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Whyrl

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software engineer | former CTO

wildlife rescuer | F1 fan | herder of cats

FreeBSD | Perl | reformed C developer

Whyrl 8h ago

Friend’s flight diverted back to Melbourne because “low cloud; couldn’t land”.

Whyrl 3d ago

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Coral 😷5d ago

Bonus content, in apology: this is how I remember (will, in fact, never ever forget) the binomial for American robins — sorry, robins

Whyrl 4d ago

chestas 4d ago

Tasmania, where the real news happens 😃

#Tasmania #lutruwita #animals

https://pulsetasmania.com.au/news/real-possum-found-among-plush-toys-in-hobart-airport-gift-shop/

Real possum found among plush toys in Hobart airport gift shop

The possum was escorted back out, unstressed by the incident…

Pulse Tasmania

One of the most wrong names in linux history are "predictable names" for network interfaces. They are literally the least predictable names I have ever seen.

#linux

Whyrl 4d ago

Reading the manpage for ctime(3) always makes me ponder where I went wrong with my life.

Whyrl 5d ago

I feel like chat/messenger apps have regressed since the 90s.

You used to be able to set a status or away message in such apps, but these days I guess you're expected to be available 24/7?

Whyrl 5d ago

Liam Proven 6d ago

EnKITTification

Artist: bruised_blood

b3ta.com/board/11426454

From the '80s Tech Today' challenge
https://b3ta.com/challenge/80stechtoday/popular/

#80sTechToday

Whyrl 6d ago

Steve Smith Mar 15

So I recently discovered that a shitpost I made about job titles on the company network is now evidence in a court case. This may be my finest hour.

Whyrl 6d ago

Whoever thinks it's a good idea getting software developers (or anyone else, really) to feed natural language queries into a non-deterministic model to generate software is quite insane.