David Dick

polyglot software developer, specialty: s/w migration; tsundoku sufferer; sci/tech fan; political spinoff: @granitevoter; hardcore s/w dev: @granitedev

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

It is impossible to win against stupid.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Smallpox killed an estimated 300 million people in the 20th century.

Today it kills zero

Not “fewer.”

ZERO

We deleted it

By VACCINES

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: The U.S. government will now insure losses up to $40 billion for oil tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

But they can’t insure you if you get cancer or have a heart attack.

Big oil is more important than your life in Trump’s America. Did you vote for that?

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Hawaii, relocated for convenience

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

There are no words. ICE agents ate lunch at a small local Mexican restaurant in Minnesota, enjoyed their meal, then came back later that night as the restaurant was closing down and arrested the people who had served them.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

Carl Sagan on the lack of media interest in science.

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

Heartbreaking. A Minneapolis family driving home from their son’s basketball game in their car with six kids, including a 6-month-old, was hit by tear gas & flash-bangs from ICE agents, leaving their baby struggling to breathe and hospitalized.

This is unacceptable. ICE is making our state less safe.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

A more illuminated and safer traffic light

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I'm going to institute the Monty Python Peace Prize,
which will be awarded each year to the highest bidder

[Alvaro Bedoya @BedoyaUSA]

Minneapolis, not Fallujah

[David Dick @granitecoder]

@Itsfoss Slackware.

[David Dick @granitecoder]

I thought of a good application for Amazon's (seemingly late to the party) interest in AI: weeding out the scams from their online product catalog.

[David Dick @granitecoder]

@adamjohnsonCHI @doctorow (Warning: obscure ref) Just like Alex's gang in "A Clockwork Orange"

[David Dick @granitecoder]

Crackpots find platforms easily, these days.

[TBPN @tbpn]

Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) is getting into nicotine.

"Basically, America smoked its way to being the dominant hyperpower. It kept people focused, it kept people fit. It's an appetite suppressant.

"I'm becoming more and more convinced that the health benefits of not smoking have not been properly traded against the health problems caused by the resulting eating."

"I think the crazy version of this is we'd all be better off with lung cancer eventually, but fit until then."

"Is vaping worse than being fat? I don't know. I struggle. Based on the evidence I've seen."

[David Dick @granitecoder]

@ValaAfshar ... and the my condo board wouldn't even reuse the good composite planks in our decks when they replaced all the gates, rails, etc. Bet a lot of it got taken home 🙂

[Matt @mattthemoo]

Doctorow and (ironically) The Onion really are the last bastions of hope on this hellsite.

[David Dick @granitecoder]

@hwinkler4real There are several subtle one in thus e foliage.

[David Dick @granitecoder]

Another reason not to devote time to getting into Ruby, as fascinating as the language appears: https://t.co/PvWe4CXStn