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@schakalsynthetc

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    5 Nov 2014

    "Anaxagoras said to a man who lay dying in a foreign land, 'The descent to hell is the same from every place.'"

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  2. Aug 1

    what is Android P? Android P is normally about 95% flourocarbon-based liquid coolant but may contain various other organic and inorganic compounds, and is evacuated via the "P port" located on the lower front panel. (see fig. 1a)

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  3. Aug 1

    tfw instead of a dramatic silhouette in a rain of brilliant blue-white shards of light all you get is a cut finger

    38 YR OLD MALE CHANGING AT THE GYM AND HAND HIT LIGHT FIXTURE AND LAC F INGER
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  4. Aug 1

    rob pike -who is abt as close to φρόνησῐς incarnate as computing's got imho - once remarked "OO is the roman numerals of computing". say what you will abt FP but at least it tends to yield language notations that feel current with the technological advances of the 12th century

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  5. Aug 1

    enterprise cloud solutions by Aristophanes LLC (as a matter of fact no we don't have much use for "classics" 'round here either -- why do you ask?)

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  6. Aug 1

    data structures? bah. we don't do those here. what do you mean what do I think that diagram is modeling? that's our ENTERPRISE OBJECT MODEL. that's a totally different thing! don't be ridiculous of course it is WHAT DO YOU MEAN "HOW" WHAT DO YOU MEAN "WHO'S THE EGGHEAD NOW"

    shouldn't have bothered to read but TIL hash tables aren't "data structures", or at least somehow stop being data structures when you put the word "object" in front of them? gosh, it's all so complicated and arcane.
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  7. Aug 1

    idk what a domain like, say, medical robotics is supposed to do *instead* of trust static analysis & just keep striving for better techniques, anyway: release a beta that kills a few patients, & go "yeah uh sorry bout grandma but that bug is definitely fixed in the next update"?

    Replying to @schakalsynthetc @datawench
    at time of delivery "it works" is either an educated guess -- which implies you've got *sth* sound to back that up with -- or just blind faith "formal proof isn't as helpful a tool as it purports" is fair but it's not like there's no good practical *motive* for interest in it
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  8. Aug 1

    "delivering code that does the work" is the minimum expected of you want to stay in business. may as well complain a construction crew is more interested in arcane specialized skillsets than in "showing up sober and not accidentally mutilating random passersby with the nail gun".

    CIO: the magazine for idiots ( which is a stunning fractal of bad opinions)
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  9. Aug 1

    (btw, Smalltalk method dictionaries are just a linear array of CompiledMethod mapped one-to-one to an array of selector symbols. the index of the symbol is the index of the method. it's really that simple.) (inst vars are done slightly differently but the basic idea is the same)

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  10. Aug 1

    shouldn't have bothered to read but TIL hash tables aren't "data structures", or at least somehow stop being data structures when you put the word "object" in front of them? gosh, it's all so complicated and arcane.

    CIO: the magazine for idiots ( which is a stunning fractal of bad opinions)
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  11. Aug 1

    o/~ I'm a little tea-pot orb-it-ing the moon / "Saturn" doesn't scan / so it's this or ... uh ... Neptune o/~

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  12. Jul 31

    (to me it also equals "99 percent of what programmers do is appallingly boring shit completely orthogonal to what made 'programmer' sound more appealing than 'chartered accountant' in the first place" anyway but I also get that's not universalizable descriptively or normatively)

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  13. Jul 31

    foundational concepts and skills to apply them do evolve, but they evolve at least an order of magnitude slower than the surface manifestation du jour -- mastering them is how you stay ahead of the times p sure I'm preaching to the choir with my techie mutuals here but still

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  14. Jul 31

    I hate this take with a passion too because if your motive is to cut the next generation off at the knees to be sure they'll never surpass you, this is exactly the mentality you'd want to feed them when they're young and impressionable.

    Replying to @sclv
    my favourite take is that you shouldn't learn the fundamentals, because "99 percent of what most programmers do is wrestle with the idiosyncrasies of the current buzzword du jour." where people not appreciating fundamentals is how we got there in the first place!
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  15. Jul 29

    tbf the only conceivable reason to order a $22 avocado toast is to tweet a photo of it and observe that someone thought someone would pay $22 for that

    The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice
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  16. Jul 29

    I just found a pea in the spaghetti sauce. twitter needs to know this because the obvious joke must not only be passed over, it must be seen to be passed over

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  17. Jul 29

    BINGO. lotta folks would be surprised how smooth and quick the slide from "us whites are born deficient and need your help to survive" to "your servitude is our birthright" really is.

    There's a bit of data here, but it gets smothered in the narrative. White people are deficient and need to be supported by diversity. If you just inverted this 180 degrees it's straight up colonialism, maybe let's push that button again
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  18. Jul 29

    clickbait headline: "did elon musk just deny the existence of complex numbers?"

    *Listens to gf's music once*
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  19. Jul 29

    "the narrative that [..] is a self-serving clique is false. once I eventually broke in," whoa whoa whoa ok now stop right there

    He blocked me for having a different opinion.
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  20. Retweeted
    May 9

    What are examples of patterns or systems (hopefully positive?) that a major "collapse". Examples: Email survived the Eternal September. Rodents arose after the Chicxulub Impact. Christianity survived Rome's collapse. Please RT

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