Simon Pride

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@selzero @Uilebheist @cstross

I used to do consulting work for various UK businesses. It was astonishing how often trying to analyze their business models revealed they were complete criminals.

@drdrang here's a puzzle I can't figure out the solution to: At what times are the hour and minute hands of a clock exactly aligned? I keep thinking about integrals and simultaneous equations but I'm a humble biochemist,
@dmoren And he made the best movie ever about corporate malfeasance and morality from an amoral character: "Michael Clayton". If you haven't seen it plan to do so this week.
@budley As a Quatermass fan how can I resist?
@budley suggested new instance?
@budley not enough characters in this instance or client
What is the point of Mastodon if I can’t post a sonnet?
@caseyliss a Library can lose its “Scan new files automatically “ flag. Happened to my Music library last week. Check each Library’s settings.

@drdrang I have “sudo Sunday”* when I go round all the machines every week and run the appropriate script: apt stuff for Linux and brew for the Macs

*yes I know brew doesn’t need root

@3dcandy you are going to hell