lowellvaughn.com
Nerd and dad living in Washington, late of Austin, Grinnell, and Indy.
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You married well
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Yeah, there's no way in hell. Someone who was really good in networkx or something similar could do it in a couple of minutes, but I don't think you can grok the problem statement/file format fast enough to do it in 30 seconds.
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I did one small optimization that cut my runtime by 70%. I have a path in my head to improve it well beyond that. Or, I could sleep, which is sounding like a good idea right now :-)
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It’s hard work for sure.
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If you’re going to be like that…
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I actually wrote a bubble sort for the first time since the early 1990's: github.com/lvaughn/adve...
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GTNP is my happy place.
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The ribs are how you know it’s authentic
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I feel for your crew at The Onion. How do you do satire after news days like today?!
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At this rate I'm honestly a little scared about any Friday afternoon news dumps this week.
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When I think they've hit rock bottom the bust out a pick axe and keep on going
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I miss having that kind of metabolism
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I felt that a lot in the Shepherd’s Crown as well, maybe even more so, like he wanted to get plot arc to a good place and knew it had to be done quick.
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Even more normal in the context of the tornado in Wisconsin a week or two ago.
This is getting worse faster than I thought it would.
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His encapsulation of sin in Carpe Jugulum is the best I’ve seen (from Granny Weatherwax):
“….And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”
“It’s a lot more complicated than that . . .”
“No. It ain’t.”
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Please give her a good scritch behind the ears for me.
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You married well
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747 is my bear. Or, as I call him while he’s the reigning champion: Bear Force One.
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I had the same feeling, but a couple people I know who’ve had shingles made it clear, shingles is way, way worse.
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It's a turducken of schadenfreude
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Oh man I *love* the smell of pinon on a fire.
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My mom's cancer came back, this time in the brain, in November 2000, while all the court cases were still going on. The doc asked her who the president was and she stopped, looked at him and asked if it was a trick question.
She passed the test.