Daniel DeCovnick

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Designer of APIs, skeptic seeking the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything.

April Fool's idea: a window manager in which windows stack on top of each other like variably-sized rectangular plates, and an unstable stack of too many will tip over onto the desktop.

Also, if you set the desktop background to a picture of the sky or space, all your windows tumble out into the infinite distance.

Dystopia notwithstanding, Ring's commercial about using their surveillance to find lost pets makes no sense.

They say 10M pets are lost per year & their service finds "more than 1 dog per day." So let's even say generously 500 dogs per year.

Out of 10M lost pets, they want Americans to commit privacy suicide for a .005% success rate???

"We fail 99.995% of the time! Let us violate your privacy!" is a helluva way to burn $10M in ads and destroy your brand.

I'm uninstalling my RING today.

Q: Why did you need to wait in a long line at Radio Shack to buy a 6502 microprocessor?

A: Not enough registers.

Spaceship lands in the park. A door dilates. Alien comes out. Says to the gathering crowd:

"I've been all over the universe, seen everything. Can you entertain me?"

Someone in the crowd shouts: "Great clown Pagliacci is in town, jokes out of this world!"

Alien starts crying. "But Earthlings..."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories

"average person counts ℵ₀ sets a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person counts 0 sets per year. Georg Cantor, who lives in cave & counts over ℵₐ each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Sherlocked before it was born: LightBuddy | Rambo Codes

Gui Rambo writes about his coding and reverse engineering adventures.

Rambo Codes
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@stuartyeates @evacide Alton Brown did a short on this. Apparently they used to be primarily ricotta.
the g in gobject stands for glib, and the g in glib stands for gtk, and the g in gtk stands for gimp, however the g in gimp stands for gnu, so really the g in glib stands for gnu, but you shouldn't confuse it with gnulib, which is developed by the gnu project, who shouldn't be confused as the developers of glib, which is the gnome project, in which the g also stands for gnu
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Is this cheating?