DrPixie 🌂 @drpixie@mastodon.social

Software engineers are constantly subjected to the same conundrum Blaise Pascal faced when he wrote, “I would have written a shorter letter, but I didn’t have the time.”

The plural of "index" is "indices".
The plural of "vertex" is "vertices".
The plural of "mutex" is "deadlock".

-- @agmlego

You listen to British audiobooks and TV shows for long enough and all Americans sound like they're trying to sell you something (including me)

There is now a Mastodon instance for publishing scientists: FediScience.

Everyone is welcome from PhD student to professor, as well as researchers from outside of academia. You are welcome to stay afterwards, but it is also easy to change to another server.

There will be a lot of science talk on this server, but there is no need to only talk science

https://fediscience.org/invite/j6X8z7qF

Boosts are appreciated to let others know about this new instance.

So suddenly there’s a lot of attention around email and it’s exposing how many people in the web community still use Gmail. Like actually trust all your personal information and communication (and that of your potentially marginalised or vulnerable contacts) with Google. 🤮

There are a lot of hard problems and lack of alternatives when it comes to rights-respecting technology. But email (as imperfect as it is) has a fair few affordable alternative providers. Small change, big difference.

They published our paper today!

BMJ: Trials that say “maybe”: the disconnect between exploratory and confirmatory testing after drug approval

http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k959 #bioethics

It's "publish or perish," not "publish xor perish"

Dancing is silent poetry. - Simonides #famous #quotes

I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it. - Groucho Marx #famous #quotes

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. - Robert Pirsig #famous #quotes

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard #famous #quotes

The cure for what ails: watching The Big Sleep and yelling in delight every time Lauren Bacall shows up in an increasingly fabulous outfit

you ever register a domain name *purely* as a dedicated shitpost based on an offhand reference somewhere?

well i now own http://beanflick.net so uh

#gamegrumps

We've had plenty of edgelords reboots that take a campy property and make it dark and gritty. Where are the reboots that take a serious property and make it ridiculous? Is there some seriousness-ratcheting phenomenon that prevents us from making a campy reboot of Apocalypse Now?