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What cracks me up about the cryptocurrency community is that yeah, North Korea just took $1.4B of your thing. But the only reason they did it is because they know you will grumble, GLADLY BUY IT BACK, and then write about how cool it is that in your system, they can repeatedly get away with that

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

MathAcademy is very cool, but a warning: it is a godless, bleak confrontation with how inept you are with fractions.

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

We just recorded an *emergency episode* (wee-oo wee-oo alert alert) about Apple pulling Advanced Data Protection, their E2E encryption for iCloud Notes and Backups, from the UK market, with special guests @josephhall.org and @matthewdgreen.bsky.social. Short and to the point, out this week.

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Erin just went to be so it's another Friday night alone with my glass of Four Roses and wondering why people like Roxy Music. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND ROXY MUSIC.

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Okey-dokey, let's do this, I say to myself. Time to turn this very excellent internal board comment from Peter about a Tokio dep bug into a blog post. But first: music's getting stale. Better assemble a 3rd 4-hour playlist of CBGB-era punk act b-sides. Where was that site with setlists again...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Erin rebooted ChiSec last year, and wisely moved it to Twisted Spoke (Ogden/Grand), which is where we'll be TOMORROW EVENING; it's just people hanging out at Spoke and shooting the shit, feel free to drop in and say hi.

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What strikes me about LessWrong, the hub of the new Internet Scientology, is that it is the kind of place where you'd need a warning label about Ziz.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Even though the name "Jane Street" gives me the willies now, this is an super-interesting post on how their made-up card game "Figgie" optimizes the process of teaching trading over poker. Fun read. blog.rossry.net/figgie/

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I TOLD HIM SO (i did not effectively tell him so) fly.io/blog/wrong-a...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Coming soon on SCW

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My friend Josh, who you should vote for in the upcoming Oak Park trustees race despite him saying this (move here if needed), claims that a SQL schema clearly is a file layout. I say: a risible claim! Who is correct about this? Right answers only.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote a thing, about winding up on a witness stand (no, not that way), and a new proposed law in Illinois. sockpuppet.org/blog/2025/02...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

I choked up a bit writing this. fly.io/blog/the-exi...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

We're tired of pretending to write a magazine or something and miss blogging like 2008-era weirdos, so we're going to change it up and just write blog posts instead of 4000-word effortposts. I wrote two back-to-back! One even referred to someone else's blog! I'M BLOGGING! fly.io/blog/a-blog-...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I been REPLACED.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Update: he went to Matt's (instead of the bar gathering for the applicants), and was not disappointed. Thank you!

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FATEFUL RATIONALIST TUGBOAT VOYAGE

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

100000000000x

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments