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A system where the vote is taken literally by having people stand around in groups is apparently being disrupted by a software failure.

Periodic Reminder: When debugging, you must first accept that something you believe is true is not true. If everything you believed about this system were true, it would work. It doesn't, so you're wrong about something. This is a surprisingly common stumbling block for devs.

I’ve changed jobs more often than I’ve changed shoes. Jobs are our only country, let the politicians tell it. I make a living being told what they want me to hear. It's a killing. It's losing the class war for a career.

I’ve taken emergency war time powers to beg for forgiveness. Jk. Lmfao. Love my folding armchairs in the old. Look, my friend, anything operates. Lazy miniature flying arctic oligarchs. Fine, I’ll say the quiet part loud: there’s nothing worth anything, we made it all up.

To bow to the blade to beg to be paid to watch the burning river braid. To be grateful for these pleasures at the end of the anthropocene era. To watch the sky shred like the dinosaurs did into a panoply of freckles & obsolete terror

street lights come on churches tear down spotlight lit bell tower bears down bandos spelunked chain link kissed pant cuffs sycamore swayed to the buzzsaw song that summer your mom found a brick in the alley & told no one

"Margin of error" on polls isn't what you think. Generally, it just means 98% divided by the square root of the number of people polled. There's a reason statisticians care about this calculation, but frankly, it's misleading terminology and not at all easy to interpret or apply.

I cannot stop laughing at the idea that a US brand asked the entire US "how do you suck" in Arabic via their expensive Superbowl halftime adhttps://twitter.com/ra/status/1224408734333534208 …

Every time I’ve ever said something bad online my account was hacked. Solidarity in this trying time

I'm not much of a sports guy but I still buy tickets for the Super Bowl, just to watch the commercials up close in person.

guard 1: choose your path wisely. one of us always lies and one of us alwa- guard 2: AAAAAAHHH guard 1: always screams me: doesn’t that get annoying? guard 1: *heavy sigh* no it’s super fucking awesome

In 2020, I want to become a more positive person. But not through changing how I react to setbacks, increased resilience moving on from disappointment, etc. I want to do it through a bunch of good things, and no bad things, happening to me.

I'm not sure how many people appreciate just how much of a maintenance challenge Windows represents for many open-source projects. Before I started working on GHC I had assumed it was bad. However, now I know; no, it's much much worse.

I had to get a background check for my job, and it turns out the report is a 300+ page pdf of every single tweet I’ve ever liked with the work “fuck” in it. Enjoy your dystopian bs! *waves*