90% JOKES ABOUT SOFTWARE / 10% PICTURES OF CAT Vancouver, Canada - Lead backend developer for all of virtual reality, or VRChat at least.
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Last Notes npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone Meaningfully taking a #cat for a walk is a strange project. It’s more of a cat directed meander around the parking lot where mostly you’re keeping him from wandering into other folks’ gardens and you have no say whatsoever in where you are going https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/166/363/657/310/528/original/c1c8de05838bb612.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/166/363/945/640/793/original/eb2e1e7b02fb5e2d.jpg npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone IQ is about as scientific as phrenology and whenever I hear someone mention it casually in conversation, they might as well have brought up their superior bone shape https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/029/575/820/819/321/original/aaa321439200d19b.png npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone If you’ve played Street Fighter 2, you know that Ryu is from Japan, whereas Ken is fr the USA. But where in the USA? The answer? Hoboken! npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone the finest setting on a box grater is sufficient and it comes with three whole other sides for the same price npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone I guess, in a different direction, calling anybody who doesn't have kids for whatever reason "anti-natalist" is wrong, on account of actual anti-natalists being _real weird_. Some people just don't want kids. Hardcore anti-natalists appear to believe that anyone having children At All is on the face of it evil, and believe in the voluntary extinction of the human race, it's actually an extremely Overwrought Anime Villain belief system. npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone everyone knows that the only babies that matter are the ones your millennial daughter-in-law are not having, how dare she npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone a little while back someone on reddit was complaining that all of the people on online dating are polycules, predators, or terrible matches and - yeah - these are the people who either can't or refuse to remove themselves from the dating pool, which is why there are so many of them _in the dating pool_. it's also why so many of your resumes come from folks who have a dozen consecutive jobs that are all 8 months long each npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone "I'm a big fan of Starman" "You're a fan of David Bowie?" "David who?" https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/942/352/234/290/003/original/995376f788d03f35.webp https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/942/354/097/774/633/original/0cf04f060a0ad107.webp npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone local communities on any platform like reddit are nothing more than a constant drumbeat of "what was that siren?" and "someone's dog pooped" and "i think I saw a criminal??" in small cities and "oh my god big cities have homelessness and drugs, that should be against the law" and "the endless bike/scooter argument" of larger cities npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone look, it's tragic, okay every selfie death is a Cybertruck left sitting, unsold, on the lot a NFT, orphaned, its wallet forever silenced a bunch of ideas for AI art that never even got to get generated reddit drama that you won't have read out loud to you an ad read for Squarespace that you'll never get to hear npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone slack: "I HAVE AN UNREAD FOR YOU!" me: "i don't believe you" slack: "look, open your activity window, I'll show you!" me: "there's nothing here" slack: "You haven't READ everything!" me: "I'm going to click <filter by unread> and I swear to god, if you don't have anything for me." slack: "YOU HAVE UNREAD MESSAGEEEEEES!" boop slack: "you have no unread messages" npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone I've got the device vibe a little better than she does. That's not to say it isn't VERY OFTEN just, like, 15% dumber than I want it to be. A good question to ask Alexa is "what do you think I just said?" because it will often provide some context for a completely nonsensical response. npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone watching 30 Rock and realizing that I'm Liz Lemon's (Season 1) age has hit me about as hard as watching The Simpsons and realizing that I'm Homer's age npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone I think my favorite is the episode of #30Rock where Jenna and Kenneth conspire with Kelsey Grammer to steal hundreds of dollars from a Carvell iced cream store by ordering misspelled cakes https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/829/137/860/405/573/original/852f205d648ded7d.png https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/829/140/899/567/546/original/77eca2ff049ce3c0.png npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone If you just learned (or are just now learning) that Sticker Mule is run by a hardcore Maga guy, and would like an alternative, may I suggest not buying stickers? You’re a goddamned adult. Don’t pay people for things printed on sticky paper. Replace your furnace air filter. Buy an immersion blender. Save for your retirement. npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone I don't like it when board games have legacy mechanics. That 's too big of an ask of my time and friend group, and a lot of times they result in permanent damage to the game's innards as you tear up boxes and bits and bobs. I've bought a few and I've regretted each one. npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone my hobby? oh, it's simple, it's farting into this plastic chair so aggressively that it wakes my wife up in the other room no, I