Andrew Marshall

I've just been reading about the concept of the Boltzmann Brain and now I'm in the midst of a deep existential crisis.

The Reform Party of Theseus.

Listening to the "We can be weirdos" podcast. 8 billion people having dreams and they found one guy who dreamt about a new kind of speaker cabinet and managed to make it work - so clearly we're living in a simulation. They couldn't find someone who dreamt about teleportation or cold fusion?

Tip for anyone using ccache in CI environments - if your compiler is transient (ie the modification time changes between builds) be sure to set CCACHE_COMPILERCHECK accordingly.

Working with some Google C++ code today. Bazel, GN, CMake... just, please, pick a lane. Preferably CMake like LITERALLY EVERYONE ELSE.

Who shall we invite to the national security group chat, Gary?

I wasn't sure Trump would ever top Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

The local cafe I'm in is great, except on the sound system is a cover of "Sunshine on Leith" with no trace of Scottish accent, which I'm pretty sure is some kind of criminal offence.

There's a bug in the Wikipedia mobile app that causes the text to go out of sync and show images from previous elements of your search history, and now I have a screenplay idea.

Ah, tis the season for the interminable hot takes on "Love Actually" again. Maybe next year we'll get an essay on why Muppets Christmas Carol is deeply problematic.