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  Mathematicians are so generous with all the mathematical methods they invent I mean, look at integration, that's a perfect example of their largesse

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  OK hear me out: giant googly eyes as nipple pasties

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  - order new bra - go collect from shop - take home - try it on - bra strap immediately snaps because the stitching has given way Dammit, that's rubbish, my boobs aren't THAT powerful!

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  Tomorrow, is the moon going to sail safely past the sun? Not if she clips it

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  @CaptMikeYates@tech.lgbt you want to... get a motorbike license? 🤔🤭

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  The temptation to write a movie script containing only the Scheria section of The Odyssey. It wouldn't be a grand epic full of warfare, but it would be *interesting*

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  How did someone with as much horn as me not get "unicorn"

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  @ciara@anarres.family Ooh I found I still own a genuine ZX81 software tape, I should send it somewhere for posterity @thejessiekirk@ohai.social

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  DID YOU KNOW: The technical term for someone who studies the science behind painful sensations is an owwcademic

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  @aisling@anarres.family I honestly didn't think they did - is it new since the May timetable change? @olivvybee@beehive.city

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  @aisling@anarres.family aww thank you!

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  I deserve a reward: I saw people posting confident but wrong "facts" about the British rail system on Fedi and resisted the temptation to correct them

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  "Arrr, me hearties! I was up in the crow's nest with my spyglass trained on that there Madagascan jungle, and reckon I saw myself some sort of nocturnal lemur! Does any of you sorry excuse for a ship's crew know what sort of animal it was I could be seeing?' "Aye aye, Captain!"

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  Hearing about the latest Discourse swayed me into action... ...to open an account on Codeberg and migrate my currently-active open person project onto it

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  @LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world I love the little disused railway line on I think the first floor? It was put in to move big exhibits about

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  Cats really struggle with using a tape deck because they can only press the paws button

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  DID YOU KNOW: Before the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Japanese-made computers only supported Edo RAM

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  Reasons I feel a bit Cassandra-ish, part 94: Saying for about 20 years that PostgreSQL is the best SQL DB for most use cases. The rest of the world I think finally started agreeing after it became easily available in Azure. Circa 2015 I took over running an AWS-hosted system which had been designed to use two RDS databases, one MySQL, for the majority of the data, and one PostgreSQL with PostGIS, for one single query that mapped position coordinates to timezone. And most of the devs my team w...

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  In the office building where I work, the reception desk has a stack of complimentary copies of the magazine "The Secretary" I have to say, at a glance, it looks *very* different to the movie

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  @miriamrobern@dice.camp My electrologist told me a horror story about a patient whose surgeon had told her they didn't require it, but then didn't do the job properly during the op, so the patient came to her afterwards asking for the best cleanup she could do in the circumstances afterwards @CharlotteEowyn@chaosfem.tw @Tattie@eldritch.cafe @jrdepriest@infosec.exchange

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  @LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt Ooh this is interesting - I have experience with the European sector where it's essentially very similar but the "regional" organisations - some of which operate over multiple nations - operate the trading market between energy producers and supply companies. Although in theory the markets can run their market how they like, in practice it's quite tightly constrained by European rules to minimise the amount of power transferred over cross-border interc...

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  Random thought about the differing terminology of "folder" and "directory" when referring to files stems "Folder" refers to the data structure, as an end user uses it "Directory refers to the data structure as the operating system uses it

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  One advantage of moving my teach-myself-Rust project to Codeberg: If it's on Codeberg, it's self-evidently non-AI, and the code being bad is purely my own fault!

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  Every time a trans femme posts about facial feminising surgery, my brain reads "FFS" the other way "wow, everyone who gets that surgery gets really pissed off by it!"

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  I don't use hashtags, I use friedpotatotags (serious question: does anyone else remember British Telecom using "square" as the name of the # sign when DTMF dialling was introduced to the UK? Please tell me I didn't imagine it)

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  @aisling@anarres.family now that one was a winner

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  Lesbians planning a trip to Germany: "can't we go to Frauheim instead?"

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  "I need to run this regex-replace against every line in your file" "Yeah, that's what she sed"

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  The product of a human and a horse is a centaur ...but the product of a human crossed with a horse is a vectaur

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  "Sometimes I worry I don't even have autism or special interests" she said, as she stimmed with her anatomically-accurate giant millipede plushie @RoseyPosey