@drbeat.bsky.social
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Check out the Amazon Prime Day Deals featuring BEA WOLF, our middle-grade graphic novel retelling of Beowulf, where trouble making kids must defend their tree house from a joyless neighbor with the power to instantly turn children into grown-ups.
www.amazon.com/Bea-Wolf-Zac...
www.amazon.com/Bea-Wolf-Zac...
October 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Check out the Amazon Prime Day Deals featuring BEA WOLF, our middle-grade graphic novel retelling of Beowulf, where trouble making kids must defend their tree house from a joyless neighbor with the power to instantly turn children into grown-ups.
www.amazon.com/Bea-Wolf-Zac...
www.amazon.com/Bea-Wolf-Zac...
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Google Meet automation to reschedule meetings forever and generate excuses with AI
July 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Google Meet automation to reschedule meetings forever and generate excuses with AI
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Ticketmaster upsell to not be featured on the Jumbotron
July 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Ticketmaster upsell to not be featured on the Jumbotron
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We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
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Random literary ramble post about how an idea can travel. In Gene Wolfe's Book of the Short Sun (2000) we meet the inhumi of Green, shapeshifting aliens that take on the characteristics of their prey in order to impersonate them and get close enough to feed...
July 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Random literary ramble post about how an idea can travel. In Gene Wolfe's Book of the Short Sun (2000) we meet the inhumi of Green, shapeshifting aliens that take on the characteristics of their prey in order to impersonate them and get close enough to feed...
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My father in law is a compiler. We were in an irreducible control flow graph and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer… ‘We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.’
this kind of dense, walkable control flow graph is illegal to build in most american compilers
July 3, 2025 at 9:10 AM
My father in law is a compiler. We were in an irreducible control flow graph and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer… ‘We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.’
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Had a coworker years ago who was pregnant. Her job was to come up with the list of potential names. Husband's job was to figure out the nicknames and insults that would go along with each. Whatever name had the shortest list attached to it became what they named the kid.
July 1, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Had a coworker years ago who was pregnant. Her job was to come up with the list of potential names. Husband's job was to figure out the nicknames and insults that would go along with each. Whatever name had the shortest list attached to it became what they named the kid.
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Was nicht passt, wird passend gemacht.
June 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Was nicht passt, wird passend gemacht.
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Eight year old: Who is the pope?
Me: Begins to explain…
Eight year old, interrupting: “It turns out I don’t care about that.”
Me: Begins to explain…
Eight year old, interrupting: “It turns out I don’t care about that.”
April 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Eight year old: Who is the pope?
Me: Begins to explain…
Eight year old, interrupting: “It turns out I don’t care about that.”
Me: Begins to explain…
Eight year old, interrupting: “It turns out I don’t care about that.”
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On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.
January 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.
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January 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Question…can I be an antipope? This seems pretty easy…
December 23, 2024 at 6:15 AM
Question…can I be an antipope? This seems pretty easy…
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ChatGPT reviews how you did in your chat
December 15, 2024 at 1:57 AM
ChatGPT reviews how you did in your chat
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Eindrucksvoller können die Gegensätze kaum sein: Während Teile der westlichen Gesellschaft ihrer Demokratie überdrüssig geworden sind und rechten Populisten folgen, kämpfen in #Georgien tausende Menschen unter dem europäischen Banner für eine demokratische Zukunft.
December 1, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Eindrucksvoller können die Gegensätze kaum sein: Während Teile der westlichen Gesellschaft ihrer Demokratie überdrüssig geworden sind und rechten Populisten folgen, kämpfen in #Georgien tausende Menschen unter dem europäischen Banner für eine demokratische Zukunft.
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Flag change in the Syrian embassy in Spain.
December 8, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Flag change in the Syrian embassy in Spain.
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Ich habe ein bisschen Angst, dass sich Mr. Demut am 24. Dezember selbst in eine Krippe legt.
December 8, 2024 at 9:55 AM
Ich habe ein bisschen Angst, dass sich Mr. Demut am 24. Dezember selbst in eine Krippe legt.
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If `a += b` is `a = (a + b)` and `a *= b` is `a = (a * b)`, then `a == b` should be `a = (a = b)`. 😌
November 5, 2023 at 10:49 AM
If `a += b` is `a = (a + b)` and `a *= b` is `a = (a * b)`, then `a == b` should be `a = (a = b)`. 😌
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The secret to managing email from non-profits and businesses is to have a filter on the word "unsubscribe" that automatically shunts any email with that word in it out of my inbox and into a specific side folder. Then they don't clutter up my inbox and I can deal with them at my leisure.
Based on my experience with charitable giving, you must get so much mail begging various causes.
November 19, 2024 at 8:44 PM
The secret to managing email from non-profits and businesses is to have a filter on the word "unsubscribe" that automatically shunts any email with that word in it out of my inbox and into a specific side folder. Then they don't clutter up my inbox and I can deal with them at my leisure.