Andreas Bombe

"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US

Air to Ground Message: THATS A THEM PROBLEM Area: Charlotte, NC, USA Type: Boeing 737 MAX 8 A: #ab7fb9cf37b F: #f818dbc3371

Update: the entire order has been excommunicated, not just those directly involved.

Oooh. Added to an AI Slop blocklist. *again!* I think people just don't like skills.

parents told me that watching dumb 80s cartoons wouldn't prepare me for the real world, but the president is attacking europe because they didn't give him the peace price

I've completed "Reactor" - Day 11 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/11 Catching up now, doing days out of order. For this one I had a slow solution (20 or 30 minutes or so), but a relatively simple optimization finally gives me the solution in ~65 ms.

I've completed "Playground" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/8 Now it's picking up a bit. Run time for my part 2 solution is around 101 ms, more than 1000x yesterday's solution. #Ada #Adalanguage

I've completed "Laboratories" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/7 Another one that's not computationally expensive, but really neatly to implement thanks to not having a dozen special cases to take care of.

Back around day 2 of #AdventOfCoding and before I got around to solving it myself, I saw people talking something about using regular expressions for solving this, and I don't get how? As in, seriously counting through every possible number, converting to text and test with a regex?

Mark your calendar! Next Vintage Computer Festival in Munich takes place from May 1st to May 3rd, 2026. Yes, its one of those rare three day VCFe, because of public holiday on May 1st. Website updates will start early 2026 as usual. #VCFe #VCFe25.0 #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

Last week, the vintage IBM 1401 computer at the Computer History Museum started behaving strangely: it wouldn't halt. More specifically, if you had two HALT instructions in a row, it would halt for the first, but when you continued, it crashed mysteriously. Here's how we fixed it.... 1/N

Surely I'm not the only one getting this vibe from the Switch 2's joycons:

i do have to give Haliey Welch some credit for comedic timing. intentional or not, she perfectly timed her rugpull to steal the spotlight from bitcoin hitting $100K, a moment coiners have been awaiting for years. masterful stuff