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Brian Ibbotson
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Brian Ibbotson
@quinceleaf
Helping solve problems with software. Fullstack/Python dev on an AWS learning journey #AWSCertified Aim me at challenges in food tech, supply chain & logistics!
New York City เข้าร่วม Kasım 2011
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@USMCLiberal @USA_Polling As a centrist independent who worked for campaigns of both parties in the 1990s: Gen X has always been right leaning in policy preferences, even when they would identify as left, and over the last 20 years they've just begun to bring the identity and policy choices in line
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@USA_Polling This is not a real poll.
The vast majority of Gen X are left-leaning independents.
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Generic Ballot Polling Among Gen-X:
🔴 GOP: 45%
🔵 DEM: 41%
Morning Consult / March 29, 2026
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@hutchinson Always was. Recall when Brianna Wu raged at how ppl who grew up with punk and grunge could be Trumpers: punk and grunge is about spoiled brat individualism (usually male)? how are you (and her) surprised they're in that cult
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Seriously what the fuck happened with Gen X why are they so Trumpy??
Polling USA@USA_Polling
Generic Ballot Polling Among Gen-X: 🔴 GOP: 45% 🔵 DEM: 41% Morning Consult / March 29, 2026
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@miaaowing Haven't used in 15 years after leaving Windows. When writing, backspace appropriate for where your cursor is. When editing, position the cursor as appropriate for backspace only. Reading the comments here is the first time I've hear of Fn+Backspace
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how the fuck do you mac nerds live without a dedicated delete key
im losing my mind here
maeve ~@miaaowing
i will be daily driving the MacBook Neo for the next two weeks, professionally. I work in IT, and need to decide whether the Neo will be a viable device long-term. I will try to document all of my thoughts about it, bar usual MacOS bullshit
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@SwiftOnSecurity I'm crying in this right now, having to normalize addresses and phone numbers globally, but in a centralized data sync downstream from the multiple third-party apps that the users use. Putting the zipcode in the city field, putting both the city and state in the city field. Agggh
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I used to work at a company that did premier USPS address correction (CASS certification) software.
And oh my God.
Anthony Castrio@AnthonyCastrio
ZIP codes are strings not numbers FYI
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Loved the movie but I loved the book even more. It was the first book that taught me the power of words and composition. I was about 13 when I read it the first time.
Benjamin Domenech@bdomenech
"Pilots from Maine and Massachusetts and the Dakotas and Oregon and everywhere else began to talk in that poker-hollow West Virginia drawl, or as close to it as they could bend their native accents. It was the drawl of the most righteous of all the possessors of the right stuff"
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@fwiles Have explored Wagtail on my own as a Django dev. A corporate sibling division had outside firm design their new website for them, based on Wagtail. Yay Django! But the marketing team running the site day-to-day hated the admin/editing UI, had site re-done as WP within first year
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Dear Lazy Web, while I'm VERY familiar with Wagtail CMS I don't think I'm completely up on best practices around making the Editing interface super slick for less technical users. I'm aware of blocks and page types, etc. but are there any good posts, docs, or talks I should see?
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@housecor Used Windows from 2.0, began toying with a OS X Snow Leopard VMWare image in 2010. Then had an electrical fire in apartment and couldn't run my Windows tower, so switched to 10W-at-idle Mac Mini and never looked back.
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I used Windows for 20+ years. Then I spoke at a frontend conference in San Fran...the entire audience was laptops with Apple logos. I actually hid my PC behind the lectern!
So I decided to switch to Mac 10 years ago. It was a revelation.
Once you go Mac, you never go back
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@davepl1968 My mother did watch it live. I was home sick from school. My mom - a dyed-in-the-wool Kennedy girl who watched every televised shuttle launch and landing, live, even when it became "boring", came crying her eyes out in a panic from the living room to tell me
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99.9% of people who "experienced" the Challenger disaster saw it on replay and now remember it as live.
Almost NO ONE was watching. Everyone thinks they were. It's a fascinating collective false memory.
Jeremy London@SirJeremyLondon
Anyone who experienced the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, like I did, is probably a bit hesitant to get too excited about the Artemis II launch today. I truly hope our children don’t have to experience such tragedy. May the Universe welcome them and return them safely home 🙏
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Introducing 👻 Ghostgres - the database from the future
This is the world's first serverless, schemaless, dataless database. We completely replaced the relational model with a large language model.
No more errors, no more learning SQL - there is no database to begin with.
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@OPTester_Chris @lawofsea Need this in a wall-sized version for a nursery
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@chrismunns @Zappos I always check Zappos-vs-Amazon, often different although not consistently one or other better
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looking for a new pair of shoes.
see a recommendation, follow link to product on @Zappos.
oh neat, haven't used zappos in a few years
add to cart.
"log in" with Amazon, go to check out.
has my address from pre-2016.. oh.. ok thats old.
go to see if I can just use amazon account info.
can't. why log in w/ Amazon?
go to amazon.com to find same product. its 25$ cheaper.
order from amazon...
see ya in 2036 Zappos.
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WATCH: Chief Justice John Roberts asks the U.S. solicitor general about birth tourism:
D. John Sauer: "We're in a new world now ... where 8 billion people are one plane ride away from having a child who's a U.S. citizen."
Roberts: "Well, it's a new world. It's the same Constitution."
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My local Costco has been out of paper towels –– both its own brand and Bounty –– for 4 weeks now
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@bankertobuilder now it looks like a framed print in the home décor aisle at Michaels used to stage generic realtor photos
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This old home needed a refresh
We got rid of the gross overgrowth, updated the colors to something modern, and gave the place a timeless feel
So proud of my team
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@TheReginaHaley1 Aging doesn’t do that to your face. They look like charicatures of their former selves.
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If there are any academics who study body dysmorphia on this site, I'd like to chat with you about this phenomena.
Most of these women were pretty before they did this.
Why are these women doing this to their faces and bodies???
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So Bruce Hornsby is just Data's groovy brother? (picture from today's profile in NYT)
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@JenMsft Been waiting for the Ocean's Eleven-esque heist movie where they're lifting 12 tons of Swedish Fish
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"What's someone going to do with 12 tons of kitkats?"
Create an army
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@ranman @sentdefender The Senate passed its bill; the House did not even take it up for a vote (which would have passed) because Johnson refused to allow a vote on it. So.... sounds like Republicans are the ones creating an impasse
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@sentdefender How is the impasse caused by the democrats when republicans have a majority in every branch?
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The U.S. Senate will remain adjourned until Thursday, April 2, as they again failed to reach a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security amidst the congressional impasse caused by the Democrats.
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LLMs are great for solving known unknowns. They're confidently bad for dealing with unknown unknowns.
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