haven't thought of monetizing it, yet npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone @npub1xs2…ertq People be like "hamburgers are delicious", but then, later in the evening, they be like "beer is delicious" it's like "make up your mind, man" npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone It’s getting hot out https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/650/743/350/148/683/original/3d2e0e97df333e74.jpg npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone once you know about the past exonerative tense, you start to see it show up all over the place, particularly in news stories where the Manitoba police definitely nearly beat a shoplifter to death https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/corydon-avenue-police-incident-winnipeg-1.7237811 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/641/847/252/447/538/original/a57a486b3561b043.png npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone @npub1rzp…xrqv i for one do not see how that cannon is big enough to shoot an entire steam engine npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone one time I was imagining some kind of technology that could be widely deployed to offset global warming somewhat, a huge, solar-powered sun-shade that would block sunlight in the summer but not in the winter, cheap to deploy en-masse and then, having discovered the concept of "trees", I figured I probably wasn't going to make it as an inventor npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone Anyways, big layoffs at #VRChat this last week: I know it's a crowded field, but share your remote friendly senior backend engineering or engineering management roles if you've gottem. npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone in this breathless article someone with white hair points out that mental health stats for children got way worse in the 2010s and blames it on social media rather than Obama-era changes in the measurement criteria of mental health npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone it was good _but_ the bread was a little TOO hard and crusty, (this is a common Baguette problem) and at the same time, even with the protective olive oil later, soaked up a bit too much liquid from the tomatoes. npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone Whereas I made for myself bacon and turkey like a basic bitch https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/617/778/609/468/836/original/2098d41773f8e4af.jpg npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone I don’t regard Tiff as particularly fond of tinned tuna, hard boiled eggs or olives and yet she has been asking me to make a Pan Bagnat for multiple years. Today, I brave the sando. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/617/723/769/384/684/original/2a77355c10f9d113.jpg npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone tiff: so, it's a little girl with a giant warforged bunny barbarian guardian curtis: ... so you want to play as The Maxx? tiff: >_> tiff: <_< tiff: this is why you don't marry someone with all of the same interests as you npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone I joked that hers is the theatrical release and mine is the direct-to-DVD remake npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone She's a background painter, so her work tends more towards definition and detail, whereas I'm more of a cartoonist, so mine tends towards dynamic pose and relative simplicity npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone My wife and I are both digital artists - although she is a professional, whereas I'm more of an amateur, so on the left is her version of her D&D character (Mr. Buns) and on the right is my version. (please do not choose a favorite, it's bound to lead to one of us feeling bad, and by one of us I mean definitely me) https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/612/231/298/132/016/original/65f8a68d436c4f0e.png https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/612/231/647/213/789/original/722b49330f7e4e9e.png npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone my favorite greek god is a pollo he was kind of a chicken though npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone SHOT THROUGH THE HEART https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/602/238/522/900/751/original/22310aa34555104b.png https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/602/240/635/543/036/original/2184758ea6947a25.png https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/602/242/967/604/880/original/e8d6d99801e792c8.png npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone just hangin' out in my classical roman matte painting with a bunch of strapping boys https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/602/229/740/257/583/original/92a08a6649ddbdfd.png npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone club of the sons https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/602/226/070/129/982/original/22e13ca06f1a9ab2.png https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/602/227/217/047/665/original/4e5a305ded6acc83.jpg npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone i think my use of the time machine might be to go back in time and take the vignetting away from Fritz Lang https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/602/187/715/008/046/original/76ac9808ba1d8bf7.png npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone @npub1qgf…gwmn as for the alternative substance, I'd like to sell you some Caffeine at Night Caffeine at Night: Fuck Sleep npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone @npub1qgf…gwmn i'm sponsored by logmunch.com use affiliate link ATOMSISFAKE to get 10% off, but also things are 10% more expensive so it just comes out the same price, but I get paid either way npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone anyways, join me in my quest for truth by posting your incredible chemistry debunks under the