Michael S. Kirkpatrick
@kirkpams.bsky.social
CS prof@JMU (OpenCSF.org, privacy/ethics, CSed). Author (Computer Systems Fundamentals - Franklin & Beedle). Chair, ACM Ethics&Plagiarism Committee. Father. AuDHD. Skiing and Kung Fu fanatic. Signal @kirkpams.13
Scenes from lovely Lisbon, Belém, and Sintra. In the last picture, you can see the center of Sintra in the far background. Yes, we hiked all the way up. And carrying a baby to boot!
September 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Scenes from lovely Lisbon, Belém, and Sintra. In the last picture, you can see the center of Sintra in the far background. Yes, we hiked all the way up. And carrying a baby to boot!
These numbers! Wow, this is such a complete failure and abdication of responsibility by OpenAI.
September 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
These numbers! Wow, this is such a complete failure and abdication of responsibility by OpenAI.
Obscure nerd gripe:
For every C function, GNU style puts a space between the function name and the open parenthesis. clang-format does this correctly...unless the function is named "export". It removes the space that was there! WHY?!?
(diff output: + is original, - is clang-format)
For every C function, GNU style puts a space between the function name and the open parenthesis. clang-format does this correctly...unless the function is named "export". It removes the space that was there! WHY?!?
(diff output: + is original, - is clang-format)
August 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Obscure nerd gripe:
For every C function, GNU style puts a space between the function name and the open parenthesis. clang-format does this correctly...unless the function is named "export". It removes the space that was there! WHY?!?
(diff output: + is original, - is clang-format)
For every C function, GNU style puts a space between the function name and the open parenthesis. clang-format does this correctly...unless the function is named "export". It removes the space that was there! WHY?!?
(diff output: + is original, - is clang-format)
Oof! Too on the nose, mamdanitimes.com.
July 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Oof! Too on the nose, mamdanitimes.com.
This quote sums it up for me. I’ve been teaching for almost 20 years, attending and leading workshops on evidence-based active learning, researching and honing effective practices. And LLMs completely undermine the desirable difficulties I’ve devoted my career to constructing.
June 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This quote sums it up for me. I’ve been teaching for almost 20 years, attending and leading workshops on evidence-based active learning, researching and honing effective practices. And LLMs completely undermine the desirable difficulties I’ve devoted my career to constructing.
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
May 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
Post a great ANIMATED villain
March 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Post a great ANIMATED villain
This is one of the clearest and saddest explanations of the evolution of American politics I've observed over the past 30-40 years. There's so much in it, but this highlighted passage is perhaps my favorite. The modern GOP is based on the Confederacy, not the Declaration and Constitution.
February 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This is one of the clearest and saddest explanations of the evolution of American politics I've observed over the past 30-40 years. There's so much in it, but this highlighted passage is perhaps my favorite. The modern GOP is based on the Confederacy, not the Declaration and Constitution.
I'm sorry, but lol. As with so many "anti-woke" moderates, McArdle conveniently forgets that the world existed before 2016. Attacks on the humanities, budget cuts, neo-creationism ("evolution is just a theory"), etc., go back decades. The silence of moderates during that time was deafening.
February 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I'm sorry, but lol. As with so many "anti-woke" moderates, McArdle conveniently forgets that the world existed before 2016. Attacks on the humanities, budget cuts, neo-creationism ("evolution is just a theory"), etc., go back decades. The silence of moderates during that time was deafening.
*laughs in Gen X*
February 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
*laughs in Gen X*
This guy can just go rot. It's not counterintuitive. We know and we've known for years. Democrats are expected to be the grown-ups in the room. It's a BS cop-out.
Don't want to waste time criticizing Trump? Fine. So go after his Republican enablers. Hound every single one of them.
Pathetic.
Don't want to waste time criticizing Trump? Fine. So go after his Republican enablers. Hound every single one of them.
Pathetic.
February 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This guy can just go rot. It's not counterintuitive. We know and we've known for years. Democrats are expected to be the grown-ups in the room. It's a BS cop-out.
Don't want to waste time criticizing Trump? Fine. So go after his Republican enablers. Hound every single one of them.
Pathetic.
Don't want to waste time criticizing Trump? Fine. So go after his Republican enablers. Hound every single one of them.
Pathetic.
Okay, well, Apple Maps it is then…
February 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Okay, well, Apple Maps it is then…
It really is truly here and available. No longer a preliminary edition…an actual published book. It’s only been in progress since SIGCSE 2018! I can’t even begin to describe how happy it makes me to hold this book!
February 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It really is truly here and available. No longer a preliminary edition…an actual published book. It’s only been in progress since SIGCSE 2018! I can’t even begin to describe how happy it makes me to hold this book!
The character, not the actor. It also doesn’t help that my middle name is Scott.
February 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
The character, not the actor. It also doesn’t help that my middle name is Scott.
Oh, um. Wow. I'll be sure to keep any plagiarism I commit to less than 15% of my work. 🤣
January 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Oh, um. Wow. I'll be sure to keep any plagiarism I commit to less than 15% of my work. 🤣
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (20/20)
December 21, 2024 at 3:54 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (20/20)
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (19/20)
December 20, 2024 at 4:06 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (19/20)
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December 19, 2024 at 6:52 AM
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December 18, 2024 at 9:05 AM
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December 16, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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December 15, 2024 at 8:30 AM
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