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You write code under NDA, I write code under MDMA. We are not the same.

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I wrote about the fifty (50) posts that Ron Jeffries has written about solving Sudoku: explaining.software/archive/the-...

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Dear President Von Der Leyen, My name is Joey, I am 26 year old American. My people and my trading bloc yearn for freedom. Instead we get 25% tariffs on cars and avocados. Please send Eurofighter Typhoon multirole fighter jet

submitted 22 days ago • 25 comments

Had to have a talk with HR because I kept googling "big naturals" on my work laptop. They wouldn't believe that I was just implementing a natural number datatype 😔

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One of my earlier bad keyboards (June 2023), the ShiftKeyBoard! It's got nine buttons, and an 8-way gear shifter. You simply shift into different gears to select which sub-keyboard to use. Surprisingly easy to use, in fact.

submitted 38 days ago • 59 comments

I think that the tweet genre of “this person (who might be a bot) had a bizarre opinion that made me think less of humanity and so the right thing by to do is screenshot it and show it to the largest number of people” is silly.

submitted 41 days ago • 181 comments

I’ve gone down a rabbit hole with Philosophy Tube research: I started with “Why are American cities on grids?” and now I’m deep into historical theories on whether Thomas Jefferson was autistic

submitted 43 days ago • 257 comments

Professor Alexis Jay, who led a 7-year review of sexual abuse which reported in 2022, says starting a new inquiry would delay any implementation of her own recommendations:

submitted 48 days ago • 46 comments

someone should make a nerd snipe leaderboard (ranking metric is engineer-hours-per-snipe-length)

submitted 54 days ago • 7 comments

Funny thing I learned reading today: As a student at Cambridge, Charles Babbage pushed for switching from Newton's dot notation for Calculus, to Leibniz's dy/dx notation. He referred to this as D-ism.

submitted 54 days ago • 6 comments

The Massacre of the Innocents, which I do not support, was an understandable effort by Herod, who I also do not support, to prevent the M$DNC hypocrite Jesus from spreading the gospel of shitlibocracy. by Glenn Greenwald

submitted 60 days ago • 10 comments

What if we put a pool on the moon? Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with Minute Earth! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIIB...

submitted 61 days ago • 34 comments

For ten years now, I've been writing letters from Santa to my young relatives. To mark this decade, I wanted to include something really special, and after a lot of research into his workshop’s size, location and layout, I'm confident that this checks out. Hope they like it!

submitted 436 days ago • 34 comments

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Assyriologist: Du[ring] grad sch[ool] I [took?] a position ... [13 lines illegible] ... now.

submitted 65 days ago • 31 comments

as an ultrafinitist, i think it's nonsense when people try to talk about numbers larger than the number of electrons in the universe. that's why i don't believe in 2

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I've had a long-running thread on twitter on the real migration crisis (not enough migrants). Will start posting here... but for the earlier 1,000-plus examples, see here: x.com/charlesjkenn...

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Cult Leader Not Even Charismatic theonion.com/cult-leader-...

submitted 68 days ago • 83 comments

"Product of the 80s" my dude - precision please - cross, dot or hadamard? Cross: you only work in a very specific dimension, and everyone gets your sign wrong. Dot: simple, foundational, answers all questions. But also disappointingly common. Hadamard: pretentious name for something very obvious.

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

why won't replicators make butt plugs

submitted 70 days ago • 19 comments

What was left in Turing's notebooks after his tragic death? Great insights into the maths of morphogenesis that were never published, including the Swift-Hohenberg model that was rediscovered decades later. people.bath.ac.uk/jhpd20/publi...

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Pair programming is heteronormative and needlessly difficult for neurodivergent people. Polycule programming is the way to go

submitted 100 days ago • 3 comments

Don't call yourself a C developer unless you ship K&R

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Bro you can totally do Web in C

submitted 82 days ago • 7 comments

eleven thousand words of gender feelings wearing a trenchcoat, the trenchcoat is just porn

submitted 86 days ago • 6 comments

atoms, vacuums, lasers, and subcommittees — the technology and politics behind redefinining the second: www.ft.com/content/625d...

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

WIRED has tracked thousands of US military & intel personnel coming & going from classified sites, incl. NSA hubs & nuclear vaults. We know where they sleep, what they eat, and which brothels they visit. It's an ocean of blackmail & national secrets within reach of every spy agency in the world.

submitted 96 days ago • 171 comments

been looking for a name for this concept for ages! “endocept”: the vague, pre-articulate sense of vision that guides creation a core difficulty of creativity support tool design is that in early-stage creativity it’s easy to accidentally displace the endocept creativity.netslova.ru/Endocept.html

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imagine me becoming progressively more and more annoyed as I researched this

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Amazingly enough, the first attempt to simulate galaxy interactions (1941) predated computers & used light bulbs! The trick is that the gravitational force and electromagnetic force (for light) both vary as 1/distance^2; Erik Holmberg realized this meant he could use light to simulate galaxies. 🧪

submitted 98 days ago • 3 comments

So I've been reading Alan Turing's famous 1936 paper where he gives a solution of the entscheidungsproblem while basically proposing the modern idea of a computer. What I hadn't realized is how deeply he'd worked out the concept.

submitted 103 days ago • 18 comments