hashtag #atomsIsntReal npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone atoms were thoroughly debunked in my experiment ( youtue.b/98ddxx ) where I showed that the 100 degree boiling point is a LIE and oh, did the quote-unquote "scientists" come for me with excuses "you set your thermometer to Fahrenheit" "that water is clearly sitting just above room temperature" exactly what an illuminati would say npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone chemistry claims that there's a fourth form of matter, plasma, and that water turns at plasma at over 10,000 degrees Celsius but if you ask a doctor if there's plasma in your body RIGHT NOW they will say "yes" can humans suddenly survive 10,000 degree heat, DOCTORS? I think not. CHECKMATE ATOM BELIEVERS npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone scientists: all matter is solid, liquid, or gas cereal: exists scientists: 😮 npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone EMPEDOCLES GOT ROBBED have you ever heard the song "September" by EARTH, WIND, and FIRE? they knew the horrible truth Ted Turner was in on it, too, trying to get the world out on the DL with his show about the elements clues are hidden everywhere https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/596/695/404/146/338/original/b4a6c53cd67f2480.png npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone For lunch I am going to eat this whole family https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/566/122/800/779/883/original/1a93824662b04d55.jpg npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone i don't remember Scientific American being this horny but https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/555/260/338/065/553/original/570a3e7021310afa.png npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone this person rightfully gets absolutely pilloried in the comments for failing to understand what constitutes a lot of garlic https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/532/456/984/693/055/original/cafcd18687d56d39.png https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/532/457/408/292/727/original/e172305cf02707bd.png npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone Boutta pop off https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/482/226/446/532/620/original/382bd1b3d5762b6a.jpg npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone Did you know that (at least where I live, in Canada) Subway stopped carrying MUSTARD? that is a CORE SANDWICH CONDIMENT it's part of an ongoing raft of changes intended to make Subway higher-calorie and more expensive, like gradually hiding the "ham sandwich" #bringBackTheMustardYouCowards npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone @npub130x…cunr I heard someone estimate once that every game team needs about 4 creatives for every programmer and while I'm not sure that totally holds, it doesn't seem WRONG, either npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone i'm seriously considering releasing some software under the WinRar model where there's a long free trial and afterwards it presents you with an easily defeated "hey, could you please pay me?" window npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone @npub1788…9nku yeah: while I bristle at measuring quality of life in raw GDP, I’m not going to go to bat saying the last 4 years have been rosy :p npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone basically any idea i have after 5PM is terrible and shouldn't be listened to also any idea i have before 5PM https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/447/922/545/828/341/original/e06b9cddd41d3378.png npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone @npub1zkf…0m2z now, that's a lot to ask from a date parsing library, but I kind of expect that if it can do "yesterday", or "2 hours ago", it should also be able to do "9 AM" npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone Comedy Author: In my sitcom I invented the Stupid Torment Nexus as a joke, to make fun of the dumb things that people build. Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Stupid Torment Nexus from classic sitcom Ha Ha, What A Terrible Torment Nexus npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone Little pan focaccias https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/420/036/582/283/664/original/27a351f4ea6b4b76.jpg npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone Oh, I probably don't need to say it, but for these reasons Elf/Goblin relationships are explicitly verboten, being as Goblins get old and die at ages where elves would still be considered _young_ children. npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone In more placid goblin settlements, adventurers will quickly find that most goblins do not have a well-developed sense of personal property - again, whoever owned that sword first probably died - which can create awkward situations even in peaceful encounters. npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone My personal D&D goblin lore is that most of their whole deal can be explained by the fact that they have a LOT of children, mature at about twice the rate as humans, and have about a third of the lifespan, so they're essentially to humans what humans are to elves npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone I know that the Canucks are close to the heart of everyone in Vancouver, but since I don't follow their schedule, most of my experience of Canucks games has been "surprise, transit is completely fucked" or "surprise, this pub is booked solid" or "surprise, traffic is backed up for 2 solid hours" npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone When I was in my 20s I'd see an article about how a programmer's focus and flow is a PRECIOUS AND UNIQUE GEM THAT MUST BE PROTECTED AT ALL COSTS and think "yes, it is, I agree" and now, older, I think that we have had it too good for too long and are used to being treated like pampered babies, yes, we