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LB x2: boolean xor is written as != send toot

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I have crafted a statement which I think will make any programmer who reads it angry, but I can't identify any reason it would be *wrong*. Consider: & is bitwise AND. && is boolean AND. | is bitwise OR. || is boolean OR. Therefore, ! should be bitwise NOT, !! should be boolean NOT.

submitted 18 hours ago • 16 comments

There's a weird magical thinking that goes "there's a group of people incurring a social cost in order to be economically productive, cutting this cost will have no other economic impact, I am very smart." It's historically associated with the right, but the centre left is all too susceptible to it.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

loooool

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Shorter Lockheed: Please keep buying our planes, even if Donald Trump wants to make them unusable. Contemplating adding "There is no kill switch" to my Bluesky bio.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

When only the CBC gets defunded, you’ll all get used to getting a bunch of your news in French.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

literal death traps

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

when you cater to forum shoppers the catering never ends

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

US Institute for Peace is suing. In addition to all the other ultra vires claims, it includes a trespassing complaint. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

This, by @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social, is very informative

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

Lower court: schumer must be sent to el salvador Supreme court: declines appeal No crisis!

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Important detail on Trump's attempt to strong-arm USIP: They're trumping up criminal investigation into the people who wouldn't willingly dismantle an independent organization. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Here I've been wondering, "Where is the coverage about Erdogan's reaction to Ukraine negotiations" and I see he is rather occupied.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

god the good news just keep coming don't they, real laugh a minute so far, 2025

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

I keep noting how Trump's retcons -- their quick invention of a cover story, followed by their later attempt to sustain a new cover story -- are causing legal trouble.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

A collapsed souffle in the form of a senator

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

LRP: honestly the part that I find unbelievable is, like where did all these people get into tech that didn't grow up doing stuff in the real margins of it

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

STEM kids not beating the functionally illiterate rap

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

It's critical to keep naming these losses, not in the spirit of "can you believe what they're doing," but to remember what's being lost. I've taught students from countries that erase the past, and they're stunned to learn of major events in their own countries. That's the fascist goal here.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

LRP: don't create "don't create the torment nexus" -- the thing is, a course of action is merely a suggestion, and putting it out there necessarily distributes the idea of just doing the opposite, to people who just dispositionally can't understand why that's a bad idea

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

i wonder if maybe we should stop writing post-apocalyptic fiction just until we're sure that's not where rich people are getting their ideas

submitted 3 days ago • 96 comments

LRP: like, while I realize that that "santa claus" is there just to signify something being anthropomorphized creating a purely imaginary figure, honestly the idea of looking at the fad as being more about mythology than any kind of implementation or category of practices is a very interesting lens

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

No they do not, New York Times! This is like writing that Santa Claus has IBS.

submitted 3 days ago • 426 comments

this might be what sets me over the edge it’s TOO MUCH

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

“There is new signage posted on the doors that says “no trespassing” and a misspelled message that the building is “closed until futhr notice.”” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

If what Obi Wan is wearing in Star Wars 1 isn’t “Jedi Robes”, but just his comfiest desert hermit outfit, is it okay to imagine him in the holy canon of “people who go on amazing adventures in their dressing gown”?

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

LRP: sort of a parallel to the pivot to stupidity is stupid people just leaving the ball in your court; like when terrible people who shouldn't have this capability give you an offer to hit the bricks at that point I'm asking what the catch is

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

NYT catalogs the people from NNSA who took the "fork in road" buyout. Turns out (stop me if you've heard this) DOGE really did chase out critical people. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 64 comments

It’s here. I don’t know what else to say. There’s no “things could get bad soon” anymore. Things are very, very bad and dangerous here.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

LRP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI5v...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

meanwhile growing up in the U.S. i always wished i had been one of the Kids in the Hall

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

Okay less gloating and more professional hat here: This is EVERY platform where there's no end to end encryption. This can also be platforms where there's E2E encryption and key escrow. If you need a level of opsec where you are sure nobody else can read it -- don't send it over the internet.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

LRP: exactly this; whenever you see somebody interviewing some kind of obscure specialist on some kind of committee who seems to think they're the line ensuring reasonable application of the law, it turns out they're the rube and nothing is ensuring reasonable application of the law

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

If someone says "I don't mind if they deport violent criminals" the response will just be "uh ok all of these people are violent criminals then."

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

God, that was hard to bear. Students told a physics town hall that grad schools have rescinded admission. NSF proposals are censored for words like “bias,” even when the meaning is technical. Physics curricula are being banned by school districts for encouraging girls. #APSGlobalSummit2025 #APSMarch

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments