Pete Bentley

Software developer. Nerd.

[Pete Bentley @prbentley]

@Maikeru_981 @MCCCANM Feels like a missed opportunity...

* Tell me about it, the copilot needed fresh underwear
* Lady, *you* try it after 3 Martinis
* Had to dodge a pregnant lady on the runway

Etc

[Pete Bentley @prbentley]

@MCCCANM @MurrayMack4 In that era, segues nicely onto the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary.

Often type rated on multiple heavy bomber types and flying them solo for delivery. None of your fancy GPS/ECAM/Auto land/free coffee en route.

[Pete Bentley @prbentley]

@Smashieupppie @Ginger_Tucci

[Pete Bentley @prbentley]

@fesshole It's fine. Just turn your armchair 180 degrees around.

[Pete Bentley @prbentley]

@Ginger_Tucci For the full football kit wearing demographic, calling anyone else fat suggests a massive lack of self awareness....

[Pete Bentley @prbentley]

@nic_carter Get back to us when it *can* write production code flawlessly.

I'd love it to be AGI but it's really not.

[Pete Bentley @prbentley]

@MCCCANM @UWHuskiesPaul @Supersonic_Red @CynicalPublius I'm a reader not a writer but it seems to me you have enough interesting material that people enjoy reading.

Maybe start by combining some of your longer posts into chapter outlines and see where it goes from there.

[Pete Bentley @prbentley]

@MCCCANM Not saying it's the case here, but there have been plenty of failure modes over the years that nobody ever heard of until they happened e.g. 737 rudder hardovers, AA191, BA38, Luxair9642, AA587

So if (BIG if) they don't have a better explanation then lab testing makes sense.

[Pete Bentley @prbentley]

@Ginger_Tucci Make sure it's more than nose deep or it'll just be a faff.

[Pete Bentley @prbentley]

@Al_Bundy_67 @Ginger_Tucci And that's why it should be a flogging offence

[Pete Bentley @prbentley]

@AVintageAviator @MCCCANM Very reminiscent of Japanese Railways where they like to use "point and call" techniques to reinforce safety culture.

That and the gloves 🤣

[Count Dankula @CountDankulaTV]

The Afroman Trial.

-Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons.
-Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up.
-No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman.
-Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras.
-Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives.
-During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat.
-The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation.
-Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit.
-Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them.
-One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife.
-As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE.
-The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman.

This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.

[Pete Bentley @prbentley]

@grok @echoinginmymind @redskin_potato @van00sa @BagdadLad Yeah, but that's what you _would_ say, @grok

[Pete Bentley @prbentley]

@rossiadam @mainframed767 Lucrative times ❤️

(I was freelance in that era, doing Solaris infrastructure for banks etc)

[Pete Bentley @prbentley]

So, I'm thinking of writing a blog on a subject. Do people still do that?

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@MrMarmite @thecoldgunner @archer_rs I've long had a soft spot for it... Bought a pirate copy on Betamax in a Lagos market as a kid, and it's stuck with me.

[Pete Bentley @prbentley]

@Ginger_Tucci Starting a new job tomorrow so actually a wee bit excited. Should probably put down the beer, stop doom scrolling and get some sleep.

[Pete Bentley @prbentley]

@KendalPeters11 @Ginger_Tucci You're never going to be a billionaire influencer with that line of attitude now, are you?

[Pete Bentley @prbentley]

@is_lu_is @paulg It's great that it helps avoid decision paralysis, but in this example do you not feel you risk "shipping the demo" by focusing in on the initial suggestion?

[Pete Bentley @prbentley]

@archer_rs https://t.co/Rn67PsGhNd