James Durie

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code monkey by day. game development by night. not enough hours to do anything. one half of MapleScot Development http://maple.scot
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Holy shit: Causal evidence that the Shingles vaccine prevents a significant fraction of Alzheimer's cases. So 1, vaccines are a god damned miracle get your ass vaccinated, and 2 the implication that Alzheimer's disease is a preventable byproduct of viral infection is tectonic.

https://www.metafilter.com/199451/Dont-miss-your-shingles-shots

Don't miss your shingles shots

The shingles vaccine was rolled out in Wales in 2013, using an exact birthdate cutoff: people born on or after Sept 2, 1933 were eligible, while those born earlier weren’t. The cutoff created a...

"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.

People were like "you should say what your skills are" to my looking for work thing yesterday and tbh it's a miracle I managed to cram my resume into 2 pages so I have no idea how to do it in a mastodon post. I was mostly hoping people who already know me would have something

Wanted to do some dev on the train again but now having to carry a work laptop I need something small and light

So since I have a fire HD 8 tablet and Godot has an android version, here we have an experiment in game Dev with a tiny screen and Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad

If you’re happy and you know it

Elon directly ordered the takedown of the account of @chadloder, one of the most prominent and effective antifascist researchers in the US.

(Not mentioned in the article: Elon did so at the request of Andy Ngo, a notorious far right stochastic terrorist.)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/a-leaked-internal-message-appears-to-show-elon-musk-ordered-twitter-staff-to-suspend-a-left-wing-activist-s-account/ar-AA16NS0X?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f468f8fa0e7544e098c70ac94e75aab9

A leaked internal message appears to show Elon Musk ordered Twitter staff to suspend a left-wing activist's account

The internal message involved the account of activist Chad Loder and said: "Suspension: direct request from Elon Musk," Bloomberg reported.

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What a difference a week... And about 12,000 miles makes
Not gamedev related but where I live got quite a bit of snow yesterday
Welp, shitposts are now pooptoots. I don’t make the rules. I just follow them. #pooptoot

Forgive the overdue #introduction, but howdy! I'm Dominic Armato, and two things are kind of my jam.

The first is that I've done #voiceover since I was a kid, and I'm the voice of Guybrush Threepwood in the #MonkeyIsland games.

The second is that I'm way more into #food and #restaurants than anybody probably should be, and I was the dining critic for The Arizona Republic for five years. (Woo #journalism)

I balied on FB, I want to bail on Twitter, and I'm hoping this is where I belong. TBD.