fascinating

It is genuinely disturbing how much of the current economy is based on having to pretend everything random rich guys say is true.

...marry? Sir, this is an open science relationship.

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

This took way too long and it's not even done, but here's an update: the rewritten version of `crowley` with SIMD parsing on streamed JSON now breaks 2GB/s on my main benchmark nrposner.mataroa.blog/blog/crowley...

Breathtakingly corrupt and indefensible theft of taxpayer money. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Musk v Altman JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.

In fisheries models, natural mortality (M) is often set to 0.2 per year. A detailed derivation of this result was provided by John Pope in 1975, see below:

Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

Hypothesis: Hack wringing hands over government-provided diapers for poor people as an abuse of taxpayers has defended Trump’s ballroom Methodology: Search Conclusion: yeop

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Chen Jialing（陳 家泠 Chinese, b.1937）

Remember that bug that cost you three days? Or was it a week? What if we could just tell you why it was happening?

YouTube Support, I wish to appeal my ban on the grounds that death threats are acceptable greetings among my people. Worf

aside, i lamented to a coworker today "we only had performant software because computers were slow, and had quality software because distribution was expensive and neither of those are true anymore" then i threw in the old joke of "startups actually lose less money when the service goes offline"

So the statue-pfp crowd on The Bad Place are Having a Moment about the depiction of Achilles (image as a representative example). But the first guy to subvert Achilles was...Homer. Achilles isn't intended as some uncomplicated role model; that Alexander treated him as one is kinda a red flag.

Funny thing: your Rust team probably uses #bacon, #broot, #dysk, or #lazy_regex daily. I'm their author — freelance, available, based in Lyon (remote-friendly). If your company hires #Rust developers and you value open-source, let's talk. Or just boost this. 🦀 dystroy.org

Flash back to this time someone complained about the `let` keyword in Rust and, in doing so, essentially called the biblical god a beta cuck

<runs in, out of breath> i just came from mastodon and—-

@lucretiel.me if copyfail was so good why didn’t they make a copyfail2- oh no github.com/0xdeadbeefne...

protip for OSS maintainers: start all your monthly dev meetings on Zoom by shouting "riddle me this, nerds" #protip #oss #riddle #nerds

It's Pancake Day! Time to EAT PANCAKES in HONOR OF MACHIAVELLI! What do pancakes have to do with the founder of modern political science? Our boy Nick was obsessed with pancakes! & wrote about them at length in his "Art of War." Why pancakes? He'd been studying the ancients of course! 1/?

Too Like the Lightning Bug Six Surrenders The Will to Argue

The next time you find someone pretending to explain quantum mechanics, quantum computers and quantum artificial intelligence like a guru, keep in mind this short introduction to the field given by Prof. Shankar at Yale University. After it, you can start spreading ignorance too. Simply brilliant.

Microsoft figured out a way to upset all the VS Code users: Add a comment to commits that says "co-authored by copilot" even when the feature is not used. github.com/microsoft/vs...

Now that it's hit 1.0, it's as good a time as any to try out @zed.dev again. It's certainly very snappy, and I've been able to replicate several of my most used nvim bindings more or less closely.

checking if they cited me

I love when humans respect animals

The intelligence of crows @sciencegirl

The tone of this article is really weird. The guy bought two guns, a shotgun eight months ago and a pistol two years ago, and they make it sound like an American buying two guns over two years is inherently suspicious or evidence he planned it for a long time. They also call it an “arsenal.”

Claude Code when I ask why it deleted prod

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

I am absolutely shite at recognising when someone is flirting with me. Like, comically bad at it. My mates would mock me about it. But something happened today that made me so happy. 1/?

"Constitutional scholar"

They think you're stupid.

@lucretiel.me New cocktail: Magic Hat #9 with a Jager bomb depth charge Call it ‘GitHub uptime’

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

@saavikford.bsky.social is that so?

For my game's terrain, I've long mulled over how to combine the epicness of grand mountains with the "what's around the corner?" intrigue of smaller cliffs and hills. After a lot of fiddling over the past two days, I think I may be onto something. #GameDev #ProcGen

Epic Showdown.

Okay this is fucking funny github.com/gastownhall/...

I hate AI when it's like this: Notion used to have a one-click way to turn text into a quote. They removed this and now I have... AI So instead of sub-500ms, it now takes 10+ seconds to turn selected text into a quote (type out the prompt, then wait ~4 seconds) So backwards...

Now, you might say, "What about all the knowledge we'd lose if we push all the abusive geniuses out of academia?!" But I'd counter and say, "Well, what about the knowledge we've already lost from the budding scholars whose careers they've derailed with their abuse?"

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)