xor @finite_fields

One dot short of an ellipsis.. Joined June 2021

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Richard Ludlow @richardludlow

3 weeks ago

"What creates unnecessary suffering is our fantasy of organizing our lives around avoiding negative experience. This fantasy obscures the truth of how human experience actually works. Anxiety and grief aren't bugs in the system — they're features." - @techgnostic

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Тsфdiиg @tsoding

3 months ago

If you've ever drawn any illustrations, you probably know that the artists often recommend to flip the piece you are working on to reset your mental state so you can notice mistakes you weren't noticing while working on it. Debuggers have similar effect I think.

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John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack

3 months ago

I like em dashes, and I hate that some people now take them as evidence of text being AI generated.

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xor @finite_fields

4 months ago

Wheeler: "The speed of light is the only natural constant that has the necessary units to convert a time to a length."

Jonathan Gorard @getjonwithit

4 months ago

Wheeler: "The speed of light is the only natural constant that has the necessary units to convert a time to a length."

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kingofthehill @kingofthehill

4 months ago

Better than an Alamo and almost as good as propane. An all new season of #KingOfTheHill drops Aug 4th on Hulu and with #HuluOnDisneyPlus.

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Hormeze 𐤄𐤅𐤓𐤌𐤉𐤆 @hormeze

6 years ago

Embodied cognition tip: when im in a conversation and think of something else id like to say while someone else is talking (or even while i am) in order to give the other person my full attention, i assign the thought to one of my fingers and cross another finger over it

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Andrej Karpathy @karpathy

7 months ago

I wrote a quick new post on "Digital Hygiene". Basically there are some no-brainer decisions you can make in your life to dramatically improve the privacy and security of your computing and this post goes over some of them. Blog post link in the reply, but copy pasting below…

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TeX and Typography @TeXtip

9 months ago

You can use mathb.in to send someone a link to a bit of LaTeX.

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Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster

9 months ago

If we're being honest, British English absolutely cooked with the pronunciations of 'aluminum' and 'laboratory.'

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Shreya Shankar @sh_reya

9 months ago

how come nobody is talking about how much shittier eng on-calls are thanks to blind integrations of AI-generated code? LLMs are great coders but horrible engineers. no, the solution is not “prompt the LLM to write more documentation and tests” (cont.)

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10 months ago

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John D. Cook @JohnDCook

12 months ago

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Data Science Fact @DataSciFact

a year ago

Utility functions are contentious so we agree on a mediocre implicit utility rather than pick a better explicit one.

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xor @finite_fields

a year ago

Money is social credit.

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xor @finite_fields

a year ago

Morals are something like the axioms of our social rules, but the system is only approximately consistent.

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xor @finite_fields

a year ago

Bauhaus is prog rock for the drama club, math rock without the math.

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Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital

a year ago

FUN FACT: Did you know the creator of two of the most famous maps in video games (de_dust) and (de_dust2) was a 15 year old kid named Dave Johnston who programmed them after school on his computer? He ended up selling the rights to Valve and the rest is Counter-Strike history.

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Тsфdiиg @tsoding

a year ago

People do not realize the level of complexity software developers have to deal with. We have pushed the limits of the textual languages to contain this complexity long time ago, but any other representation is just somehow worse at that.