Graham Cox

@grahamcox82

Software developer, professionally in Java but tinkering in Rust and Go. Cisgender He/him but I'll answer to anything vaguely polite. I'm British, so sarcasm is assumed as standard.

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Graham Cox@grahamcox82· 15d

Just going to leave this here...

A five-panel meme criticizing people who repeatedly change their arguments about a film's success. The left side shows milestones for The Odyssey: the film's title; a 95% Rotten Tomatoes critic score; a 97% Rotten Tomatoes audience score; and $264.1 million opening weekend. Opposite each milestone, a crying Wojak character makes progressively shifting claims: "It's woke, it's going to flop."; "The critics are paid off. Let the audience decide."; "Rotten Tomatoes is rigged. The real test is the box office."; and "With marketing, it needs $700M to break even. It has no legs." The final panel shows a Wojak physically pushing a football goalpost with the caption "KEEP MOVING THE GOALPOSTS." The meme's message is that some critics continually change the standard by which they judge the film as each previous prediction is contradicted.

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· 18d

Excerpt from "Yumi and the Nightmare Painter" by Brandon Sanderson, for no particular reason at all... (Good book btw. Well recommended)

He nodded. "You're wrong about one thing though," he said back softly. "You said the machine would replace you. It can't."

"But-"

"It can summon spirits," he said. "But it can't create art. Art is about intent, Yumi. A rainbow isn't art, beautiful though it might be. Art is about creation. Human creation. A machine can lift way more than Tojin can - doesn't make it less impressive when he lifts more than almost any human being."

He smiled at her. "I don't care how well a machine piles rocks. The fact that you do it is what matters to me."

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Jun 24

What's the temperature again? #Heatwave (This was outside in the sun for about an hour)

Thermometer showing a temperature of 47.9⁰C and a humidity of 21%.

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Mar 27

I keep running out of memory and can't quite work out why... (Note that this laptop has 16GB of memory)

Dialog with the title "Force Quit Applications", showing a list of applications and their memory usage:
- Cursor - 3.11 GB
- Firefox (paused) - 19.95 GB
- iTerms (paused) - 336.5 MB
- Microsoft Outlook (paused) - 597.0 MB
- Microsoft Teams (paused) - 1.79 GB
- pgAdmin 4 - 700.4 MB
- Slack (paused) - 848.1 MB
- Finder - 36.3 MB

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Mar 26

You're a bad bad person.... I've got too much to do for this... :P

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Mar 18

Just started reading After The Crown by @kbwagers.com. Been really looking forward to this after the first one. However, I'm curious why the pages are all printed like this? I feel they could have made better use of the space...

Photo of a page of a book, with huge blank borders around the actual text.

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Mar 13

This is the weather forecast for today. Note the possibility of snow tonight. The ice cream van just pulled up outside...

Weather forecast showing that it's currently 5⁰C feels like 2⁰c, and that there's a chance of snow at midnight and 1am.

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Mar 10

This is how I access Bluesky

Man in a suit wearing a bulky, futuristic virtual-reality headset covered with wires and electronic components, mouth open as if shouting, against a colorful, neon-lit background.

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Feb 24

How many MAGA voters will look at this one number and cry fraud if they lose?

Blue box with the writing "102.1% Of 2022 Final" inside it.

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Feb 24

Seriously?!? :(

Screenshot of the "I'm Not a Robot" game, level 17 where you have to draw a circle that is 94% accurate, showing that I was 94.7% accurate and had almost finished it when I ran out of time.

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Jan 31

The really interesting one IMO was where Elon was begging to be allowed to come and rape children, end Epstein/Maxwell tried to reject him... Even the child rapists didn't want him around, that's how bad he was...

Josh
@XJosh

invite yourself to the jeff's diddy blud party
he frantically forwards it to ghislaine and asks her to deal with it
she tells him the parties are gone forever

lol lmao

FROM: G █████████
TO: Elon Musk <█████████>
SUBJECT: RE: FWD: epic island vacation

I’m so sorry, Elon! You just missed J E. He actually told me he was thinking of winding down the entire Little St. James operation. Bummer! If it starts up again we’ll be sure to let you know.

