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Dave Mason

@DaveMasonDotMe

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👨‍💻 Senior Machine Architect, Rube Goldberg Division
✍ Comments his code
🦸‍♂️ Optimizes slow SQL Queries
🖥️ Linux convert/disgusted longtime Windows user
📷 Aspiring mediocre photographer
🧠 Atheist
🔠 Defines his acronyms

Topics I post frequently:
🔘 #SQLServer
🔘 #Celtics/#NBA (Nat'l Basketball Assoc)
🔘 #UCF (Univ of Central Florida)
🔘 #Bucs/#NFL (Nat'l Football League)
🔘 #RStats (R programming language)
🔘 #EV (Electric Vehicles)
🔘 #Photography
🔘 #Privacy

Blog	https://www.davemason.me
Codeberg	https://codeberg.org/DaveMasonDotMe
📍	Upstairs at Eric's
Signal	Available upon request

Dave Mason 19h ago

Periodic reminder: it's almost never about the children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children

#Privacy
#Surveillance
#SurveillanceCapitalism

Think of the children - Wikipedia

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Dave Mason 20h ago

Reggie Miller notes that when Wembanyana is on the bench, that's the time for Portland to drive to the basket.

#Agreed

Dave Mason 20h ago

If I was coaching against the San Antonio Spurs, I'd try like hell to force Wembanyana to match up on defense against a good 3-point shooter...hopefully another center. I'd consider a 'stretch-four' power forward if my centers weren't good from long-distance.

Letting Wembanyana patrol the paint looks like a no-win situation. Forcing him towards the perimeter might not necessarily solve that problem. But I'd give it a try.

@jwz @mjg59 @glyph I hang out with three guys who use AI.

Guy 1 works at a rocket company and says he'd never use AI to design the part he works on, but uses it for little bits of code. Guy 2 works for a social media company and won't use AI for code, but uses it to write email reports to VPs. Guy 3 works at Microsoft and says AI is great as long as you don't use copilot.

They all think AI is good at stuff they don't understand and sucks at things they do.

Dave Mason 21h ago

How 'bout the Orlando Magic?

Not only did they give us a rare playoff series Game 1 that wasn't lopsided, they knocked off the #1 seed on the road.

Nice work!

#NBA

Dave Mason 1d ago

The squirrels can be pretty aggressive around the bird feeder.

Dave Mason 1d ago

Carsten Ikemeyer 1d ago

Eheglück,
.
#Ehe #Wedding #Stroh #Hochzeit #Nottensdorf #19042026

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Dave 1d ago

Western Bluebird.

📅 April 2026
📍 Central Florida
📷 Fujifilm X-E3
Lens: Fujifilm XF 70-300mm ƒ4-5.6 R LM OIS WR
🎛️ ISO 1000, ƒ/5.6, 1/2000 s
Filter: UV

#SilentSunday

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Dave Mason 1d ago

For reference, here are some shots I got yesterday.

The bird is interesting for sure. But the shots are a little boring. /shrug

https://mastodon.social/deck/@DaveMasonDotMe/116428286050877374

Dave Mason 1d ago

Certain birds/critters have been challenging for me to shoot (with a camera, not a 🔫 ), mostly because I can't get close enough with my Fuji XF 70-300mm zoom lens.

Western Bluebirds are on that list for sure.

I got in a few shots today that are probably better than any others.