Beloved son, brother, husband and father. A software engineer by day, an armchair corpus linguist by night.
Helsinki, Finland
Joined October 2009
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The aesthetics of British psychology books from a haunted generation. A gallery.
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ROBIN WILLIAMS improvising with Elmo in this blooper real is a thing of joy.
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There are two types of programmers:
1) free(mybuffer);
2) "Thank you for playing Wing Commander!"
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Just so you know, Dracula had an account at Coutts &, as far as I’m aware, they never took it off him.🧛♂️
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Humans doing the hard jobs on minimum wage while the robots write poetry and paint is not the future I wanted
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If you know what this is:
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 T6
... it might be a good time to start taking daily supplements and consider a check-up at the doctor.
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for(float i,g,e,R,S;i++<1e2;o.rgb+=hsv(.4-.02/R,(e=max(e*R*1e4,.7)),.03/exp(e))){S=1.;vec3 p=vec3((FC.xy/r-.5)*g,g-.3)-i/2e5;p.yz*=rotate2D(.3);for(p=vec3(log(R=length(p))-t,e=asin(-p.z/R)-.1/R,atan(p.x,p.y)*3.);S<1e2;S+=S)e+=pow(abs(dot(sin(p.yxz*S),cos(p*S))),.2)/S;g+=e*R*.1;}
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No mom it's not a "messy pile of clothes on my chair" it's an L1 cache for fast random access to my frequently used clothes in O(1) time. It needs to be big to avoid expensive cache misses (looking in my closet). I NEED to be minimizing latency, this is important to me. Please.
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Or as I heard someone else say, a Tesla is turning into a really expensive Make America Great Again hat.
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I’m sorry, I simply cannot be cynical about a technology that can accomplish this.
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Once more. Musk is doing us an incredible favor by demonstrating beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no meritocracy and that wealth and power do not, in any way, denote talent or competence.
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Offering kids the choice of candy or a potato this year because I saw a meme about it. And honestly it’s super funny to see their reactions.
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In light of Liz Truss' resignation, I made a chart to explain UK politics for anyone confused
ALT Chart explaining how the people in charge of the UK has declined from 2 on the 6th of September to 0 after the death of Queen Elizabeth and the resignation of Liz Truss
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Regularly rotate your password by using the name of the current UK Prime Minister. – at Asker, Norge
