Dr. David McBride (dwm)

@dwm
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I'm not that kind of doctor. Senior IT technical specialist and occasional patient magnet.

Currently [email protected]; previously answered to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected].

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OMG it hurts! 🤣

Here I was, trying to eat my breakfast, when my darling wife tells me — and I need to be careful as this might set me off again — that Microsoft ... have started putting ... (just breathe) ... ads into GitHub pull requests 🤣

I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. I thought I was going to have a heart attack. That's how I want to go — laughing so hard my heart explodes and I fall face down in a stack of pancakes.

Your understanding of the world can start to diverge from reality if not earthed every now and then.

Make sure you don't go for too long without talking to friends you trust about what you're thinking. This will help keep you grounded in reality.

Otherwise, you're at risk of billionaire poisoning.

The sun is shining, the wind is blowing a gale, and just 2.4% of British electricity is coming from fossil fuels. See the live data at https://grid.iamkate.com.

Imagine a computer like a PDP-11 but with more than 3 billion SP4T switches. The switches are various combinations of 'magic' and 'more magic'

the authors of the code are dead, there are no comments except for old code, and sometimes the comments run anyway

and it's wet

this is biology.

These are not serious people.

"Exclusive: Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount"

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/meta-planning-sweeping-layoffs-ai-costs-mount-2026-03-14/

> prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers

[citation needed]

@NanoRaptor I’ve been wanting to do it ever since I saw this post, and I finally went ahead and ordered it: an honest to goodness 12”x18” aluminum road sign. (Bananas for scale.)
#Hope #GlaciesDelendaEst