What is confidence? I've been thinking about it lately after my recent job interview. It's the white cultural concept that after all these years I still understand the least. To me, since I was young up until now, it is a meaningless concept. It's like the word woke. 1/10

[cctmp] I added in a (handcoded) transition table for my LL parser generator. I'm not yet at the embedded DSL stage, but having a compile time functional type system where I can specify types then add values (such as transition tables) makes compile time coding good! codeberg.org/Daniel-Nikpa...

Folks, no one has a RIGHT to higher office. OK? You aren't "canceling" anyone when you decide NOT TO SUPPORT THEIR QUEST FOR MORE POWER. Please let's be SERIOUS. This is not what is meant by "no one is disposable." I'm begging people to focus and use your brains. That man can still make a LIVING.

In economics there's the term "opportunity cost," And I wonder if there's a similar word to describe the effect here. I read about this pattern often enough, is it better or worse to create a name for it?

I teach about data justice in public health and population-level surveillance. One of the fascinating features of surveillance ethics is that both too much AND too little surveillance can raise justice problems. Data disaggregation can be a moral obligation to avoid erasing entire communities.

Woke doesn't even mean anything these days. It's been manufactured into a term to rally against "the other." Whoever politicians want to blame as scapegoats for lower class frustrations.

Hellman as in Diffie-Hellman? www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZLO...

Keep It Tight: Restrict Variadic Templates Using C++20 Concepts andreasfertig.com/blog/2026/07... #cpp #cplusplus

Can you even imagine what the application/retention rate at a business would be like if one of the perks was "two or three times a year we all get on a bus and go on a museum tour or to the aluminum recycling plant or Colonial Williamsburg, pack a lunch"

Believe Women is an epistemological stance. It doesn't mean you assume that every single woman is telling the truth and women never lie. It means you understand that in the system that we exist in, there's much more risk and pain for women coming forward about abuse than there is anything to gain.

We are in such deep doo doo #iteachmath

I have a new Op-Ed in @theguardian.com (with Bruce Schneier) on the social chill of AI surveillance. If widely deployed, it will be corrosive to democracy & social progress. We cite my new book #ChillingEffects on how surveillance & tech shapes behavior at scale: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

oh I can't wait to listen to this

[cctmp] Today I cleaned up my lexer code just a little, and I almost got my parser generator's transition table set up. I'm doing my best to adhere to the functional type system, but with the lexer I cheated just a little to get it working, so I went back and fixed that, haha. It's getting there.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... #ableg #yeg

Just heard a quick radio biography of Screamin' Jay Hawkings and wow what an interesting life, haha.

I'm not a fan of the English language because of settler colonialism, But I do enjoy the word "building" [noun]. It's like: "We built this thing, we don't have a name for it, so we're just gonna call it a building." Haha.

My job keeps delaying its grand opening, So today I went down to the physical location in person to see if it's legit. Short answer: It is. It's part of a larger building complex, with other businesses operating. The LRT line is still being built adjacent to it. Here's hoping it opens soon!

Thanks Danny. Yes - I wrote this blog that may help mosssafari.com/2025/11/08/w... 🔬💚

A new book by University of Toronto professor Kent Roach, Red Alert looks at the changing needs of communities as RCMP policing contracts end in 2032. Roach says Indigenous policing could play a big role but he's critical of a lack of action by Ottawa. www.aptnnews.ca?p=290951

This is great! C++26's static reflection doesn't make my own work obsolete: Namely because static reflection doesn't work for functions. At the same time, my embedded DSL techniques can be used to streamline the grammar of static reflection which is atrocious in my opinion.

The definition of a true fan: You’d rather see your team lose fairly than win unfairly.

I've officially run out of breakfast foods. My job is suppose to start on the 20th, with training next week. Who knows if they'll delay yet again. In the meantime I'm looking at my food stores and I'm largely down to rice, noodles, pasta, and those tuna cans I got on clearance. 1/3

Programming language is trans

Stories about salmon conservation and restoration are a basically guaranteed way to make me cry. We're fixing it! Indigenous people are leading the way! Land back, motherfuckers!!!

