brushing up on DSA with the algorithm design manual and the little "war story" blurbs at the end of each chapter are great. they feel like cutscenes in a video game.
great way to break the tension *and* ground the lessons in reality
great way to break the tension *and* ground the lessons in reality
December 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
brushing up on DSA with the algorithm design manual and the little "war story" blurbs at the end of each chapter are great. they feel like cutscenes in a video game.
great way to break the tension *and* ground the lessons in reality
great way to break the tension *and* ground the lessons in reality
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This whole AI thing has been a stellar resource for categorizing people into who has a functional theory of mind and who doesn’t. Equating “painstakingly earning the trust of a different species” with “it always tells me I’m a nice special boy :)” is toddler shit, actually
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
This whole AI thing has been a stellar resource for categorizing people into who has a functional theory of mind and who doesn’t. Equating “painstakingly earning the trust of a different species” with “it always tells me I’m a nice special boy :)” is toddler shit, actually
please god. please tell me this is rage bait.
December 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
please god. please tell me this is rage bait.
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is the best method of typing a nested numpy array just NDArray and hope we dont attempt to index on a non-existent dimension?? that seems weird, right?
December 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
is the best method of typing a nested numpy array just NDArray and hope we dont attempt to index on a non-existent dimension?? that seems weird, right?
i think the domain that has pushed my ability for spatial reasoning the most is astronomy. being able to reason, visually in my head, why some factoid is true in astronomy is such a huge boon.
December 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
i think the domain that has pushed my ability for spatial reasoning the most is astronomy. being able to reason, visually in my head, why some factoid is true in astronomy is such a huge boon.
idk if im just a control freak but whenever someone wants me to help debug something but they insist on driving it always gets under my skin
December 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
idk if im just a control freak but whenever someone wants me to help debug something but they insist on driving it always gets under my skin
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YES more of this please!! 🙏
1. People are freeing themselves from the myth that only big corporations can make and do things. Here's a story about 19 small towns that built their own high-speed fiber networks. They pay less than most Americans & can get a service rep on the phone no problem. ilsr.org/article/comm...
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
YES more of this please!! 🙏
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It is intensely funny to me that tech bro CEOs on an annual salary of 15 petabillion dollars think data centres can go in space because it's very cold but actually they would get obscenely hot because heat won't radiate into the vacuum of space
taranis.ie/datacenters-...
taranis.ie/datacenters-...
December 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
It is intensely funny to me that tech bro CEOs on an annual salary of 15 petabillion dollars think data centres can go in space because it's very cold but actually they would get obscenely hot because heat won't radiate into the vacuum of space
taranis.ie/datacenters-...
taranis.ie/datacenters-...
I still don't understand all the excuses engineers make working in "defense"
Revealed: Israel Used Palantir Technologies In Pager Terrorist Attack In Lebanon.
A New Book Quietly Reveals That Israel Used Palantir In It's Terrorist Attack On Lebanon.
the307.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I still don't understand all the excuses engineers make working in "defense"
spent all day investigating one problem and realized i just got xkcd nerdsniped by newton's shell theorem xkcd.com/356/
Nerd Sniping
xkcd.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
spent all day investigating one problem and realized i just got xkcd nerdsniped by newton's shell theorem xkcd.com/356/
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"The thing is, even if you're just thinking in terms of fiscal value, having gone through a degree program and being able to put it on your resumé/CV isn't the most significant return on your investment: the way you have further developed your mind is."
December 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"The thing is, even if you're just thinking in terms of fiscal value, having gone through a degree program and being able to put it on your resumé/CV isn't the most significant return on your investment: the way you have further developed your mind is."
austin powers at thanksgiving: gravy, baby!
December 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
austin powers at thanksgiving: gravy, baby!
trying out typst today... wish me luck LaTeX bros
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
trying out typst today... wish me luck LaTeX bros
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You alright man? I keep seeing small damage numbers coming off you
July 8, 2024 at 7:00 AM
You alright man? I keep seeing small damage numbers coming off you
i think primagens greatest contribution to the programming space is calling vim capture groups the "one-eyed fighting kirby"... brilliant stuff
December 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
i think primagens greatest contribution to the programming space is calling vim capture groups the "one-eyed fighting kirby"... brilliant stuff
With the state of tech i more often feel despair than inspired. Paged Out! makes me feel inspired.
Gorgeous art attributed to the artists. Tight, fun technical articles inbetween. What else could a fella ask for?
Gorgeous art attributed to the artists. Tight, fun technical articles inbetween. What else could a fella ask for?
Paged Out!
Deeply technical zine. And it's free.
pagedout.institute
December 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
With the state of tech i more often feel despair than inspired. Paged Out! makes me feel inspired.
Gorgeous art attributed to the artists. Tight, fun technical articles inbetween. What else could a fella ask for?
Gorgeous art attributed to the artists. Tight, fun technical articles inbetween. What else could a fella ask for?
imagine having the last name galilei and naming your child galileo. dr seuss ass parents. iconic.
December 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
imagine having the last name galilei and naming your child galileo. dr seuss ass parents. iconic.
linkedin being linkedin i guess
December 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
linkedin being linkedin i guess
dawg i was doing that fermi problem about piano tuners and i thought they meant a device like a guitar tuner not people whose job it is to tune pianos
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
dawg i was doing that fermi problem about piano tuners and i thought they meant a device like a guitar tuner not people whose job it is to tune pianos
if there's any space conspiracy i think it's that the whole field of astronomy is just big trig trying to sell more triangles
November 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
if there's any space conspiracy i think it's that the whole field of astronomy is just big trig trying to sell more triangles
they need to do kitchen nightmares but have alton brown from good eats as a comedic relief when it gets too dramatic
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
they need to do kitchen nightmares but have alton brown from good eats as a comedic relief when it gets too dramatic
thelma and louise is the only true feminist movie because it supports womens rights and womens wrongs
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
thelma and louise is the only true feminist movie because it supports womens rights and womens wrongs
i hate how every reddit post asking for help is like
> how do i do x
>> ironic answer
>> why would you want to do x
>> this is how i did y
>> what's x
> how do i do x
>> ironic answer
>> why would you want to do x
>> this is how i did y
>> what's x
November 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
i hate how every reddit post asking for help is like
> how do i do x
>> ironic answer
>> why would you want to do x
>> this is how i did y
>> what's x
> how do i do x
>> ironic answer
>> why would you want to do x
>> this is how i did y
>> what's x
life is so much easier if you quit being a whiny baby and just prove the trig addition/subtraction formulas from first principles
> it's me, i was the whiny baby
> it's me, i was the whiny baby
November 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
life is so much easier if you quit being a whiny baby and just prove the trig addition/subtraction formulas from first principles
> it's me, i was the whiny baby
> it's me, i was the whiny baby