Sam Lade

Physicist, programmer, general digital nerd. Sysadmin and occasional writer for @angrymetalguy. he/they
Fediverse/Mastodon: @[email protected]

[Sam Lade @Sentyneli]

What a shit show. I'm @[email protected] on the not-Twitter social network, assuming I'm allowed to post this message...

[Sam Lade @Sentyneli]

@noodlemaz volewriter (check the bio)

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@noodlemaz fyi your LRT is by somebody who posts TERFy bullshit (not that the actual thread is wrong!)

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@JonathanAStroud Wow, that really sucks. So much stuff I was excited to see on screen. Bloody Netflix. Still, at least we know what happens!

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@Lazer Yep, exactly. Written by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar, the perspective alternates between two characters who leave each other messages, each written by one of the authors. Done really well.

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@Lazer Have you read This Is How You Lose the Time War? That's written this way (and is brilliant).

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@cliffski You can statically link the runtime library with /MT. Caveats may apply if you have multiple DLLs that all link the runtime library. https://t.co/TyPbIAehCb

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@Lazer I'm running a GTS instance and I've been really impressed. The community is cool and the code is readable if you're interested in contributing.

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@noodlemaz @ThreeUK We gave up on Three and moved to O2 recently after endless problems with their London signal and a series of full outages around home. We'd both been with them for years. Support tried to blame my phone but eventually relented and let me off what was left of my contract.

[Sam Lade @Sentyneli]

Hey look, it's me, posting my first review of the year a mere quarter of the way through!

[The Angry Metal Guy @AngryMetalGuy]

Allfather - A Violent Truth Review - https://t.co/nWY6otYnUj

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@Octalthorpe @MattCartoonist @Telegraph Yeah wtf is up with this? He's stayed away from cheap shots and mean spirited jokes previously, and yesterday's was particularly tiresome.

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@Octalthorpe @purplecow17 Yeah Hannah absolutely does not rhyme with banana in British English, although I am now going to take this as a direct instruction to pronounce it that way.

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@drwvrm I feel like I should be charging consultancy rates for this.

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@JonathanAStroud @NetflixUK Nearly 20 years after the whole will-they-won't-they Barti film, it must be incredible to see your work finally on screen. (Also, I think we can all agree that the proprietor of the relic men's café stole the show.)

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@JonathanAStroud Finally caught up with Lockwood. Wow. The cast, the sets, the ghosts, the writing, the choreography, the music, the attention to detail! Whose house do we have to haunt until it gets renewed? Asking for a friend. @NetflixUK #LockwoodandCo

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@JonathanAStroud @FictionComplete I thought the music in the trailer was cool, and "post-punk inspired soundtrack by The Flight" has certainly got my attention! Any plans to do a soundtrack album release?

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@JonathanAStroud @NetflixUK @penguinplatform @LittleBrownYR This looks amazing! I am so, so impressed with the design and detail. Foolishly I'm away for a week starting on the 27th and won't be able to watch until afterwards!

[Jonathan Stroud @JonathanAStroud]

HERE IT IS! Presenting the fabulous #Lockwoodandco trailer!
Lucy, Lockwood and George are opening for business on Netflix on January 27. In the meantime, get your rapiers ready and check out this preview of the thrills to come. Enjoy!
@NetflixUK @PenguinPlatform @LittleBrownYR

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@r_w_kirkpatrick I was expecting Rick Astley tbh

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@cliffski I think dabbling in other languages is useful—learning different approaches can give you better ways of solving some problems. But I wouldn't hope to be "professional" standard in many languages—maybe a systems language, a scripting language, and JS (alas, but it's everywhere).

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@cliffski Yeah, I've worked professionally in a few languages and I could never do it in C++; it's just too complicated. You can learn every feature of Go in an afternoon, say; obviously "expert" takes longer but not 25 years longer.