55 yrs programming. Graphical Interactive software, packet analysis. designer of Beads prog language. Beads intro vid: https://xitter.cf/t.co/V5zI6k6Uwc

Oakland, CA
Joined February 2016
Coding Fiend retweeted
Coding Fiend@CodingFiend22 Jun 2025
Replying to @_HelenDale
sorry, but the UN is nothing but a collection of cappuccino sipping paper shufflers it has a ridiculous voting structure where countries with microscopic populations get the same votes as those with billion people terry gou of foxconn has more employees than 50 countries
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Traditional Vaccines Now in Question: Dr. Harvey Risch Loses All Trust in the CDC and the FDA “To be honest, my trust level in those institutions is ZERO. They have shown their complete corruption with regards to industry sponsors, and it’s despicable."
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Hate speech no longer means an expression of hatred. It just means speech someone hates.
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The primary goal of HN commenters is to be perceived as intelligent. Reductionist “it’ll never work” arguments are the easiest ones to make because they’re difficult to refute until whatever thing ends up working.
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The year is 2087, and the Asteroid Deflector is ready, just in the nick of time. Armageddon Ethicists point out that it's unfair to completely deflect the asteroid when we could redress more historical injustices by tweaking its trajectory so it hits the United States.
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One of the craziest things I've ever seen. This entire (moving) image is created in a manner similar to doodling with a graphing calculator. @iquilezles is the true Bob Ross of math. Tweak to a few functions here, suddenly a beautiful forest appears... youtu.be/8--5LwHRhjk
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Replying to @ericweinstein @FBI
"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking" -Leo Tolstoy
🚨New working paper🚨 with Constantine Yannelis We study “The Distributional Effects of Student Loan Forgiveness”. We find forgiveness to be a highly regressive policy. Full cancellation would distribute $192 bn to the top 20% of earners, and only $29 bn to the bottom 20%. 1/15
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I don't want 'humanized' applications. I want reliable, offline-first, deterministic software that has its internals and configuration accessible and the responsiveness of a unix utility.
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(Denmark’s only tourist attraction lol) The Little Mermaid vandalized by the very tolerant left🙄 People should get a job and a life honestly
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