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Dianora

@Dianora@ottawa.place

live in #Ottawa, #Canada (Unceded territory of the #Anishinaabe #Algonquin Nation) My Background is #Programmer #RealTime #Embedded some #ScientificProgramming Hobbies? ;) #FreeBSD dev. #amateurRadio, #Musician #Baking (I love to bake Universes) #Cooking some Uni. #Maths #Physics #Linguistics now interested in #Philosophy #Propaganda #CriticalThinking If you know who I am, you know.

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Dianora, to martialartsmemes
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Oh Dr. Forbin!

HT @rysiek

#Humour

Dianora, to random
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Propaganda is the art of making sure people see what they wanted to see in the first place.

Dianora, to Ottawa
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Amazing how tired I am after doing some gardening. Also amazing is how out of shape I am after doing said gardening.

#Ottawa

Dianora, to ontario
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Sadly a child has died of measles in Ontario. Wow. Get your children vaccinated.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/measles-death-child-ontario-1.7207293

#Ontario #Canada

johnefrancis, to random
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Today I was asked to describe the amount of technical debt involved in a system running HPUX 10.20 and Ingres.

I declared it technically bankrupt!

Michael Scott from The Office declares bankruptcy by yelling out "I declare bankruptcy"

Dianora,
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@johnefrancis We had an HP system of some type (I never touched) for doing accounting? or something at Dynalogic (Hyperion). I do remember writing a terminal emulator for the HP terminal for the Hyperion. A block oriented protocol as I recall. I am not a geek.

Dianora, to Ottawa
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We should never have removed our streetcars .

#Ottawa

Cassandra, to random
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My plan for tomorrow is (1) laundry and (2) Star Trek AND THAT'S IT.

Dianora,
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@Cassandra James T Kirk STOS was a narcissistic sexist pig. I enjoyed TOS when it was first on (!) despite this but holding my nose at the stupid seduction scenes Kirk always had. My hero was Spock. ;)

Dianora, to Ottawa
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Parkdale market is a bit of a bust still. Oh well. I'm sure they are a lot busier on the weekends.

#Ottawa

Dianora, to random
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So I got a phone call the other day. She started out with "'I've been making so many calls thinking I am going to get an answering machine!" So I told her Yes, I was an answering machine and hung up. Don't try to be "cute" with an autistic. Be direct and to the point.

#ActuallyAutistic

Dianora, to Ottawa
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I remember Diane Deans for standing up to Watson then getting silenced by him.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/diane-deans-who-sat-on-ottawa-city-council-for-28-years-has-died-1.7198785

#Ottawa

grivettcarnac, to Autism
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Our 4-yr old dropping tonight that some of his friends at school have autism wasn’t near the top of my list of things he would randomly drop. It’s clear his teachers have approached this with a lot of care and empathy and he’s really intrigued and excited that he has friends whose brains, well may or may not work the same as his and that he’s lucky to have friends with autism… I was probably 25 the first time I heard the term at all #autism #ottawa #kids

Dianora,
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@grivettcarnac We walk amongst you.

shawnhooper, to Poutine
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When you drive by the cheese co-op, you stop at the cheese co-op.

#poutine #cheese #fromage

Dianora,
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@shawnhooper Ohhh where is this cheese coop?

Dianora, to Ottawa
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Looks like my playdoh baked up.The bread buns are great in the morning for breakfast with some butter and jam.

Dianora,
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@ottaross No potato! I can’t experiment too too much here because we are empty nesters now so yes my bread is boring but it is tasty. I do try to experiment more with dinners though. I’d love to make a decent raisin bread.

Dianora,
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@ottaross Yes I've been meaning to try something like that. ;)

Dianora,
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@ottaross @bjb Brown sugar is a tad better than plain unadulterated white sugar at least. 😀 It might help bring out the cinnamon flavours too. But around here we pretty much use fruits as sweeteners all the time so raisins should be enough.

Dianora, to random
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Thinking back to the people who mistakenly thought MnRNA vaccines would change human DNA I wonder if they thought Spiderman was real science.

#Covid

capybaraz, to comics
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good morning, enjoy a crime cat.

#TheCrimeCats say local government is just stooges for developers and the owner class, dedicated to upholding and continuing the legacy of violence perpetrated by police against the citizens. they don't work for us, they never have and never will.

#comic #comics #ComicStrip #DailyComic #IndieComic #WebComic #cat #cats #crime #anarchy #anticapitalism #antiauthority

Dianora,
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@capybaraz Sounds about right for

Dianora,
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@johnefrancis @capybaraz I honestly don’t think that will happen until we can split the city back up into a city part and a rural township parts. That’s unlikely to happen (Never say never) but I am hopeful.

Auxonic, to Ottawa French
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Fake outrage at charging developers even remotely the cost of servicing their far flung new homes leads to a direct fucking subsidy of sprawl. Great work #ottawa
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-city-developer-fee-cost-charge-change-1.7198197

Dianora,
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@Auxonic The forced amalgamation forces expenses up not down. I wish the city could tell them to build their own wells and cesspools etc. as they are rural and not in the city.

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Dianora,
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@energisch_ @dgar When I did remote work (LONG before Covid btw) I did this.

chemoelectric, (edited ) to random
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The introduction of quantum mechanical methods for solving physics problems is probably the worst thing that ever happened in the history of the mathematical sciences.

It has brought fundamental progress to a practical halt for an entire century, with no end in sight. It is now also visibly hindering the progress of technologies.

The content-free nature of math means ANY physics problem can be solved by ANY means. So QM ‘finality’ and ‘spookiness’ are superstitions, not science.

Dianora,
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@chemoelectric That's what I was alluding to ;) To me pilot wave theory is very compelling.
Yes photons are discrete so yes we furiously agree so far.

Dianora,
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@chemoelectric Indeed. And some of the 'interpretations' such as M.W.I. are nonsense. (Although they make great SciFi! ;-) )

Dianora,
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@chemoelectric The Nobel disease. Appeal to authority except he has no authority.

Dianora,
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@chemoelectric It's the old "publish or perish" syndrome at work today with less money for research being available we will continue to see shoddy research. In the so-called "soft sciences" we are seeing an epidemic of faked research. retractionwatch.com is busy.

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