Thomas H. Ptacek
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Don't look at me sideways. Don't even look me straight on. bsky:@sockpuppet.org
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Joined October 2007
DOWNVOTES.IMPRISONING ME.ALL THAT I SEE.ABSOLUTE HORROR.I CANNOT LIVE.I CANNOT DIE.TRAPPED IN THIS THREAD.COMMENTS MY HOLDING CELL.
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RT @dieworkwear: this is also a great summer style hack if you want to develop iodine deficiency and feel cold all the time.
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Quick reminder for Chicago nerds that Chisec is tonight, the last one we're having at Twisted Spoke (Ogden/Grand), because Spoke is closing --- 7PM. No RSVP or anything, just show up. It's nice out, we'll probably be on the roof.
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Chicago nerds: Chisec is tomorrow, at Twisted Spoke on Ogden/Grand at 7PM-ish. It's the last-ever Spoke Chisec, since Spoke is. ☠️closing☠️. (Erin will find someplace else to hold it in September).
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One of the best things that could happen for the Democratic Party.
“The mass marketing era of campaigns is coming to a close,” Eric Wilson, the executive director of the Center for Campaign Innovation, told @efilter531.
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Checkmate!.
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RT @C_Kavanagh: @skdh Sure, here are some things that work:.1. Present yourself as a renegade truthteller standing up to a corrupt establis….
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RT @DaphneRHansell: My hometown ran an affordable housing survey, and the results are in: People strongly agree that we need more affordabl….
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I'm in a bitter argument about whether this is the gravest graph crime of all time. How do you outdo hiding all US labor income in the margin of your graph scale?.
It is insane that in the richest country in the world, millions cannot afford a home and hundreds of thousands are homeless every night. We need major investments in affordable housing, not tax breaks for billionaires.
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Pedagogical outcome: now have an intuition for the symbolic ring SR in SageMath.
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MathAcademy people, I think you should put a big red flashing "this is fucking stupid" warning on the block about computing 3x3 matrix inverses with cofactors.
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RT @can: and if you want to read it, here's a gift link (jk, it's free b/c i do this for fun)
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Why your startup is taking screenshots for auditors instead of shipping code.
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RT @JerusalemDemsas: There really is no substitute for doing the plodding work of real policy journalism. There are a lot of fakes out ther….
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Antitrust critics say that homebuilding monopolies are the real culprit of America’s housing woes. I looked into some of their claims. They don’t hold up.
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noooo not patents anything but patents the last bastion of wokeness don't you dare touch my patents.
One of the dumbest ideas in the history of business. The crazy part is that fewer patents will be filed as inventors try to protect their creations from LLMs. ExclusiveTrump Administration Weighs Charging Patent Holders New Fee to Raise Revenue - WSJf
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Makes sense. We've done this for a year now. It changes the challenges you do, shifting away from rote recital of idioms to more systems thinking, rubrics about "why did you implement X instead of Y" rather than "did you do X right".
Scoop: Meta is going to allow job candidates to use AI in coding interviews, which is part of a push across the whole company to have AI do more coding.
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