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@zem42
zem
16 days
me, mourning my job over on hackernews. also shout out to my teammates and manager, all of whom were amazing to work with. looking for work in the sf bay area, particularly anything programming language development or tooling related
@soumithchintala
Soumith Chintala
16 days
apparently Google laid off their entire Python Foundations team, WTF! ( @SkyLi0n who is one of the pybind11 maintainers just informed me, asking what ways they can re-fund pybind11) The team seems to have done substantial work that seems critical for Google internally as well.…
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@zem42
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A GOP loudmouth insisted That Sessions should not be resisted The notion was foreign To Senator Warren, So, nevertheless, she persisted
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@lennan6 @seananmcguire especially the use of "you're more mature" as a form of coercion :(
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@TheBloggess woah, we're halfway there woah oh, lizard in my hair!
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@TheBloggess not a word, but i quote this wonderful line from somerset maugham to myself: “I do not believe that I am a vindictive man, but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it is pardonable to observe the results with complacency.”
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13 years
The B in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot.
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@shrimpliker @UrsulaV they're off to see the lizard!
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@invisiblegirl99 @LouisatheLast i'd love to see gem quality lab diamonds sold *super* cheap, so that everyone and their dog has one and no one can tell by looking that someone is actually wearing a mined diamond they paid a fortune for
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The local Muslim community said they had no problems with whatever he wanted to do on his own land. A reporter asked if he was still going to hold the pig races, considering, and he said he would because, having threatened to, "he would feel like a fool if he didn't" 😂 [2/2]
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5 years
@mactavish peaches come from a can! they were put there by a man in a factory downtown
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@ellle_em "running out of different races to add"
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7 months
I'm reminded of a news story from when I lived in Houston, back in 2000 or so. They were planning a new mosque in some neighbourhood and a redneck who owned an adjoining plot said if they did he was going to hold pig races on his property. [1/2]
@gauravsabnis
Gaurav Sabnis
7 months
"Will you have guts to post pork pictures on Eid or Passover?" Yes 🤷 Pretty sure I've done that multiple times. This is the problem with default whataboutery. They assume other conservatives are as batshit as them. Never had Muslim or Jewish people police my pork pics ever.
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@SymposiumSilver @JortsTheCat the problem *is* the system, otherwise the driver would just have said "no", left the package on the step and gone their merry way. they clearly feared some sort of repercussion to their job if they didn't do it.
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@lanegreene @karthikb351 @kevinmarks "paratrooper" and "telethon" are other neat examples
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@nameshiv in brief, to - rule them all - find them - bring them all - in the darkness bind them
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@Jillians512 @JortsTheCat people are calling him a bad judge but i'm sure he was the best that money could buy!
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@kn_owled_ge @soumithchintala @SkyLi0n the sad thing is, we were valuable as a unit *within google*. all our work was in the context of supporting python code within a huge monorepo.
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@zem42
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7 years
OH: "Communist jokes are only funny if everyone gets them"
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3 years
@charlie_mas @Gizmodo they also insist that the only way to use the machine is through their software and cloud storage; they even sued people writing third party software using bullshit legal claims:
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@JessicaLexicus @Valkyr101 I remember someone pointing out that most of what we think of when we think of polio was "long polio". long covid is going to be brutal over the years :(
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@stephaniegarman @whyiamcrazy @TheTNHoller @Gentleman444444 @hamcoschools @NoogaHoller "i find the school's dress policy misogynistic and detrimental" is pretty unambiguous
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"Any hole, however small, will eventually empty any container, however large. Unless it is meant as a drain, in which case it will clog."
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@btbytes @soumithchintala @SkyLi0n it is :( thanks for the sympathy, i'm definitely in the mourning period right now!
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3 months
@nameshiv that was a startlingly bad article for slate! rambled all over the place, briefly touched on the fact that these "uncool" shows are just plain entertaining but didn't seem to realise that that was really all there was to it
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@zem42
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7 years
a polarising issue, for sure
@DrJenGunter
Jennifer Gunter
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@SwiftOnSecurity Someone had a big long thread about the "womb" being a source of "magnetic energy" so I felt compelled
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3 years
hah, can't believe this is the first time i'm seeing the donald/don pun. never thought of that either!
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KRUPALI
3 years
Oh India KNOWS how to write a headline.
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@kn_owled_ge @soumithchintala @SkyLi0n google has another solution - we are being replaced with a whole new team in munich. (who, i will note, are starting with zero context, overlap, or any period of having worked with the existing python folks)
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@michaelharriot i cannot think of a single republican policy that is not harmful to society and/or the planet, so i don't feel one can be both sensible and a republican today. or any brand of conservative, for that matter.
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3 years
this is a great story!
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Let's talk about the experience path I took from cybersecurity to operations back to cybersecurity again and how each step of the way made the next possible. The story starts – as most do – with Croatian adware, a tool from a developer from Holland, Oracle, and Mark Russinovich.
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@nameshiv hey, we grew up with the jungle book (:
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@Agood_driver @littIe_death it heard getting high was fun!
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@MagsVisaggs based on how long it made me laugh when i first heard it: > knock knock - who's there? > interrupting sheep - interrup > BAAAAAAAAAAA!
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2 years
@seldo i mean, we refused to give our money to them then too!
