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Software engineer and architect. Zurich, London, Galway. Google, Duco, Delphi.
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Putin's not anti-immigration! It was the thing that made him unpopular among even the real ethno-nats and why Libs like Navalny picked it up because how salient it was. Immigration from CA is massive and the border is effectively "open"

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

Mom would have been 82 today. She died at 55. I recently realized that I am now older than she ever was, which seems like a fundamental wrongness in the universe. I was particularly thinking about her penchant for taking a direct and vivid role in her schools’ disciplinary approaches. /1

submitted 56 days ago • 277 comments

I want two dimensional restaurant ratings. One for how refined the food and experience is, the other for how good it is within this dimension. You don't go to the best pizza place for fine dining. But pizza is easy. Sit down dining with a wine menu can be hard to pin down from reviews alone.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

When my son was a toddler, he got used to the Alexa wakeword being "computer" (a la Star Trek). So now he thinks computers, laptops and tablets are three distinct classes of computing device, and computers are the things you talk to.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments