What type of professor is most likely to be portrayed as a scholar was a little too preoccupied with whether or not he Could? least likely?
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Dunno about portrayed but my time studying computer science was all about doing things that are obviously bad ideas just because I could. Forkbombed myself with markov chain irc bots like once a week for ~7 years.
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Replying to @enkiv2 @eigenrobot
Wrote a small compiler that turned arbitrary code into nothing but chained trinary operators & duff's device.
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Basically I completely understand how somebody with marginally less self-awareness can do terrible shit to make numbers go up & think it's for the best because they don't self-identify as evil, & it's not remotely surprising that SV is full of such people.
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Replying to @enkiv2 @eigenrobot
I was spending lots of effort making numbers go up when those numbers were things like "pid", "load average", "layers of indirection", "input latency", and "sins against best practices". Imagine they were dollars.
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Replying to @enkiv2 @eigenrobot
On the other side, while humanities scholars (especially in like media theory) are equally motivated by perversity, there is a low upper limit on damage. A mad postmodernist is not distinguishable from the other kind but the worst he can do is be more interesting than you.
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Ok but marx was an economist & absolutely not pomo. He had *no* opinions about the deeper symbolism of Ghilligan's Island.
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suppose their mostly dangers to themselve's
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