Dave Smith (aka mowdownjoe)

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Techie guy. Software engineer. Moderator for @LoadingReadyRun's Discord. #actuallyAutistic. Goes by he/him. NJ born. May work at a major bank. My views are mine and you cannot have them.
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Found elsewhere on the internet, I wish people got this.

Edit to add link to the original: https://www.tumblr.com/theconcealedweapon/691666969995411456/what-an-autistic-person-says-how-long-is-it (thanks to https://eldritch.cafe/@cassolotl)

Concealed Weapon

What an autistic person says: "How long is it going to take?" What they mean: "I want to know whether to activate my short term waiting mode where I just wait and do nothing else, or activate my lon…

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Boost if you want less generative AI in your tech in 2025.
This #caturday finds my son trying to steal Christmas presents from our last minutes shopping.
Late #caturday by a day, but my GF couldn't help brand my son with a new scarf that she bought.

"What's the worst password incorrect dialog box?"

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#webDev #security #UI #memes

My cat wanted to help my GF and I build some Legos! #caturday
I will never not love my cat loafing in the box for a new Steam Deck. #caturday

Remember, if your work assigned macbook enforces an absurd idle timeout on you, it's for your own good.

You absolutely definitely assuredly should not make any attempt to circumvent this enforcement.

Here's a quick example of a few lines of C you should absolutely not compile and run in a background task.

https://gist.github.com/sgolemon-corp/6ed838f114dab35046838fc3574248e4

Disable macOS screen saver while this program is running.

Disable macOS screen saver while this program is running. - noss.c

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