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4 years
@snrk @SarahTaber_bww i feel like most companies don't even allow a voluntary step back down, where you can say "okay, this isn't working but i was doing great at my old level, can i revert to it please"
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I heard there was a secret drug To help me beat the covid bug Far better than these vaccines they're injectin' The FDA got mad of course They yelled at me "you're not a horse!" But I think I'm gonna try that Ivermectin
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@Karnythia the sheer betrayed bewilderment of "there are conservatives out there who are not christian!" 😂
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@NeolithicSheep @caz_tastrophe @UrsulaV @Cato_of_Utica surely a goose would put the down in down time!
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@KathrynTewson @courtneymilan i hope he started a band called "normal dave and the outliers"
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@rhoderedpvd @StefWilliams25 indians can be pretty bad about it too, i suspect due to it being societally acceptable to yell at "menials" of any sort.
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4 years
dolly parton was kind of reverse cancelled too - we all used make fun of her, and then we grew up
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@theglennisshow @loresjoberg you know there's fänfic out there!
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@DrJenGunter 0.001% - 1% is already 1 in 100, so you lose two decimal places
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@beingSuzyQ @lennan6 @seananmcguire wow. that's pretty messed up.
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@ellle_em and regional grapes would produce the corresponding regional accents!
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7 years
for all that people like to sneer at medium, posts * have stable permalinks * are world-readable without login * require no clicks to expand
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@Pinboard quick, let's rename it the taiwan bar!
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@IBJIYONGI as someone on a visa (though thankfully not at twitter!) i really appreciate that they did that
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@anne_theriault also the word "dauphin" stuck in my mind because i thought it was amusing that it sounded like "dolphin". i was *way* older by the time i discovered that wasn't just a fun coincidence!
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@themorganrpt @nhannahjones @NYMag it's not even a disguise any more; andrew sullivan op-eds are pretty much all bile
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@chaitrovert @EleriTMLH not to mention there's absolutely nothing wrong with "laziness" whether or not you have a disability!
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@SteveStuWill @vgr i love how the cat turns to look at the dogs, like 'did you see that too?'
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@_Jon_Green @LouisatheLast also the idea that come the apocalypse money will be more valuable than a house is mindboggling
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@eevee all those docs will be lost in time, like tears in the rain
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@ellle_em sementic satiation!
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@MadMarx13 @kn_owled_ge @soumithchintala @SkyLi0n can't wait to find out :( honestly, i'm also sad for the other teams who depended on our work, and who were blindsided by this
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@trillharris @JortsTheCat the kind of person who says "flipping burgers" because "cooking" doesn't sound belittling enough
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@ShriramKMurthi unfortunately 1.0 + 2.5 is also a type error in ocaml, which makes me significantly less happy! operator overloading is a wonderful convenience.
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@anne_theriault webber is uploading a performance of jcs to youtube next weekend! i'm looking forward to it
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@vgr "The only universal message in science fiction: There exist minds that think as well as you do, but differently." (Larry Niven)
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@kadybat burritos are oddly-folded ravioli
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@DrJenGunter the sad thing is if the Hobbit movie was made first Jackson would likely never have thought of stretching it into three movies
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@Route76West @HollyAnderson we don't care ...we're putting cyanide in his soup!
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6 years
my name is cow and for a treat i lik the fruit so cold and sweet then hang my head when daylight comes i'm sorry, but i ate your plums
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@arancaytar @redditships right?! i love how he was quick to follow up with "but none of them are real comedians either"
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1 year
quite apart from the tos mess, spoutible appear to be deleting users' messages *and making it look like the user deleted it themselves* (!). stay well away.
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@sigfpe phi on you, sir!
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@LouisatheLast honestly, i see it as more banding together to survive an occupation
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@_celia_bedelia_ @HawleyMO @simonschuster looks like he hasn't read orwell either!
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@teethnclaws no, you don't understand - **poor people might get away with something!!!**
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@EtienneCote4 @catvalente i think "rode hard and put away wet" is more weariness, and "butter scraped over too much bread" is burnout that can't be fixed by a good night's sleep.
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“Good Fucking Morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it.
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You get to add the "F word" into a line of literature. What do you choose?
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@ann_leckie i can just see the thought process... "i'll threaten to complain to her employer and get her fired!" *googles* "damn, she's a writer"
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@feminist_tinder never have i felt so much pressure from owning a queen bed (:
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@anne_theriault leaving shore is the best revenge!
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@giansegato @Replit hey, thanks, they're definitely on my radar! will reach out
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best thing i've read all day: "why aren't germans patriotic?"
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this tweet will keep getting more and more relevant until it's just pinned to the top of twitter once and for all
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'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
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came 4th in the us national scrabble championships (collins division)!
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@Audioworm @_ElizabethMay is boris johnson the first six?
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@vgr the bannon - everclear, fish sauce and a rotten egg
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@IBJIYONGI reminds me of george bernard shaw's observation that "When we learn to sing that Britons never will be masters we shall make an end of slavery."
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2 years
@hollyglolightly my friend called something an "absolute unit" and her kid told her to get off the internet (:
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i guess they called them "medical marijuana dispensaries" because "pottery" was taken
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insert "separation of Church and state" jokes
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@OhNoSheTwitnt jokes about his death are probably the most value the world has ever gotten out of robertson!
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@authorclondon @arthur_affect she could not relate to you :)
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@spookperson flawless victory!
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I heard there was a sacred text That told you when the Lord was vexed But you don't really care for reading, do you?
@HeerJeet
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If only there were some sacred text, one most people at CPAC claimed allegiance to, that very explicitly warns against making golden idols.
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@nameshiv went against the grain!
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@Hugo_Book_Club "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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@mallelis @donewman more like chased amirite
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@rajiinio @fanofninasimone which, aptly enough, wikipedia fails to mention!
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