must be exempt from meetings and distractions in a perfect sea of quiet or the golden goose will not lay its programming eggs ... but I'm still happier when it's quiet and I don't have meetings npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone I gave my players a scroll of Pyrotechnics, one of the less useful spells in the game (IMO) figuring that if they ever figured out something to use it for, it would be fun. Anyhow, one unexpected effect, Rules as Written, is that the spell starts by extinguishing a 5x5 cube of fire, (which would, IMO, insta-kill a CR 5 Fire Elemental) and which the players used to solve a "fire" problem they were having. The fireworks afterward were just incidental. #dungeonsAndDragons npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone sometimes it's hard to reconcile my belief that Software Development Isn't That Hard And Just About Anybody Who Seems Smart Could Probably Do My Job with providing useful feedback during the interview phase npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone I can't stand working in coffee shops. It's loud, people are having conversations all around you. Not enough screen space. Laptop keyboard. You can't leave your "office" unattended to use the bathroom unless you want it to wander away. I have better coffee beans at home. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/305/358/892/768/766/original/6df554d82f74671a.jpg npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone Occasionally I'll see people arguing about whether it's impossible to play as a female character because you can't relate, or it's preferable to play as a female character because otherwise you're robbing yourself of an opportunity to ogle a girl for eleventy hours, and I think "you know what, maybe it's possible for both sides of this argument to be kinda gross" npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone "emulation isn't piracy" is, IMO, a "guns don't kill people" argument: while it's technically true, it's disingenuous to the point of being useless that's not to say I'm against it: I'm actually all for emulation, but I think emulation's benefits are arguments in favor of piracy rather than arguments for why emulation ISN'T piracy https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/220/113/377/728/515/original/3f008eae4acf5b54.jpg npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone but why are the AI companies the ones crying out for AI regulation? my guess is "it was so powerful the government had to step in and now there are regulatory barriers restricting what we can do" is a better story for investors than "it's just not that good, yet" npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone @npub1nvx…8ejh I found it at https://canadamodern.org/ , a collection of iconic Canadian modernist graphic design from the 60s-70s npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone my secret allegiance https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/820/646/233/050/055/original/0fcbac85ea187f3d.png npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone @npub1a4c…t2kf huh, that explains what happened to my post, "Decolonizing Male-Dominated Furry Spaces in O(n) Time By Pair Programming in Scala" npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone @npub1nvx…8ejh i'm not sure how many of my dad's wild stories were just lead poisoning but it has to be at least a few npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone did your grandmother also use these plates? https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/781/817/854/787/012/original/447b0e85fa8db1b7.webp npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone @npub1nvx…8ejh you have now npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone Last night, instead of doing anything valuable with my life, I made this: https://blog.cube-drone.com/p/the-best-episode-of-unraveled-as npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone oh man I forgot how much I used to watch this show when I was in high school the challenger picked Hiroyuki Sakai and I just went "OOOHH SHIT, YOU GONNA GET REKT" npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone the other thing about watching a lot of Iron Chef in English is that AFAICT they decided that Chairman Kaga's voice and personality was Just Too Iconic to translate and he just gets subtitled while everyone else gets dubbed. npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone one thing about watching a lot Iron Chef in English is that even if there's a different challenger and panel every week, they always have the same voices and you get to know those voices like old friends npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone this man is the absolute mvp of dramatically eating objects https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/752/769/120/118/112/original/73939bb25365a7c9.png npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone you know what, I think it's time https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/752/766/782/295/107/original/c48496fa4802a937.png npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone the royal bank's website features these two men who are very clearly stealing my money https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/634/306/071/946/461/original/468bc652bdad37ca.png npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone like, if you write your shopping list in a dry-erase board on your fridge, you can just snap a photo of that on the way out of the house npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone I can't remember where this advice came from but I remember reading just a whole bunch of creative ways to use your phone camera to make your life easier and it actually WAS one of the few things that I would consider real, good "life hacks" npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone Sandwich game https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/535/931/817/047/394/original/6537de640c3689c4.jpg npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone I have done nothing but teleport bread for three days https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/504/131/828/498/772/original/52374ec95e2d3084.png npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone Tired from being a little jerk, he must nap https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/424/134/625/199/394/original/db68da9b175ca50f.jpg npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone This went well https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/423/834/510/561/098/original/63f46d2e263507de.