Andy Lorek (@mrtall) 's Twitter Profile
Andy Lorek

@mrtall

Lurking on Twitter, posting on Threads as @andylorek

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calendar_today25-02-2008 03:17:18

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As much as I’m enjoying Elon’s highly public flitting from one disaster to the next, I’m *loving* the ex-Twitter old dude commentary.

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I regret to inform you that the JavaScript that was going to completely rewrite Twitter Search including the ranking algo will not in fact be shipping. I know this comes as a shock.

I regret to inform you that the JavaScript that was going to completely rewrite Twitter Search including the ranking algo will not in fact be shipping. I know this comes as a shock.
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Counterpoint: tall people will be better able to catch and eat the short people in the coming climate apocalypse nytimes.com/2023/01/01/opi…

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[peers out a crack in the curtains] “Children, come look! It’s the bright star from the tales of yore!” “Is is dangerous daddy?” “No child, not according to legend. Come, let us frolic on the backyard astroturf like our ancestors once did!”

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You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular

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I’m listening to an 80s playlist and my 4yo daughter keeps asking “What’s this song about?”. I tell her it’s about “a boy who loves a girl” but really most of them are about doing copious amounts of cocaine.

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TIL that the London Underground is evolving its own species of mosquitoes, exhibiting different behaviors from surface dwelling mosquitoes. There are even genetic differences between mosquitoes in different rail lines.

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The pseudocode my children run on: 10: Find new Thing 20: Take Thing to new Place for important reason 30: Deposit Thing at Place 40: GOTO 10 50: Play with Thing at Place