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I'd forgotten about Timothy Dalton's voiceover for Brain's faggots youtu.be/iYscVj9MMlE

Holy shitsnacks the datacenter is cold as shit at the desk. I am shivering yet have to remain here while the engineer does his thing.

Very rare to see enterprise grade hardware boot looping and not even POSTing.

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Had a server absolutely fall on it's arse this morning. All day trying to sort that out.

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Did you know?

Percentages are reversible. 8% of 25 is the same as 25% of 8, and often one of them is much easier to do in your head.

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I don't know the result of my PET scan, but my oncologist was sufficiently motivated to order a follow up MRI of the brain. Not done my nerves much good.

Recruiters using the short form of my name in unsolicited emails can go and fuck themselves.

I do like watching Josh Steffen hammer out some Dave Lombardo. youtu.be/OqkuUUjtDI8 Sizzling hi-hat sound, too.

Details matter. If you get that wrong, what else have you got wrong?

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Buzzfeed again proving that the bar for being called a white supremacist is now immeasurably low, and perpetuating the channer hoax 'okay sign is racist' bullshit. buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanm
Great example of fighting on a lie.

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> In 2019, 42 became the last integer to be solved for the Diophantine equation, which seeks to express every number between 1 and 100 as the sum of three cubes. The solution, which required a million hours of processing time, is (-80538738812075974)^3 + (80435758145817515)^3 + (12602123297335631)^3 = 42.

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Quite the feat for "a completely ordinary number, a number not just divisible by two but also six and seven [ . . . ]β€Œ the sort of number that you could without any fear introduce to your parents".
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