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James Smith 💾
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Generic humanoid carbon unit. ❤️ tech, democracy, environment, society. Instantiated @ 332ppm. Currently building @manyfold and site admin @ https://mastodon.me.uk […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.me.uk/@Floppy, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 7h
@julesbl it's working for me, perhaps it was temporary?
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 14h
@thisismissem dunno... old dog new tricks... I guess the only answer is "it depends" 🤷 😄
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 15h
@thisismissem oh hell yeah. I would never ever recruit anyone who seriously used the phrase "10x engineer", massive red flag.

My other thought on the article, which I don't *think* I saw mentioned, is that a "strong" engineer will be actively trying to make the bring the "weak" engineers with […]
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Phaistos Disco @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Take a photo of your #cat through a tube
A picture of a cat taken through a kitchen roll tube
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 15h
@thisismissem yeah, it's got some reasonable points for a *very specific aspect of engineering*.
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 15h
@pikesley ok then
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 15h
@thisismissem personally I think "empathy" is a core engineering skill, but then again, as I've proved recently, I'm in the minority on that.
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 15h
@thisismissem interesting. IMO that's a very tech-focused perspective on being an engineer... personally I think a "strong" engineer is someone who can work with their team, get the best out of them, and reason through the wider consequences of the choices being made. But then maybe I'm mixing […]
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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h
We’re thrilled to be bringing you a upcoming feature to help you find your people on Mastodon: Packs. (Or something… we’re still figuring out the name.)
As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community.
Read this blog post about our approach and let us know […]
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 19h
@pikesley Gen X problems
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Rob Ricci @ricci.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 1d
I have an offer to make: do you want to run an instance on the fediverse for a group that's underrepresented here?

I'll pay the bills. Period.

I'll do admin if needed (software updates and the like). But you decide what kind of community you want it to be, so you put together the mod team.

DM me.
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@pikesley mine would be just a black hole at the end of a black hole.
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@boffbowsh not with *that* attitude it isn't
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@UKFilmNerd I guarantee you we’re coming up with a worse one.
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 1d
One more reason for me to hate Nigel Farage - apparently in the EU you can easily use non-Apple app stores on iOS. I, of course, am not *in* the bloody EU any more.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/117767

(discovered via looking at @altstore, which I was checking out after their amazing […]
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@andypiper actually, on reflection, they're definitely what I should have named my kids.
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@andypiper frippery and shenanigans are my middle names.
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@andypiper I can't go today but I promise I will do it tomorrow in my demo. 👍
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@jezhiggins @theaardvark yeah, I remember saying "so, wait, you're hallucinating *all the time*?"
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@theaardvark personally, I find things easier to "auditorise" (?) accurately than visualise. That probably says something a about which wires are connected where in my head, but god knows what.
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@theaardvark oo, hail fellow aphantasiac! 💭
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Getting mildly obsessed with listening to Rebecca Black DJ sets in the background while working. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkcyXB08BBE
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@theaardvark
A still from Knight Rider; a finger presses a button next to a lit up label that says "Turbo Boost".
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@pikesley ... pedestal
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Just met up with @issyl0 for a long-overdue coffee. Not sure we put the world to rights, but we certainly enumerated many of the wrongs 😁