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working in software (exciting, i know) on power-efficient edge architectures. parachuting and playing music when i can't cope. otherwise trying to be a good person. i'm always up to no good with a computer.
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In a leaked recording, State Senator Elena Parent (D-42) said she’d vote for Republican transgender healthcare bans because trans rights are too “unpopular." "You can go right to heck. I don’t think I will lose re-election based on you screaming at me"

frustrating people

when i was 14 and still had to listen to a priest at school, i thought the peak of wishful thinking was religion, then he told us to turn our books to the page on christian universalism

don't know wtf is going on but googmaps directions with public transport is busted the fuck out. keeps suggesting i take a bunch of buses and walk for a route which is 5 stops with the metro. i guess all good things must come to an end

i can't believe people who have been telling me this guy is a "good billionaire"

high-schoolers when they first see a supply-demand diagram

there's one system at work which has no web ui and my bar for competence is "which people, when told about it, ask for a link to it or first search wtf it is"

(with a very vague relationship to Philly and a foggy awareness of sportsballs) go birds!

are you really an engineer, or a "software engineer"?

Somerville’s SomerViva records "Know Your Rights" training videos for residents English and Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Nepali below. #immigration #ICE #LaMigra www.thesomervilletimes.com/archives/138...

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

roses are red \ violets are blue \ gasoline smells \ much better than you

this is correct. furthermore, the C in 'C Programming Language' stands for Crunchy, which will make sense as soon as one tries to chew on a CPU.

fairly certain it's the opposite of help, too

why is my 'Discover' feed doctors dude, what classification labels am i stuck with

was reminded of a map

currently listening to commentary about an imaginary system and workload which is both I/O-bound and CPU-bound

The ADL’s response to Elon Musk doing a Nazi salute two times: x.com/adl/status/1...

focaccia is the worst of all breads, can't be preserved for more than fourty seconds and tastes worse than even Kroger croutons

um

2013 löste die NPD (heute "Die Heimat") mit einer ähnlichen Aktion ein Skandal aus. Ich bin mal gespannt, ob das bei der AfD genauso sein wird. Glaube aber nicht, denn "Remigration" scheint für einige Parteien mindestens genauso wichtig zu sein. www.dw.com/de/hallo-mig...

nothing more eye-opening than returning to work from a prolonged break. really should take my own advice and constantly search for new jobs.

www.ft.com/content/fe99...

orangesite is gonna drive itself insane with this article

happier new year question mark

Even though "academics from poorer backgrounds introduce more novel scientific concepts, [they] are less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards" The humanities have the least social mobility, quants have the most papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

usability annoyance: "go to previous X" and "go to left/right X" are not the same. stop making them seem the same. you just appear stupid.

Path of Exile 2 is so bad right now that I can't even be bothered to go back to playing Path of Exile

they added a copilot command to start a debug session. who the fuck needed this? who considers this a usability win? code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_9...

fucking Kevin here shouldn't be responsible for a decision other than his lunch, let alone be a judge

uh huh ok

chat why are all Path of Exile 2 bosses modelled after LoL heroes 😭

apropos of getting a job offer from a company based in Berlin, i replied "lol" and a link to berlin-haushalt25.nand.io

when the conversation steers into german fiscal performance i like to point out that the most sophisticated piece of economic policy to ever come out of germany was, verbatim, "You can't cure an alcoholic by giving him alcohol" and that brings everything to a peaceful halt very quickly