FROM: “jeevacation@gmail.com
” jeevacation@gmail.com

TO: G █████████
SUBJECT: FWD: epic island vacation

deal withthis . thanyou

FROM: Elon Musk <█████████>
TO: Jeff E jeevacation@gmail.com

SUBJECT: epic island vacation

Hi Jeff! I was thinking of flying down for an epic vacation. █████████ told me you were planning a party. (girls FTW!) I cleared my calendar. What are the details? Thank you good sir.

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Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Jan 11

Eric Wimp will return in Avengers Doomsday.

Picture of a globe with the words "Bananaman" wrapped around it, with a man in a blue and yellow superhero costume flying past.

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Jan 10

This is this currently thread on my phone...

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Dec 25

Twitter post from "Duke" that says "Universal healthcare is such a complex beast that only 32 of the world's 33 developed nations have been able to make it work"

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Dec 8

You're not related to Michael Crichton, are you? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_(C...

Character-name-controversy

Michael Crowley of The new Republic alleged that, in retaliation for he having written a negative review of Crichton's previous novel State of Fear, Crichton named a character with a small penis who rapes a baby after him

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Nov 28

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits:

Captains Picard, Sisko and Janeway from Star Trek

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Nov 13

I do also have the Test Explorer sidebar set up, and the gutter icon for running tests. And these work. But they seem to do a full clean build first, which takes minutes just to run a single test. How do I get these working efficiently? So I can press the sidebar play button and run the test?

VSCode test explorer side bar showing a set of tests that can in theory be run

Play button in the VSCode gutter to run a single test easily

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Nov 13

I've currently got VSCode set up with the "Run Test" and "Debug" actions above the test method itself, and they work well enough. But I need to be directly on that test to be able to run it. Which means if I'm changing related code elsewhere, then it's hard to run e.g. full-stack integration tests.

A rust test method with actions for "Run Test", "Debug" and "Interpret" directly above it.

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Nov 13

Age yourself with gaming

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Oct 29

You have a smart TV? That's cute, I had a....

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Sep 16

McCoy's cheese and onion, or salt and vinegar.

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Sep 12

Internet explorer has entered the chat

Screenshot of Internet Explorer cluttered with dozens of overlapping toolbars from various search engines, leaving only a small portion of the webpage visible.

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Sep 7

This is me. (Model available from deadlyprintstudio.com/doh-body-bag...)

Warhammer 40,000 scale model of a "dead body facing down".

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Sep 3

It's that time of year again...

TV set with a picture of orange tree leaves and the words "Gilmore Girls" across the middle.

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Sep 1

It's happening again... Google Trends for "All I Want For Christmas Is You".

The end of a graph, showing a blue line that is flat on the 0 mark and then suddenly has a slight increase right at the very end.

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Aug 26

I feel obliged to post this here...

katana-wielding-bookworm
I want Terry Crews and Vin Diesel to do a buddy cop movie where they are both secret nerds but they don’t want the other to know. Like Vin Diesel plays D & D on weekends and Terry likes to create epic crossover fan art. Somehow they have to work undercover at Comic Con and for what ever reason I need Daniel Radcliffe to be the villain.

rizaoftheowls
I’d like to add: not a character played by Dan Radcliffe. Dan Radcliffe, appearing as himself.

dragontatoes
no, no wait… I want Elijah Wood to play Daniel Radcliffe.

gaycloak
Elijah Wood plays Daniel Radcliffe and his evil sidekick is Elijah Wood played by Daniel Radcliffe.

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Aug 8

It's engrained in me from the days before centralised social media -e from hanging out on (and hosting) various phpBB or YABB or similar sites - that a set of initials ending "BB" is likely a bulletin board system. Which is exactly what my brain thinks whenever I see one of these...

Small round access hatch in the pavement with the word "Water" and the letters "STBB" written on it.

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Aug 3

Normally, YouTube ads are unskippable for 10-15 seconds. Sometimes it goes up to 20-30 seconds. And sometimes only 5 seconds. Today, they're all 50+seconds!

Photo of the TV screen, showing the YouTube ad timer with 57 seconds left.

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Jul 30

Age verification?

The program loading screen of a ZX Spectrum

Graham Cox@grahamcox82· Jul 15

We've got our very own Rover in the garden... (I'm curious how many, if any, will get that reference...)