max-webster.bsky.social
Tech writer in California. Opinions all mine, not my employer's.
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If you're pleading for an answer, that's just begging the question.
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The ending was foreshadowed by all the deaths in the final season. Bobby, Silvio (OK, coma), Phil. However cautious they were, they all got taken by surprise because they were distracted by the person or thing they loved best. Bobby: model trains, Silvio: Bada Bing ledgers, Phil: wife, Tony: Meadow.
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My old stomping ground! Enjoy a boat ride around Gull Lake, past my cousin's cabin, and stop in at Miner's Bay for refreshments.
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I'm gradually warming to Robbie Williams. But for me the 1985 original by Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy is the iconic version of this song. Who TIL was an original member of Duran Duran and then collaborated with Robbie Williams, leading to...
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Chaser www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzmK...
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Gone gone gone, she been gone so long,
well I wonder if I ever gonna see my girl. (IYKYK)
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Feels!
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It's better to remove blank lines, add bullets, remove HTML tags, add wiki or Markdown tagging, etc. in vim. Then what's on the clipboard is in perfect form to paste. No further editing required in the browser text field or Reminders or whatever.
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One of my biggest timesaving hacks is a little script to pbpaste the clipboard text into a temp file, edit the file, and then pbcopy the result back to the clipboard. Because so often the text I'm copying needs to be reformatted, and what I'm pasting into has only basic edit capabilities.
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Fun fact: "Addicted to Love" was originally a duet with Chaka Khan. www.mprnews.org/story/2016/0...
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Odds bodkins
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratfal...
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Always has been
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Also "apres vu" meaning I'll see you afterward 😉
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An abolitionist sitting solemn-faced for a portrait in the 1860s. Then putting the thrown-off shackles on display.
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Are you calling back to this NASA factoid? factrepublic.com/facts/33180/
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Yes, that's well-known in some corners. www.lieder.net/lieder/get_t...
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All these years, the origin of Mayday was considered an urban legend. And you just... tweeted it out
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That will be an accomplishment if you can get people to wear t-shirts with "idempotent" on them
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That's a good one. Because I always have a bunch of ':g /whatever/ d' that differ depending on the context. I've defined so many macros with q<letter>... the overloading must make it hard to discover these other uses of q.
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W.r.t. trust, people tend to rally around their language tribe. I trust me and my Java coders, not someone writing in archaic PL/SQL. OK, here's Java stored procs. Now I've moved onto Python; Java, pffft. OK, here's Py... Now I'm doing Ruby! No, Rust! I only trust ORMs written in my fave language.
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I guess you could ask the converse, why are devs so fond of ORMs. Someone should write a bunch of general-purpose stored procedures and call it something like "embedded ORM" or "bare metal ORM".
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Great minds
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Keep an eye on Manitoulin
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Branding. If they were called a name that implied "you get to write your own data layer API" they'd be more popular. The attraction from a business point of view is you can make them stable, walled off by the DBA from slow or buggy code written by junior devs. Leading to outrage from the devs.
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And Stony Curtis
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feedkeys() seems like such an arbitrary name, not related to any of the other vim built-in functions I'm familiar with. I thought maybe it was a NeoVim extension. But no, it's there in plain ol' vim too.
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On the non-chocolate side, Lifesavers and Polar Bars.
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Oh Henry. Kit Kat. Crispy Crunch. Coffee Crisp. And Cherry Blossom.
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I remember when you could go to a convenience store up in cottage country (Minden, Ontario) with $1.50 in spending money. And know exactly how much candy, ice cream, and soda you could walk away with. A good haul for one day.
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Ouch
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Dat's cold me buddy
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FWIW, Billy Idol is playing the Greek Theatre in Berkeley in September
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You can copy and paste the headline from any news article into a search engine, and you'll find a dozen free news outlets summarizing the original, offering a critique, or doing their own story based on similar sources or public knowledge.