I have to face the seeming reality that I program and focus better when I am moderately sleep deprived. It's like getting eight hours gives me too much energy to focus and I need to be taken down a peg.
@theZacAttacks down with the pantriarchy
It just hit me that the DailyMail is like the <birdsite> of the news world.
fun things to do: name a variable "x" and then just use variables with invisible unicode characters in them after the "x" so nobody can figure out how you're retrieving your values
Meant to post this earlier. Thought some people here might find it humourous. https://cybre.space/media/ZYI0twsSXbeO0Ns0Kv0
just mistyped "people" as "poople" and while i generally like my fellow humans, i am kinda in love with that typo
> By playing, revolutionary activists could learn how to fight and win against the oppressors of spectacular society http://www.classwargames.net/?p=1636
Guy Deboardgame, apparently.
" It’s just like discussing reincarnation with Buddhists; what is it that would be reincarnated—your neuroses, your greed, your ugly childhood memories? If there is no substantial self in here right now, what is it that you would copy into an artificial medium?"
http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/you-cant-upload-your-self-into-virtual-reality
i have such a strong revulsion against feeding people's narcissism anymore
Remember in the 90s, when teens were more tech savvy than adults, and everyone assumed that the savviest would just keep getting younger? Now it's 2017, and the people who were teens in the 90s are the most tech savvy generation and probably will be until they die.
Kids don't grow up with computers any more, they grow up with iPhones. If it's possible to learn to code on an iPhone, it's despite Apple's best efforts.
correct if i'm wrong, though, but boob is the best accessory.
humiliating.shopping
Makefiles are fun!
damn what did i put in this coffee
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
my explanation of monoid as an algebraic structure, in the general case and in the specific case of "the monoid of summed integers" jived with the wikipedia explanation, according to witnesses.
haha theres a mastodon instance set up at https://twìttèr.com/
"notes on Haskell pedagogy"
manages to get "trivial", "actually", and "easy" (twice!) into one paragraph. great pedagoging bro.
@tcql Why is it that we park on the driveway and pursue an unattainable masculinity on the Hemingway?
theres a lot of people out there who are tryna sell you on the idea of doin all your text manipulation on the command line, but its never really convinced me. as ive always sed, sure u can walk the walk. But can you hawk the awk
Sitting in the break room with my team of mathy coworkers after 6h of meetings:
<me> I'm considering switching my BSc from CS to math.
<boss> Huh, why?
<me> Because I suck at it. It's a stereotype, but CS students are terrible at math, I'm no exception. Doing more of it will force me to get better.
<boss> We should get you to do a PhD in math. It'll be fun.