John Northrup

@northrup.8bitwizard.social

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Working in the software mines at GitHub.

Brown Cavapoo wearing a tie looks cutely at camera.
For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. 'Blessed are the merciful' in a courtroom? 'Blessed are the peacemakers' in the Pentagon? Give me a break! - Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country
Screen shot of now deleted twitter posts from @DataRepublican, content of tweet chain is as follows: I was traveling at the time and had limited access to hardware. Fortunately, I had brought the backup drive with me. I ran this query on an external hard drive connected to a MacBook Air in a hot, humid, hotel room. When I returned home, the query completed without any issues. -- The US Spending database is multiple terabytes large. It literally does not fit in any of the standard MacBook Air builds. -- Also, database engines depend on a tight coupling between the storage layer and the RAM layer - an assumption that's obviously broken when you have a laptop handling the compute + RAM, and an external hard drive connected by USB cable.
Red Fiat 500 parked in the middle of an open field with gravel road. Gray sky in the distance as rain starts to pour.
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Cup Noodle ramen cup that is “campfire s’mores” flavored.
Cover artwork of NBC drama KINGS. A bright orange flag with a large black monarch butterfly logo in the center being waved in the air with a New York City looking skyline in the background.
Bucket with drill mixing thin set mortar.
Antistatic bags with Espressif ESP-32FH4X chips and Texas Instruments INA745B integrated circuit.