(engineer who invented the first gun): hey everybody, check out this helpful thing i made to help people knock over time cans from far away! i got to solve lots of cool little challenges to get it to work. let me know if you find any other fun uses for it 🤗

you can tell a journal's legit when it asks for a thumbnail image for your paper

In the middle of this absolute chaos, the lone axolotl trying to beat away the gas gets me 😭😭😭

made a few plots and we can now quantify it: in terms of its effect on canada/us travel, the second trump presidency is over three 9/11s

throwing this out there in desperation -- does anyone have any idea how to get filled polygons with no border lines in ggplot2 with geom_sf()? this used to be possible because i did it all the time by setting colour = NA but now i get lines between adjacent polygons and it looks awful #rstats

hey! hey!!! if you are an academic of any rank in the critical tech studies space who cares about how money, finance, and business structures work in science and technology, i want to see your abstracts for a collected volume! they're due tomorrow!!! https//oddletters.com/tech-money/

(final countdown voice) IT'S MY LOCAL POSTGRES

We're not asking you to start learning Haskell. We're saying, when the time is right, you will look in the mirror and will already have started learning Haskell.

clair obscur expedition 33? yeah, it's pretty good, but tbh I think the series really ran out of new ideas between expeditions 17-19 and has just been coasting since

ahh, time to relax and play some nethack (spend all evening reading wikis and trying to remember key bindings)

three young posters were arguing about which was superior. "my best post is 2,000 words," said the first. "my best post is 5,000 words," said the second. "my best post is over 10,000 words," said the third. "my best post is 824 words," said the master. hearing this, the students were illuminated.

extremely funny to me that the blue prince kid keeps sleeping in the tent even after he inherits the house

today i joined the ranks of the few, the weird, the strangely attractive: those brave folks stumbling through advent of code in haskell for the first time. it ain't pretty but i've got two stars!

unironically excited to save Santa from the moon base or whatever insanity they've cooked up this year Daily programming puzzles at Advent of Code #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com

RETVRN

guys will literally jury-rig their own #rstats package to procedurally generate opendocument presentations before g̶o̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶r̶a̶p̶y̶ reinstalling windows github.com/chris3141592...

til there's apparently a business in wrapping linux command-line tools in a web frontend and throwing it up free with some ads on it? not the worst idea but i gotta wonder about the economics of it

*slaps hood of the R language for statistical computing* you can fit so many runtime dynamic type errors in this baby

you pronounce camus like samus. i pronounce samus like camus. we are not the same

these are actually incredible if you read them in colonel kurtz's voice

eyeing the closed doors in my home and instinctively checking my pockets for keys and gems

would love to know what percentage of open-source projects are motivated by pure spite towards microsoft

emily dickinson was the first true poster. consider: 1. only interacted with friends through short cryptic text messages 2. creative use of capitalization and punctuation 3. categorically refused to touch grass

switching to nixos because i like my config files tidy and my drama messy

i used to think i was "good at the computer" but trying to set up neovim for elixir development on nixos has thoroughly disabused me of this notion

extremely funny for a corporate official to be like "our product, nay our entire product class, is functionally unworkable"

Playground Lidgerwood, ND

ICE officer playing Wolfenstein on his steam deck and shaking his head the whole time so his coworkers know he disagrees with it

if they'd put a fraction of that LLM money into making a word processor that actually formats tables and images properly, you'd have office workers dancing in the streets

i refuse to have a single midlife crisis. i can easily have three, and i believe four is achievable

motion to replace the word "discourse" with the word "foolishness"

the funniest possible read of this is that with the right priming we could do it, we could bully/manipulate doug ford into going vegan www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

completing my sombre annual ritual of googling "duncan the wonder dog show two"

intro to imperative programming: programs are like recipes. if you can explain how to make a PB&J sandwich, you can code! 😊 intro to functional programming: programs are like compositions of set comprehensions. if you can define a bijection between hilbert spaces, you can code! 🥰

finally learning some haskell, based purely on the strength of their bsky community's posting game

gpt5 is phd-level, but the problem is it's always a phd from the exact wrong department for your question

incredible pull from the library book sale. the story is about as terrible as you'd expect for an unauthorized arnold lobel/roddenberry/lucas crossover that absolutely no one wanted, but the cover absolutely rules

winnie the pooh (1926) is a heartwarming children's tale, until chapter 7, when they conspire to kidnap a child to blackmail the parent into leaving the forest????

the ones who walk away from omelettes (vegans and lacto-vegetarians)

no static analysis goes unpunished

(kicking in the door of the lion's hall euchre club) umm euchre's total global player base is orders of magnitude below pokemon's, this is a big problem for you guys

rebranding markov chains as "small language models" and pitching it to masayoshi son for 50 billion dollars plus HST

my kid told me he's a "gruffalo pirate," and now i can't stop hearing it to the tune of buffalo soldier

the secret to enjoying social media imo is to pretend it's read-only

THE PUNISHER but he's a govt bureaucrat. when his wife and kids are brutally reorged he dons a suit & patterned tie (skull whose teeth are an iron cage) & goes rogue. he reports to no team lead & works outside the org chart. his notes conform to no style guide. his trenchant questions make ADMs cry

hell of a time for the environment Canada radar map to stop working

so much respect for Stan Rogers's first song on his first album being about how much Ontario sucks. S-tier hater move

the great thing about installing linux is that you always get to do it twice

if anything, Succession was too kind on these people