Rory Prendergast

Just another formerly cool person. Often banished from dreams to cars. Likes computers as toys, not weapons.

Opinions weakly held unless correct.

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Find me @[email protected]

It's cooler than the metaverse

https://t.co/xC2H0KMDy5

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@_r00k_ I absolutely love Galaxy Quest, but I’ve never seen A Knights Tale — so it’s now on the list, thanks

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@fromagefacile I don’t see any waxy gibbons. In the tree maybe?

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@GoateePFE I can't believe you can get a shot like this without a spacecopter. Amazing

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@thingskatedid I think you should pretend you make eurorack modules *inside the Buckaroo Bonzai crafted universe* and name, design the company and modules accordingly.

Similar thought exercise, same thing but you run a megachurch.

Could do this all day! Help

Maybe you are Bing Bong. Fun!

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@joshcorman Just watched this two nights ago with the kids, at their request! Those funny little things

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@SecuritySphynx awww poor things :( what could that smell like to them?

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When I see a telephone pole next to a tree, I think about the tree's endless waking nightmare. Imagine

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The new Python release is crazy full of major new stuff.

Exception grouping, stack trace pointing at the offending column, faster, and yay! toml in the stdlib. Plus lots of typing improvements I may actually use someday :)

It’s just cool to see the project so active.

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@beajammingh I can’t not think of …

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@CrispinCowan0 @Twitter You can ask it, but it's tough with cats because they can feed themselves, frankly. You just don't have any leverage.

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@CrispinCowan0 @Rachael_Conrad And https://t.co/gkZ54bvKUy, Bowie’s kiddo. Moon is such a good one.

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@chorn I f’n *KNEW* it dude, not surprised at all

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A wise man reminded me:

"Never trust a test you haven’t seen fail is a maxim for a reason."

And this is absolutely how I noticed it. It failed to fail :)

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If you're using Go's assert library, remember that assert.ObjectsAreEqual doesn't fail the test - it returns a bool.

The function's docstring *says* it makes no assertion. But the hint should be that you don't pass a *testing.T, it can't fail the test.

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@SwiftOnSecurity They don’t care. The brand is toast. They are wringing out the last of the dollars. This is the normal, natural tech lifecycle.

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@x0rz I talked to some Cal students years ago. They wanted to do data science. I asked why they were interested and they couldn’t articulate it.

It’s OK if an 18 year old isn’t quite sure what they want. What’s sad is we think they should. Everyone wants a good life.

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@dildog Samesies

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Anyway, curious if anyone works this or another, perhaps more oddball way?

And if anyone has kick ass ppt idea decks that do not require a speaker to present them, post and I'll read them :)

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Slide decks are everyone's favorite whipping boy. But I love:
• To organize thoughts using text-heavy slides
• To read such slides when others give me theirs

Everyone has their own way to wring out their ideas sponge, but ppt is mine - just not for presenting.

I am not alone!

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In all my working years, only once did this truly happen. I had slides I was to present. About two speakers before me, a deity spoke to me and I rewrote almost all the slides for a new topic.

That was the best presentation I ever gave judging by audience reaction. Creepy cool.