Katherine Derbyshire

Personal stuff here. Professional stuff @kderbyshire, @carbon_to. Also @[email protected].

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Apparently LinkedIn is not (yet) on the Naughty List. My profile there has contact information if needed.

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@Henryz_mom All of this is true, but why should cyclists and pedestrians care? Isn't this a problem for concerned drivers to address? (Perhaps with some of the same changes that cyclists and pedestrians want?)

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Yes, I know you don't learn anything by resigning. But if you're already down a whole rook when your opponent queens a pawn? Maybe the useful lessons are about avoiding that situation, not seeing how you lose from here.

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@space_Amy bxc6, you can push the pawn later. The books say that Bb5 was a poor decision to begin with, though, and suggest responding to Nxd4 with Nge7. (Watson 4th ed.) In which case the Bc8 can get out via a6 if needed.

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@Alvaro110788 @TheTicklerTv Fastest way to get a correct answer on the internet: post an incorrect one.

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@Alvaro110788 @TheTicklerTv Ah ha! I missed that the pin doesn't prevent forward motion, just axb6.

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@Inspectorhound1 Yes. This is exactly why "supervised" self-driving is a dangerous fantasy. Either the car is truly autonomous (doesn't exist yet) or it's not.

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@awprokop Follower count is a nonsense number. If someone "follows" you but never visits Twitter, are they really a follower?

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@ichiohta There were people at Twitter who did in fact expect this. Elmo fired them.

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@jaytronzero @space_Amy Ne7 is not unusual in the Advance, but typically the Bf8 comes out first.

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@theinfoministry @owillis Suburban Americans know. Long lines are a choice.

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@FlintDibble Archaeologists are great, but I would think anyone with two functioning brain cells who stopped to think for five minutes could figure out that there are three different building materials here.

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Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

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@JRosen707 @barkflight Being tech literate is my literal job and I'm *still* not interested in figuring the server thing out.

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@Prism_Metanews 4. Paid to do so by their primary employer.

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@Prism_Metanews 1. To interact with other smart people, in and out of their fields.
2. To promote their newsletter or other paid content.
3. Low effort way to inform the public.
But all of these work better with a large user base.

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@Prism_Metanews The appeal of Twitter is serendipity: experts from all kinds of fields are there, so you never know when you'll see something interesting. 2/2

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@JRosen707 @semiphemeral Anti-fascist, but apparently fine with Kafka.