Mostly Grey former ginger with a preference for Rust. Leads wg-rustup, sorry about the mess. He/Him or They/Their Now @kinnison@fosstodon.org too

Manchester
Joined December 2008
Replying to @Stewieatb
Goodness no. I want a car, not a fancy computer with bad casework, on wheels.
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Replying to @Stewieatb
It was reaching the time for replacing it, and I wanted something fancier. I wasn't expecting to spend quite that much :D
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Replying to @Habbie @jogbert
So long as your filesystem doesn't automatically work that out and poke holes in it you'll be fine :D
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Replying to @mjg59
OOI which browser? NetSurf is available for some Amiga platforms IIRC
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Replying to @Tom__Pollard
Something from the beforetimes when humans were permitted to come into contact with one another non-virtually. It sounds abhorrent these days, but it used to be a thing. I am a product of my time :(
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I remember deliberately going out to the airport *just* to ride the maglev. What a day out that was.
Fun fact! Birmingham Airport was home to the first commercial Maglev transport system in the world. Everyone looks very pleased about it, don't they
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Tonight... To ssh://github.com/kinnison/rustup * [new branch] HEAD -> it-was-the-dns 3/3 (Le sigh)
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After a while I'd eliminated everything else so proceeded to "It simply *CAN'T* be the DNS" 2/3
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A story in three tweets... Recently we've had an intermittent CI failure on rustup I started with "okay so the failure is in the SOCKS proxy checker and since SOCKS operates on IP addresses, it can't be the DNS" 1/3
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A reason for @rjek to learn french at last?
Replying to @sophaskins
OH NO Canadian pints differ depending on if you’re speaking English or French en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pint#O…
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Replying to @jtopper
I'm not *certain* because I've not looked in a while, but my understanding is that our bonus is a certain amount of money paid to the referrer when the referent passes their probation period check. The exact numbers and timings are not to hand.
Effectively the 'Pete Fotheringham memorial corner' is in the new office next to a standing desk where we can swear quietly to honour our memories of you :D
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