British C++ developer - AI trading. Physics PhD. Nerd. Views I express are a figment of your imagination. I make no apology for my awful puns or memes. He/Him.

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Joined November 2008
Jake Arkinstall, PhD retweeted
This bloke spent £300 on vets fees and X-rays and it turned out nothing was wrong with the dog, was just copying him out of sympathy 😂😂😂
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The fridge is terribly undervalued!
Kudos whoever did this 😎
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This one never fails to cheer me up.
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Jake Arkinstall, PhD retweeted
In 2016 US astronaut Scott Kelly spent his birthday dressed as a gorilla chasing colleagues around the International Space Station.
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Replying to @averdejo @nixcraft
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Jake Arkinstall, PhD retweeted
This is quite some bug report: "my kids wanted to hack my linux desktop, so they typed and clicked everywhere, while I was standing behind them looking at them play... when the screensaver core dumped and they actually hacked their way in!" github.com/linuxmint/cinnamo…
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Jake Arkinstall, PhD retweeted
The guy on the left still works at GitHub. The guy on the right was fired :/
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Covid cases still hammering hard in the UK. Chris Whitty claims the peak of hospitals admissions will be a week away, but I can't help but doubt that the watered down lockdown restrictions we're under are actually going to have the impact he expects. So for now, stay safe and
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My wife works in retail. Just as an example of how blatantly stupid people are being now, only this week was she told that the advice has changed from "we never turn down a customer's money" to "you may refuse to handle banknotes that someone has licked their finger to separate".
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