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90% JOKES ABOUT SOFTWARE / 10% PICTURES OF CAT
Vancouver, Canada - Lead backend developer for all of virtual reality, or VRChat at least.

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cube_drone, to random
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the thing I like about javascript conferences is that they only have one room for talks but they just get whoever's on the mic at any given time to hand it over when they need time to set something up, so you can quickly catch loads of talks so long as you don't mind that they're in kind of a jumbled order

cube_drone,
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the thing I like about C conferences is that if you find the end of a line and stand two spaces behind it, the building will explode

cube_drone,
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the thing I like about Erlang conferences is that if anything goes wrong in one of the rooms, everyone will just leave, get back into the room, and pretend like nothing happened

cube_drone,
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i can't remember what I liked about memcached conferences because there was a power outage

cube_drone,
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the thing I like about rust conferences is that they're a huge amount of effort to set up but once they do they run really smoothly

danluu, to random
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I find the set of topics that programmers absolutely lose their minds about absolutely fascinating.

One example is "furry-style" cartoons. As mentioned in https://twitter.com/altluu/status/1479541394884771847, lobste.rs had to ban everyone who loses their mind when they see these cartoons; before the bans every discussion on a post with these kinds of cartoons turned into a flamewar about whether someone can be taken seriously if they have cartoons on their website.

HN also nukes these comments for the same reason.

cube_drone,
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@danluu
huh, that explains what happened to my post, "Decolonizing Male-Dominated Furry Spaces in O(n) Time By Pair Programming in Scala"

cube_drone, to random
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the thing about telling people that they deserve something good is that it's almost always an effective tactic and also almost always a total fabrication

but, anyways, you deserve a break, go pour yourself a drink

cube_drone, to Cats
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#bengal #cats are an unusually intelligent, active, and difficult breed of cat, not recommended for first time cat owners. They require a lot of attention and play, and can be destructive if bored. They are not lap cats and they won’t be as affectionate as more domesticated cats.

That being said, if you do have the massive amount of time to invest into becoming besties with a l’il leopard cat, you get the positive sides of their intelligence and playfulness and chattiness and bossiness.

video/mp4

cube_drone,
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Also the secret to unlocking leopard snuggles are “finding the blanket with the texture they like”, “Canadian winters” and “a drafty ol townhouse house built in the 70s”

cube_drone,
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me: 37 years old

secretly, in my head, all the time:

yaelwrites, to random
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Javert could've just gone on vacation or taken a nice bubble bath or something.

cube_drone,
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@yaelwrites Romeo or Juliet would probably have been just as infatuated with someone new in outside of a month

cube_drone, to random
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I probably eat way too much white rice but there is such a satisfying ritual to starting the rice cooker when you’re hungry, kicking off a timer that ends in dinner

cube_drone,
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I suppose I could start stocking brown rice because it’s healthier but the brown rice cycle on this Zojirushi takes SO LONG and when it’s done, even worse, I have to eat brown rice

cube_drone,
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@owlboy at first I thought the rice song was silly but now I’m on board

cube_drone, to random
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this is as obvious as it is useful

did you know you can just buy three buckets of fried chicken and have friends over, like, any time you want?

simon, (edited ) to random
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I'm interested in exploring the intersection between people who have mostly avoided using LLMs and people who have embraced them, compared to the group who think they should be be labeled "AI" vs those who think it's OK to label them that

Which of these do you fit into?

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@simon

I also get very angry when people call burgers "food" when they're very clearly burgers. It's me, the strawman who doesn't understand when one category is very clearly a subset of another category.

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@simon

I think the people who object to calling LLMs AI think that what people mean when they say "AI" is "AGI", THE MACHINE IS HUMAN INTELLIGENT, but actually AI has served as a kind of CS topic salad since the 60s.

Using A* search to play chess? AI. Using Prolog to do logic programming? AI. Using constraint satisfaction algorithms to do logistics? AI. Using bayesian filtering to detect spam? AI. Using LLMs to predict text? That's right, it's AI.

cube_drone, to random
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the thing about cooking gatekeepers is that time and time again, people have shown in randomized taste tests that nobody can tell the difference between jarred mayonnaise and homemade mayonnaise if you mix it with literally any other food and yet there are still legions of folks out there who pretend that you can't be a real cook unless you're going through the fussy and irritating process of whipping oil into egg yolks

cube_drone,
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@lzg whenever a restaurant offers "homemade ketchup" I experience one iota of irritation because it's almost always some kind of too-aggressively-spiced tomato paste without enough vinegar or sugar in it and NOBODY WANTS TO DUNK THEIR FRIES IN COLD MARINARA

cube_drone, to random
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a bout of winter COVID stole my christmas and my sense of smell and now I can't taste anything

which I'm pretty unhappy about

cube_drone,
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I made a coconut and squash curry soup for dinner and all I could taste was "creamy paste, light salt"

cube_drone, to random
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I have done nothing but teleport bread for three days

cube_drone, to random
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me: Result is acting strange, it has different behavior in this example than in my code

r/rust: which Result were you using?

me: what do you mean, which Result?

cube_drone,
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what? you thought that Result was a standard? nooooooo

std::result::Result, std::io::Result, and anyhow::Result are all common Results

cube_drone,
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people clown on Javascript for it's sheNaNigans but I have yet to encounter a language without a pocket of weirdo oddball nonsense at least somewhere

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