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/423/835/157/596/382/original/1983e2e7246eed52.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/423/835/488/374/556/original/9664cf2f1e4af1ff.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/423/835/781/913/496/original/a0dd978b38340b7d.jpg npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone somewhere between 'almost all' and 'every' baking recipe calls for unsalted butter and then adds more salt back in by hand than you saved by using unsalted butter. if you can remember that there's about 1tsp/lb of salt in salted butter, you can only ever buy just the one butter, it'll last longer in your fridge, and it's good for all of your butter use-cases npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone Things in a kitchen that means business: Loads of little bowls A spice grinder Knives on a magnetic block Hanging pans Cast iron A bunch of spatulas and tongs in a caddy Oil pours A pot full of salt #cooking npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone MICROWAVE YO PLATES thank me later npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone * tots are to be seasoned with steak spice, it is the best tot seasoning * make a dippin' sauce out of mayo, ketchup, and a blisteringly hot sauce * air fryer make good tater tot * I only clean the air fryer about once a week, and then immediately make a small batch of bacon in there, so there's almost always fresh bacon grease in the air fryer which makes every recipe that comes out of there a little more excellent npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone * scramble eggs with a little bit of sour cream or creme fraiche (or, heck, butter), use gradual heat and keep them moving, taking them off the heat when they're almost cooked for the ideal goopy consistency (you may not regard "goopy" as the idea consistency for your scramble but I do) * if you have messy toppings - in this case, green onion kimchi - consider putting them on the toast _before_ the eggs: they won't fall off as easily npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone seemingly simple #breakfast #cooking but I've got the HAX on tap: https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/331/779/294/025/556/original/d3898b4a22e82600.png npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone I'd like to correct a previous toot, I am told by numerous technical colleagues that this is not, in fact, Kubernetes https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/304/522/982/083/781/original/c71fc018fc7e297b.png npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone @npub1y0c…vdjw I would never choose Python for a new project, not now, not any more, but I'm never mad when I see it npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone @npub1y0c…vdjw I think modern (key word: MODERN) JavaScript has leapt past Python in pretty much every way: it's, IMO, a better language (now), especially if you want to write async code, which still feels kludgy in Python but there's still a lot in Python that recommends it, I think, despite its growing obsolescence npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone can you tell I'm a python/javascript developer LOOK, I'M FROM A SOFT UNIVERSE WHERE I CAN REPRESENT LITERALLY EVERYTHING IN MY LIFE AS TRANSFORMATIONS ON A LIST OF STRINGS npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone Whereas learning Go is more like driving a manual transmission to the Staples so that you can send a fax to your doctor. You just spend the whole time going "fuck, it's 2023, I can't believe I still have to do this shit." npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone Learning Rust is like learning Haskell, or, like, Esperanto, it's a mind-expanding paradigm that's endlessly frustrating because you're learning how to operate in a new, fae universe where the rules are as alien as they are unbreakable, and while you respect its beauty and power, you literally can't do anything because you need to spend 6 more Lifetimes learning about how Hindley-Miller type systems apply to memory management. npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone Now Rust - Rust is a thing of beauty. I'm angry at myself, for being too stupid to think seven-dimensionally enough to be able to code in Rust. Oh, the type of that code is a Maybe[Future[Async[Wrapper[Arc[Reactor[Core]]]]] and you needed a Future[Async[Arc[Wrapper]]]]? Guess you're fucked. But with Go, I'm angry at the language, just for having the sheer gall to just be C with a rubber mask on. npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone look at me, I'm using a code editor written in 1974 so I can't simply autocomplete any variable name by pressing tab look at me, I think that writing code is more important than reading it https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/266/067/871/352/079/original/550140b2dcc1d04b.png npub1gxvfajfalaxdzqlhde6nzlgee2vs69wda6mv5yxwd5cvuh2e38gq7s0nqq Cube Drone I don't care if your hands are falling off your body and you're still using vi, typing the rest of the word is STILL non negotiable you ever try to grep the letter "l"? you don't need to write a whole essay but you're not even bothering with the _word_ anyways: here's what I think about that, in a language even you fucking Go nerds can understand: y c g f y words are free my good bitch