edits small files on big screens
Joined February 2014
- Tweets620
- Following48
- Followers56
- Likes2K
Watching DS9.
Me: "Oh crap, I think this episode is Betazoid menopause."
Amy: "No, this is a crazy space-virus."
*20m later*
Doctor Bashir: "It's a Betazoid Menopause Space Virus."
I just wrote a script to parse AWS Cost Explorer data.
In the tradition of Truly Awful Names, it is now published as ce2 (Cost Explorer Explorer):
pypi.org/project/ce2/
A kilobyte is 1000 bytes.
The common 1024 bytes is defined by the IEC as a kibibyte.
640,000 crabs is a carcinokilobyte.
If you want a carcinokibibyte, please make sure you get 655,360 crabs.
(I would also accept "karkinokibibyte" as a spelling.)
Stephen Rosen retweeted
This kid is my new hero for coming up with "Newsy Things Considered". @petersagal better watch out or next we will have "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me Unless It's About Dinosaurs!"
npr.org/2021/02/09/965953078…
Modern languages sorted by strictness:
Rust, ..., Go, Java, ..., Python, Ruby, ..., ...,
...
...
..., JS
TIL you can call functions in javascript with more parameters than expected. E.g. you can define foo(x) and then call foo(x, y, z) and javascript will happily run it without errors. #madness
To those who say the GME stock manipulation isn't funny; that it's hurting real people...
Yeah, maybe. Maybe a few people are getting hurt. That's sad.
But if you're sitting on enough capital to pay over 1,000 years of my rent, you're not a person. We don't care anymore.
Counterpoint: if you were concerned with safety, you would have written it in Rust. Zing!
When @UChicago asked me why I wear a mask, I responded, of course, in Python:
# Because...
if self.wears_mask:
covid.spread = False
others. safe = True
else:
raise PandemicException()
Read more about the UChicago Health Pact here: goforward.uchicago.edu/healt…
If you trawl your feed looking for terrible things, but don't find anything sufficiently terrible to justify the endeavor, is it really doomscrolling?
Also, my standards for "sufficiently terrible" have clearly become pretty whack.
This article carries a depth of self doubt with which I really identified. I think.
There's also an interesting essential incompleteness.
I wrote about the secrets you force me to keep. nytimes.com/2020/11/30/opini…
Stephen Rosen retweeted
Twitter's search function is, for me, one of its most important features. For example I just searched "monolith" & "stone" to bask in the outrage of the misuse of the term, and that delivered a more concentrated dose of comfort & "finding my tribe" than I could get from my feed.
I have a George Lucas joke, but it was ruined in the special edition.
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
I have a Quine joke but it repeats itself, meaning that I have a Quine joke but it repeats itself, meaning that I have a Quine joke but--
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
I have just realized. If a female coworker misuses the word "mansplain" around me, it will lead to the most awkward conversation of my professional life.
I've seen a lot of "tweets from the pandemic" directed at future historians.
Here's mine: I follow @NateSilver538, @petersagal, @steak_umm, and @kumailn. This is a typical set of voices to which a white collar in his late twenties might listen.
