the job responsibilities always makes me sad 😞
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rahaeli
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I am once again begging people to stop using Slashdot's system of moderation and meta-moderation as a positive example of distributed moderation. I was there. It was not. It fucking sucked as a system, it was incapable of handling anything complex, and it greatly reinforced systemic bias.
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