Kleene Algebra Cow
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Palladium, protium and high speed ethernet.
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I was making small talk about chips at the doctor's office today and it really shows how Qualcomm-brained I've become that my first example of a phone component was "modem"
September 4, 2026 at 10:24 PM
I was making small talk about chips at the doctor's office today and it really shows how Qualcomm-brained I've become that my first example of a phone component was "modem"
Nah, they seem legit
August 7, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Nah, they seem legit
Irrevocably fucking up my YouTube feed by listening to albanian gangster rap
July 28, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Irrevocably fucking up my YouTube feed by listening to albanian gangster rap
I have noticed a meaningful uptick in customers at work who send me messages the same way they do to chatGPT
July 8, 2026 at 12:30 AM
I have noticed a meaningful uptick in customers at work who send me messages the same way they do to chatGPT
I've never seen anyone play with less respect for the game than Paraguay (except maybe Rock Island)
July 4, 2026 at 10:49 PM
I've never seen anyone play with less respect for the game than Paraguay (except maybe Rock Island)
my major concession in writing for engineers today is fully spelling out "without loss of generality"
June 10, 2026 at 9:27 PM
my major concession in writing for engineers today is fully spelling out "without loss of generality"
The app I use with the highest personal regretted_user_minutes ratio is this spackle knife and it's not even close
May 31, 2026 at 6:20 PM
The app I use with the highest personal regretted_user_minutes ratio is this spackle knife and it's not even close
I'm losing my shit at this LLM's attempt to draw "an ascii art version of the >:3c emoticon"
May 25, 2026 at 2:44 AM
I'm losing my shit at this LLM's attempt to draw "an ascii art version of the >:3c emoticon"
I like that this unsolicited mail pitch doesn't even give an overall price, just a monthly payment and a term. That is a sign that this is a good deal I should jump on
May 11, 2026 at 10:10 PM
I like that this unsolicited mail pitch doesn't even give an overall price, just a monthly payment and a term. That is a sign that this is a good deal I should jump on
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It's a bad sign when you press what you think is a small, automated button, and within a minute you get a handwritten email from a manager from a BU so far removed from your own that the org charts only intersect at the CEO
April 24, 2026 at 6:02 AM
It's a bad sign when you press what you think is a small, automated button, and within a minute you get a handwritten email from a manager from a BU so far removed from your own that the org charts only intersect at the CEO
It's messed up how much more nervous I get interviewing a candidate for a job than being interviewed
April 15, 2026 at 12:08 AM
It's messed up how much more nervous I get interviewing a candidate for a job than being interviewed
I need a keyboard macro that expands to the entire text of the SV LRM annex C.4.2
March 30, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I need a keyboard macro that expands to the entire text of the SV LRM annex C.4.2
Moving to LA* has unlocked all sorts of cultural references for me, but I have never felt like more of a local than the feeling of familiarity I got just now reading "Inherent Vice" where Pynchon describes someone in LA "hook[ing] a U-turn without signaling"
*greater metro area
*greater metro area
January 23, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Moving to LA* has unlocked all sorts of cultural references for me, but I have never felt like more of a local than the feeling of familiarity I got just now reading "Inherent Vice" where Pynchon describes someone in LA "hook[ing] a U-turn without signaling"
*greater metro area
*greater metro area
Biff Poggi is the Yevgeny Prigozhin of Michigan football
December 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Biff Poggi is the Yevgeny Prigozhin of Michigan football
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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To quote Julius Caesar's famous letter to the Roman senate after winning the war against Pharnases II of Pontus, "[...], I saw, [...]"
December 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
To quote Julius Caesar's famous letter to the Roman senate after winning the war against Pharnases II of Pontus, "[...], I saw, [...]"
One day you wake up and realize that you do 100% of your shell scripting with chains of sed calls
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
One day you wake up and realize that you do 100% of your shell scripting with chains of sed calls
This is a great innovation for keeping an eye out for trick-or-treaters
November 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
This is a great innovation for keeping an eye out for trick-or-treaters
Turns out the cat foot dispenser has a dependency on us-east-1. My network admin is on top of things
October 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Turns out the cat foot dispenser has a dependency on us-east-1. My network admin is on top of things
California when it rains
October 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
California when it rains
I should probably clean this up at some point
July 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I should probably clean this up at some point
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is worse than the original LEGO star wars in the same way that Monster Hunter Wilds is worse than Monster Hunter World
July 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is worse than the original LEGO star wars in the same way that Monster Hunter Wilds is worse than Monster Hunter World
"never skim coat your wall" to the tune of "never kill yourself"
July 6, 2025 at 3:41 AM
"never skim coat your wall" to the tune of "never kill yourself"
I had not thought about pages per second throughput as a printer feature when I bought mine, but as I queue up a 300 page print job and watch how long it's taking to spool, maybe I should have
June 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I had not thought about pages per second throughput as a printer feature when I bought mine, but as I queue up a 300 page print job and watch how long it's taking to spool, maybe I should have