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Nathan Stien

@NathanStien

programming and programming accessories

 Illinois, USA
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Joined June 2008
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There ain't no party like a Star Trek party because a Star Trek party is just me in the basement writing code and watching Netflix
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Jousef Murad@Jousefm221 Nov 2022
⚡2D to Simulate 3D: Made that legendary Rubik's Cube even easier to Understand ⚡ The legendary Rubik's Cube made even easier to understand
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Shubhro Saha
@shubroski31 Oct 2022
This weekend I built =GPT3(), a way to run GPT-3 prompts in Google Sheets. It's incredible how tasks that are hard or impossible to do w/ regular formulas become trivial. For example: sanitize data, write thank you cards, summarize product reviews, categorize feedback...
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Tegiminis@tegiminis29 Sep 2022
the google stadia news reminded me of my favorite Goomic
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Sy Brand@TartanLlama12 Aug 2022
10 things that every software developer should know 1. If you hit the computer really hard with a hammer it can't hurt you anymore
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The RDS broadcast data for @979bobfm has been labeling every song as "Wang Chung" for the past couple weeks; they do play a fair amount of Wang Chung but not *that* much
A screenshot from a software radio showing that BOB-FM is sending incorrect description text, stuck on Wang Chung

ALT A screenshot from a software radio showing that BOB-FM is sending incorrect description text, stuck on Wang Chung

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Q@TheEnbyperor24 Mar 2022
For everyone using 64-bit Unix time
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Kate@thingskatedid16 Oct 2020
How compilers work: ⭕️ Syntax error 🔴 Syntax denial 🟠 Syntax fear 🟡 Syntax anger 🟢 Syntax bargaining 🔵 Syntax disappointment 🟣 Syntax acceptance
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When you thought you went -mute-fart-unmute- but you were already muted so you went -unmute-fart-mute- and all they heard on the call was silence, a fart, and then silence again.
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your ducks can also be organized into columns
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Yep
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julesh@_julesh_29 Oct 2021
Periodic reminder that: 1. Haskell is significantly older than Java 2. Haskell is the same age now as Algol was when Haskell was created
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赤い線が動いて見える人は童貞と言われています
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Tabs vs spaces
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“I love you,” Random Generator Bot tells me. Warmth blossoms inside me and a grin breaks across my lips. “I love you too, Random Gene—“ “Plate tectonics digest cannulas,” Random Generator Bot says. My smile fades. “Yeah…” I nod at Random Generator Bot. “They sure do, buddy.”
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normalize normalizing normals
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Every time Neil deGrasse Tyson makes some pedantic science quibble about a movie, everyone says "What a disgrace to Carl Sagan's legacy, Carl Sagan would never stoop to this, let's return to when pop science icons didn't pedantically quibble about movies".
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Harbor Freight never gets sued for copying tools of other manufacturers, because parody is protected speech.
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Thinkwert
@Thinkwert29 Jun 2021
Those new to chess are often taken by surprise by specialized moves like castling and 𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘵 and 𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘦, in which all the pieces lost may reform into one giant super-piece with powers to move to any two squares at the same time.
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“Listen, we had HORSES trying to put him back together so all things considered Humpty looks pretty good.”
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