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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 2mo ago

Recruiter emailed about a job description that included this bullet point: "The ability to write a TDD that a staff peer trusts and a product lead can understand."

I've been practicing test-driven development for 20+ years.

If this toot were an image, I'd be zooming in tighter and tighter until you could see pixels:
- "The ability to write a TDD."
- "Write a TDD."
- "a TDD"

"Weep for the future, Na'Toth. Weep for us all." -G'Kar (Babylon 5, S2E2 "Revelations")

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@mweiss@infosec.exchange @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io unfortunately, as you probably already know, English

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io I like to imagine someone waving their phone around pointing at The Onion: https://theonion.com/william-safire-orders-two-whoppers-junior-1819565735/

The Onion

William Safire Orders Two Whoppers Junior

NEW YORK–Stopping for lunch at a Manhattan Burger King, New York Times ’On Language’ columnist William Safire ordered two "Whoppers Junior" Monday. "A majority of Burger King patrons operate under the fallacious assumption that the plural is ’Whopper Juniors,’" Safire told a woman standing in line behind him. "This, of course, is a grievous grammatical blunder, akin to saying ’passerbys’ or, worse yet, the dreaded ’attorney generals.’" Last week, Safire patronized a midtown Taco Bell, ordering "

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

"Amazing to think that it could get more embarrassing to be Richard Dawkins."

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@grrlscientist extremely plausible, but also extremely [citation needed]

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 2mo ago

RE: @irvingreid@hachyderm.io

...okay that would make more sense, but mine is still funnier 😂

hachyderm.io

Irving Reid: "@geeksam@ruby.social I’m pretty sure they mean a …" - Hachyderm.io

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social "Whenever he gets into a fix, he reaches into his bag of tricks"—which, apparently, includes at least one book.

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@gnaddrig @ChuckMcManis @GeePawHill yes. "Fraud" is often code for "a person of color getting something for free" (or, sometimes, "existing")

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

Roadkill (bones, no gore)

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@MelissaBearTrix @GeePawHill depends on whether the account is @nocontexttrek 😍

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Schneems@ruby.social daaaaamn. Very nice, sir. Very nice indeed.

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jayroh@ruby.social @zspencer@sfba.social close, but it's not "technology" they're complaining about; it's capitalism.

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Natasha_Jay nice shotpost

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@cwebber this is the same pitch Rails was making 20 years ago, and it's based on something real: Ruby can be extremely compact and expressive (which is why I've been using it for those 20 years). I see this as an update to try to stay relevant for the current bubble while a lot of what used to make Rails special is now just table stakes. But also, DHH is rubbish at being a person and this bro-ness is pretty tame compared to the straight-up racism.

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@resuna@ohai.social @robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk fantastic! Paging @cstross@wandering.shop because of plot points in at least two novels 😂

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk it would be a real shame if cyclists started carrying pocketknives to slash those Waymos' tires. Oops, my apologies: tyres.

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Ashedryden Tapeheads! John Cusack and Tim Robbins in a bizarre time capsule, with a self-referential cameo from Jello Biafra.

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 6mo ago

RE: @jonny@neuromatch.social

This thread—or, rather, the code this thread is describing—is just bananapants, clownshoes, barking mad. It is my sincerest hope that any "engineer" who has "contributed" to a project like this be forevermore unemployable in this field.

neuromatch.social

jonny (nonvenomous): "The prompt strings have an odd narrative/narrator…" - neurospace.live

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@CoralineAda@ruby.social very same.

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social well, you don't have to pay rent in *money*...

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to on mastodon.social

@warandpeas@mastodon.social tbh "man, I'm horny" feels like the punchline of like half of your strips (heh). This is not a complaint.

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 7mo ago

@gknauss 27 years on, I still enjoy it.

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@baldur@toot.cafe @k9ox@mastodon.radio I really want a "me reaping / me sowing" meme for this. (Not enough to actually make one, mind you; my image editing skills are crap.)

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk dedicated pannier? 😂

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@dansup I am refraining from voting because (a) I have no idea what is a Loops and (b) y'all got this well in hand already 😂

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Schneems I mean, what else are we gonna do? Go buy a gaming PC at today's hardware prices? That's a nice eskate or two.

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@CoralineAda@ruby.social ...wait WHAT

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Ashedryden Oscar (Stallone, ensemble cast including Tim Curry). Definitely should be approached as a stage play rather than a movie, but within that context it has SO MANY good lines.

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@coderanger @Ashedryden just the best Vetinari. "Don't let me detain you."

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@nixCraft @cstross that final comparison is grossly unfair. To teenagers. https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116377286633117985

stefanbohacek.online

Stefan Bohacek: ""The percentage of respondents ages 14 to 29 who …" - Stefan's Personal Mastodon Server

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@maxleibman pretty much every aspect of digital computing boils down to "clever tricks with integers," so I don't think that's a valid dismissal in *all* (still theoretical) cases. But *these* tables of numbers? Yeah, no. Not even a little bit.

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@CrustaceanSingles@mastodon.social well, that succs ❤️

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@drbrain@mastodon.social game theory geniuses

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@Em0nM4stodon neuralink

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Sam Livingston-Gray @geeksam@ruby.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@aly yup. For a while there I had two Prusa Minis and it was great to be able to make a smol thing while a big thing was baking. Downsized once I got more into woodworking, though.

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