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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
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chuck schumer has been barred from formally observing this year's lexus december to remember sales event. they can't stop him from standing outside, but he will not be allowed into the showroom and he cannot directly behold the obelisk or participate in the thousand screams
November 12, 2025 at 4:51 AM
chuck schumer has been barred from formally observing this year's lexus december to remember sales event. they can't stop him from standing outside, but he will not be allowed into the showroom and he cannot directly behold the obelisk or participate in the thousand screams
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November 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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shooting from the hip like it's 1899
October 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
shooting from the hip like it's 1899
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Pylons are woke now
October 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Pylons are woke now
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It was suggested on Hacker News yesterday that "The second law is that O(n * log n) is for practical intents and purposes O(n)." and that is a good law. It's not my observation, but should that be "my" second law?
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4420...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4420...
How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
June 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
It was suggested on Hacker News yesterday that "The second law is that O(n * log n) is for practical intents and purposes O(n)." and that is a good law. It's not my observation, but should that be "my" second law?
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4420...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4420...
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I like to call this Dawson’s first law of computing: O(n^2) is the sweet spot of badly scaling algorithms: fast enough to make it into production, but slow enough to make things fall down once it gets there.
March 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I like to call this Dawson’s first law of computing: O(n^2) is the sweet spot of badly scaling algorithms: fast enough to make it into production, but slow enough to make things fall down once it gets there.
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By using FontForge on a PDF from the website for the campaign (web.archive.org/web/20051223...); I can confirm that they are indeed using the illegal clone version of the font, rather than the licensed one!
April 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
By using FontForge on a PDF from the website for the campaign (web.archive.org/web/20051223...); I can confirm that they are indeed using the illegal clone version of the font, rather than the licensed one!
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TIL: The 2000s piracy PSA used a font designed by the fantastic Just van Rossum, whose brother Guido created the Python programming language.
“Piracy. It’s a Crime.” PSA
From Wikipedia:
“You Wouldn’t Steal a Car” is the first sentence and commonly used name of a public service announcement that debuted on July 12, 2004 in cinemas, and July 27 on home media, which wa...
fontsinuse.com
April 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
TIL: The 2000s piracy PSA used a font designed by the fantastic Just van Rossum, whose brother Guido created the Python programming language.
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you're using the bathroom at my house. suddenly a computer voice from the toilet beneath you loudly exclaims "Achievement Unlocked: Logstorm." i am immediately banging on the door shouting "yo hey are you logged into my profile!?!"
February 8, 2024 at 2:51 AM
you're using the bathroom at my house. suddenly a computer voice from the toilet beneath you loudly exclaims "Achievement Unlocked: Logstorm." i am immediately banging on the door shouting "yo hey are you logged into my profile!?!"
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watch it on pubo it’s streaming on goomi plus it’s a chumble original
November 13, 2024 at 4:10 AM
watch it on pubo it’s streaming on goomi plus it’s a chumble original
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TIL about cari.institute/aesthetics, an absolutely excellent index of consumer aesthetics across the decades. Very easy to rabbithole on for a couple hours, enjoy!
CARI | Aesthetics
cari.institute
December 12, 2024 at 8:11 PM
TIL about cari.institute/aesthetics, an absolutely excellent index of consumer aesthetics across the decades. Very easy to rabbithole on for a couple hours, enjoy!
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People always ask OH GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE but never OH GOD HOW ARE YOU DOING
May 9, 2023 at 5:21 PM
People always ask OH GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE but never OH GOD HOW ARE YOU DOING
how much is a baker's dozen if we aren't flogging the baker?
November 14, 2023 at 2:13 AM
how much is a baker's dozen if we aren't flogging the baker?
why does this place feel like the orphaned bastard of Twitter and Mastodon
November 14, 2023 at 2:12 AM
why does this place feel like the orphaned bastard of Twitter and Mastodon
if I can't get verified as "ChatGPT NeoX 100T" what's the point?
November 14, 2023 at 2:09 AM
if I can't get verified as "ChatGPT NeoX 100T" what's the point?