Ben Watson

Coffee lover, word smith, chess blundermaster, climber & overjoyed pappa. Architect at NVIDIA. Views & opinions so foolish, they could only possibly be my own.

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@ChampChessTour @DavidHowellGM 1: Rfe3 (discovered & double check)
2: Kd4 (forced)
3: B5 (discovered check, and mate?)

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Arbiter: "No dancing is allowed in the tournament hall"
Spotify Playlist: Next up, Gangnam Style.
Prag:
#chesschamps

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When you search the #Python package index on a hot day #swimpy

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@chess24com #c24live Nils, du ska förtjäna din fredagsmys med en seger ikväll 🤩🌮🍰

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Armageddon may have arrived for Software Developers - Stack Overflow is offline.

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#ChessChamps question of the day (+ a little latency): Arnold Schwarzenegger, as he would threaten an infinite loop by recursion...

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With great space comes great responsibility. How @chess24 coverage of #ChessChamps has influenced sudo...

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@guriel @craigdmccann "The NSA told me not to say anything"

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@VMware Remove. Recursive. Force.

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@VMware "Hey, quick question..."

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@GestaltIT Enjoyed the metadata discussion - a topic that's near-and-dear to my heart!

Metadata plays such an important role. In fact, in some scenarios, metadata could be _more_ important than data. Crazy, huh?

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@SFoskett Likewise! Your events always produce & deliver great content. Ah, blogging - that was good fun (and useful) although much of my work nowadays is on internal docs... Still try to push useful code to GitHub though, particularly to share with my friends in HPC 🙂

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Appreciate the invitation to present our objectives and use cases for @ddn_limitless to their 2020 EMEA User Group: https://t.co/87lPsYQVAo

#AutonomousVehicles #SelfDrivingCars #HPC #datacentric

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Finally have the fifth day of the Ashes on the radio in Sweden. On the downside, it's been a horrific batting morning, but on the plus side the radio can come with me while I do a series of ritualistic rain dances during lunch...

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@trekkie @Bacon_Is_King Absolutely. In Sweden it's rather entertaining - how many "happy birthday" renditions end up with the final line being "då ska han/hon skjutas på en skottkärra fram" or "then he/she will be shot in a wheelbarrow going forwards" 😄😄😄

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Wowza, what on Earth is going on at Nutanix?! NTNX is tumbling...

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@jakowski There must be an app for that nowadays...? 😊

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#Zenuity is a people-centric company, as highlighted by the variety of board cleaning sprays available for our staff and guests 👌

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I'm going to hazard a guess that this has nothing whatsoever to do with *nix shells and/or scripting... 😬

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The broad misuse of the word 'revert' is dreadful.

Saying: "To fix the problem we have to make this change. I will do this and then revert."

Actually means: "I will make the change to fix the problem. And then I will un-fix it."

Please do not fix problem, and then un-fix it.