Rudy X. Desjardins

Programmer, OS nerd, etc. Also a hopeless bibliophile, maker, drinker of coffee, lover of music... and stuff. Witness the fitness.

[Bryan Moore @artofbryanmoore]

Mary Shelley departed this mortal coil today in 1851. The horror genre' wouldn't be where it is today if it wasn't for her.
Raise a glass to the dear lady, won't you?
<3
Bry

@neilhimself

[Rudy X. Desjardins @SandbenderCa]

The ocean took my #beads... I'm good with it (they're my fam yo). Will have to find a replacement before heading home though :D #CostaRica #PuraVida

[Rudy X. Desjardins @SandbenderCa]

GDI! #tfw you lookup concert dates for a fave artist and discover they *are* playing in your town... tonight!!!! (and you're out of town :( :( :( #live #music @LanaDelRey

[Dr. Helen Papagiannis, Ph.D. @ARstories]

@Johnny_Strategy @GreatDismal WOAH https://t.co/EOTLCpOTYN

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Stormy Daniels isn’t the only porn star Trump was in contact with in 2006. He also was with porn star Jessica Drake. He offered her $10,000 & the use of Trump’s private jet if she agreed to sleep with him. She tells the story in video below. #TrumpSexProbe

[Richard J. Pearce @DrRichJP]

Spiders are extremely hygienic animals, despite what many people choose to believe. Excellent housekeepers in their own right, they also help to keep our own domiciles free from pests. Live clean, live well and let spiders into your life! #LoveSpiders #ClassicArachnology 🕷️🕸️

[MIT Technology Review @techreview]

Imagine playing a music video from YouTube on your speakers and having Alexa “hear” an order for two tons of creamed corn. Welcome to AI attack hell. https://t.co/zEjRcUGLYs

[Rudy X. Desjardins @SandbenderCa]

@HonestToddler just remember, hearing != listening... next thing you know, they'll be scotch-taping the door open and doing weird small-people rain dances to try and summon the money birds :D

[Brianna Wu @BriannaWu]

Something that’s so important to me as a candidate is to secure more educational funding for students with disabilities, particularly those on the autism spectrum.

By investing in their childhood, many can go on to have rich lives and careers. It saves money in the long run.

[Brad Miska @ Dread Central @DreadCentral]

This year marks the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and you can expect to see lots of products and events tied to the celebration. First out of the gate is Rockport Publishers’ Classics… https://t.co/O0iXRlUnLT #Contests #News #ClassicsReimagined #horror

[Rudy X. Desjardins @SandbenderCa]

#howto make "see less often" actually work:

*uninstalls official @Twitter app*

/me ponders value of bespoke #cli client to filter all the bullshit and actually see what I want (read: chronological tweets from ppl I follow)

[Neil Gaiman @neilhimself]

Freely given https://t.co/XDuOurG9j4

[Tariq Nasheed 🇺🇸 @tariqnasheed]

Instead of marching & begging for the city to remove Confederate statues from city parks, some Black men in Memphis purchased the parks that had statues of Jefferson Davis & Nathan Bedford Forrest (founder of the KKK). Then THEY had the statues removed from THEIR property #Salute

[Rudy X. Desjardins @SandbenderCa]

cc @iHandroid Closer to the machine ;) https://t.co/DKfxbRfZzr

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality." - Donald Knuth

[Rudy X. Desjardins @SandbenderCa]

@BigBBarrie #whoah Price??? :D ("too much for me") #comics #tmnt

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"Telling a programmer there's already a library to do X is like telling a songwriter there's already a song about love." - Pete Cordell

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

The Geneva Drive: a mechanism that translates a continuous rotation movement into intermittent discrete motion.

(used in mechanical watches, movie projectors, banknote counting machines)