For people who feel disconnected from friends and loved ones during quarantine: try a video chat where both sides cook the same dish (on the call) and then eat it together. So far, it's been the most effective activity for making you feel like you're in the same place.

RT @andrew__reed: Adding $1M ARR every 10 days and accelerating….

Considering sending a FOIA request for the version control evidence of the coding error and the fix. Government agencies must be using change tracking, right?.

Who wants this?.

Sunrise today in NYC is 7:08am. Lighting doesn't check out. Also she'd have to get up hella early to have that amount of hair and makeup done in time.

Not unlikely that this isn't an accident.

There should be mandatory jail time and/or steep fines for people who record videos for social media in their car WHILE DRIVING. I have no patience for people who put other people's lives at risk like that.

Similarly, if you find yourself disambiguating between semantic meaning of variables via naming, you should probably be reaching for typing instead. Our ByteOffset and CharOffset types both wrap a u64, and have saved us many hours in avoided logic errors.

Fear and Self-Loathing in America.

Wtf I posted a tweet linking out to an article about education and it straight up _does not appear on the list of tweets my profile_. If you look at replies, it's there. I'm not replying to a fucking article. I'm posting something with some goddamn context. What a travesty.

Unfortunately, I think a lot of CS education focuses on modelling, not data transformation. It teaches us to approach the basic task of programming _backwards_, and leads to code wracked with performance issues. We set up so many students for failure from the very start. 😞.

Ultimately, the operation is what's important, not the modelling of the data as an object. You can have a perfect model of the parts of a problem, but if you can't use them to _solve it_, your model is useless.

Many performance-focused applications do this _in reverse_. The first questions are: "What are the operations on the data? What transformations are we going to perform?". You then figure out how to model the data in a way that _facilitates efficiently performing the operation_.

We are often taught to model in an OOP fashion - "how do we model this as types and interfaces?" We start with the objects and _then_ talk about what those objects should do and how they interact with each other, and wiring them together becomes the second step, the glue.

Want to join my QT here with this one about writing performant software: I don't think performant and maintainable code are at all orthogonal. Instead, I believe that we have been _taught wrong_. short 🧵.

It is _deeply_ depressing that _I am not surprised_ to learn that the US education system has been _actively_ teaching students how to read _poorly_ for _decades_. (yes, this warrants that much formatting punctuation).

I feel like I'm watching the real-life version of Agent Smith from The Matrix Reloaded.

Anyone else feel like a lot of India-based accounts popped up in the past few days posting replies that are either clearly GPT-generated or copy-pasted from another reply? What do?.

Shoutouts to the folks at Ess-a-Bagel who graciously serve even the people who ask for mayo on their bagel.

There are two types of people - those who treat a bagel as a type of sandwich bread and those who treat a bagel as a type of sandwich.