Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

Danny Brown's "Lift You Up" klnd of reminds me of some of They Might Be Giants stuff, just in that it has a really great groove, especially in the vocals. I know this kind of sounds like its "guy who has only listened to tmbg: getting a lot of tmbg vibes from this", but I swear it isn't 😭

I wonder what Jane Streets advertising / sponsorship budget is (I looked at the POPL sponsor list)

day 2 of AoC went a bit better than yesterday lol (I forgot it was on and started late today, after adjusting for that today was better). Still not great, and my solution is atrocious, but oh well

Thinking about the education system in New Zealand hurts my brain man. There's so many rough edges and the government doesn't want to step in to help smooth them off. Very frustrating. The funny thing about this is that because the government won't step in in some places, they can't in others! Each

let this be a lesson. no half measures. if your student writes a bad essay you have to kill them

But yeah, i've always felt like one major falldown of person-focused social media relationships was that you couldn't easily just reliably see some subset of stuff from a person, even if they attempted to make that easy via tagging, etc.

I've switched from using a bar to using the full cursor during insert mode in Helix (since it's reflecting the actual paradigm in use and that's elegant or something). The big change is not knowing what mode I'm in, since I used to use the shape of my cursor to tell...

linkhut on atproto...

Given that Jacquard exists I don't really have an excuse not to interact with ATProto...

this is very cool www.sculpture.org.nz/park(ing)-day

I need to actually interact with art, I generally only have had shallow interactions with it, and I would like to change that

wow that was an embarassing AoC performance for day 1 🤩 lost like ten minutes to fat fingering a '-' as '='

Some part just lights up at arbitrage for some reason, I really don’t get it

< my winter cloaks and coats conceal my true gender, which is chuuni

girls will tell you their polycule isnt that complicated then send you a graph like this

I really can't express this well, but there's an uncomfortable difference between all the legitimately good things I think the club does and the fact that the president is deeply unlikeable (in general, and in particular in terms of transphobia). It feels dissonant to in the same interaction follow

increasingly clear that I can not stay with this club into the next year. 1 week until the competition we've been building to all year and then I'm stepping back from interacting with it. Even ignoring that I would be already on the fence, and considering I don't want to be around him it's clear

It is very funny how an anti-capitalist revolutionary catchphrase got turned into a "funny sheep tshirt" www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/6305...

This just got posted in my uni's CS discord. Incredible

I don't feel great how many conversations about the left talk about it as there is a party. I know this sounds silly but when people say "if the left does something it is alienating some group" it is putting that group as outside the left and there is some organization that is acting against them

MX records? DNS is woke?

This entire album just has this great sense of interest and rhythm it's such a fun listen

Writing up my opinions for They Might Be Giants' debut album and I have basically for all of the songs so far said basically "I like the way this sounds and I find the lyrics interesting despite not being able to tease any meaning out of them" and then I give it an 8/10 (and one 9/10)

TENET (2020) is actually a great depiction of what understanding the control flow of algebraic effects feels like.

the photos from kiwi pycon (taken by Kristina Hoeppner) have been posted. the photos of me from when I was presenting are good :) the photos of me in the audience of other presentations all seem to be at the worst possible timing though 😔

dereference my normal and non suspicious pointer

{cost:b t: sorcery o: look at the top three cards of your library. you may put them back in any order. you may shuffle. draw a card.}-ing my {cost: 5 t:artifact o: You have hexproof. If a creature would deal damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage}

I'm so excited for the incoming global economic collapse 🤩

Just spent the last hour trying to figure out why I was getting type errors when I tried to compose a function with what should have been its argument (oops) I should sleep maybe, but I'm so close!

this article is very cool keymaterial.net/2025/05/23/t...

saw Knives Out 3, really enjoyed it. If you have the chance to see it in theaters, it's well worth it imo thematic spoilers (rot13): Ernyyl, V'z whfg n fhpxre sbe fgbevrf gung srvag cynlvat pbzcnffvba nf anvirgl orsber rnearfgyl rzoenpvat vg nf gur bayl guvat gung vf gehyl *erny*.

buzzfeed style quiz titled “am i gay” but all the possible answers are just “yeah”

I strongly dislike science "news" writers

So, this repo, right? github.com/paiml/depyler

Happy World Linguistics Day from Pōneke Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand!

The word "challenge" makes these seem so high school coded to me, despite knowing that they're very much not lol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...

the worst part is that I'm pretty sure I'm as close to objectively correct as possible in saying that I will perform significantly better on 4th year papers next trimester than I did on 1st year papers in the previous one, but that claim sounds ridiculous to literally anyone else

In the awkward position of trying to be allowed into ~postgrad courses while also having my last semester being an average gpa of 0.5 on first year papers. It's going to be a tough sell I'm sure

still shocked how many people write code that has an obvious potential use after free and then show how rust prevents them from doing that as an example of the borrow checker being overly stifling

Britain's attacks on trans existence have global significance

Grr, it is November 25th, give me my book Bezos 😡😡

I am reminded a little bit of the story that "dynamic programming" is called that because the researcher working on it had a meeting with their manager where they had to explain what they were working on and decided to call it dynamic because it was one of the few words that had 0 bad connotations,

We should have called borrowing “structured references” and said back pointers are like GOTO and considered harmful and everyone would be saying how bad it is other languages don’t have structured references

Ok I moved the forall to the other side of the turnstile and that seems to have helped. Eventually I'll know how to do things with lean 🤩

it's probably not a good pattern that I treat the parts of my day where I'm scrolling social media for too long as being a separate person inhabiting my mind/body. Notably I don't do this in general with procrastinating behaviours! I spent two hours today reading papers and blog posts instead of

Am I stupid?

heavy agree with your bio @leastinformednerd.bsky.social "you’d think being a nerd every waking hour would make me knowledgeable…"

I do find it funny how many times I see programming advice that contains among other things "retain the wonder you had about programming when you were 10/12/14/etc" as though it's a given that everyone reading would have been obsessed with programming at that age I do think it's unfortunate that