[cctmp] As I started building my parser today, I realized my tactic of using my mini-dsl to build a meta-compile time concord with all types needed (for a given application) doesn't scale without adding additional features to the dsl itself. I'm against that. 1/4

My LinkedIn is full of posts by former Microsoft colleagues who accepted the voluntary retirement offer. I counted at least 9 posts from people I worked with in the past. For some reason, it felt even sadder than layoff posts. It was hard to put into words until this post from a now ex-Microsoftie.

Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Went to the shore to see some stuff

[cctmp] Today I'm brainstorming how to add my parser generator's parser table [see image] to my compile time type system. Once the parser generator is built, I can use it to create such tables, but as it doesn't yet exist I have to bootstrap the process by manually computing this one. 1/12

Watching this podcast because of Emily Riehl. Professor Riehl's book Category Theory in Context is a great intro for the mathematically initiated. Authors from other backgrounds such as physics use analogy when introducing category theory. I'm willing to claim 1/3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MQb...

I'm enjoying the weather here lately. It's finally not ridiculously rainy or humid, and it's been just hot and sunny enough to keep the mosquitoes away. There's also a nice wind. I know it won't last, and the predictions are we'll get our own heat bubble in ~2 weeks, so I'm making the most of it!

Worldwide victims of the Crown uniting behind Mexico tonight ✊🏽🇲🇽⚽️

I switched from interpreted metarun time algorithms to dual-time (metacompiled -> metainterpreted) algorithms and it sped the compile time up ~6x. The overhaul and new paradigm is justified.

[cctmp] I finally have my lexer* working again. It's been nearly 4 months since I last updated my codeberg repo. In reality it took about a month* to overhaul to the new dual-time generics paradigm. Was it worth it? --- *LL parser generator's lexer. *I was busy panicking about not having a job.

Wisconsin residents sue Microsoft over noise caused by new data center

Check out my brother’s art! smithers-art-gallery.square.site/shop/michael...

People who mow their lawn at 9am on a Sunday.

[cctmp] I finally have my lexer* working again. It's been nearly 4 months since I last updated my codeberg repo. In reality it took about a month* to overhaul to the new dual-time generics paradigm. Was it worth it? --- *LL parser generator's lexer. *I was busy panicking about not having a job.

Never let the cynics and naysayers grind you down. You *can* have it all at once.

Sanderson here explains how he storytells. Conference speakers might want to watch this one. Also, I find there's a lot of overlap in his approach with Inuit storytelling techniques, but it differs in ideas of "flow" (the Inuit Way). Very interesting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLSL...

I really like Birch Bark Books which is an Indigenous own booked store in Minnesota that sells books by, for, and about Indigenous people. birchbarkbooks.com

Can’t say enough good things about about Alice Bioff (Inupiaq, Nome) and her clothing products at www.naataqgear.com. I have a couple of Atmik and they are functional, stylish and well made. This spring in Anchorage airport an elderly Yupik lady remarked to me how nice it was.

I had to come into town today so decided to vring my camera for a visit to the peregrines and was verypleased to get this unplanned shot of one doing a little hop!

The cascading horrors of climate change: "According to a state report released Friday night, the Yonkers plant lost power because of extreme heat and humidity and could not transfer power over to its generators."

a great resource, worth the read! the cramming of these products into every facet of public life is deeply insidious in multiple levels, including lingual!

The NPS will launch 850,000 fireworks in the middle of the night. (Last year, they launched 7,000) That will dump perchlorates and heavy metals into the Potomac River and cause the amount of soot and smoke particles to skyrocket (pardon), at great danger to any creature that breathes.

Here's a good overview of the chemical pollution that the Trump administration is about to dump all over DC and into the Potomac (courtesy of @andybrunning.bsky.social)

Trump is trying to beat the Philippines record for largest fireworks display. More than 800,000 fireworks were launched in Manila in 2016, over one hour, causing hazardous levels of particulate matter in the air for at least 24 hours. scitechdaily.com/fireworks-ma...

People were literally giving up on C++ before @compiler-explorer.com because they didn't trust the generated assembly would be good enough. That was only 10 years ago.