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von Neumann called, said he wanted that value you're storing back. Something about wanting to do a computation on it.

props to golang, hard to make a language that lives in a superposition of entirely unacceptable and barely passable

In any open ecosystem where good design takes effort (and will therefore not be consistent) features that compensate for BAD design are incredibly important.

Notion is such a miserable product 😐

The CRASH Clock paper is now peer-reviewed! So to celebrate, my co-authors and I wrote an explainer article (because how better to celebrate one article than by writing another... oh academia...) It's now published in The Conversation Canada […]

toothpicks? no. teethpick.

the only thing preventing the production of a 1km long twizzler is cowardice

It's only 3d pop if it comes from the Zeiss region of Germany. Otherwise it's just sparkling barrel distortion.

Every piece of code I write feels like a decision I'm taking responsibility for. If my code doesn't work, or does something it shouldn't, it's on me. So I prefer to take my time and ensure the code is right to the best of my ability.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

mfw mr beast is planning to launch his own bank

It’s like with tax software—makers of tax software have an interest in making tax laws overly and needlessly complex. Makers of “coding LLMs” have an interest in making it impossible to write code manually.

on type safety

Found out that Attilla Danko, webmaster of cleardarksky.com, died late last year. www.cleardarksky.com/personal/ind... CDS has been an excellent resource for #astronomy forecasts for myself and doubtless many others. RIP Attilla.

I am golang insane

#memes

Oh look, a Python package that does exactly what I need! It's lightweight and well-documented, even! It's unfortunately also unmaintained and depends on an older version of a library my project uses that has since introduced breaking changes 🙃

Mall Escalator Spits Out Another Pile Of Bones

And one thing I'm quickly realizing about myself is that I have a hard time sympathizing with the idea that "the way the world used to work" is harder than how big tech wants it to work. I can't shake the feeling that big tech thrives on people who conflate "new" with better.

Two decades. Countless commits. Approximately one billion merge conflicts. Happy birthday to our favorite little version control system, Git! 🥳

ive been thinking abt this video literally all day today

The difference between knowledge and wisdom is knowing _how_ to force push vs _when_ to force push

I wish the Slack and Google Photos notification bar icons were slightly more distinct. 😐

Last time I tried to use Haskell, it bit me, I got a rare blood disorder, and I had to start medication. At least there are no side effects.

It's okay to let it outside, won't survive for long. Nature abhors a vacuum.

There are 2 environments: testing and ✨spicy testing✨. Some people erroneously call ✨spicy testing✨ "prod"

EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A FULL SYNC OF THE WHOLE NETWORK INTO MY FIREHOSE CONSUMER

guy in the 1920s putting a "i bought this before he went crazy" sticker on his Model T

[Python packaging tool yells at cloud]

#hatefeed v0.4.0 is out! The hatefeed now hydrates display name and handle. hatefeed.nanovad.com

Obsidian is now free for work. Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore the organizations that support Obsidian on our site. obsidian.md/blog/free-fo...

Knowledge is never knowing the answer. It’s knowing the territory.

An interesting document is Wikipedia's edit filter for internet brainrot which gets updated if certain meme phrases are overwhelmingly used in vandalism. It started in the yolo/swag era and has evolved to the skibidi/rizz present, regularly dropping memes that are sufficiently stale (like Harambe)

STOP DOING BACKSLASHES. YEARS of counting escape chars but no real world use case found for \ Wanted a separator anyway for a laugh? We had that. It was called the FORWARD SLASH. "Yes please use a different pathsep than everybody else" - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

It's okay to put books down. The books you haven't finished tell more of your story than the ones you have.

2025 is 1/12th complete.

just got the job as the guy who makes sure motion smoothing gets reenabled at random on your LG tv

lol naperville sinking into the ground is NOT bad news

#454 Empire Township, KS, USA

You're laughing. I'm forced to use a global lock, and you're laughing?

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