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• Post #4363335

  If you're not hitting each keystroke with at least 25 Newtons of force, people sitting around you will not respect your hax0r skillz.

• Post #4249176

  AI companies are offsetting their high energy demands by burning *checks notes* rare books. Delightful. 🤦

• Post #4186051

  If your video isn't breaking down the 61 best moments from the new Avengers trailer, why are you even posting this week?

• Post #4186050

  These dogs are literally surrounded by toys, but Nora only wants whichever one Ben is playing with.

• Post #4186049

  We might be living in a Black Mirror episode, but at least it's not the one with werewolves.

• Post #4186048

  Subway now has $5 6-inch subs. Shrinkflation has gone too far.

• Post #4186047

  After the AI bubble pops, we should do a retro one like 80s comics or tulip bulbs. (He said from the top of a mountain of 80s comics and tulip bulbs.)

• Post #4186046

  When you have to train your replacement.

• Post #4096702

  Brazil is so petty. #FIFA

• Post #3871370

  "My friend introduced me to options." 🤦

• Post #3794591

  "The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random." — Donald Knuth

• Post #3745462

  What now?

• Post #3613140

  "If software cannot be maintained, then it will be rewritten." — Dave Cheney

• Post #2505223

  "There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code." — Flon's Law

• Post #2093239

  The Feynman Lectures on Physics https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

• Post #2090087

  Another missed opportunity to release a Star Wars movie on Star Wars Day. May the 4th be with you.

• Post #2090086

  I have to take a prompt engineering course for work, and one of the examples given is: I need to grade my students writing homework from A (best) to F (fail) based on writing quality. Here is the writing sample: [writing sample] So students are using AI to complete their assignments, and teachers are using them to grade the assignments. Can we just hook the chat bots together and remove the humans from this loop?

• Post #2090085

  How to Write Shared Libraries [PDF] https://akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf

• Post #2090084

  Half my coffee leaked out in my book bag this morning, but thanks to the trigonometry book that was ruined, I know exactly what angle the bag was tilted at.

• Post #2090083

  "If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work." — Mich Ravera

• Post #2090082

  Solution of a Problem in Concurrent Programming Control, E.W. Dijkstra, 1965 [PDF] http://rust-class.org/static/classes/class19/dijkstra.pdf

• Post #1929003

  "One man's constant is another man's variable." — Alan J. Perlis

• Post #1929002

  "It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning." — Claude Bernard

• Post #1929001

  WhatsApp: "Keep the conversation going with our new update!" me: you have so much data, but you don't really know me at all.

• Post #1928999

  "I define UNIX as '30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.'" — Donald Knuth

• Post #1928998

  "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." — Benjamin Franklin

• Post #1928997

  Hot take: Most people should stick to thinking inside the box most of the time.

• Post #1928996

  Deterministic, Error-Correcting Combinator Parsers, S.D. Swierstra and L. Duponcheel, 1996 [PDF] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.80.9967&rep=rep1&type=pdf

• Post #1928995

  How to make good reproducible pandas examples #python #pandas https://stackoverflow.com/q/20109391/1288

• Post #1928994

  How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your microplastics?