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Being Judicious with your Robot Buddy

“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.” ~ Orange Catholic Bible "Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infra-red, How I hate the night." ~ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Bot Test

Looking at Walter, he didn't seem like much. Just a rusted box with a studded head. But his head wasn't a head; it was a steel frame that protected him from moisture and apparently nothing else. "How've you been?" I asked him.

There is no Cert for Comms

“We are currently clean on OPSEC” ~Unknown “Stop trying to make fetch happen.” ~ Regina George Part 1: Yap Playing well with others is a core competency. As my child advances through preschool, I’m beginning to hear noise about the other kids (never mine!) and their tendencies to bite, poke,

Tales of Horror: On the worst Job that I’ve ever Taken

I augmented this post from a Reddit comment that I made earlier today in /r/experiencedDevs; in case you’re a subscriber and this whole spiel sounds familiar, it’s the same story. It happened to me. I would sooner be broken on the wheel than plagiarize something that actually

Imperial DevOps

"The entire Russian empire is ruled by ten thousand clerks!" ~Tsar Alexander II, final words Why did I choose this life? Well, for starters, I was born into it. Then, a lot happened. I walked, grew up, ran, swam, got spat on, turned on a computer, learned to

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