Joe W
drchaos@sauropods.win
<p>Climate scientist turned physicist, but now I'm out of that treadmill called academia - and into the treadmill of IT.</p><p>I used to accumulate hobbies, but time is pretty short now. </p><p>I like outdoors stuff, some swimming and cycling, carving in the woods, hiking </p><p>Bike advocate, not activist, don't use "bike doesn't work, so I'll use the car" - that's an invitation for me to fix this BSO (bike shaped object)</p>
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@Darkphoenix@universeodon.com @bbcnewsfeed@mastodonapp.uk Well, data centres and river water cooled power plants, be they fossil or fissile...
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@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz Counterexample: John Kruschke's book "Doing Bayesian Data Analysis" it has cutesy puppies on the cover. Good book, used it a lot.
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@domi@donotsta.re @foone@digipres.club @littlefox@gotosocial-dev.svc.0x0a.network ok, I can get that! And no, this (obviously) hasn't really happened to me. Maybe it helped that I'm the older sibling and I was mostly happy reading, playing music and being left alone...(Not an excuse) I am sorry, I did not want to downplay your feelings! (And it still feels weird that I have colleagues younger than half my age, and that I'm somehow the third most senior person in one of our working...
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@yngmar@social.tchncs.de @foone@digipres.club That's how age verification in Leisure Suite Larry worked...
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@domi@donotsta.re @foone@digipres.club @littlefox@gotosocial-dev.svc.0x0a.network When one of the Silver Horde (old folx) acts surprised like this it is a sign of relief that not all the young kids are (insert insults here), we usually lament like the Romans about "o tempora, o mores" The kids are alright... some of them 😉 (before grey hair I had the opposite experience now and then, when folx were surprised that I was "so old, I thought you were my age" - not meant as an i...
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@madargon @scottwilson Yup, standard where I work. Users go home, sysops admins folx do magic, Monday everything works... Seriously, I really appreciate that.
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@EricIndiana ... I get up to wash my face, when I come back to bed someone's taken my place...