Robert Burke

🇨🇦 Gopher (⌯Go)
Views and interests here are mine alone. He/him. Also a Googler. @DesertBus Afterparty Sponsor. Makes typos liberally.

[Robert Burke @lostluck]

I've definitely stopped materially posting here, but 🟦 is where I can be found.

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

[Robert Burke @lostluck]

I've definitely stopped materially posting here, but 🟦 is where I can be found.

[Bluesky @bluesky]

welcome, new bluesky users 🫡

https://t.co/x6v5YW0WFT

[Robert Burke @lostluck]

@A_dmg04 Xurs using it.

[theyfab.bsky.social @theyfabatbirth]

my mom (who's a university professor) did something interesting last year: she assigned her students to give chatgpt an essay question, have it write a paper, and then proofread/fact check it. nearly every single student in that class came out of that assignment anti-chatgpt.

[NWS Seattle @NWSSeattle]

Possible G4 magnetic storm arriving Thursday. Chance for Western Washington to see the aurora Thursday evening/early Friday morning. Looks like the weather will cooperate with mostly clear skies. #wawx

[Robert Burke @lostluck]

@G0ffThew You've never steered me wrong. Dead Dead Demons... Took me longer to warm up to it, but now I'm looking forward to seeing where they take it!

[Robert Burke @lostluck]

@HollyConrad This photo is rad!

[GopherCon Singapore @GopherConSG]

#GopherConSG will be postponed to 22-24 January 2025, so we can have more time to plan and put together a great conference for everyone.

Because of this, we're extending our #CFP for a few more days, in case you might have some #golang ideas to share! 💥

https://t.co/6kuAVMS6i8

[Robert Burke @lostluck]

@captainnobody1 no comment 🤐

[Hafeez A. @trainguy89]

We have the worst traffic on the 401 and no one just thought, “how about we put a rail line here?”

[Robert Burke @lostluck]

@the_transit_guy *shouts to the void* build high speed rail instead

[Robert Burke @lostluck]

My life got a bit better WRT video games when I started simply adding games to my Steam wishlist instead of buying them for the backlog.

Now, if only I had time to play more...

[Robert Burke @lostluck]

@GillianFoxglove Actual surprise!

[Robert Burke @lostluck]

@kelseyhightower Honestly I just don't split the two.

That's like saying "before you type, you must know what letters to press, you don't just type" or "before you read, you must find something to read, you don't just read".

Understanding what to code is part of coding.

[NWS Seattle @NWSSeattle]

Thanks everyone for sending along photos so far! There is also a full moon tonight, so the best potential to see the northern lights will be away from city lights, and through camera & phone photos. Also dependent on how long geomagnetic storm conditions continue.

[Go @golang]

“Share your feedback about developing with Go” by Alice Merrick — https://t.co/t9J6Wd8kzI

#golang

[Don Pettit @astro_Pettit]

This was so fascinating. I had a teflon knitting needle on @ISS and charged it by rubbing with my Russian fur boots. Then I directed water droplets from a syringe towards the charged knitting needle and this is the resulting dynamics. The droplets, due to charge forces, go into a crazy orbit around the knitting needle. If planets were cylindrical this would be the orbit of its moons due to gravity. Canon G1 video camera, Expedition 30, 2012.