Post #2350590

2026-02-25 07:19 UTC

First, I had to go before the admiral's board of the Canadian Coast Guard and give a demo. *Second* comical note: the fucking app froze in the middle of the demo, and w/o in any way acknowledging this, I used it as an opportunity to demonstrate that even if we lost power, the app would restart correctly. Yep. That's right. I rebooted the computer and startup.bat did its magic. Anyway, the admiral's board is like, "cool, let's try it in the field."

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@GeePawHill@mastodon.social 2026-02-25 07:29

So I fly to Newfoundland, and I get on an actual icebreaker ship. Oh my people, it was so fucking cool. Icebreakers aren't gigantic, like container ships or tanker ships, but they're *big*, just the same. And the Canadian Coast Guard is a commercial service, not a military one, so even tho they spend months at sea, they take very good care of their sailors, so, broadly speaking, the place was all modern cons. (You still have to take navy showers, but other than that.)

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@gnoll110@ruby.social 2026-02-25 07:24

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social Let's try it in incrementally more bizarre situations, until it doesn't come back up.

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@coffeemug@autistics.life 2026-02-25 07:28

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social That was good to read about your success, congratulations .The bit about emerging with no more than a bent antenna with oil on it struck me so funny my brain will be replaying it for a good while, thanks! 🙂

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